4231Deposition in Robin, Polly and Henry, persons of colour v. Jacob King, 2 May 1825, 2 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The deposition of Thomas Jefferson taken at his House in the County of Albemarle this second day of May in the year One thousand eight hundred and Twenty five, to be read as evidence in a suit depending in the Superior Court of law holden for the County of Wythe wherein Robin, Polly & Henry who sue in former pauperis are Plts—and Jacob King is Def t agreeable to notice hereto annexed—The said...
4232From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 May 1825 (Adams Papers)
The frequent and violent attacks of sickness which assail me my Dear George render me a wretched correspondent as the few days of comparative health which I enjoy are attended with a degree of debility which incapacitates me from any exertion of thought or rather of sedentary occupation without reproducing disagreeable sensations in my head and eyes.— We perceive with much delight an entire...
4233From John Adams to Anonymous, April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I am almost most ashamed to acknowledge to you my tardy obligation, for your handsom Edition of your History of the Colonies— butt I am heartily thankful for your valuable present—but ninety years are extremely heavy—ninety years are greatful to me—heavy as ninety years are MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
4234To John Adams from Minott Thayer, 30 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
It is with much pleasure that I avail myself of this occasion in Sending you an address deliver’d by the Rev’d Mr. Horrs, at the celebration of the inauguration of you highly respected and beloved Son as President of the United States. a variety of circumstances are here Combined, which fill my mind with sentiments that require a more able pen than what I hold to express. we have often heard...
4235To Thomas Jefferson from Dabney Carr, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret extremely, that absence, has prevented my earlier reply to your letters of 3 d & 16 th instant. On the last of March, our Court, adjourned for a month; & determining to take advantage of this vacation, for a short tour of health; I left home on 3 d Apl, for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, & West Point; from which trip, I have but, this day returned. I cannot express to...
4236From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Dye, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st was rec d yesterday, but I must pray to be excused from entering into the subjects therein proposed to my considn. age and debility have obliged me to withdraw from political speculns . leaving them, as I chearfully do, to the genern whose concern they properly are. my last efforts towds being useful are now engaged in the establmit of an institn of much promise to our...
4237From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tornquist, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 23 d is just now rec d that of Dec. 27 th was laid before the Visitors at their meeting in March, with other similar offers. they determined that having a compleat apparatus to buy it would be neither convenient nor advantageous to depend on occasional offers from particular individuals. that this would multiply transactions and trouble, accumulate duplicates, give them often...
4238To John Adams from Anne Royall, 29 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to indulge my feelings in grateful acknowledgments for the very kind & polite rec e ption with which you sir distinguished an humble stranger—nothing but the fear of disturbing your repose could have forced me from you so soon I could have conversed with you an age—The same fear Obliged me to suppress the pleasur it would have given me to have informed you that I was present at the...
4239From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Campbell, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Campbell Dear Sir is too well known and too much respected here, and especially by myself, to need any apology for the address of his letter to me of Sep. 28. or to doubt my readiness to render a service of any friend of his. his good wishes are suffic t to ensure mine in favor of mr Rose yet it is an awful thing to become the adviser of another to leave his native country and friends, and...
4240From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Moore Carter, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 10. came to hand in December, and was soon followed by the rec t of the handsome donn of books with which you have been so kind as to present the Univ ty of your native state. they came in good condn , well chosen, well bound and truly acceptable, for until they arrived with those purchased by mr Gilmer we had scarcely a book. I am instructed by the board of Visitors on...