3151From James Madison to Sherman Converse, 10 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 3d. inst; inclosing a manuscript copy of Mr. Webster’s prospectus of his Dictionary, with a printed specimen of the execution of the work; and I comply with your request of an early answer. The plan embraces so many commendable objects beyond the ordinary Scope of such works that its successful execution must be a substantial improvement on them. The specimen,...
3152From James Madison to Noah Webster, 10 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
In my letter of Ocr. 12. 1804. answering an enquiry in yours of Augst. 20. it was stated that “In 1785 I made a proposition with success, in the Legislature (of Virginia) for the appointment of Commissioners to meet at Annapolis, such Commissioners as might be appointed by other States, in order to form some plan for investing Congress with the regulation & taxation of Commerce.” In looking...
3153From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 9 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in due time your affect te lre of Feb. 25. and read it with the pleasure one must always feel on such evidence of the virtues of the heart in one so near and dear to us. the sacrifice you offer to my comfort is such as few would be capable of making and is the more deeply felt in proportion as it is more rare. I percieve that you have been led into error, as the public generally was,...
3154From Thomas Jefferson to John Fellows, 9 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Fellows for the copy to has been so kind as to send him of Paine’s theological works, that the author should in his day have encountered great abuse was a thing of course. a powerful mind like his, and zealously employed in whatever cause can never be an object of mere indifference to those to whom it is opposed. nor has the genus irrtabile vatum whom he...
3155To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a bill for the brandy &c my dearest Grandpapa, by which you will see that we have still a few dollars remaining of the sixty sent by Col Peyton. there are also such receipts for dressing the fish & tongues & sounds as I could obtain, but these dishes, especially the latter, are scarcely ever brought upon table in Boston, owing, I suppose, to their being so easily obtained as to lose...
3156From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your two favors of Feb.23. and 27. and am truly sensible of the interest you so kindly take in my affair, and of the encoraging aspect of mr Gouverneur’s letter. all that is necessary for my relief is a succesful sale of our tickets, of which the public papers give good hope. if this is effected, at a reasonable value for what I shall sell, what will remain will leave me...
3157From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 8 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The approach of the semiannual meeting of the Visitors of the University renders it interesting to learn the probable fate of our application to Congress on the subject of the duties. and the more so, as we gave our bonds personally for the amount, on the presumption that before they should become due Congress would have had time to decide the question. I am well aware how uncontrolable the...
3158From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 7 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Col o Peyton is requested to get mr May to obtain of the best window glass of the Boston manufactory the following articles 25 . panes 12. I. square 50. panes 12 by 18 I. ½ doz. panes 18. I. by 2. feet. also the following for print frames 2. panes or sheets 19½ I. by 15. I. for the 2. prints of Pantheon 1. 19½ I. by 14¼ for Comparative buildings 3 . d o 17
3159To John Adams from Henry Whiting, 6 March 1826 (Adams Papers)
It is with great reluctance I presume to intrude upon your venerable retirement; but I am desirous, in common with some of my brother officers, of being informed of a fact, which probably can now be obtained from yourself alone.—In the Journal of the Continental Congress, under date Oct—1776, we observe that a committee, on which your name (as it does upon almost all others) appears, was...
3160From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 March 1826 (Adams Papers)
Why you should have thought that I was offended my dear George I cannot imagine as I have never had an idea of the kind but I believe that the state of my health and the constant irritation of the nervous system has so soured my temper I am now always crass and unpleasant to myself and to everybody else.—Mr. Quincy has left us after a short visit in which we endeavoured to obtain his company...
3161From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Thomas J. Hellen, 4 March 1826 (Adams Papers)
Your letter has this moment been put into my hand and as a proof of how happy it makes me to hear from you I hasten to answer it immediately— Shut up as I now am in this great house, I have few opportunities of mixing with society and my health is so bad I almost lose the relish for parties which once gave a zeal to the enjoyment. I was however at the Ball on the 22d which was very handsome...
3162To James Madison from Francis Brooke, 4 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty to recommend to you Mr John T Lomax of this place as the Successor of Mr Gilmer in the university. I know no professional lawyer better qualified to fill his place, Mr Lomax is one of the best read lawyers in the State, and though he has not attained the eminence of some of them, it is more to be attributed to his great modesty and other causes, than to any inferiority of...
3163To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 4 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The professorship of law being vacant by the lamented death of M r Gilmer I take the liberty to recommend to your notice M r John T Lomax of Fred g —relatively speaking I think him well qualified to succeed M r Gilmer he graduated at W m & Mary College with much credit to himself has since been a laboreous Student and is at this time one of the best read professional lawyers in the State, his...
3164To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 4 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I never felt myself under the same degree of restraint in taking up my pen to write to you—for there seems a propriety in abstaining from bringing into view a subject which is painful, & at the same time I cannot be ignorant of what is a subject of public discussion. I have followed the debates of the assembly with impatience & anxiety, as I had seen a letter from a gentleman in Virginia, whom...
