3661To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The present will be forwarded by M r Caustin, the general Agent for the sufferers by depredation Committed by the French prior to the year 1800—He has Collected a Mass of testimony all going to Confirm the Opinion I had always had. That the Government had bartered the fair Claims of the Merchants against the Guarantee of the W. Indian Islands. and was bound in Common honesty to pay the losses...
3662From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not a scrip of a pen on the subject of the marbles you mention as arrived for me at Philada, neither invoice, nor advice nor letter of any sort. I must therefore substitute conjecture for certainty. in Aug. 1823. an Italian stone cutter Giacomo Raggi whom mr Appleton had sent us was returning to Italy, with an intention however of coming back to us. he agreed to bring me 2. alabaster...
3663Thomas Jefferson and UVa Board of Visitors: Bond for customs, 12 Oct. 1825, 12 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Man . 532 Know all Men by these Presents ....that We, Thomas Jefferson, John H. Cocke James Madison Chapman Johnson, James Breckenridge, George Loyall and Joseph C. Cabell are held and firmly bound to the United States of America , in the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, to be paid to the United States; for payment whereof, we bind ourselves, our heirs executors and administrators, jointly and...
3664To Thomas Jefferson from James Hyman Causten, Sr., 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured by our mutual friends, the Hon: Samuel Smith and John Hollins Esqr, with the enclosed letters of introduction. I beg leave to express my pleasure on being introduced to your acquaintance, and trust it may prove reciprocally agreeable and beneficial:—Rest assured, Sir, that nothing within my power shall be wanting to give it every desirable quality. I have also the pleasure to...
3665From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in informing you that the Board of Visitors at their late meeting unanimously appointed you Professor of the school of Law in the University of Virginia, and that on signifying your acceptance the letter of appointment shall be immediately made out. with my sincere hopes that this mark of the esteem in which they hold you may be recieved with as much pleasure as it has...
3666To Thomas Jefferson from John Hollins, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My present respects will be forwarded to you by my friend James H. Causten, who is appointed by the sufferers from French Spoliations, to urge their claims against the United States for the losses sustained by those spoliations, predicated on the ground, that their claims were surrendered, and given up to France for a valuable National benefit to the United States by the Convention of 1800....
3667From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d is just now recieved, and I have this day instructed the Proctor of the University to remit you immediately the sum of 658. D 32 c on account of that institution which wish the 127.19 formerly remitted for my portion of what was due, makes up the whole sum of 785.51 the only motive for proposing a postponement of the duties was the supposition that Congress might more...
3668From Thomas Jefferson to George Tucker, 11 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a M.S. copy of the new enactments passed by the Visitors of the University at their late session, and also a printed copy of those formerly past now made conformable, by corrections with the pen, withe the amendments enacted at the same session, and request that by handing them from the one to the other of the Professors they may make them known by reading them successively to the...
3669From James Madison to James M. Hite, 10 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yours of Sepr. 10. some time ago & did not despair till within a day or two, of being able to send you a Merino Ram which has been kept in readiness. It appears now that it can not be done and I make haste to give you the information hoping it will reach you by the time you have finished your seeding, & that the Ram may be on the spot by the time he will be wanted. I wish you to take...
3670To Thomas Jefferson from Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 10 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rev. M r Brazer, a Unitarian Clergyman of Salem in this State, asks from M r Coolidge or myself a letter of introduction to you, as he proposes to make a tour through the middle states, & wishes to visit Monticello, & pay his respects to you there. knowing, as we do, how much you are harassed and oppressed by the crowd of strangers who think themselves privileged to waste and misuse your...
3671To Thomas Jefferson from John Pickering, 10 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to send you (by the last post) a little pamphlet on Greek Grammars . It was originally communicated by me as an article for the North American Review, and was printed off for the October number, which is just published; but after it was printed, the Editor informed me, that he did not think it expedient to publish it; observing, among other things, that upon further...
3672From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 9 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mindful of the very kind invitation of Mrs Boylston and of yourself, and of our own earnest inclination and promise, Mrs Adams and I propose to visit you at Princeton the next week—we hope to reach your house on Friday the 19th. and to pass the Sunday with you—The only intreaty which I permit myself to make of you, is that you will receive us as children of your own family, to the exclusion of...
