176401From James Madison to David Porter, 7 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with your note of the 28. Ult: the right volume of your Journal; and have looked over the preface. Less cannot be said of it, than that it has taken an able and judicious view of its subject. The severity of its retaliations can not be complained of by those who so wantonly provoked them. There can be no danger that your Enimies whatever be their motives or modes of attack will...
176402To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Maverick, 7 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day as p r direction forwarded by water to Richmond to Col Peyton a Box cont 250 impressions of the Plan of the University hope the whole execution will meet your entire satisfaction. The Plate I have retained as p r y r advice—subject to future order. The Honb le Thomas Jefferson to Peter Maverick D C To Engraving a Plan of the Univerity of Virginia 112. 〃 Printing 250 d o
176403From Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 8 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your pamphlets on the subject of Unitarianism, and to express my gratification with your efforts for the revival of primitive Christianity in your quarter. no historical fact is better established than that the doctrine of one god, pure and uncompounded was that of the early ages of Christianity; and was among the efficacious doctrines which gave it triumph over the...
176404To John Adams from Henry Colman, 9 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
Herewith are enclosed the two letters of Mr Jefferson, which you were kind enough to entrust to my care—I expected the pleasure before this of returning them in person which has been the reason of the delay. I regret that I cannot immediately avail myself of that privilege and gratification.— The letter of June 1. with the reply to it was published in the Christian Register, a copy of which...
176405From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Samuel L. Southard, 9 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
Mrs. ADAMS requests the honor of Mr Southard’s company at Tea, on Tuesday Evening, the 10 of December and every Tuesday during the Session of Congress, when agreeable, at half past seven o’clock. NjP : Samuel L. Southard Papers.
176406From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 10 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of the 4th: Instant. I wish that time may bring forth as able a vindicator of the merits of your useful life, as Mr VanderKemp, has proved in defence of my reputation with posterity, for some little usefulness in Holland—This testimony of Mr VanderKemp was as unexpected to me as if Luzac, De Geislaer, Van Berkel, Father Dumas, Cerisier or VanderCapellen de Pol,...
176407From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from its amiable and grateful tenor. Every advancement you make in your education or rather in the mutual improvement of both mind and heart is an additional blessing to you and to us and you will feel the delight accruing from it in the pleasure derived from the expansion of your own intellect and...
176408To James Madison from Philip P. Barbour, 10 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I received your letter with the one from Mr. Taylor enclosed; I fear it will be not practicable to effect his object. It seems to have been the opinion of the Attorney General, that a pensioner once stricken from the roll, cannot be re-instated by the Secretary of War; there are many in this situation; the subject was before the house at the last session, & will I think be resumed at this;...
176409To James Madison from Junius Johnson Jr., 10 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
Permit a stranger to take the liberty of asking a favor at your hands. Aware of your devotion to literature and the improvement of your country’s youth, I know that you will grant it with the utmost cheerfulness. I am about to commence the study of a course of history, preparatory to that of the law; and having seen the one selected by yourself, am anxious to obtain it. The only means, at...
176410To Thomas Jefferson from William Johnson, 10 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Few Occurrences could have afforded me more Pleasure than the Receipt of your kind and friendy Letter. I had for some Days previous been writhing under the profligate Attack made on me in the N o American Review, & had just got over the Vexatious incident to publishing the Notice I though it incumbent on me to take of it in the City Gazette of the 15–20 th ult. Since that Time I have been...
176411To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Walsh, 10 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I venture to intrude to the extent of a single page on your kind attention. The place of Civil Engineer to the Board of Public Works of Virginia is vacant; and Major S. H. Long, resident in this city and belonging to the United States corps of Topographical engineers, is a candidate for that place. I know that Major Long is held to be eminently qualified for it, by the gentlemen of this city...
176412To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 12 December 1822 to 13 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
12. December Mrs Frye called today to see me and I went with her to the Kings Picture Gallery and appointed Monday for her to sit to him—Her husband has one of the vilest things I ever saw which was taken by some miserable dauber —it is not fit to adorn a sign post—Had 21 visits and went out to see Mrs Calhoun Mrs Findlay, & Mrs Ingham—The former is a respectable looking elderly Lady the...
176413From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 12 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have written to my brother this day, informing him that I have consented that you and Charles should leave Cambridge, for your journey hither on the 23d. of this month, and requesting him to furnish each of you with 80 dollars, for the expenses of your Journey; an account of which expenses you will each of you keep to be exhibited to me. Take good care of yourselves on the road—We shall all...
176414To James Madison from Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have just read in one of the Boston News-papers, a paragraph to this effect—that through the agency of the late President Madison, a Professorship of Agriculture was about to be established in the University in Virginia. It directly occurred to me to send you some publications of mine on that highly important subject. By the “Heads of Lectures,” and by the “ Botanist ,” you can see how far...
176415From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
In inclose you a letter recieved yesterday from our engraver in New York. I shall write to Col o Peyton how to dispose of the prints, in the meantime I shall be glad have a remittance of the 150.D. made to mr Maverick which I promised should be done as soon as I should recieve his bill. I am waiting for your acc t Apr. to October, to send our Report to the legislature, as also the estimate of...
