3431From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 19 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to set down a Dormitory engagement for the next season for Paul Clay son of Editha Clay of Bedford, and another for mr Bolivar nephew of Gen l Bolivar, Christ n name not known to me I observe by an error of the press in the University advertising the rent is set down at 28.D. instead of 23.D. pray have it corrected before the next paper comes out, and if it is so in the...
3432To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your letters are always welcome, the last more than all others, it’s subject being one of the dearest to my heart. to my granddaughter your commendations cannot fail to be an object of high ambition, as a certain passport to the good opinion of the world. if she does not cultivate them with assiduity and affection, she will illy fulfill my parting injunctions. I trust she will merit a...
As you are determined not to write to your Mother or in any way to continue an intercourse always yielding her so much pleasure I shall only send you some very indifferent lines written to accompany the portrait now in the hands of Stewart— We are all well and only want your company to make us quite happy—Charles say’s you are the fortunate one of the family all the rest will be ruined— Accept...
3434From James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 18 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 10th. inst: was recd. a few days ago & I give it the earliest answer which circumstances have permitted. It has been impossible not to observe the licence of construction applied to the Constitution of the U. States; and that the premises from which powers are inferred, often cover more ground than the inferences themselves. In seeking a remedy for these aberrations, we must not...
3435From Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 18 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters are always welcome, the last more than all others, it’s subject being one of the dearest to my heart. to my granddaughter your commendations cannot fail to be an object of high ambition, as a certain passport to the good opinion of the world. if she does not cultivate them with assiduity and affection she will illy fulfill my parting injunctions. I trust she will merit a...
3436From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have truly judged that your letter of the 12 th was not correctly understood, as you intended it, by the attending Visitors. we are desirous to relieve the Professors, strangers as they mostly are, from the disagreeable office of collecting their tuition fees, and that this should be done for them without any diminution of emolument; and the Proctor being the reciever of monies in all...
3437From Thomas Jefferson to George F. Hopkins, 16 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me with your favor of the 5 th inst. it’s subjects are equally curious and interesting. but age and infirmities have withdrawn me from all such speculations. to my thanks on this mark of your notice I can therefore only add assurances of my great respect. MHi .
3438From Thomas Jefferson to Rembrandt Peale, 16 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you for your letter of the 7 th for the candid account you are so kind as to give me of mr De Breet, and my rescue from the unworthy Bool, who, unknown himself, was willing to make me a tool to injure a public institution for the sake of an individual friend. your offer would indeed be a splendid one for us. the association of your name with our infant, and as yet untried...
3439From Henry Clay to John Quincy Adams, 15 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Clay has the honor to accept the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Adams to dinner on Tuesday next. Mrs. Clay regrets that she feels herself obliged to decline the honor of dining with them at the same time, which was extended her— MHi : Adams Papers.
3440From James Madison to James Barbour, 15 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed speaks for itself. Should there be an opening at West Point, the pretensions of young Lewis are certainly very respectable, and, as you know, respectably vouched. I do not trouble the President, because your communication as far as the occasion may require will be sufficient. Health & prosperity RC (owned by Henry N . Flynt, Greenwich, Conn., 1961); draft ( DLC ). RC addressed by...
3441To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th was rec d last night, from the contents of it I presume my letter of the 12 th was not sufficiently explicit on some points to be correctly understood in the way that I intended it should be, you will therefore please excuse my again troubling you on the subject—It was not my intention to claim additional compensation for any business wherein this institution itself was...
3442To Thomas Jefferson from William Clark, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honour of receiving—a letter from you under date 12 th September 25’ which has afforded me much pleasure, particularly in that part of it which I am favoured with a continued friendship of a man whome I have always had the highest veneration and respect for. I am not the only one in this Section of the Country which feels proud of the University which you have laboured so long...
3443To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Without hearing directly from you, in relation to the present crisis in our political affairs, I take it for granted; that you view it, with the same regrets, and alarms, that I do—Such have been the impressions upon my mind, produced by the rapidly progressive usurpations of the general government: that I have deemed it a duty, to make them known to the public, under the caption of political...