3673From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 9 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Gen l Dearborne, Collector of Boston, has advanced the expences on our marble Capitels as follows Freight from Leghorn 795.30 Wharfage E t c 17.50 Amount premium and policies 72.28 885.08 which advance being gratuitous and an uncommon favor be pleased to have him reimbursed without any delay. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
3674To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Fortune, 8 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour of addressing you by Letter dated Charleston S.C., Aug t 29. 1825, delivered by me to the Keeper of the Post office here for the safer conveyance, and not having received an answer thereto, I conjecture it might have been mislaid among other papers, perhaps thro’ the absence or indisposition of the Gentleman who transacts your business.—The following is an exact copy of the...
3675To Thomas Jefferson from Craven Peyton, 8 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I was against my wish summoned. On the Grand Jury A t the Superior Court. Monday next. the recent meeting of the visitors of the U-versity, may of superceeded the Necessity, of the Jury? haveing. any interference with these Matters, Your being the kind Farther of the institution & it always being my wish, to act confirmable, to your wishes. If agreeable, to You, I shall be grateful., to no...
3676Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 7 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
The Board met according to adjournment. Present the same members as yesterday. Resolved that the Proctor be charged with the duty at all times, as the Attorney in fact of the Rector and Visitors, of preventing trespasses and intrusions on the property of the University real and personal, and of recovering it’s possession from any person who shall improperly withhold the same, and, for this...
3677To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Abbot Cummings, 7 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We now send you case No. 6, containing the Books from the College Library & other works upon American History. Also, a few works of English & French Literature. We find it very difficult at , to procure American History, & it must be some time before we can complete this branch of the collection—As opportunities offer, we shall avail ourselves of them. We are sorry that any disatisfaction...
3678To Thomas Jefferson from William Dorsey, 7 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I now take in addressing you unknown as I presumably am to you but I am led to do this from two causes the first my knowledge of your humanity of feeling thro’ having read your correspondence with an old friend of yours—which friend was the late Alexander Donald Esquire (formerly of Richmond Virginia—but in the last years of his life of Paper Buildings Temple...
3679From University of Virginia Board of Visitors to Literary Fund Board, 7 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
To the President and Directors of the Literary fund. In obedience to the law requiring that the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia should make a Report annually to the President and Directors of the Literary fund (to be laid before the legislature at their next succeeding session) embracing a full account of the disbursements, the funds on hand, and a general statement of the...
3680Thomas Jefferson: Extracts of Resolutions from the Meeting Minutes of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 7 … (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia held at the said University from Oct. 3. to Oct. 7. 1825. at which were present Thomas Jefferson Rector, James Madison James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Chapman Johnson and George Loyall. It was enacted as follows. No person who has been a Student at any other incorporated Seminary of learning shall be recieved at...
3681To John Adams from T. D. Clark, 6 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
In order not to be tedious or Embarrassing to you I must be brief. I am a son of a Republican who fought and Bled in the Cause of liberty and Equality. he died in 1804 but in the Revolutionary he was so Disabled by his wounds Recd. that he had his leg amputated—he belonged to Genl. Greens Division his name was Samuel Clark. he bore a Majors Commission in the Continental army. My whole object...
3682To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 6 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
You cannot Immagine the comfort your Letter of 22d Ultimo gave me I fear’d Indisposition had so far disabled you to dictate a Letter, as to leave me expossed to the contradictory accounts I now, & then had by transient visitors, who had heard from others something concerning your health; young Mr Quincy exceptd who gave me a more direct account of you, and since then thro’ Mr T P Davis who...
3683To James Madison from Thomas H. Key and George Long, 6 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Understanding from Dr. Dunglison at the meeting of the Faculty yesterday, that, in case of our persisting in our resolution to resign, it was your intention to refuse to accept such resignation, and to declare that we should thereby subject ourselves to certain pecuniary penalties; we request of you an explanation of this statement of Dr. Dunglison’s (fully believing that he must have...
3684To James Madison from Thomas H. Key and George Long, 6 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
The undersigned, Professors of the University of Virginia hereby tender to you the resignation of their respective chairs. RC ( ViU : Special Collections). In Thomas H. Key’s hand; cosigned by Long. Docketed by Jefferson.
