168321From Dolley Payne Todd Madison to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Permit me my dear Madam to introduce Mr Preston to your acquaintance, a young Virginian of high talents & fortune, who visits Europe for his amusement & will be happy to find you in England. We hope to see you before long, surounded by your friends in America— yours most truly, MHi : Adams Papers.
168322Richard Flower to Thomas Jefferson, 28 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The Familiarity of this address you will readily excuse as you are aware that without personal acquaintce one can esteem in the highest degree from a knowledge of Character Talent & virtues. and altho distance has prevented any personal Interview with you I assure you of my high esteem for you, from an intimate knowledge of your Character as president your public Speeches to Congress and many...
168323From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 29 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Is your daughter, Mrs Stewart, who I am credibly informed is one of the most accomplished Ladies, a Painter? Are you acquainted with Miss Lydia Smith, who I am also credibly informed is one of he most accomplished Ladies and a Painter? Do you know Mr. Sargent? Do you correspond with your old companion in Arms Colo. John Trumbull? Do you think Fisher will be an historical Painter? Whenever you...
168324To John Adams from William Cranch, 29 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Please to present my thanks to my aunt for her kind letter; and accept my congratulations on the prospect of your soon seeing your excellent son again after so long an absence; as well as upon the occasion which recalls him to his Country. I am rejoiced to see all parties approximating those orthodox political principles which you have so long advocated, and for the rigid adherence to which...
168325Thomas Jefferson’s Notes and Drawings for Barboursville, [before 29 March 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
f. running measure 2 walls 1 ½ brick thick 41.f long = 82 6. d o 19. = 114 1 d o 22 = 22 2. d o
168326James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers of this, James Bradley and Edward Ancel are the undertakers of my building—the former a Carpenter—the latter a bricklayer—I have resolved on the plan you were good enough to present me and for which I return you my Sincere thanks—You were kind enough to accompany the plan with a Suggestion that it would be well for my workmen to See your building and receive such verbal...
168327From Abigail Smith Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
We promise ourselves the pleasure of visiting you on fryday next, and hope that a Severe Cold now attacking both the President and myself, will yiald before that day, to Herb Tea, and mild weather. nothing but indisposition will prevent our accepting Your kind invitation, or I Should add, Stormy weather. Many thanks for the Balsam My Neice continues way weak, altho’ She has not had any return...
168328From Catherine Elizabeth Murray Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
For some time past I have been wishing to have the pleasure of writing to you, to express my thanks for the very kind and flattering letter you addressed to me by Miss Sumner; also to repeat to you the gratification I felt at an introduction to Col Sumner and herself. All agreed that they were ornaments to the society of Washington this winter. It was not however in my power, and truly did I...
168329Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had a good hunt for among my papers for Main ’s recipe for the preparation of Haws: and at length, after almost despairing, have found it in the midst of a small volume of extracts from Brown ’s Rural Affairs. I now send it to you, agreeably to your desire. I am, dear sir, very respectfully & truly yours RC ( ViU: TJP-PC ); endorsed by TJ as received 8 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in...
168330Thomas Jefferson to Peter Minor, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to Maj r Watson is to request him to meet the visitors of our proposed college here on the day or evening of before our next court (Monday) that by an evening’s conference together we may come to an understanding of what should be done at our formal meeting which is to be at Charlottesville the next day Tuesday. Can you contrive it in time, or give it such a direction as,...
168331Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your packet enclosing a letter to Maj r Watson , & a communication to M r D. Minor . I will take care to send the letter to Maj r Watson by a special messenger, as I feel greatly interested in the success of the central college , & if his health will permit I know he will attend: but I hear that he has been a good deal confined of late by the Rheumatism—
168332Francis Adrian Van der Kemp to Thomas Jefferson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have nothing—deserving your attention—to communicate, I rather Should deem it improper to answer Your favour of the 16 with which I was honoured, was it not—that your courtesy imposed upon me a duty—to free you from an error which caused you some concern—not that I am apprehensive—that you had any thing to fear from a clamorous rabble of ignorant—bitter bigots—as I would do you the...
168333Thomas Jefferson to David Watson, 30 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter, of which the inclosed is a copy, was addressed to you on the day of it’s date, but misdirected both as to your Christian name and post office by the mistake of a friend who happened to be here. I send a duplicate therefore and renew urgently my request that you will be so good as to come here the day or evening before; as you will meet mr Madison , General Cocke , & mr Cabell here,...
