3351To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 6 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteem d favor of the 3 d has been rec d , & I have this day remitted a check for $20 Dolls:, to Harrison Hall of Philad a , as requested. Your dft: favor J & Raphael, for $59.22 Dolls:, has also been presented & paid, & the Box of Tin you order will probably be forwarded this day, by a Waggon, care J & Raphael Charlottesville. MHi .
3352From Thomas Jefferson to Anderson Warfield, 6 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Dec. 27. 25. stating that on the reformation of the Navy in the Spring of 1801 you were retained in the service & stood on the list as 4 th Surgeon, and that by a letter of Sep. 1. of the same year from the Secretary of the Navy you were dismissed from the service, and asking information from me on the subject. I have taken time to examine my papers and find...
3353To James Madison from Thomas J. Rogers, 5 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
I send by mail the third Edition of my Biographical Dictionary, which I pray you to accept as a testimony of my high regard of your public and private character. With great respect, Your Mo. obt. Sert. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Thomas J. Rogers, A New American Biographical Dictionary; or, Remembrancer of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and Statesmen, of America. … , 3rd ed. (Easton, Pa., 1824;...
3354To Thomas Jefferson from John Mclean, 5 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of your letter of the 30 th ult o interesting in itself, becomes doubly so to me from the importance you attach to it. Measures have been taken to carry it into effect, but in a way some what different from that you propose The present applications of a similar kind have been rec d from seminaries of learning in various parts of the Union, but from the pernicious effect of one...
3355To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 5 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
In riding to Edge Hill yesterday I met with Capt. Meriweather & If—I am not much mistaken he is about to revive his old favourite plan. of a Mille On the Riva nna & Sir fear that it might not recur to You I feal It a duty to apprise You, the site at North Milton has evar been viewed as preferable to yours On this side, & a Mille thare would diminish the value of Yours very much, I well see Col...
3356To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas J. Rogers, 5 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by mail the third Edition of my Biographical Dictionary, which I pray you to accept as a testimony of my high regard of your public and private character. MHi .
3357To James Madison from Peter S. Du Ponceau, 4 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
General Lafayette is very anxious to possess a Work which he thus describes: “Mr. Madison’s Report on the federal Constitution, a Work in which his opinion of federal & state rights is clearly expressed.” I presume he means your Report of the Year 1798. I have enquired of all our Booksellers for this work & have not been able to find it in this City. I would, & the General also would take it...
3358To Thomas Jefferson from Gerard Ralston, 4 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
By order of “The Historical Society of Pennsylvania” I have the honor to send to the University of Virginia a copy of the first half volume of its Memoirs, which the Society requests that institution will do them the favor to accept. CSmH .
3359From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
The temporary bell should be placed on the ridge of the roof of the Pavilion in which the books now are, on a small gallows exactly as the tavern bells are. you will contrive how the cord may be protected from the trickish ringings of the students. when the clock comes from Richmond, it should be placed before a window of the book room of the same house, the face so near the window as that...
3360From Thomas Jefferson to Harrison Hall, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor stating my debt to you 14. D and that a bill of 20. D. will pay up that and the current year also, and I have accordingly this day desired Col o Bernard Peyton my correspondent in Richmond to remit you 20. D. after the present year I must pray you to consider my subscription as discontinued, not from any diminution of respect for the publication, but that I have...
3361From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 30 th your advances for me have been unreasonably great and such as I must check. but no consideration on earth will permit me to let you suffer. Except our neighborly and current calls, every thing is in Jefferson hands. I sent for him this morning and have had a conference with him. he assures me he has had you in constant view and thinks himself...
3362From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to ask a friendly office of you which I hope will give you no other trouble than to change the direction of one of your daily walks. a mr Boyé, a Danish Mathematician was engaged in a survey to make a map of Virginia. I lent him a fine Borda’s Circle of reflection 2. or 3. years ago and my best telescope. he has ceased to have occasion for them a year or two. he is now in Philada...