3165From Thomas Jefferson to Rice W. Wood, 4 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Feb. 23. my grandson had before informed me of the friendly part you had taken in forwarding the indulgence I had asked of the legislature. that it’s first impression on others might in many cases be unfavorable I had anticipated; while to myself there was nothing of novelty in it familiarised to it’s practice as we were before the revolution. that it had no...
3166From John Jay to Richard Peters, 3 March 1826 (Jay Papers)
I had the pleasure of recieving, on Saturday last, your Letter of the 21 st . of Feby— It gratified me to learn from it, that you was in excellent Health—and I hope that a kind Providence will continue to promote your Prosperity.— The Communications which had occurred between you and the Committee of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, were interesting. In a Letter from them of the 10 th ....
3167To James Madison from Sherman Converse, 3 March 1826 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to enclose you for inspection a copy of Mr Websters prospectus of his Large Dictionary and a small printed specimen of the Lexicography of the Work. Mr W. has devoted nearly 30 years of laborious application to the Compilation of this Dictionary, and I have the opinions of some of the first scholars of our Country that for phylological research and decided merit, it excels every...
3168From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Walker Maury, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your enquiries in behalf of my antient and highly esteemed friend and classmate James Maury I need only say that I was born Apr. 2. 1743. and that consequently, allowing for change of style, I shall be 83. y. old on the 13 th of the ensuing month of April. I should not give you the trouble of saying this form me to my friend, but should do it for myself, were it not that dislocns...
3169From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Mills, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Feb. 15. and with it your beautiful map of S. Carolina, which I place among the many other testimonies of your friendship and with the acceptableness they ever ensure. your general plan will constitute a valuable work even independantly of the statistical adjunct you propose: your idea of the Obelisk monument is a very fine one. I think small temples would...
3170To Thomas Jefferson from Robert G Scott, 3 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I must apologize, for trespassing on the slight acquaintance, I have with you, in introducing to you Mr Nicholas Brown; a most respectable citizen of Rhode Island, & son of the Honorable Nicholas Brown, the founder of Brown University—Mr Brown visits Charlottesville, to examine the University, & obtain some information in relation to its discipline, the course of instruction &c—I am Sir with...
3171From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Shore, 2 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, kind Sir, for your very friendly letter of Feb. 22. it supposes in me claims on the attentions of my country to which I have no pretentions. I happened to be born in times which required from all it’s citizens, every service they could render, and gave full value to even the smallest service which any could render. those within the reach of my faculties have been fully remunerated...
3172To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 1 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter has been handed to me, as the person first named of the commissioners to conduct the Lottery lately authorized by the General Assembly. Capt Richardson, I understand was requested by M r T. J. Randolph to make application to Mess rs Yates & M c Intyre on the subject. I have only to add that my associates (Mess rs. Nicholas & Anderson) & myself will take pleasure in...
3173From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 28 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering one from a Lottery office offering it’s services for the management of that lately permitted to me. I have for some years been obliged by age and ill health to resign the care of all my affairs to my grandson Th: J. R. who accdly acts for me with full powers in all cases. that of the lottery particularly has been entirely left to him so that I know...
3174From John Marshall to John Quincy Adams, 27 February 1826 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Marshall accepts with great pleasure the invitation of Mr and Mrs. Adams to dine with them on friday the 3d. of March at five MHi : Endicott Family Autograph Collection.
3175To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 27 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been very much gratified by the letters rec d from you since I left Monticello; those which contained accounts of the interruption to good order at the University were made use of to correct erroneous impressions upon the subject, wherever we found them to exist; and others, referring to the different small commissions with which you had honoured me, gave me an opportunity of shewing at...
3176To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 27 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letter from M r Go relating to a subject interesting to you, and your family, I forward it to you with pleasure. we have heard with deep regret, of the afflicting calamity with which you have been visited, but well know that you will not want resources, to meet any disaster, to which, our nature is subject. with our best wishes to M rs Randolph & family, I am Dear Sir very...
3177To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 26 February 1826 (Adams Papers)
Another fortnight has passed since I had the honour to address you, and the end of it has found me but little wiser than the beginning. It has in fact been spent in the lounging dissipated manner which Washington society so soon produces. My seceding from society produced so much dissatisfaction in the family, that I have again thrown myself into the middle of the stream and my law in...
3178To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Jefferson Ward, 26 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Living among people who revere you as the author of the Declaration of American Independence, as the Father of Republicanism, the Friend & Advocate of liberty, & the President under whose administration the alien & sedition Laws were repealed, & the Liberty of the Press restored, and now in advanced life the Guardian of youth & Literature; these people have with pain & regret read the...
3179To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 25 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I Have Not Since My Return to france Received any direct letter from Monticello, I Have the Gratification to Conclude from Several Reports, namely from An Account of Your Visit to the University that Your Health is Much improved from what I Have left it. it is a pleasing thought to me that when these lines Will Reach You there Will be a short time to Wait before Your dear Helen Has...
3180From James Madison to Levett Harris, 24 February 1826 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 8th. expressing your solicitude concerning the debt of J. P. Todd, on which I am sorry it is not in my power to make any definite communication. His protracted absence leaves me without such a knowledge of the extent of his situation as might throw light on the suggestions suited to it. It is his wish I trust, to give to the transaction so unfortunate in its...