168334To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
As the Season of business and of gaity in London, advances, we have found from the experience of the last year, a sort of necessity to be for some time nearer its centre than our residence at Little-Boston; and as a mezzo termine between a complete removal, and an inflexible adherence to the country, we have taken Apartments in Town by the week without altogether abandoning our rural...
168335From James Madison to William Eustis, [ca. 31] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
I cannot take my final leave of Washington, without calling to mind the epistolary debt remaining due to you. On consulting with Mr. Monroe some time ago, it was understood that your stay in Holland would be prolonged untill next fall, if not next Spring, by a joint negociation with the Govt. of the Netherlands, on the subject of a commercial Treaty. You will have received the communications...
168336From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 31] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding the lapse of time, nothing definitive has taken place, in concert with Mr. Hassler, in relation to Mr. Le Sueur. Mr. Crawford has the subject in hand, and will communicate the result. I can add but little to the public information which goes to you from the official source, and thro’ the press. You will find that specie is at length re-instated in its legitimate functions; at...
168337Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unlucky in the dictionaries I recieve from you, this being the 2 d time I believe that I have recieved them with a false half sheet, from the carelessness of the binder. the 1 st volume of the set last recieved had the 6. leaves now returned instead of the 6. from ‘Notopede—to Onglee’ inclusive, which I shall be glad to recieve from you in exchange for those inclosed. RC ( ViU: TJP ); at...
168338Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Francis will set out tomorrow for Mill-brook . he has his constant health, and has applied himself assiduously & solely to Spanish. he now possesses this so well that reading a little in it every day, he will be in no danger of losing it. in the French he is well established; and the possession of these two languages is well worth the little check he has recieved in his Latin, I think he...
168339Thomas Jefferson to Fernagus De Gelone, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th is at hand, covering an account of the books forwarded, balance due you 13.D. which I now inclose you in Virginia bank bills. I hope shortly to hear of the safe arrival of the books at Richmond , and tender you my salutations and assurances of respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John Barnes to TJ, 28 Feb. 1817 ; at foot of text: “M. J. Louis...
168340Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Mitchell, [April 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
W m Mitchell in Account D r with Th: Jefferson Cr. b ℔ Bar. flour D.C
168341Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really afflicted at having suffered the renewal of my note to have escaped attention; and the more so as yours of Mar. 28 did not reach me till after the departure of our post yesterday, Monday and our next Richmond mail is not till Friday, 4 th the very day on which my note becomes due; and it will not reach you till the morning of the 6 th . but regret is useless, however sincerely...
168342Thomas Jefferson to William D. Taylor, 1 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A friend informs me he has seen in the Enquirer a tract of land of mine in Rockbridge , of 157. acres including the Natural bridge advertized for sale for the taxes. I suppose this must have been in that paper of Mar. 21. which has failed to come to me and therefore not seen by myself. the lands being under lease I had relied on the tenant for the payment of the taxes. I must now ask the favor...
168343From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am to thank you for the kind wishes contained in your favor of the 24. of last month. You have often, indeed, gratified and flattered me by similar ones, and I feel how much I owe to your over partiality. The appointment of Mr Adams gives, as far as I can ascertain, the highest satisfaction. If ever a citizen of our country owed his elevation to the solid merits of his own character, your...
168344Hutchins G. Burton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have purchased for you, a barrel of Wine two years old.—I think it much better than the barrel I sent M r Eppes —I shall forward it by the first opportunity to Richmond —I hope it may not be adulterated, as the Waggonners sometimes take the liberty of playing tricks with articles of this kind, confided to their care,— It will not be necessary to give M r Gibson any instructions about a draft...
168345Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written to M r Harrison for his permission to print the work of Col. Byrd , that I Sent you, I have no doubt he will consent to it, I am satisfied your wishes will be conclusive, & that the family of Col. Byrd will be highly gratified. When I received your answer to my application about the consulate at Leghorn for my son, I at once abandoned all thoughts of it, as nothing can induce me...