3363To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
ENTRY OF MERCHANDISE, imported by Thomas Jefferson esq. in the Brig Clarice—Oxnard Master, from Marseilles. MARKS & NUMBERS. PACKAGES & CONTENTS. Specific 15 P r C t 30 P r C t TJ—1@3 Three Cases Muscat Wine ea 50 B 300.00 〃 4@6 Three d o
3364To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1826 (Madison Papers)
I now return you Ritchie’s letter and your answer. I have read the last with entire approbation and adoption of it’s views. When my paper was written all was gloom, and the question of roads and canals was thought desperate at Washington after the President’s message. Since that however have appeared the S. C. resolns., Van Buren’s motion, and above all Baylie’s proposn. of Amdmt., believed to...
3365From Thomas Jefferson to John Patten Emmet, 2 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 26. has been duly recieved, and I enter with anxiety into all your views and wishes as to mr Wall. I regret much, not indeed that he is so well off, but the uncertainty whether we could ensure him better. I verily believe that he might do better here, not in the first moment, or month, but after a moderate time—you seem to think a small salary, could we give it, might turn...
3366From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 2 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you Ritchie’s letter and your answer. I have read the latter with entire approbation and adoption of it’s views. when my paper was written, all was gloom, and the question of roads and canals was thought desperate at Washington, after the President’s message. since that however have appeared the S.C. resolutions, Van Buren’s motion, and, above all, Baylie’s proposition for...
3367To Thomas Jefferson from John Hampden Pleasants, 2 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Returning from England in October last, the enclosed Packet was intrusted to my care by Mr Rufus King Am. Mer in London—I have kept it Very long, to use it as an excuse for visiting Monticello, & I hope that no inconvenience has occurred by the delay— MHi .
3368From Thomas Jefferson to William G. Wall, 2 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 8. was recieved on the 13 as the subject would require explanations beyond the compas of a letter, and D r Emmet one of our Professors was then to set out within a few days for New York I asked the favor of him to call on you, and after informing you of all particulars which it might be interesting to you to know, to assure you that your services would be highly acceptable....
I cannot suffer the day to pass my dear George without offering you the best wishes of your Mother on the return of the day which generally calls forth the good natured gratulations of our friends. May the ensuing year prove auspicious my beloved Son and ensure to you all the happiness you can desire pure unmixed and if possible without alloy.—As you are now the only one of the family who are...
3370From Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 1 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot blame you, if you have been thinking hardly of my long delay in answering your favor of the 10 th ult. but knowing the state of my health these thoughts will vanish from your mind . it is now 3. weeks since a re-ascerbation of my painful complaint has confined me to the house and indeed to my couch. required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty. yesterday for...
3371Thomas Jefferson: Statement of Bond to 1 Jan. 1826, 1 Jan. 1826, 1 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
A Statement of Tho s Jefferson’s Bond to 1 st Jany 1826. 1820 May 31. To Amt principal $ 843.50 〃 Int to May 31 st 1822 101.22 〃 Amt due May 31. 1822 $ 944.72 〃
3372From Philip Sturtevant to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to Say the Composit Capitals Cant be Cut for 30 Dollars Each as I wrote you, its impossible and I Hope you will take it in to Consideration and allow me my first Price which was 4/6 per inch in Girthing the Collum or Capital at its Diminished Diametre which will amount to 37 or 38 Dollars Considering my former Letters &c its all I can ask and I will be satisfied with that sum 4/6...
3373From Henry Clay to John Quincy Adams, 1817 to 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Clay’s respectful Compliments to Mr. Adams and Mrs. Adams and he regrets Extremely that confinement to his room by indisposition prevents him from having the pleasure of dining with them to day. Tuesday Morning Mr. and Mrs. Clay regret that a very bad cold with which he is afflicted deprives them of the honor of accepting Mr. and Mrs. Adams’s invitation to dinner on friday next. Mrs....
3374From John C. Calhoun to John Quincy Adams, 1817 to 1825 (Adams Papers)
5th Jany— Mr Calhoun accepts with pleasure the invitation of Mr & Mrs Adams for Thursday next 6th Jany. Mr Calhoun accepts with pleasure the invitation of Mr & Mrs Adams for Thursday next. 29th April Mr Calhoun regrets that he cannot accept the invitation of Mr & Mrs Adams to dine with them to day. 13th June Mr Calhoun accepts with pleasure the invitation of Mr Adams for tomorrow 19th Decr. Mr...
