4391From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Nash, 27 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am a subscriber to the N. American review and understand you are agent for that work in Richmond. it will be more convenient for me to have it furnished from that place because payment there is easier made. I shall be glad therefore to recieve it from you and this letter presented to Col o Bernard Peyton my correspdt of Richmond will ensure your recieving payment for him on my account, once...
4392From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some days ago yours of Mar. 10. The last Mail brought me that of Mar. 22. inclosing the letter of Col. Barbour & your answer, both of which I return. If you have not satisfied him of the value of your proposition, he must at least be convinced of the unreasonableness of his own. I have not yet seen him since I recd. your letter requesting me to do so, having been confined by a very bad...
4393From James Madison to Mary Randolph, 26 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your little Volume accompanying your letter of the 17th. instant, came duly to hand; & I am very sensible of the politeness to which I owe the favor. Of the value of its precepts on paper I cannot undertake to judge: when reduced to practice on the table, the question will be less beyond my pretentions. But altho’ I cannot decide on the merit of the Author by the book, it is a case...
4394To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 26 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d some days ago yours of Mar. 10. The last mail brought me that of Mar 22. inclosing the letter of Col. Barbour & your answer, both of which I return. If you have not satisfied him of the value of your proposition, he must at least be convinced of the unreasonableness of his own. I have not yet seen him since I rec d your letter requesting me to do so, having been confined by a very bad...
4395To Thomas Jefferson from John Patterson, 26 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 22 d Ins t found me in town & I applied immediately to the friend of Professor Pattison for the information you asked for. The Atonomical Museum was purchased by the Faculty of the Medical college at Balt o for $8000, & it was previously valued to that amount by two of the most eminent physicians of the City, neither of them being connected with the institution. The...
4396To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Madison Papers)
Allow me to present my acknowledgments for your obliging letter of September 11. 1824; which I had the happiness of receiving at St. Marks, in Florida. The principle, on which is founded the proposition of a standard of measure, in the memorial to the Senate, is at once so novel, and so simple, as to require time to admit its recognition. When the abstract verity of the principle is...
4397To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Emmons, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Some years since, I sent you some crude poetry: I now transmit three numbers of my political essays. The Judges in this State seem determined to to turn us all out of doors and to fatten on the spoils.—In the communications which I send you, you will perceive that I have endeavour’d to unite wit and argument against them and their supporters. I have made use of your name to give dignity to my...
4398To Thomas Jefferson from William F. Gray, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of acknowledging the reciept of your favour of the 16 th Inst.—I also duly recieved, through the hands of Col. B. Peyton, $15.25 in full of your a/c. I regret your determination to recieve your Ed bg Reviews in future from Richmond. The payments heretofore made me and the manner of them have been perfectly satisfactory. Intending to pay particular attention to the...
4399From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I know how apt we are to consider those whom we knew long ago, and have not since seen, to be exactly still what they were when we knew them; and to have been stationary in body and mind as they have been in our recollections. have you not been under that illusion with respect to myself? when I had the pleasure of being a fellow-laborer with you in the public service, age had ripened, but not...
4400To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 25 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a fac-simile copy of a letter received from President Madison. He corrects an error into which he conceives I have fallen in ascribing to you the first modern written constitution. President Monroe, who carefully compared the constitution of Virginia with other documents known to have proceeded from your pen, was originally of opinion that my statement was...