4601From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry Sherburne, 14 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
During my residence in Paris I was much acquainted with Commodore Paul Jones whose life you purpose to write and had much to do with him. yet my memory is so decayed that from that source I can furnish you nothing worth a place in his history. I believe I cannot better comply with your request than by sending you all the papers relating to him in my possn. his letters to me, which are many,...
4602From Thomas Jefferson to Josiah S. Johnston, 13 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d was recieved some days ago and I have taken time to make a thorough search among my paper for whatever might relate to D r Sibley, but to no effective purpose. the part of his correspondence which related to public matters was with the Sec y at War. the few letters I have of his, respect matters of curiosity, Indian vocabularies E t c things of that kind. When we acquired...
4603To John Adams from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 12 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Receive the Most Cordial Congratulations from an old friend of the father and the Son, who on this Occasion feels much for You, and for Him, and who will Be Happy on the Bunker Hill Anniversary to express in person the patriotic and individual Sentiments which Have Been known to You for Near Half a Century. Most truly and Affectionately / Your old friend MHi : Adams Papers.
4604To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
I concur with entire satisfaction in your amendment of my resolution, and am peculiarly pleased with your insertion of Genl Wash’ns addresses, which had not occurred to me or I should have referred to them also. I send you another letter of mr. Cabell’s which I think you will read with pleasure. Affectionate salutations. RC ( DLC : Rives Collection, Madison Papers); draft ( DLC : Jefferson...
4605From Thomas Jefferson to John Farrar, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
your kind lre of Jan. 14. was rec d 3. weeks ago. the Report accompanying it got separated from the lre in some of the post offices and did not come to hand until a few days ago. I have taken time to read it before I made my acknolmts for it which I now do with great pleasure. to our young establmt it conveys a treasure of informn in the experience of the oldest and most successful one in our...
4606From Thomas Jefferson to Moritz Furst, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have so many calls to answer & write with so much difficulty that I have not till now been able to furnish you the copy which your lre of Jan. 23 requests of my letter Apr. 20, the original of which you say is mislaid, it is now subjoined with the assurance of my respect MHi .
4607From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I concur with entire satisfaction in your amendment of my resolution, and am peculiarly pleased with your insertion of Gen l Wash’ns addresses, which had not occurred to me or I should have referred to them also. I send you another letter of mr Cabell’s which I think you will read with pleasure. affectionate salutations. DLC : Papers of James Madison, Rives Collection.
4608Giles Sanford, Charles Reed, John Shadduck: Testimonials re wheat and corn, 12 Feb. 1825, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 30th December last addressed to Col. Thomas Forster was handed me some time since with a request that I would reply to it which I have not been able to do until the present time. I have made particular inquiry of Mr. C. T. Reed respecting his field of wheat harvested in 1823. The result is as follows. The land was originally covered with Oak chesnut sugar Maple Black Walnut...
4609To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 12 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I received duly your kind letter of Oct r Ult: in answer to some I had written before. We hear much of late of “pious privileges”—“previous privileges” and all other sorts of privileges—but without any cant or affectation, it is to me a truly grateful privilege, my Dear & respected Sir, to be permitted to write to you when I can, with the reasonable expectation that my letters are rec d with...
4610To John Adams from John Marston, Jr., 11 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
I cannot deny myself the pleasure of improving the earliest opportunity, to offer to you my warmest congratulations, upon the accession of your son to the Presidency It is a circumstance which on several accounts I have long lookd forward to, with the most earnest anxiety: & I trust you will not deem me uncourteous when I say, that that which most prompted my hopes for his success, was the...
4611To John Adams from Joshua Sands, 11 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Allow me my venerable Friend, from whom I have recd. such marks of favor and friendship, to ongratulate you on the Election of your son John Quincy Adams to the Presidency of the United States—may His administracion under Divine Providence, be a blessed with success to our beloved country, and his own happiness, is the ardent wish and prayers to God of Him who has the Honor to be with the...
4612To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 3 d ins t has been duly received, and your requests attended to. Both the letter and the enclosed resolutions have been shewn to M r Loyall, and to him alone. He will unite in supporting the resolution relative to the text books on government. It would be very agreeable to us to know the time of our next meeting; but I suppose it is impossible to place it on a footing of greater...
4613To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of this morning, I forgot to mention that I had sent you by the mail an extra Copy of the Documents relative to our interest claim transmitted by the Governor to the Assembly at the commencement of the session. M r Loyall strongly recommends that you should send these documents to M r Tazewell with a note of request that he would pay particular attention to the subject. It is now...
4614To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I, in some measure, regret that you have no spare niche for the Rev d M r Bertrum, yet I should be loathe to part with such a learned neighbour. He has since, expressed a wish to enter the service of the Rhode Island College, at Providence, but I do not encourage it, for there he would be “Condemn’d to trudge, “Without an equal, and without a judge.” It would be almost as bad at Dartmouth...
