27101James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 14 October 1831 (Madison Papers)
I feel some regret at disappointing the wishes of Mr Brooks conveyed in yours of the 11th. But I am unwilling to expose the Portrait of Mr. Jefferson by Stuart, to the casualties however slight, of a removal to a distance however small. I have had some experience, which strengthens my reluctance. I have a portrait of Mr. J. by the Elder Peale taken at his age, when Independance was declared....
27102From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 2 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I find myself now as well as I have been for several months, or as I probably shall be for months to come. the remains of my complaint will wear off slowly. all this is from your kind attentions, to which you have still to add that of informing me what compensation I shall make you; in this I pray you to do justice to yourself as it will place me at ease with myself and be the greatest favor...
27103From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 17 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I certainly cannot say that I am well, but as much so probably as I ever shall be. I expect to be subject to vacillation of better and worse. my intervals have averaged thro’ this month an hour in the day and ¾ in the night with particular instances of 1¾ . The day before yesterday I rode about my garden in a walk half an hour, without any inconvenience at that time or since, and found it more...
27104From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 21 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am quite at a loss how to write to D r Greenhow. I have examined his whole correspondence and do not find that he has spoken of an injection shewing the vessels of the head, ready to be sent. I inclose you his last letter and must await your advice what to call for from him. you will observe that he has probably given orders for the Plaister Cranium to be sent on from Philadelphia. altho he...
27105James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 16 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. from Mr. Wertenbaker the Resolution of the Faculty of the 12th. inst; suggesting the appointment of a come. to examine & report on the State of the University; and the circumstances connected with the late Sickness The reasons expressed for the measure seem sufficiently to recommend it, and my sanction is given in advance to any selection of person that may be made for the trust....
27106James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 13 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 9th. inst. and even not under the distressing circumstances it presents at the Universy see any course better adapted to them than that which the faculty have decided on. Might it not be well for the Proctor to have several hundred Bushels of good Lime so distributed as to produce its corrective effect where there may be the most need of it. With great & friendly...
27107James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 15 September 1829 (Madison Papers)
The youth John Chapman nearly related to our family, having become a Student of the University, and being desirous as his father is, that he may be personally known to you, I can not refuse a line for the purpose. I can not speak of him, from much personal knowledge. But if he inherits, as I trust he does, the estimable qualities of his father, I shall not regret the liberty I am taking. We...
27108James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 23 June 1830 (Madison Papers)
I inclose a copy of a late publication of Mr. Hassler, presented by him as you will observe to the Library of the University. He indulges a hope, that it may be found worthy of adoption into the use of the Institution. Draft (DLC) .
27109From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 26 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 18 th places me under great embarrasment. the fragment of life remaining to me is likely to be past in sickness and suffering. the young physicians in our neighborhood will probably be good ones in time. but time & experience as well as science are necessary to make a skilful physician, and Nature is preferable to an unskilful one. I had therefore made up my mind to trust to...
27110James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 22 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I am just informed by Mr. T. J. Randolph that he is compelled by the insolvency of the Estate of his grandfather to apply, as Exr. for the Books bequeathed to the University & now in its Library, as assetts towards paying the debts of the Estate. It will be proper therefore that the Books be delivd. to his order which will probably not be delayed. FC (DLC) .
27111From Thomas Jefferson to Robley Dunglison, 8 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I find I had been too sanguine in believing that my complaint was wearing off. the symptoms within 2. or 3. days past have returned with force. I must again ask your assistance and in the express hope that it will be kindly yielded on the condn in my last letter that the same remunern will be taken as in other cases. ViU .
27112James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 10 November 1832 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 8th. with the little volume on Cholera forwarded at the request of Mr. Trist, which will be passed on to him as soon I have looked a little into it. I have recd. from Philada. the 2d. Vol. of your Physiology, & make now my acknowledgment for both. I wish I was more in a condition to profit of their contents. I have not been able as yet to do more than glance at them....
27113James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 26 July 1834 (Madison Papers)
I have delayed reporting the state of my health or rather of my malady, continually hoping that a few days wd. permit me to say, that I had been entirely freed from my eruptive complaint. But I am still obliged to state that altho’ the surface of my body & limbs are with trifling exceptions here & there, become clean & smooth, the continuance of the itching seems to give notice that there is a...
