3871To Thomas Jefferson from Theodorus Bailey, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter enclosed to me on the 28 th July for M r King in London was duly rec d and was forwarded yesterday by the Packet Ship Silas Richards bound to Liverpool and addressed to the Care of M r Consul Maury, & advising him it related to business of the University of Virginia. MHi .
3872From Thomas Jefferson to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Rebello of Brazil, who has rendered us an agreeable visit tells me you will be in Washington on the 10 th and that we may hope to have the pleasure of seeing you here very soon after that. this we shall ever do with heart felt welcome. I am not well. but it is a local complaint which confines me to the house indeed, but intolerable health otherwise, and I shall be much the better for your...
3873From Thomas Jefferson to William Maclure, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with great pleasure your letter of July 30. and with the more as it first informed me of your safe return to our shores again. you have been leading, as it says, a wandering life, but like the travellings of the antient Philosophers, it has been in the acquisition of knolege, and the doing good to mankind. I have no doubt that the change in the face of our country in the meantime...
3874To Thomas Jefferson from Gurdon S. Mumford, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the Honor of your Letter under Date of the 26 July—When I wrote you on the 18 th I did not expect to tax you with an answer, it would be unreasonable to think at your time of life that you could spare time to answer the numerous communications which are daily made to you. The threaten’d aspect of our National relations when I had the satisfaction to act in concert with you, has made...
3875To Thomas Jefferson from R. Riker, 8 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to send you herewith the report of the law Committee of the Corporation of the city of NewYork, on the subject of the interment of the dead, within the populous parts of our city. I hope you will think that the decision of the Common Council is judicious & salutary. MHi .
3876To James Madison from William Taylor, 7 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have not recently had the pleasure of hearing from you. Accompanied with my last respects you will have received a Copy of the Constitution of Mexico. Since then the Government has been completely Organized. Elections have taken place, and we have now a President, Vice President, Secretaries of State, War & Marine, Treasury and of Grace & Justice, A house of Representatives a Senate, &...
3877From Thomas Jefferson to William Hilliard, 7 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 26. is recieved with the catalogue it covered I am glad to recieve the catalogue of this partial purchase, because it gives me an opportunity of making observations on some articles which vary from the catalogue delivered you, and will be some guide to you in future cases on the subject of differences of edition E t c. on this our instructions gave you a certain latitude of...
3878To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 7 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the 4th, have procured, & will forward this day to Lynchburg the four Boxes of Tin ordered— Until the rest of yours now before me, never heard of your wish to transmit a bill for $500 to S. Williams of London—Jefferson Randolph wrote me some time ago that you would need $500, & asked me to advance it for you, which I wrote him I would do with...
3879From Thomas Jefferson to Frances Wright, 7 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved, dear Madam, your letter of July 26, & learn from it with much regret, that Miss Wright your sister is so much indisposed as to be obliged to visit our medicinal springs. I wish she may be fortunate in finding those which may be adapted to her case. we have taken too little pains to ascertain the properties of our different mineral waters, the cases in which they are...
I enclose you some lines which were written very hastily yesterday morning immediately after receiving the news of the death of poor Florida Pope after nine months of severe suffering—She was beautiful and a child of the fairest promise and there is some thing remarkable in the serenity and sweetness which closed her dying moments—She was calm collected and happy and distributed her little...
3881From James Madison to Ralph Randolph Gurley, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Gurley, thanks him for the Copy of his Oration delivered on the 4th. of July last. He has read it with a due sense of the importance of the well handled topics introduced on the occasion. RC ( NjP : Jasper E. Crane Collection of James and Dolley Madison); FC ( DLC ). RC cover addressed and franked by JM . Minor differences between the copies have not been...
3882From James Madison to John O. Lay, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd yours of the 2d. inst: stating the proceeds of the two last Hhds of my Tobo. and enclosing a Certificate of their deposit in Bank. I do not doubt that the sales were made to the best advantage, nor are they short of what was looked for. I was not unaware of the objection to which very light Hhds were subject, & had given warning of it. The error has been occasioned by the...
3883From James Madison to John Henry Sherburne and Nicholas B. Van Zandt, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
J M. presents his respects to Mr Sherburne & Mr. Van Zant, and thanks them for the copy of the “Life of P. Jones” politely sent him. A hasty glance sufficiently shews, that the Vol: contains much well deserving preservation & publication: and he wishes that the result may in every respect prove satisfactory to the Author. Draft ( DLC ). John Henry Sherburne, Life and Character of the Chevalier...
3884To James Madison from William D. Green, 6 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed you have an a/c from Mr. E D Withers with an order for the amount ($10) in my favour—your answer enclosing the amount by return of Mail will be thankfully re’d. By your St RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . William D. Green was a Fredericksburg merchant, who during this period, owned a hat store. He was one of the original incorporators of the Mill Bank Mining Company of Virginia in 1834,...
3885To Thomas Jefferson from William Jones, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to interrupt your repose so far as to make some enquiry respecting your seminary of Education at Charlottesville in the Vicinity of your Residence. I have a Son now at Oxford whose Intelect is Judged to be promising, having a very slender Education myself such only as a common country school would afford 35 years past I am not capable of Judging the boys capacity with that accuteness...