4615To John Adams from Joseph Wheaton, 10 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
It hath pleased Almighty God in his Goodness and Mercy to give to this great & favored people yesterday, about half past four oclock P.M., your Son John Quincy Adams, as the President elect, to rule over this nation four years from the 4th. day of March next; I rejoice with you & with those dear to you on this happy event, I rejoice the more because it must be a balm to your heretofore wounded...
4616To Thomas Jefferson from Robley Dunglison, 10 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that myself, and colleagues arrived here, this evening, after a long and tedious passage. We left London on the 27 th of October, and were detained in the British Channel until the 16 th of December. Of the introduction contained in the accompanying letters with which we were politely favored by M r Gilmer, we shall personally avail ourselves, so soon as the...
4617To Thomas Jefferson from John C. Page, 10 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the papers, of the late M r John W. Eppes, your letter to him, of the 9 th Sept r 23, on the subject of a balance, due from you, to him, has been found—the embarrass’d state, in which M r Eppes left his affairs, renders it necessary, to call on you for this balance—there is a debt due from the estate, to the Central College, of one hundred dollars, which Mrs Eppes has taken the liberty,...
4618To Thomas Jefferson from John Pickering, 10 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to submit to you the first sheets of a Cherokee Grammar , which is now publishing (by our Missionary Society) under my direction. You will perceive, Sir, that I have been obliged to form an alphabet , as well as to reduce the language to grammatical order. The alphabet is constructed agreeably to the general views given in my Memoir upon an Orthography for the Indian Languages...
4619To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 9 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed note from Mr King, will inform you of the Event of this day, upon which I can only offer you , my congratulations, and ask your blessing and prayers. Your affectionate and dutiful Son P.S. Have the goodness to cause the Note from Mr King, to be sent back to me. MHi : Adams Papers.
4620To John Adams from Elizabeth Coombs Adams, 9 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
I Thank Heaven my dear Grand father that I am so happy as to announce to you the Election of Uncle, by 13 states—It is indeed Virtue triumphant & an event which will add much to your happiness—I never saw a stronger expression of real feeling than in an old Gentleman, a perfect stranger to all the family, who came in great haste from the Capitol to congratulate Aunt—God knows says he I...
4621From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
The letters from Mr. Cabell are herein returned. I just see that he has succeeded in defeating the project for removing the College from Williamsburg. I hope your concurrence in what I said of Mr. Barbour will not divert your thoughts from others. It is possible that the drudgery of his profession, the uncertainty of a Judicial appointment acceptable to him, and some attractions at the...
4622To James Madison from Robert Taylor, 8 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
I was prevented by hurting my foot from being at last Madison court. I wrote however to Harrison and invited him at the request of Mr. Y. Cowherd to be at our court in this month. I had intended to have pumped Mr. Cowherd in relation to what I wrote you, Harrison me—but he anticipated me and volunteered the information that you would be obliged to pay the whole. I asked him if he meant the...
4623To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 8 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The letters from M r Cabell are herein returned. I just see that he has succeeded in defeating the project for removing the College from Williamsburg. I hope your concurrence in what I said of M r Barbour will not divert your thoughts from others. It is possible that the drudgery of his profession, the uncertainty of a Judicial appointment acceptable to him, and some attractions at the...
4624To Thomas Jefferson from George Blaettermann, 7 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to return you your excellent little tract on the Anglo Saxon language and mode of teaching it. I have perused it with attention and am delighted with your idea on the subject. I have found, in the course of my experience as a teacher, that assimilating, even by forcing and straining a little, the language of the learner to that he is to acquire greatly facilitates his labor....
4625To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 7 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy to inform you that our efforts have eventuated in success, and that the College party have been defeated in the House of Delegates by a majority of 24. You need not give yourself any further trouble on this subject. Our friends & myself concur in thinking that it would be improper to bring in the bill for dividing the funds of the College. The public mind is not prepared for so bold...
4626To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel L. Green, 6 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
About the begining of January, I took the freedom of sending, for your acceptance, some medical tracts.—Accompanying them, with observations of a desultory nature; as to the object of so sending them. Perhaps the packet in which they were enclosed got lost, or stolen, as often is the case. In a seperate packet, by the same mail, I also forwarded a letter in manuscript.—To this letter I wisht...
4627To Thomas Jefferson from John M. Perry, 6 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
haveing seen mr Catlett on the subject of the road proposed to be run through his lot in front of his house & also having made the best arrangement with him I Could—I report to you the result—M r Catlett is willing to take 110$ for the ground the road will take leaving eight feet in front of his house which 8 feet he wishes to inclose—and which is the width of the walk above—M r Catlett...
4628To Thomas Jefferson from C.P. Montgomery, 5 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I discover by a newspaper corrospondence that the University of Virginia is one of superior eminence to any in the U.S. and that it would go into operation the 1st of this month I am going to School to this College but being one of a n ordinary kind I do not wish to complete my education here knowing that the instruction of the University of Virginia will be invaluably superior my Father was...