27114James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 8 October 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 7th is just recd. We had counted with confidence on the opportunity it promises, which will enable us to express in the way we can best express, the cordial regards and all the good wishes which accompany your removal to a new theatre for your distinguished talents. The best indemnity for the losses sustained by the late one me & by your friends will be the full...
27115James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 6 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
On the rect. of yours of the 26. I had copies of the statement inclosed in it & forwarded one for the Natl. Intelligencer & another for the Enquirer. So exact and authentic a publication on the subject of the Endemic at the University must have a seasonable controul on false or exaggerated accounts from whatever sources proceding. My letter of the Feby. 23. answerd your preceding one. I have...
27116Enclosure: Silas Condict to Aaron Dunham, 25 August 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of of your favour of the 19 ult. on the important Subject of our Manufactories. I Should be happy to have had it in my power to give you a more favourable account of the matter than I can do. However, in General I can Say that Industry and an attention to Mechanism is gaining Ground, tho’ we have no established Companies, or Manufactories carried on here, the...
27117From George Washington to Azariah Dunham, 5 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
By a return made to me this day by the Asst Commy of Issues, I find that there are not more than four days Meat in the Magazine —This is a circumstance so alarming, that I request you to make me an immediate return of the quantity of Meat within your district, more particularly of what is within a short distance of Camp, and I must further request you to make use of every exertion to have it...
27118George Washington to Colonel Azariah Dunham, 5 June 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Ringwood, New Jersey ] June 5, 1779 . Asks Dunham to purchase as many cattle as possible. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Dunham was a colonel of the New Jersey Militia and assistant commissary of purchases in New Jersey.
27119From George Washington to Azariah Dunham, 18 June 1780 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Memorandum was put into my hands a few days ago by Genl Forman —By this you will perceive that there are several thousand Bushels of Indian Meal in the County of Monmouth belonging to the public, in the greatest danger of spoiling if it is not already damaged. I must request you to fall upon the most expeditious method of having what is fit for use brought to Morris Town. I am Sir...
27120From Alexander Hamilton to Josiah Dunham, 3 January 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 23rd December. When the Relative Rank of the Officers of your Regiment is shall be established your pretensions which I suppose you have made known to the Commandant shall will be considered. with true consideration I am Sir Your obed Servt. ( Df , in the handwriting of Philip Church, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress).
27121From John Adams to Andrew Dunlap, 22 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Oration of the fourth of July 1822. It is so intelligent, eloquent, and pathetick that no ancient eyes can read it without being suffused with tears, and no ancient ears could hear it without a throbing bosom. I remember not to have read any one with more delight; you have made one mistake however Jefferson and Adams were never rivals, it was Hamilton that was the rival of...
27122Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Dunlap, 28 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Dunlap for the copy of his eloquent oration which he has been so kind pleased to send him, and especially for the kind and partial expressions in it which respect himself. the adherence to the principles of the revolution is always welcome to him, and he thinks it singularly happy that a day is set apart in every year, for the effusion of those sentiments...
27123From John Adams to Andrew Dunlap, 13 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Oration of the fourth of July 1822. It is so intelligent, eloquent, and pathetick that no ancient eyes can read it without being suffused with tears, and no ancient ears could hear it without a throbing bosom. I remember not to have read any one with more delight; you have made one mistake however Jefferson and Adams were never rivals, it was Hamilton that was the rival of...
27124From Benjamin Franklin to William Dunlap, 4 April 1757 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I now appoint you Postmaster of Philadelphia, during our Absence, as it will be some present Employment for you till our Return; when I hope to put you in a better Way, if I find you diligent, careful and faithful. I would not have the Office remov’d on any Account from my House during my Absence, without my Leave first obtained. And as Mrs. Franklin has...
27125Benjamin Franklin and John Foxcroft to William Dunlap, [October? 1764] (Franklin Papers)
Draft: American Philosophical Society We have read your extraordinary Letter upon which we shall make no other Observation but this, That it is not in our Power to give a Discharge for your whole Debt to the Post Office on your Payment of a Part; the Debt not being to us but to the Crown: and that If you do not immediately come to a Settlement with us, in which we are willing to give you all...
27126From George Washington to James Dunlop, 6 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 3d has been duly received—The Bond of Messrs Montgomerie, Willson, Stewart &ca is in the possession of Mr Keith of Alexandria, along with other papers belonging to the Estate of the decd Colo. Colvil—and the £600 which you propose to pay, towards the discharge of it, may go into the hands of Colo. Robert T. Hoe (The attorney of Lord Tankerville and his brother Mr Bennett, to...
