23511Thomas Cooper’s Notes on University Curricula, [ca. 15–22 September 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
It appears to me desireable, that in an University, should be taught 1 Languages } antient. Latin. Greek modern. French. 2 { Mathematics. Plane and Sp h erical Trigonometry. Algebra. Fluxions. Nat. Philosophy }
23512To James Madison from the Purveyor’s Office, 21 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
This morning previously to the receipt of your letter of 18th. Inst. the Purveyor had gone to Jersey to procure Timber for Algiers, he will return the day after tomorrow, when I conclude he will report to you the information you require. I am Sir very respec[t]fully Your obdt. Servt. Letterbook copy ( DNA : RG 45, Purveyor’s Office, Philadelphia). Whelen’s clerk has not been identified.
23513To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams, 6 July 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
If I had thought you would so soon have sent for your dear little Girl, I should have been tempted to have kept her arrival here, from you a secret. I am really loth to part with her, and she last evening upon Petit’s arrival, was thrown into all her former distresses, and bursting into Tears, told me it would be as hard to leave me as it was her Aunt Epps. She has been so often deceived that...
23514From George Washington to Brig. Gen. Enoch Poor, 19 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Brig. Gen. Enoch Poor, 19 Feb. 1780. GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison noted on the docket of the draft of GW’s letter to Maj. Gen. William Heath of 19 Feb. that a similar letter was sent to Poor. On 7 March , Col. Joseph Cilley, Jr., temporarily commanding Poor’s New Hampshire brigade, wrote GW that he had received GW’s letter to Poor of 19 February.
23515To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Bond, 9 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Mary Bond, an unfortunate woman, left a widow, with four small Children, pleads great poverty, makes application most humbly, to Mr. Jefferson, President of the United States, for a little assistance, being this present time, without one single cent, and what is an addition to her distress’d situation, in a Strange Place, and without one friend, to render her the least service, although...
23516From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. came to hand yesterday & I return you Foronda’s, Tufts, Soderstrom’s & Turreau’s letters. I think it is become necessary to let Turreau understand explicitly that the vessels we permit foreign ministers to send away are merely transports for the conveyance of such of their subjects as were here at the time of the embargo, that the numbers must be proportioned to the vessels...
23517To Thomas Jefferson from Elnathan Scofield, 25 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
With due Submission to our Chief Magistrate I trouble you with reading this on a Subject which to me is interesting—during the Last Session of Congress I wrote to an acquaintance in Congress to mention my name to the President as a Candidate for either Register or receiver of the Land office to be established for the sale of the Lands Lying North of the Military tract and West of the...
23518To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 5 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have procured the white Lead and oil ordered in yours of the 30th: ulto, which shall go by first waggon for charlottesville— MHi .
23519To Alexander Hamilton from Abraham Ellery, 25 October 1803 (Hamilton Papers)
I snatch the few moments allowed me by a Gentleman, who is going directly to New York, to transmit one of the charts I promised you. The others are not yet completed, as Mr. E who is my Hydrographer Genl. has been obliged to suspend his employment in that line. My intention is, to collect & copy the different charts of the river, that have any character for correctness, to check one by...
23520To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 7 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
La lettre que j’ai l’honneur d’écrire à votre excellence; vous sera présentée par le général thureau membre de la légion d’honneur, et notre ambassadeur auprès de vous. Il offrira de ma part à votre excellence, un exemplaire de l’histoire naturelle des cétacées que je viens de publier. J’ai l’honneur de vous prier, Monsieur le président, de réunir cet hommage à celui que M. livingston a eu la...