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...
4241From Thomas Jefferson to Frances Dorothy Cartwright, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Before the rec t of your favor of Sep. 29. the public papers had announced the unwelcome tidings of the death of the worthy patriot Maj John Cartwright, your respected uncle. his virtues merited well the affections of his own country and were duly honored here; how could our sympathies be insensible of the peculiar afflictions of his family and near connections to whom his kind affections had...
4242From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenhow, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 23 d is rec d and I immed ly wrote to Col o Peyton to answer the draught which should be made by yourself or any other person on him for the cost & charges of the skeletons you have been so kind as to procure for us. the proffer of your services is too kind and too valuable to us not to be accepted in our present destitute state. I have therefore to pray you to have preparns...
4243To Thomas Jefferson from James Hillhouse, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your Acquaintance Charles Sigourney Esq r of Hartford Connecticut, and his Lady, who are among the most respectable of our Citizens; not in the least doubting that the Acquaintance will be highly gratifying to you—They are my particular friends, and you may be assured that any Attention or civility you may shew them, will be esteemed a favor done me— MHi .
4244To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It occurs to me that it may be desirable to the directors of the V a University to acquire the germ at least of a mineralogical collection, and I therefore take leave to mention to you that an acquaintance of mine in this city M r Ed— Myer is in possession of many specimens which are said to be rare and valuable. Among them are a number too which display to the least scientific observer, the...
4245To Thomas Jefferson from John Neal, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The author of the manuscript, which I sent you sometime ago, appears very anxious to know, the result of my communication. I write you a line, therefore, now, praying you to say whether you have received it; and what prospect there may be, in the university for him, or his colleagues. There is a now a prospect of his return to the continent. If you should not have written, before you recieve...
4246From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to apply to Doct r Greenhow of N.Y. to procure for the university some anatomical preparns, and unable to conjecture the exact cost, I desired him to consign the packages to you, and to draw on you for the amount, notifying me of it at the same time. I rec d his letter yesterday stating the prime cost to be 84.D. to which there may be some addnal charges. I immed ly went to mr...
4247To Thomas Jefferson from James Pleasants, 29 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Literary Fund board has this day directed the 2 d Auditors to issue a warrant in favor of the Rector & Visitors of the University for the fifty thousand dollars lately received from the United States, which he will accordingly do wherever their draft for the same appears When the warrant is issued the Treasurer will pay the amount by a check on the Bank of Virginia, upon which you may...
4248From James Madison to John Henry Sherburne, 28 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 23d. inclosing a copy of your prospectus of a biography of J. P. Jones. The subject you have chosen for your pen, gives you an opportunity of doing justice to an individual, whose heroism will fill a very brilliant page in the history of the American Revolution. I am sorry it is not in my power to add to the Materials you have derived from other sources. I must...
4249To Thomas Jefferson from William Arthur, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Deem me not imprudent nor give me the name of a daring intruder when I a Stranger & one too who is by far your inferior am so bold as to address one of your character & importance but that is all that induces me to write you at present & to request one thing of you which is of vast importance to me & your denial or granting of my request is to decide either my advancement in life or my remain...
4250From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests mr Brockenb rough to have the annexed paragraph inserted in the Central gazette and the Enquirer. ViU .
4251To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you Doctor Emmets statement of the value of his apparatus ($500) which he wishes the University to take, he is anxious to have it ex amined by competent persons immediately, and before it is much used—if it’s your wish and intention that it should be purchased for the University you will please say who shall examine it, & if found to be worth the ($500) asked for it am I to pay him out...
4252Newspaper Advertisement Soliciting Donations to UVa Library, ca. 28 Apr. 1825, 28 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The University of Virginia has, at different times, recieved from public-spirited citizens, as well her own as of other states, donations of books, more or fewer in number, but all acceptable. all contributing to the instruction of the youths confided to her care, and whom she hopes to restore to their country with increased science and virtue, & qualified to succeed worthily to the future...
4253From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Bowditch, 27 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Dear Sir, for the Extract of your Review from the North American. it is instructive to those who, like myself, have not been able to keep pace with the science of the day. you know how much more I should have been gratified to have heard those things delivered by yourself in a lecture to the Students of our University. believing however that you are the best judge of what most...
4254To Thomas Jefferson from William DuVal, 27 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty to introduce to your acquaintance and Attention M r Benjamin Walker the Son, of my worthy Neighbour John M Walker Esq r Young M r Walker wishes to see the Friend of Liberty and the Father of the Virginia University. M r Walker at present is a Student in the Hambden Sidney Academy and proposes to Visit the University. He is a Young Gentle man of correct Morals, MHi .
4255To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 27 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind & most acceptable remembrance of the 4 th inst. calls for all my thanks. It gave me the most sincere pleasure to recieve from your hand, the details respecting the University—The first steps are always the most difficult, & these being now made with so much success, I look forward with the most sanguine hope to its future progress. I beg you to be assured that you cannot confer on me...
4256To John Adams from Joseph Frothingham, 26 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have read with interest and admiration the history of your life—your assidious toils in gaining the boon we now enjoy—I have mourned over the ingratitud of our Republic which it is said “has become proverbial”. But I rejoice that you have outlived the enmity of your political opposers—and that the name of John Adams now stands preeminent on the reccords of integrity and fame.— For these...
4257To James Madison from Nicholas Biddle, 26 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have delayed answering the letter which you did me the honor to write to me on the 16th inst, until I could communicate the decision of the Board of Directors, which took place today. The difficulty which attends such an arrangement as you propose, arises from the nature of the operations of the Bank, and the peculiar situation of a large portion of its property. It is considered essential...
4258To James Madison from Thomas L. McKenney, 26 April 1825 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing to you the National Journal of this morning. I am led to do so by the respect I entertain for you, and the gratitude I cherish for the kindness which prompted you to assign to me the conduct of the late system of In. Trade, & to which I owe, under Providence, a great variety of blessings—mingled to-be-sure with many bitter ingredients. The paper contains my...
4259To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Anderson, 26 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In reply to your letter of the 23 d ins t , received today, I have to inform you, that the Treasurer of Virginia has not the credit on the books of this office, which you had been informed, he would have. The draft of the Treasurer of the United States on this office, in favor of the Treasurer of Virginia, dated the 20 th ins t for forty thousand dollars, was presented by, and paid to, the...
4260To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 26 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hand herewith your ℀ current to date, agreeable to your request, & regret that I should have omit d rendering it on the 1st Instant, according to your standing order— I rec d your covering notes for the renewal of yours at Bank, which shall be properly applied, if I had not been furnished with a power of att’y, inconvenience would have frequently occur d in renewing your notes—it is very...