27127Petition of George Mason for Warrants for Lands in Fincastle County, [June 1774] (Jefferson Papers)
To his Excellency the Governor and the Council of Virginia. The Memorial & Petition of George Mason of the County of Fairfax. That in the Charter granted by King James the first to the Virginia Company in the year 1609 is Among Others a Clause declaring “That it is his Royal will and Pleasure, and Charging, comanding warranting and authorising the Treasurer and the said Company, and their...
27128From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 11 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
Application’s for Certificates, under particular circumstances obliges me to give your Lordship more trouble than I could wish to do in reciting matters specially. This is the case at present in respect to Messrs Valentine Crawford and Hugh Stephenson; the first of whom serv’d as Waggon Master for sevl years, and sometimes had the care of his Majesty’s Stores on the Southern department...
27129From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 2 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Urged to it by repeated applications from a number of officers whom I have had the honor to command in the service of this Colony, I take the liberty of addressing Your Excelly on the subject of the Lands which the Gentlemen conceive themselves entitled to under his Majesty’s bounty of October 1763. The exception in favor of the Officers & Soldiers, contained in his Majesty’s order in Council...
27130From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 15 June 1772 (Washington Papers)
The very obliging offer your Lordship was pleased to make me the day I left Williamsburg, in behalf of the Officers & Soldiers who (under Faith of Governmt) lay claim to 200,000 acres of Land, on the waters of Ohio (promis’d them by Proclamation in 1754) I did not embrace, because it is evident to me, who am in some degree acquainted with the situation of that country, & the rapid progress...
27131From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 20 June 1773 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Lord Dunmore, 20 June 1773. On 3 July Dunmore wrote GW : “I received the favour of yours of the 20th of last Month.”
27132From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 11 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
With your Excellency’s permission—though I have not the honor of being known to you—I will take the liberty introducing the bearer Mr Fendall, his Lady & Miss Lee, to your civilities. They are much esteemed and deservedly respected in this Country. Ill health of Mrs Fendall, has induced her Physicians to recommend the Air of the Sea to her; and the Bahama Islands seem to be the object of their...
27133From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 13 April 1773 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to your Lordship’s request, I do myself the honour to inform you that, by Letters this day receivd from Doctr Cooper of Kings College in New-York, I find it will be about the first of May before I shall set of for that place; and that it will be June, perhaps the middle of it before I return — Harvest then coming on, and seldom ending till after the middle of July I could almost...
27134From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 30 July 1772 (Washington Papers)
The death of Mr Horracks has I dare venture to say, opened a door to numberless applications to your Lordship, among which the Revd Mr Scott of Prince William County, desires to be introduced as a Candidate for the Office of Commissary. However odd it may seem in me, who has but barely the honour of being known to your Lordship, to appear in behalf of another, I cannot help adding that, Mr...
27135From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 3 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
At second hand, I learnt from Captain Floyd, that the Surveys made by Mr Crawford under the Proclamation of 1754 (expressly agreeable to an order of Council of the 15th of Decembr 1769) and for which your Lordships Patents under the Seal of the Colony, hath actually been obtained, are now declared null & void. The information appearing altogether incredible, I gave little attention to it,...
27136From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 12 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
By the time this Letter can reach Williamsburg, I hope I may be permitted to congratulate your Lordship on your safe return to the City, from a Tour through a Country, if not well Improv’d, at least bless’d with many natural advantages. I was exceedingly sorry, and disappointed in not having the honour of your Lordships Company in your way out, especially as it was my Intention to have waited...
27137Petition to Lord Dunmore and the Virginia Council, 4 November 1772 (Washington Papers)
To His Excellency, the Right Honble John Earl of Dunmore, His Majestys Lieutt, & Govr General of the Colony & Dominion of Virginia; and to the Honble the Council. The Petition of George Washington in behalf of himself, and the Officers and Soldiers claiming Land under the late Govr Dinwiddies Proclamation in 1754. Humbly sheweth That pursuant to an order of Council of the 15th of Decr 1769,...
27138From Alexander Hamilton to Andrew Dunscomb, 17 January 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia, January 17, 1794. On January 26, 1794, Dunscomb wrote to Hamilton : “Your friendly favor of the 17th Inst. I recd. ⅌ last post.” Letter not found. ] Dunscomb, a former resident of New York City, had moved to Richmond in the winter of 1791. He had served the government in several clerical capacities during the American Revolution. After the Revolution he was a clerk in the...