168346Thomas Wells to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that M r G. Divers has several prime Muttons but no Veal, I shall send out this morning else where, should I succeede it will give me infinite pleasure to furnish you— Suffer me also to inform you that thire is a Machine come to this place yesterday that shaves a Side of leather with greate virility say Half a Minute which there is a patton for, the Stranger...
168347To John Adams from Joseph Delaplaine, 3 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received, within a few days, your portrait, painted by Mr. Morse for me.— I have already informed you that I received an anonymous letter from a lady without date or place of residence, but bearing the Boston postmark, requesting me in urgent terms not to use the portrait for an engraving. Before the portrait arrived, I heard, through various channels, from persons of Boston, that the...
168348From James Madison to Charles Carroll, 4 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
Yours on the subject of Mr. Brewer was duly received, and would alone have been a sufficient evidence of his worth. It would have been very agreeable, if it could have been rewarded by such an appointment as he wished, consistently with the pretensions of others, & with the collateral considerations which necessarily turn the scale, where there may be an equilibrium of qualifications. Had the...
168349To James Madison from Valentine Gill, 4 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
While gratitude fills and warms, the breast of a great and grateful people, whose feelings of regret at your departure from office, their late, great, reverd president, are consonant to the sublime thought of the eloquent Moore. “As the sunflower turns to her God when she sets, “The same form that she turn’d when she rose. Free’d from those arduous cares, could you feel leisure to attend to...
168350To James Madison from William Lee, 4 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
Mr Capellano has decided to make you a visit at Montpellier in the course of the summer. He says he does not like to be hurried in a Work of this nature. In making you a visit he might extend his journey to Mr Jeffersons of whom we have no good bust. He will conform to your convenience, I presume before or after harvest will be most agreeable to you. I have the honor to be with great respect...
168351Promissory Note from Richard Cutts, 4 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
For value received, I promise to pay to James Madison Esqr. or order Seven thousand, five hundred Dollars with Interest on demand. Richard Cutts Received of James Madison Esqr Flour [ sic ] thousand Dollars to be accounted for RC ( NjP : Crane Collection); Tr ( DLC ); Tr ( DLC : Dolley Payne Madison Papers). RC in Richard Cutts’s hand. On the verso of the RC
168352Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Dans 2 ou 3 semaines je dois partir pour l’ Europe , où je compte rester plusieurs mois. si je puis vous y être utile à quelque chose vous pouvez compter sur mon zèle et mon exactitude. Mes affaires seront continuées pendant mon absence par mon ami Mr. J. Laval qui a bien voulu s’en charger. Vous pouvez, en toute confiance, vous adresser à lui pour toutes les mêmes choses pour lesquelles vous...
168353From James Madison to William Bainbridge, 5 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of Mar. 27. inclosing a copy of a letter to the Secy. of the Navy of the same date. In answer to it I have to observe merely that, on the statement of the case as originally made to me, I expressed or acquiesced in the opinion that under the circumstances of it, you could not be re-instaled in the Station at Charlestown, by the removal of Capt: Hull. The new matter on which...
168354Josephus B. Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 5 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to send you the inclosed paper , by which you will see, the portentious state of the British Government & Nation. My letters from London , speak confidently of an approaching crisis.— P.S. You know the influence & connections of the Marquis of Wellesly —note his speech.— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL . RC (
168355David Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your communication of March the 10 th concerning a meeting of the visitors of a College to be established near Charlottesville , came duly to hand; as also a duplicate , with your note of March the 30 th . It would give me very great pleasure to meet the other visitors at Monticello , agreeably to your polite invitation; & I hoped, till very lately, that I should be able to do so. But my...
168356Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 7 April [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
The adoption of our College as an University much delays the opening our schools here, as needing much greater preparation & the Visitors having concluded that accomodations must be provided before Professors, they have fixed on April next for recieving professors. in the of our D r Cooper was to have brought on a mr Slack , as Usher to our Grammar school & whom he had pressed as our...
168357From John Adams to Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Baronne [de] Staël-Holstein, 8 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Like other Sinners about to commit an indiscretion I study excuses to quiet my own conscience. My constant veneration for the characters of your father & mother—The respect I feel for the memory of the Baron de Stael who favoured me, my, consort and daughter—with particular marks of his friendly attention, your obliging politeness to my son in Petersburg and Paris—And above all the delight I...