3444To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of addressing you a note accompanying this letter, upon a subject, which may probably be made to bear upon the most important interests of this country.—I need not tell you, Sir, the political consequences, I apprehend, from M r Adams’s administration, unless they can be counteracted, by the election of some other person in his stead—They are such, as will justify all...
3445To Thomas Jefferson from David Hosack, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
accompanying this note is a Discourse I lately delivered at the opening of the last session of our medical school—I wish it may have any interest for you—. Mr Wall a distinguished artist your city informs me that you are about to appoint a Professor of Drawing in your university—I beg leave to say that Mr Wall appears to possess in an eminent degree the talents required in that station and...
3446From Thomas Jefferson to William Harris Jones, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 2 d was reserved to be laid before the Visitors at the meeting expected on the 12 th but there was no board three members only attending. I communicated it to them and altho’ no appointment could be made, yet it was observed in conversation that, altho’ where proper persons could not be found at home to fill the offices of the University, it would be for the benefit of the...
3447To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 15 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have addressed you letters respecting of going electioneering for you in the year 1800. having left Philadelphia for Richmond virginia arrived at Baltimore the last week of May proceeded from there to Charlestown on to Easton to Hadler Cove and crossed Chesepeake Bay ; for Annapolis arrived there about the last of June left there the 5th of July for Washington city got on to and to...
3448From Thomas Jefferson to John B. Richeson, 14 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors did not form a board yesterday, three members only attending, I communicated to them your letter of the 10 th proposing to establish in the University a reading room for the amusement of the Students at their leisure hours, to be furnished with the best polilitical, agricultural and periodical papers of the US. The course of education to be pursued at the University is prescribed...
3449To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I had this pleasure on the 2 d ul to & trust that letter got safe to hand. I inclosed in it a song composed & sung at a public dinner by a man of your own age, & who to me has always professed the longest & most invariable friendship for you. I sent at the same time the discourse of a Russian on public education. I thought it might perchance amuse you to see the ideas in those climates on this...
3450To Thomas Jefferson from Edward A. Turpin, 14 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Aware of the trouble frequently imposed on you in receiving and attending to communications, I should not now myself do it were it not for the peculiar nature of the subject, always interesting to you, and I may hope particularly so in This State —the advancement of Literature—.The Legislature at its last session made an endowment of $6600 per annum for the establishment of a college; of which...
3451To James Madison from Henry Lee, 13 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
I felt myself pleased and honoured by your letter, & shall avail myself of the earliest stage of maturity that my materials may present, to impose on your politeness and patience in the manner you seem to prefer. Genl. Armstrong has also been liberal & encouraging but I am fearful of his competition, knowing that I must be content with the second place. But I aim at truth & truth has charms...
3452From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 13 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Visitors did not form a board yesterday, three members only attending. I communicated to them your letter of that date, but no formal decision could take place on the subjects of the letter. I will state to you however the general sentiments expressed in conversation. 1. they will approve of your borrowing from the library fund the monies necessary for the Professors. 2. the Hotel E . was...
3453To Thomas Jefferson from John Hartwell Cocke, 13 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this morning received a letter from M r Timberlake, saying, that M r Michie has taken a school which prevents his accepting the office of Librarian— Accompanying this communication is a strong recommendation from M r Timberlake in favour of M r James M Bramham—who will deliver this but having no personal acquaintance with M r B can only inform you, what I learn of him from M r T–s...
3454From James Madison to Robley Dunglison, 12 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Dr. Dunglison begs him to accept a Bonnebouche of Madeira Wine. Having been long from the Island before it was drawn from the Cask, and long afterwards under the Cork, it is ready now for the Cup & lip. Printed facsimile of draft (in John M. Taylor, From the White House Inkwell [Rutland, Vt., 1968]).
3455To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
* The late heavy drafts to pay the freight and other charges on the Marble Bases & Capitels from Italy for the Rotunda, has reduced the funds of the Institution so that nothing remains but the Library & Apparatus fund—The Professors will now all want money in a few days, shall I borrow of that fund to supply their wants? to be replaced when the annuity of 1826 is rec d —. – As soon as...
3456From John Adams to John Adams, 11 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter—and your Father still more for his permission in permiting you to send me a Copy of his Message, which if it had not been delay’d in Boston, would have reached me before any body else— It is every thing I could wish, or desire it to be, it cannot fail to give general, or, if not, universal satisfaction to the nation, and to all Nations—It proves so particular...