27139From Thomas Jefferson to Antoine Charbonnet Duplaine, 3 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Authentic information being recieved that under colour of your office as Vice-Consul of the republic of France, you have with an armed force, opposed the course of the laws of the land, and rescued out of the hands of an officer of justice a vessel which he had arrested by authority of a precept from his court, the President of the United States has considered it as inconsistent with the...
27140From James Madison to Armand Duplantier, 26 May 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 May 1810. Acknowledged in Duplantier to JM, 21 July 1810 . Makes inquiries about the surveys of Lafayette’s Louisiana lands.
27141From Thomas Jefferson to Armand Duplantier, 29 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to M. Duplantier and forwards him a letter which he recieved in one from M. de la Fayette of very antient date. he will be very glad to learn from M. Duplantier what progress is made in the location, and survey of General Lafayette’s lands, and whereabouts they are located. and it would much more add to his satisfaction to have the grants presented for...
27142From Thomas Jefferson to Armand Duplantier, 24 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter which I wrote the last year to M. de la Fayette I advised him to endeavor to negociate a loan in Europe to the amount of his debts funded on the hypothecation of his lands in Orleans, & to be repaid in ten years, the annual interest in the mean time to be paid by annual sales of lots of the land adjoining N. Orleans. this explanation is necessary for your understanding his letter...
27143From Thomas Jefferson to Armand Duplantier, 9 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 29th. of April I took the liberty of dropping you a line on the subject of M. de la Fayette’s affairs. I have this moment recieved from him a letter of Apr. 8. of which I now inclose you an extract, as also an extract of one I wrote him on the 29th. of April. taking great interest in whatever respects his happiness, I have thought I could not serve him better than by inclosing these to...
27144From James Madison to Armand Duplantier, 2 June 1805 (Madison Papers)
You are probably not ignorant that an Act of Congress has conferred on General Fayette a grant of land amounting to between 11 & 12 thousand Acres, and that the locations of it in tracts not less than 1000 acres each, are authorized in the Orleans territory. The friendship which has long subsisted between the Genl. & myself has led him to transmit me his power of attorney to obtain the...
27145From Benjamin Franklin to Du Plessis, 20 February 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Archives Nationales J’ai L’honneur de vous remettre Les Certificats Légalisès, des services signalés que vous avez rendû à ma patrie. Je desire de tout mon coeur, Monsieur, que vous jouissiez au service de france Des mêmes honneurs militaires que vous avez si bien mérités en Amérique, et je vous serai obligé de minstruire de ceux que vous obtiendrez, pour en faire part au Congrès, qui...
27146From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 29 June 1821 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his friendly respects to Mr. Duponceau with thanks for his “Discourse on the early history of Pennsa.” He has found it one of those fine morsels which can not be tasted without a Wish that there was more of it. Draft ( DLC ); letterbook copy ( PHi : Peter S. Du Ponceau Letterbook, 1777–1839). Peter S. Du Ponceau, A Discourse on the Early History of Pennsylvania: Being an...
27147From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, May 1821 (Madison Papers)
I cannot return my thanks for your “Address” on the subject of a Central Seminary of Jurisprudence, without offering my best wishes for the success of such an Institution. The Citizens of the U. States, not only form one people governed by the same code of laws, in all cases falling within the range of the Federal Authority; but are connected by a daily intercourse and by multiplying...
27148From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 12 November 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 5th. instant: informing me that I have been elected an honorary member of “The Society for the commemoration of the Landing of Wm. Penn,” and I make my acknowledgments with a full sense of what I owe for such a mark of favorable attention. Pennsylvania may well be proud of such a Founder & Lawgiver as Wm. Penn, and an obligation be felt by her enlightened...
27149From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, [14] August 1824 (Madison Papers)
I recd. the copy of your discourse on the Jurisdiction of the Courts of the U.S. with which you favoured me, at a time when I could not conveniently read it; and I have since been obliged to do it with such interruptions that I am not sure of having done entire justice to your investigations. I have certainly found in the volume, ample evidence of the distinguished ability of which the public...
27150From James Madison to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 10 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
On the receipt of yours of the 4th. I made search on my Book Shelves, for a copy of the printed Document to which you refer; but without success. And I know not that one is to be procured in this neighbourhood. From a late notice in a Newspaper of Richmond, where it was originally published, it is questionable whether a copy be attainable even there. That you may not be altogether...