3685Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 6 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
The board met according to adjournment. Present the same members as yesterday. Resolved that mr. Johnson, mr. Cabell and mr. Loyall be appointed a Committee, whose duty it shall be to consider and enquire what system may be digested for the better government of the University; that they be especially charged with the duty of considering how far it may be practicable and prudent to connect with...
3686To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The . is arrived from Leghorn with Two Cases (Pedestals I believe) Marble for you, they are landed & want your orders, having been confined 10 days to the House—I have not been able personally to attend to the Business—I have supposed them free of Duty—but should this not be the case—I shall want the Invoice or Value My first impression was to have sent them to M r Peyton Richmon—; but I...
3687From Thomas Hewitt Key to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding from D r Dunglison at the meeting of the Faculty yesterday, that, in case of our persisting in our resolution to resign, it was your intention to refuse to accept such resignation, and to delcare that we should thereby subject ourselves to certain pecuniary penalties; we request of you an explanation of this statement of D r Dunglison’s (fully believing that he must have...
3688From Thomas Hewitt Key to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersigned Professors of the University of Virginia hereby tender to you the resignation of their respective chairs. T. H. Key George Long. ViU .
3689Cummings, Hilliard & Co.: Invoice of books for UVa., 6 Oct. 1825, 6 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Invoice No 3 University of Virginia Bought of Cummings Hilliard & Co Ch. 28 [GRAPHIC IN MANUSCRIPT] N o o. 6 178 1 Journals of Congress from 1774 to 88 13 v. 4 13 33 o. 28 179
3690Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 5 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
The board met according to adjournment. Present the same members as yesterday. Resolved that the 47th. enactment be amended by inserting after the word “chewing” the words “or smoking.” No Student shall appear out of his dormitory masked or disguised in any manner whatever which may render the recognition of his person more difficult on pain of suspension or expulsion by the Faculty of...
3691To John Adams from John Henry Sherburne, 4 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
As the nephew of your late friend General William Whipple, who signed with you the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and who afterwards defended it, with his sword, and as the Nephew of the late Governor John Langdon, who assisted, in framing our all wise Constitution, I beg your acceptance of the Volume herewith transmitted, being the Life & Charactor of your late friend, and Patriot John...
3692From Ward Nicholas Boylston to John Quincy Adams, 4 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
You can hardly conceive the dissappointment and regret I felt from the Information I rec’d from my beloved Friend your Father of the 22d Ultimo, that he had no expectation of your being able to leave Washington this season,—two days after my despondency was dispel’d by the Public prints announcing your arrival at Philadelphia on your route to Quincy, in this however there was great alloy at...
3693To James Madison from Timothy Pickering, 4 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
I duly recd. your letter of the 17th ulto. in answer to mine of the 7th; informing me that you had relinquished the presidency of the Albemarle Agricultural Society, & had other demands on your time, and other reading tasks in which you were in arrears, which abridged your reading works on husbandry. I shall nevertheless continue to address to you my letters in relation to the improving of our...
3694Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 4 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
The board met according to adjournment. Present the same members as yesterday. On complaint from the Faculty of certain riotous proceedings of some of the Students on the nights of Sep. 30. and Oct. 2. and of insults on some of the Professors the whole of the Students were called before the board of Visitors. They were exhorted to state to the board the facts which had taken place within their...
3695To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 4 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is always a great gratification to me to recieve one of your letters. That of Aug: 9. I found here on my return from my summer’s excursion—It gratified me first by informing me that your long confinement had not affected your general health, of which I was very apprehensive, & secondly by the account you give me of the state of the University—That account came here most opportunely—for a...
3696From Thomas Hewitt Key to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 4 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of transactions in this University which it is unnecessary to recapitulate, strengthened by every moment’s experience since those events, it is not consistent either with our feelings of self respect, or our notions of happiness, to remain any longer in our present situations. After much and careful deliberation, with great unwillingness to come to such a determination, and a...
3697Minutes of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, [3 October 1825] (Madison Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia at the said University on Monday the 3d. of Oct. 1825. at which were present Thomas Jefferson Rector, James Madison, James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Chapman Johnson and George Loyall. In pursuance of the resolution of the board of the 5th. of March last, on the subject of a claim of mr. Bonnycastle to the discharge...