168358To John Adams from Leslie Combs, 8 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty to send you by mail two books—Kentucky Productions, for your perusal and thro you to be presented to the “ Boston Atheneum ”— “The philosophy of the human mind,” is thought by some to possessess merit— “The History of the late war in the North West” contains a correct detail of facts & may give some idea of the true Indian character & manners—The distinction which it...
168359To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 8 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I do rejoice that “I have brought out the old gentleman”, & the Public would rejoice with me were they in Possession of all my Letters from Quincy since the 4th. of November last, especially of the two last. There are in the Details of this confidential Correspondence such Traits & Detections of Character, as could not have found their Way into the public Papers of the Day they refer to, &...
168360From Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway to Sarah Smith Adams, 8 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter my Dear Mother by this mornings Mail, and hasten to answer your enquiries: I believe I did not say, Mr Clark had nothing ; his pay as a Lieutenant, is 400 dollars a year; and he has between two and three thousand, in the bank at Washington; if we go to house keeping, it is probable I shall have decent furniture at least, given me, yesterday, we dined at Mr Boylston’s, in...
168361Albemarle County Court Order Concerning a Proposed Road, 8 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On the motion of Thomas J Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to alter the road leading from the Orange fork near Lewis’s ferry downwards thro the lands of Richard Sampson , Thomas J Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the mouth of the chapel branch , and instead thereof to substitute the road already opened, on the lands of Charles L Bankhead , from the corner of his fence nearest Charlottesville
168362Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on a Proposed Albemarle County Road, [ca. 8 April 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
Present roads Proposed roads from the Mainstreet of Charlottesville Miles po miles to Moore’s creek 0.98 to Secretary’s ford 614. = 1.92. by Smith the Thoro’fare 1.25
168363David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I now enclose you a copy of the morgage, and to m r Short , from which you can be so good as to draw the deed of release from m r Short to me and at same time enclose it to him for him to do the needful and return to you, to be recorded in Court, I am raily sorry to give you so much trouble about this business RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MHi
168364George Washington Jeffreys to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of 3 rd ultimo, with an inclosed catalouge of Books , together with a model of a plough was duly received—Permit me in behalf of our agricultural Society to return you their sincere thanks and most grateful acknowledgments for your politeness and attention to them—Your letter was read to the Society and it was unanimously ordered to be inscribed into the books of the society—The...
168365Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall not waste your time in idle congratulations. you know my joy on the commitment of the helm of our government to your hands. I promised you, when I should have recieved and tried the wines I had ordered from France and Italy , to give you a note of the kinds which I should think worthy of your procurement: and this being the season for ordering them, so that they may come in the mild...
168366Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Je suis désolé de la négligence de mon relieur, et pour la réparer complètement, je vous prie de me renvoyer le volume afin que j’en fasse relier un exactement de la même manière. En attendant vous pourrez vous servir de celui que je vous adresse et qui ne sera rendu que lorsque le vôtre vous sera parvenu. Les autres méprises seront réparées de même, si vous voulez avoir la bonté de le mettre...
168367Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 9 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The proof herewith Sent is taken in a rough manner as there was not time to have it properly Chased up and leaded without delaying to an other post day but as it can be leaded and justified after it is corrected I trust you will excuse the haste RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text, with “ M Thos: Jefferson Esqr” above that; endorsed by TJ as received 14 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL ....
168368From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
It would be ungratefull in me not to feel & pleased thank you for the interest you take in the Return of my Son to his Country to his parents and Friends; I do rejoice in the hope of Seeing him, yet with Sense Some trembling least my sanguine hopes may be blasted. we know not what a day my bring forth. he has been preserved through many dangers to which voyages across the ocean are always...
168369From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
We have been many weeks without receiving a line from you, or from any of our friends at Quincy—Your last was of 8. January, and then remarked on the mildness of the Season on that side of the Atlantic; corresponding with that which had been experienced here—But here it continued through the Winter, and to this day we have scarcely been visited with frost or snow, while we hear that in your...
168370From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1817 (Madison Papers)
Having been detained in Washington untill the 6th. inst. I did not reach home till Tuesday night, and of course too late to comply with the arrangement notified in yours of the 10th. March by Bizet. I take for granted that the other Visitors met, and that for the present at least my attendance will not be needed. As it has always been our purpose to pay a visit to Monticello at no distant day...