3375From Daniel Webster to John Quincy Adams, 1817 to 1825 (Adams Papers)
Monday Morning. Mr Webster accepts with pleasure Mr & Mrs Adam’s Invitation to dine on Thursday— Sir, Wednesday 3 ‘clock I am, today, affected with So severe a cold it has been quite impossible for me to call at the Department, as I proposed to do, last Evening. I hope to be well enough to do it on friday. Yrs, with very true / regard Wednesday P.M Mr Webster very much regrets that the...
3376From Daniel Webster to John Quincy Adams, 1817 to 1825 (Adams Papers)
I do not feel quite well enough to be out today—having suffered a little from being out yesterday—and I would not wish you to detain, on my acc’t, the Papers which you wish to send off for Chili—Both myself and friends shall be Entirely satisfied to follow your suggestion—I will, nevertheless, have the pleasure of calling at the Department on the subject, at an Early opportunity— With entire...
3377From Daniel Webster to John Quincy Adams, 1817 to 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr Webster, accepts with great pleasure Mr & Mrs Adams invitation to dine on Thursday next— MHi : Adams Papers.
3378From John Adams to Daniel Brent, 1825 (Adams Papers)
The President directs me to request of you to procure as soon as possible from the Printer some Copies of the Proclamation as he is very anxious to send them to Congress to day Yours &c DLC : Peter Force Collection.
3379From John Adams to Peter Force, 1825 (Adams Papers)
Will you be good enough to have fifty copies of the enclosed invitation printed for me before the evening. If you can you will much oblige / Yours &c DLC : Peter Force Collection.
3380Memorandum Books, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 4. The wines recd. from Dodge & Oxnard Dec. 14. & this day for myself for T.I.R. total vin rouge de Bergasse. 150
3381From Thomas Jefferson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This indenture made on the day of one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, between Arthur S. Brockenbrough, Proctor of the University of Virginia in the county of Albemarle on the one part and Thomas Jefferson Rector, and James Madison, James Breckenridge, Chapman Johnson Joseph C. Cabell, John Hartwell Cocke and George Loyall Visitors of the said University on the other part witnesseth...
3382Thomas Jefferson: Request to borrow draft, 1825?, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
will you lend me my draught for a quarter of an hour to N. P T. the draught herein mentioned was, if I recollect right, that of a bill for the establishment of intermediate colleges, sent to J. C. Cabell, for the Session of 1825.— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
3383Thomas Jefferson: Memo on class schedule and tenanting assignments, 1825, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Mod. Cost. D M. W. Fr. V. Ion Pallad. Modil 30 Dinsm 8,768. Antient lang. Long. 7½ – 9½ VIII. Diocl. bath. Dentil 24 Dinsm Mathematics Key 9½ – 11½ I.
3384Thomas Jefferson: an essay or introductory lecture...dialects of the English language, 1825, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
An Essay or Introductory Lecture towards facilitating instruction in the Anglo-Saxon and Modern dialects of the English Language. for the use of the University of Virginia Printed by order of the Board of Visitors The importance of the Anglo-Saxon dialect towards a perfect understanding of the English language seems not to have been duly estimated by those charged with the education of youth;...
3385University of Virginia: Book purchases for UVa recommended by..., 1825, 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Key. Bilfingeri dissertatio de triplici rerum cognitione. 4 to 1721 elementa Physicus Leips. 1742. Atwood on motion Analysis of a course of lectures. description of experiments Charnock’s hist. of marine architecture 3.v.4 to —— Dupin’s works. Guericke experimenta nova Magdeburgica. fol. Amst. Gilbert Physiologica, seu tractatus de magnete et corporibus magneticis. Lambert Pyrometric Berlin...
3386To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not had the last advertisement printed in hand bills or on letter sheets, if you wish it I will have a few struck off—I have several of the notices printed last summer on letter sheets, which with some slight alterations gives all the necessary information—be pleased to say if you will have some of them—If you have examined the survey of the lots for the Professors &c, be pleased to let...
3387To Thomas Jefferson from William Elliott, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just read part of a letter from one of the Professors of The University in which a subject interesting to myself is incidentally mentioned—It was observed that such an office as that of Librarian to the Institution already exists or will soon be created. It seems that M r Tucker (the professor to whom I allude) was apprised of my willingness to receive such an appointment under...
3388To Thomas Jefferson from Claiborne W. Gooch, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I scarcely know how to apologize for this intrusion upon your retirement. After devoting so large a portion of a long life to the service of your country; after having contributed more than any other man to the developement of the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and retired from the turmoils of politicks, and consecrated the evening of so eventful a life to the promotion of...