176416From Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Dear Sir, for the little volume sent me on the Natural history and resources of N. York. it an instructive, interesting and agreeably written account of the riches of a country to which your great canal gives value and issue, and of the wealth which it creates from what without it would have had no value. Altho’ I do not recollect the conversation with Judge Firman referred to in...
176417From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne Cutting, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes D r Cutting with antient & friendly recollections, and with a mind which does not easily part with early impressions. he hopes the years which have intervened since they last saw each other have been to D r Cutting years of health and pleasantness, & that he yet has many such to come. Marching abreast with mr Law in the Calender of time, it is his particular lot to suffer...
176418From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenway, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
By your favor of the 3 d inst. I find that you cannot have recieved mine of Apr. 17. 1821. I therefore now send you a copy of it. your letters being dated Dinwiddie, and there being no such post office, I presume I sent it either to Dinwiddie C.H. or Petersbg, as I must do the present one, not knowing your Post office. I have since had the MS. volume bound for better preservation, and put it...
176419From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin King, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering the drawing of your equilateral level. I think it ingenious and likely to answer well the purposes proposed, and especially that of ascending roads. if your strawcutter answers well and is cheap, it will be in demand. we have a patent one, most excellent for it’s purpose, but so dear that no one buys it. I wish you success with both and hope that the...
176420From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recieve from N. York for the University a box of 250. engravings of it’s plan. the object is to sell in Richmond as many as will sell readily, and to forward the remainder to us. their price is 50. cents to be credited to the Proctor of the University. perhaps besides placing some of them where you think they will be seen and sold readily, it might be worth while to employ a person...
176421To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday rec d bill of lading from Peter Maverick of New York, for 1 Box, containing 250 impressions of a plan of the University of Virginia— on the arrival of the Box, would you allow me to take a copy out of it for myself?— I think it would have a good effect to distribute a few amongst the members of the Assembly— but you know best as to that:— I should be glad of one to keep myself— I...
176422To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day seen a M r Mauray of this place who has about 4 or 5 quarter casks, of the Scuppernon wine, 2 Yrs. old, which he says he will sell at 87½¢ a Gall. if you take it all, he brought it in from Carolina for a gentleman of Norfolk, who declined takeing it because it is not sweet —It is very different from that I drank at Monticello, I have therefore obtained a bottle which I shall send...
176423From John Adams to John V. N. Yates, 13 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received this Morning from the Post Office by an unknown hand a slip of an Albany newspaper containing your letter to Dr Vander Kemp I highly esteem the candid impartial & honorable spirit of it, I cannot dictate the remarks that occur to me upon the subject at present—but shall confine myself to one observation—It is most true that I did love and venerate the character of the Dutch—And...
176424From James Madison to Junius Johnson Jr., [ca. 13] December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 10th. & should comply with its request but that I have no copy of the historical course of reading to which it refers; nor do I recollect even the person to whom it was recommended. On application to him you will doubtless obtain a copy, for which this will be a sanction, if he should happen to be scrupulous without one. I ought to remark at the same time, that...
176425To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 21 st Nov. was not rec d untill wednesday last, Gen l Cocke by whom it was sent not recollecting it untill after he got home. I will make out Giacomo Raggis acc t in a few days & send it to you—My acc t to the 23 Nov: will be sent you in a day or two—I have been waiting for the bills of undertakers that I might show the balance that will be due to them, they also promise to...
176426To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 14 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
& Miss Mason Capt & Mrs. Crane Mr. Kerby with several others Members of Congress—Mr. Petry came in the Eveng. and talked freely of the Bonaparté family He told me that while he was in Poland Napoleon was very much attached to a beautiful Polish Lady and that he (N.) rode fifteen miles every night during a fortnight at the risk of his life through the enemies Country to visit her—He likewise...
176427From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 14 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 7th. instant. If I agree with you that human knowledge ceases, where Metaphysics commence I must acknowledge that I am indebted to Metaphysics for the knowledge of this Truth after reading Lock and Malbranche Clark & Leibnitz Berckley & Hume, Condilac & Baxter Stuart & Brown have produced a pretty clear conviction of it—Your propensity to writing perhaps...
176428To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 14 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
14th December. We were all so exhausted that we determined to keep quiet all day at home. Received a Note from a Milliner requesting I would go and look at his things, this is a thing which has happened several times—Am I so much in vogue? I am solicited to take great care of myself this Winter and not to get sick, Are People afraid of closed doors again? What a hollow hearted World How much I...
176429To James Madison from Benjamin L. Lear, 14 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
At the request of my friend Captain Hull of the navy, I have been Endeavouring to settle, at the Treasury Department, the accounts of his uncle, the unfortunate General Hull, once Governor of Michigan, and have Effected a settlement, of all I believe, excepting the charge made by him for his salary as Governor of Michigan, from 1st of April 1812 to the 1st of March 1814, at $2000 per annum....
176430To Thomas Jefferson from Francisco Solano Constâncio, 14 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
It was my intention on coming to the United States, to have been myself the bearer of the two enclosed letters, but having by unavoidable business been prevented from going this Season to Virginia, I am forced, although with great reluctance to postpone till the ensuing year my journey to Monticello, and the Satisfaction of becoming personally acquainted with one of the most respectable and...