3886From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of 2 d proposing to our University the purchase of a mineralogical collection. we do not propose to go in that line further than mere utility, and have already by donations such a collection as we can well proceed on. others are expected, and particularly we count on the future efforts of our own eleves to make the collection what it should be, and enable us to...
3887From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Vidua, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved, dear Sir, your favor of July 24, and congratulate you on your safe return to our Eastern border. I hope you found in the Nat. bridge a compensn for the labor of the visit to it. and the valley thence back to Harper’s ferry will have presented you an interesting country. In answer to your kind enquiries after my health, it continues much as it was when you were here. I...
3888To James Madison from Richard Rush, 5 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
It afforded me the greatest pleasure to receive your kind letter of the first instant. Encompassed at present by duties equally laborious and new to me, I am unable to say when I shall be able to break from them; but a visit to Montpelier is among the highest gratifications that I have ever promised myself on getting back to our happy country, and one that I shall be sure to realize when the...
3889From Thomas Jefferson to John Brennan, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of July 25. finds me in so low a state of health as to be able only to say in reply to it that I had too much regard for M. de Chastellux to decline any thing which might bear witness to his merit. to the publicn therefore of his life and travels I willing subscribe accdg to your request, and pray you to accept assurances of my great respect DLC .
3890To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Coolidge, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
After ascertaining the name of the best clock-maker in this place, I called upon him with the memorandum you had given me; he asked a few days to make his calculations, and then answered that a first-rate time-keeper, warranted to perform satisfactorily, and of the size wanted for the Rotunda, would cost eight hundred dollars: for this sum he engages to make “as good a clock as can be found in...
3891From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, the day before yesterday, Judge Dade’s final answer declining our law-chair, and yesterday I gave the information to the Visitors. I informed them at the same time that your health was so far restored as to give me hopes you might now accept it, and I referred to them to determine whether they would chuse to have a meeting to make a choice, or, recurring at once to their first...
3892From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin A. Gould, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to you, Sir, for your present of the bust of my friend mr Adams. without knowing exactly the precise period at which it was taken, I think it a good likeness of what he was a little after he had past the middle age of life. it recieved a little injury by fracture, but the parts are preserved, and, being on the back part, can be repaired without disfiguring it. I place it...
3893To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Gray, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The last evenings mail from the west brought me the 47 th and 48 th nos. of the North American Review, which I had heretofore sent to you; and also your letter explaining the cause of your returning them. I understood your letter of 16 th March as interdicting my sending you the Edinburg Review, alone, and not as applying to the North American Review, otherwise I should not have taken the...
3894To Thomas Jefferson from George Hancock, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A large portion of the last five years I have devoted to the collection of Minerals particularly those to be found in the western part of Virginia and The States of Tennessee and Ky. the collection consists of about 600 specimens many of them rare, and among them a large collection of Organic remains, I have also a very pretty collection of Shells probably the most perfect in this state— I had...
3895To Thomas Jefferson from John Neal, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours (with no date), arrived yesterday. Allow me to thank you, for your kindness, in replying so fully. It has enabled me to communicate with mr Rey, in a very satisfactory shape. He was much afraid that his letter, or mine, had miscarried. But I knew your habits—the multitude of your engagements, and attributed the delay, partly to those engagements, and partly to your having no such news to...
3896From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 5 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Sherburne for the copy of the life of the Cheval r J. P. Jones which he has recieved (he presumes) from him. he does not doubt he shall find in it many pleasing reminiscences of this his friend, and worthy patriot and souldier. NjMoHP : Smith Collection.
3897From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Having but little hope that Judge Dade will accept the place offered him, and having occasionally heard Mr. Lomax of Fredericksbg. spoken of favorably, I sought an occasion, yesterday, without disclosing my object, of learning more of him, from Judge Barbour, who has long been at the same Bar with him, and is otherwise well acquainted with his character. The Judge considers him as a man of...
3898To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1825 (Madison Papers)
Circular Chancellor Tucker, Mr Barbour, Judge Carr, as you know had declined accepting the law chair of the University, and yesterday I received a letter from Judge Dade finally declining also; Mr Gilmer, our first choice had declined on account of his health, very much deranged by his voyage to Europe. That is now in a great degree reestablished, and he is willing to accept. What shall we do?...
3899To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 4 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having but little hope that Judge Dade will accept the place offered him, & having occasionally heard M r Lomax of Fred g spoken of favorably , I sought an occasion yesterday of learning more of him from Judge Barbour (without disclosing My object ) who has long been at the same Bar with him, and is otherwise well acquainted with his character. The Judge considers him as a man of solid talents...
3900From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 4 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 28. by mr Turner was duly recieved and has been communicated to my grandson T. J. Randolph. age and the infirmities attendant on it have rendered me unequal to the care of my affairs, which has therefore been committed to him with full powers to act obligatorily for me in all cases. he will be with you in a very short time, will communicate to you the arrangements proposed...