3698To Thomas Jefferson from John Fellows, 3 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The shameful abuse which has been profusely bestowed upon Thomas Paine and his writings by those who knew little or nothing of either, or were utterly regardless of truth, induced me to undertake for a bookseller to edit an edition of his Theological Works. And in order to illustrate his character & services, and to give support to his religious sentiments, at least in a degree, I considered...
3699To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 3 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 13 th ult. I have received previous to which I had paid the duties on the Marble received by the Ship Caroline for the University of Virginia, and for yourself, and forwarded the accounts to you by Mail. I have this day received a letter from Col. B. Peyton, with a check for One hundred & twenty seven dollars, and nineteen cents, being the amount of Duties & Charges on your...
3700Meeting Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 3–7 Oct. 1825, 3 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia at the said University on Monday the 3 d of Oct. 1825. at which were present Thomas Jefferson Rector, James Madison, James Breckenridge, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke, Chapman Johnson and George Loyall. In pursuance of the resolution of the board of the 5 th of March last, on the subject of a claim of mr Bonnycastle to the discharge...
3701To James Madison from Jacob Brown, 1 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Browere waits on you and Mrs. Madison with the expectation of being permitted to take your portrait busts from the life. As I have a sincere regard for him as a gentleman and a scholar, and great confidence in his skill as an artist (he having made two busts of myself), in the art which he is cultivating, I name him to you with much pleasure as being worthy of your encouragement and...
3702From Robley Dunglison to the Board of Visitors, 1 October 1825 (Madison Papers)
I am directed by the Faculty of the University to request your particular attention to their proceedings since the 22d of September, and to press upon your notice the necessity of appointing an efficient police as circumstances have occurred during the last and present night which render such a measure essentially necessary. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, very respectfully yours, RC and...
3703From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Report of the Visitors we shall state 1. the number of Students matriculated at the University, omitting however such as may have left it, & are not to return again. 2. the number of Students actually and at present engaged in each school as they were yesterday Sep. 30. the 1 st number you can be so good as to furnish, and I must ask the favor of you to get from each of the Professors...
3704To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 1 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You will see from the within, I have brought M r W. J. Coffee down in his charges for his composition ornaments 50 p r cent, I submit it to your consideration whether it would be prudent or not in the present low state of our finances to order on those ornaments even at this reduced price Most respectfully your Ob t sev t P.S. I shall attend to your letter of to day & send you the statement...
3705To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 1 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have procured the Cask Wine you write for, but have not obtained a Waggon to carry it on yet, I hope to do so early next week, & will direct it to care J. & Raphael— I have made the remittance you desired to Jonathan Thompson, collector at New York, & paid your several dfts: to Heiskell, Leitch, & J. & Raphael— The marble from N. York is deposited safely on the margin of the Basin, ready for...
3706From Robley Dunglison to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am directed by the Faculty of the University to request your particular attention to their proceedings since the 22 d of September: and to press upon your notice the necessity of appointing an efficient police as circumstances have occurred during the last and present night which render such a measure essentially necessary. Robley Dunglison Secretary to the Faculty. ViU .
3707To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, September 1825 (Adams Papers)
Often when I labour in my garden,—and I do so usually from sunrise till its setting—I expatiate with you and your son in your delightful mansion. Soon everything around you shall brighten, you shall revive a while, when the president your son visits you. Indeed your last days appear to me your best days. Printed Source--Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, An Autobiography, Together with Extracts from...
3708From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Bonnycastle, 30 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Ideas on the subject of a Meridian for the University. The small mountain a little to the West of the South from the University was purchased for the purpose of an Observatory, whenever the establishment of one may become desirable. it is proposed that wherever the meridian from that may cross the South West ridge of mountains, to cut a vista through the woods across the ridge in the direction...
3709To Thomas Jefferson from Bayard & Co. LeRoy, 30 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We have the honor to receive your favor 16 instant—and have shipped the parcel of Books from M r Dinnison as you direct, to the care of Col o Bernard Peyton of Richmond by the Schooner Manchester Cap n Coffin whose Bill Lading is enclosed. CSmH .
3710To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 30 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
When I received your Polygraph, I repaired the springs, then made an essay to write with it, found it stiff—but on putting oil to all the joints, it preformed much better. so that my conclusion was that you neglected to give it oil occasionally. My next opperation was to take the parralells apart in order to examine all the joints—and it does not appear to have worn the pin-holes, indeed I...