3457To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 11 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
I was much delighted yesterday by the receipt of the letter from you. It assured me that you was still in good health and spirits, about which things I was a little anxious, from the time I had heard of your intention to “submit” as Mr Browere not inappropriately terms it. I had been very much incommoded I must confess, in the operation, as my hair and ears were not so easily extracted from...
3458From Thomas Jefferson to William Harris Jones, 11 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Jones for the handsome compliment proposed to him of the drawing of the Rotunda. he will ask permission to exhibit it to his friends and visitors at Monticello for some time as a favble specimen of mr Jones’s talent in that line but must insist on then returning it to him to serve the same purpose in his own hands with those to whom it might be useful to...
3459From Thomas Jefferson to John Bankhead Magruder, 11 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your question of yesterday, so far as respects tuition and board, it must be a matter of compromise between yourself and the Professors and Hotel keepers. their taking you for half a year would not at all lessen the number of those engaging with them for the whole year. but as to University rent the question would be whether it would be for the interest of the institution to rent...
3460To James Madison from Thomas Ritchie, 10 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
Do not be surprised at receiving this Letter. I have been frequently tempted to appeal to your judgment, and ask your Advice. Not a dark Cloud has come over the public horizon, but I have turned towards you as a ⟨sort?⟩ of last resource. My profound reverence for you as a Politician, and my unfeigned regard for you as a man, have impelled my thoughts in that direction: but to this moment I...
3461From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st , has been duly recieved. a drawing master, Music master E t c, are wanting at the University, the latter for the violin, flute and clarinet; the former for landscape. but the selection of the teachers is left to the Professors; the visitors having nothing to do with it. I have had little conversation with the Faculty on the subject, and am unable therefore to say...
3462To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Abbot Cummings, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We herewith send an Invoice of three cases of Books from France shipped from New York, one of which was opened & found to correspond with the original order. As we supposed the other cases correct they have not been opened, and they will be less liable to injury from not being repacked. The Anatomical plates are in sheets, and are generally sold & preserved in this form in Port-folios. They...
3463To Thomas Jefferson from William Gordon, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am reluctant to intrude on your retirement, and certainly not disposed to involve you in the Strife of Politics: Yet a Crisis in our public affairs, which seems to threaten all the the principles of the Federal Constitution, emboldens me to address you—You see by Gov r Pleasants communication to the legislature, that he recommends an Instruction to our senators, on the subject of the Tariff...
3464To Thomas Jefferson from Chapman Johnson, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my duty to apologise to you and the visitors who will be with you on monday next, for n o attending their meeting—It is a subject of great regret and s ome mortification to me. Though my duties here, are pressing and important, I would have dispensed with them, if by attending your meeting, I could have hoped to fulfil the objects for which it was appointed —But under existing...
3465To Thomas Jefferson from John Bankhead Magruder, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In examining the regulations of the University, I find one, by which the student who enters, at an intermediate period of the session, is required to pay the tuition fee or fees for the whole term. As I am obliged to leave this place, by the first of June next, being appointed a Cadet at the military Accademy at West Point, and ordered to attend at that time, I wish to know if this regulation...
3466To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You have no doubt heard before this of the failure of Samuel Williams of London, for an enormous amount; on references to my letter book, I find I remitted him a bill, of £112.10 Stirling, on the 9 th: of August last, on your ℀ , & really fear it has been swallow d up in the general vortex—if so, I shall sincerely regret it, & I mention it to you, hoping you may be apprised of other...
3467From John B. Richeson to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 10 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having a desire to establish a Reading–Room the ensuing year in the University, I respectfully solicit your attention to the subject—Should it meet with your approbation and I be allowed the privilege of keeping it, it shall be furnished with the best political, agricultural, and periodical papers published in the United States—And I pledge myself to conduct it according to the regulations...
3468To Thomas Jefferson from Harrison Hall, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of handing you above my account for the Port Folio for the last two years the account of which or such part thereafter as may be conveniently enclosed may be transmitted by Mail Should you think proper to make the advance for 1826 one note of $20 will answer the purpose.— I would be happy to supply you with a complete copy of the Port Folio since its commencement in 1800 for...
