174471To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 27 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me to ask your kindness and hospitality for Joseph Coolidge Esq. He is a young gentleman of Education & Fortune a native of this town, who is well known to all of us for his amiable & excellent character; and who, by a residence of several years in Europe, has recently completed the course of instruction, he had so well begun at home I think, you will be pleased to show him the kindness...
174472To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Mess rs Dinsmore & Neilson without consulting with me have proceeded to purchase scantling here and have framed the upper gallery floor of the library, (altho’ not embraced in the contract with them) and are now about to raise it; before they progress with it too far, I must beg permission to propose some alterations that has struck my mind on seeing the hight of the gallery and which I think...
174473To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Colvin, 28 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Ladies, and all the White Women, and all the White Females, in the United States. Are the Pride, of the Urbes. they are all of them, as Dulcis, as Queens. they are all of them, as Dulcis, as Nymphs Divine. their Family, and the Publick, wish them every blessing of Life. and Civic honours. they are pas morir Dulcis pour negotia. Those Ladies, gone from this City. and the Middle, and the...
174474To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Brent, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Daniel Brent presents his most respectful compliments to M r Jefferson, and, in compliance with the Request in his Note of the 26th Instant, takes great Pleasure in sending him, herewith, the last Biennial Register, published by Authority, to which is attcd a Copy of the National Calendar. for the year 1824. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
174475From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have considered maturely the change you propose in the library, and see no advantage in altering the original plan. in that, besides the 4000 feet for presses below the entablature of the columns, we can have another tier of presses above the entablature, of one half more of the space. again instead of the noble pery style of the original bearing a proper proportion to the height of vault...
174476From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, a day or two ago, a small pamphlet on Materialism without any indication from what quarter it came. but I knew there was but one person in the United States capable of writing it and therefore am at no loss to whom to address my thanks for it and assurances of high esteem and respect. ScU .
174477To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter which I have had the pleasure of writing to you, was of the date of Octob: 9. in acknowlegement of your kind favor of the 8 th of Sept r . You are well assured that my long silence has not proceeded from indifference to the gratification of hearing from you, but from an unwillingness to add to your burthen, already too great, of correspondence with your friends. In the mean...
174478To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington Smyth, 29 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived a few days since in this Country with a view to become a citizen—I can Scarce he acquitted of presumption in addressing you, but as you are able to further my views I beg leave to mention them & to furnish some basis whereon you may Safely form a favorable opinion of a Stranger—I wish at first, till part of the probation for Citizenship has passed, Employment as private Tutor in a...
174479To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 31 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
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174480To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Hare, 31 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Pursuant to your request in your letter of Inst, & my reply to it, I now furnish you with a list of the apparatus which I suppose adequate for a course of chemical instruction, in your new College. I also send you some pamphlets, which I have referred to in the catalogue, or which contain engravings of apparatus, referred to, or which may be desirable. In addition to the apparatus mention’d in...