3389Broadside: A Plea for Financial Assistance by Subscription for Thomas Jefferson, 1825, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Ingratitude has been called the vice of Republics. On a late occasion we have seen the Government and people of the United States give a practical and triumphant refutation of this calumny by their conduct to Gen. La Fayette. Another opportunity of removing the reproach now presents itself; and it is for the people of Virginia in their individual capacity, to say, whether they will not eagerly...
3390To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Chemical Apparatus essential to a well furnished Labratory & Lecture Room. Knights improved table furnace $ 30. Forge Bellows, tubes, blow pipes &c. 40 * Small blast furnace for table 10. * Sand heat furnaces to be set on brick work 16. * Bellows table with Lamp & blow pipe 25. Copper still, & Ressigeratory 20 Apparatus for Potassium 10
3391To John Adams from Hull Burton, 30 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
The first disciples of Jesus-Christ did not hesitate at times to ascert that the Love of Christ—the invisable yet sencible influence of redeaming love was the cause of theire preaching and writing—And if the maxim be true that that which has been may be again—I presume you will not view me as boasting when I observe that my mind has felt the influence of something this morning—that I beleaved...
3392To James Madison from Ebenezer Bancroft Williston, 30 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
I am preparing for publication a collection of the most celebrated speeches of American Orators. I find the greatest difficulty in procuring copies of the early Congressional debates. There never were more animating subjects of debate than those which the Revolution afforded & those which afterward grew out of the relations of this country with France, & during both these periods many wise and...
3393To Thomas Jefferson from Sheldon Clark, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having read, with the greatest pleasure yours of the 5 th ins t I write this to thank you for it, and to apologize for troubling you with mine of the — ult. To perpetuate our free and liberal institutions, and secure to posterity, religious liberty, an unshaken and implicit confidence in those who teach dogmas that humble and degrade man below the vilest worms, must be removed. Man can never...
3394From Thomas Jefferson to John Mclean, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to ask a favor of you in behalf of the “University” of Virginia, the motives to which I am in hopes you will approve, while it would seem scarcely to disturb at all the arrangements of your office. this Institution is exactly one mile from Charlottesville, the nearest post-office. it’s order requires that as little occasion as possible for going to the town should be given to the...
3395To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hand herewith statement your ℀ current to this date, shewing a balance due me of $3.96000/100 Dolls:, which agreeable to our understanding, (made from the absolute necessity of my situation only,) I rely on rec g in January, when I shall be compel d to raise more money than I can command from my own resources. I shall be very sorry indeed if it should inconvenience you to raise it, & hope it...
3396To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Thomas Jefferson D r In ℀ current with B. Peyton 1825 Rich d 31 July To Balance due me p r ℀ to this date $1,726.78
3397From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of this day to the P.M. Gen l I have sollicited his establishing a deposit of letters for the University at that place, making the Proctor mr A. S. Brockenbrough Post master. besides stating to him the facts and motives of the measure I have taken the liberty of referring him to you for them, as well acquainted with them. writing is too irksome to me to copy the letter; and, not...
3398To Thomas Jefferson from Ebenezer Bancroft Williston, 30 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am engaged in preparing for publication a collection of the most celebrated speeches of American Orators. I find the greatest difficulty in procuring copies of the early Congressional debates. There never were more animating subjects of debate than those which the Revolution afforded, and those which afterward grew out of the relations of this country with France, and during both these...
3399To Thomas Jefferson from James Barbour, 29 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel obliged to you for enlarging the number of my acquaintances by the addition of Doctor Dunglison and M r Long—Who as far as I have been able, from short interviews, to appreciate their Characters, are entitled to all the kind offices you recommend—and which I shall most cheerfully afford—A conversation with them on the State of the University, has revived an intention which I had formed...
3400From George Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
C’est avec une bien vive reconnoissance Madame, que j’ai reçu la lettre que vous avez eue la bonté de m’écrire, et les vers qu’elle renfermoit. il est bien précieux pour moi de les tenir de vous même, et j’acquère par là le droit d’en devenir le dépositaire.— j’ose espérer madame, que vous voulez bien me pardonner d’avoir été si longtems sans vous adresser mes remerciemens. depuis six...