3469To Thomas Jefferson from William Harris Jones, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent herewith an elevation of the Rotunda, & repectfully beg your acceptance of the same, should You consider it worthy thereof— CSmH .
3470To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made all the haste I could to get your pens for your Polygraph, for I well know the uses of that machine, as it has long been my practice to keep copies of letters, because I have desired to leave to my family as full a knowledge of my transactions as possible, consistent with my other labours—but that you may know why I have been more solicitous on this score, know that after the death...
3471To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In complyance with Your kind note of the 2 d Int my Cart bring 300. head of Cabbage for Your acceptance, the best I have & in the neighbaurhood, when put away well they loaf in wintar. if not two very cold—if there may not serve You, I think when Out You can have more. every Year Sir several in planting I have You in mind, with great & Sincere Esteem MHi : Coolidge Collection.
3472From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 9 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you, Dear Sir, a thousand thanks for your kind present of Cabbages—they are the more acceptable as I had despaired of getting any in this part of the neighborhood. but it was the farthest of all things from my thoughts to have broken in upon your private stock at all. the negroes being the only cabbage dealers here I thought they might be so also in your neighborhood where the low...
3473From James Madison to James Francis Madison Shepherd, 8 December 1825 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 20th. Ult. was not recd. till yesterday afternoon. I find on recurring to my files and my memory, that I can afford no evidence of the fact in question. I have nothing from the pen of Docr. Shepherd that alludes to it. In a letter of april 7th 1821. He says “A family of the negroes that belonged to my brothers Estate have been taken back for the benefit of Betsy Shepherd: if...
3474To Thomas Jefferson from William G. Wall, 8 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brown Called on me on Monday last wishing to Know if I would be willing to undertake the Profesorship of drawing & Landscape painting at the Virginia University I told him I Should like to fill a place so Respectable butt would Rather hear from M r Jefferson on the Subject before I would determine. I flatter Myself from my Knowledge & Style of Drawing and Landscape painting. I Could fill...
3475From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Whitwell the Architect employed to direct mr Owen’s works at Harmony & Cap t Macdonald of the Royal Engineers have come from Washington on purpose to see our modes of building. mr Owen wished them particularly to see our tin roofs, & our guttured flat roof. be so good if you please to shew them everything they wish to see. friendly salutations InHi .
3476To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to you by our friend Gen l Cocke, whom I am truly sorry not to accompany on his journey to Monticello. My brother in Law, Docter Carter, having departed this life on 30th ult: leaving his affairs in a very embarrassed situation, it becomes necessary for some one of his surviving friends to attend at Lancaster Court on the 3 d monday in this month to qualify as his...
3477To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
For the purpose of promptly answering your Letter of the 29 th ult. I sit down immediately to give you my opinion of the merits of M r Debreet. For a long while he was engaged in Baltimore ornamenting Windsor chairs for Mess rs Finley, where I became acquainted with him—And it is only of late that he has attempted to make Pictures of Landscapes. I cannot but think his practice on the Chairs...
3478To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 7 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Corks you write for shall be forwarded by first conveyance to Charlottesville, care Jacobs & Raphael. I am truly delighted to hear you are able to resume your former healthful exercise on Horseback, & sincerely trust it will be long before you are again deprived of it. M r Monroe is seriously talked of as our next Governor, & it is said with his approbation—M r Giles, Pleasants, & Henry...
3479To Thomas Jefferson from N. & S.S. Jocelyn, 6 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have taken the liberty of sending herewith, a copy of A Universal Atlas we have just published, edited by Mr Sidney E. Morse, Geographer; the plan of which is thought to be an improvement in the construction of Altases for Collegiate & general use— The plan was first brought out in “Morse’s Atlas of the United States,” published by ourselves in 1823, in which was comprised, all the detail...
3480From Thomas Jefferson to Pleasants & Jones, 6 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On turning to your subscription files you will find that my letter in answer to the application to me to become a subscriber stated that I would subscribe for one year as an encoragement at it’s first commencement, but that it was to be discontinued at the end of the 1 st year without further notice, for the reason that I allowed myself to read but a single paper, which was that to which I had...