4629To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 4 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Littell an enterprising, intelligent and respectable Citizen of Philadelphia will communicate to you a plan which he has profected for the promotion of education, literature and Science on an extensive scale. He has conferred with me on this subject. Approving of its outlines and viewing you as a sincere and distinguished friend of these great interests, I have taken the liberty of...
4630To Thomas Jefferson from William Harris Crawford, 4 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I perceive that several professors are still to be appointed for the Central Seminary of the State I take the liberty to bring into your view for one of those professorships—D r Henry Jackson youngest brother of General James Jackson—late of late of the Senate of the US. D r Jackson was professor of natural philosophy in 1813 when I was going to France in that year, he desired to accompany me...
4631To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 4 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d of the 30th: ulto: reach d me last evening, & I have this morning procured the Vinegar & Corks you order, which shall go by first Waggon, together with 5 Boxes of Books & aperatus, for the University, just to hand, from London, via New York— We have accounts of the sailing of the Competitor, on the 17 th of December, from Plymouth, for V a , so that she may be expected about...
4632From Thomas Boylston Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr., 3 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 24th ulto. was received this morning with much pleasure, and as your Mother wrote to you yesterday, I cannot let pass this, without an acknowledgment, that the account you give us of your standing in the Class, in various branches, is quite encouraging. I have frequently spoken to you of the good opinion I have always cherished of Mathematical Science, and lamented my own...
4633To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty in my publication under the signature of “ A friend of Science ” in the Constitutional Whig of Tuesday, more correctly printed in the Enquirer of to day, to give to the public your letter to me from Poplar Forest in the year 1817, and in doing so, I hope I have taken no improper liberty. I saw the gathering necessity of setting up the Colleges ag t the Richmond party,...
4634From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho our Professors were on the 5 th of Dec. still in an English port, that they were safe raises me from the dead: for I was almost ready to give up the ship. that was 8. weeks ago, and they may therefore be daily expected. In most public seminaries Text-book s are prescribed to each of the several schools as the norma docendi in that school; and this is generally done by authority of the...
4635Thomas Jefferson: Form for report on primary schools, ca. 3 Feb. 1825, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
1820 1821. 1822 1823 1824 1825. Counties sums furnished Months schooling sums furnished months of schooling sums furnished months of schooling sums
4636Thomas Jefferson: Resolution on primary schools, ca. 3 Feb. 1825, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved that the Governor be requested to have prepared and laid before the legislature at their next meeting a statement in detail of the sum of education which, under the law establishing primary schools, has been rendered in the schools of each county respectively and for every year from the passage of the law to the present one inclusive: that it be stated in a Tabular form, in the first...
4637To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah S. Johnston, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear the occasion on which I write you will not justify the liberty I take—or the trouble it may give you—The Circumstances are peculiar & I hope may pardon both— Unfortunately for D r Libby, who served for many years as Indian Agent at Natchitoches, all the vouchers of his accounts are lost in the War Department— you may, perchance recollect, that he found De La Harps journal, &...
4638To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Tayloe Page, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your kind attention. my grandson Mann A Page. whose Grandfather you once honoured with your friendship, and with his name I flatter myself he interests his virtues, as well as his own Fathers. he wishes to be among the first to enter the unviersity. you have devoted so large a share of your time too. and I most sincerely hope you will see it prosper and...
4639To Thomas Jefferson from John Henry Sherburne, 3 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honour to enclose herewith, a copy of the prospectus of the intended publication of the Life of the Chevalier John Paul Jones, a Captain in the U.S. Navy, during the Revolutionary War, & I venture to do this with the more confidence, because the documents in my possession shew that he had the honor to be personally known to you, especially during your residence in France as...
4640To John Adams from John Henry Sherburne, 2 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
While engaged upon an examination of a mass of papers, and documents formerly belonging to John Paul Jones Esqr. a Commander in the Navy of the United States, during the Revolutionary War, preparatory to the publication of his Life, I discovered a letter (copy of which is enclosed) purporting to be written by him, and addressed to you. This Circumstance has induced me to venture so far as to...
4641To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick A. Mayo, 2 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Have the goodness to forward on the books you intented to have bound—I was fearfull of sending this letter by the Stage, but as Governor Randolph no doubt had forgot it, and my receiving a line from your Honour on a Account of it, I have packt the same well, and hope it will be to your Satisfaction—Should be very glad if your Honour would pleas to forward a few Sizeable Vols with liberty to...
4642To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 1 February 1825 (Madison Papers)
I concur with you in the favorable opinion of mr. Barber; and altho’ I should prefer Preston, as rather of a more academical cast, yet I could readily give a first vote to Barber. His reputn. in Congress would be of service. In most public seminaries a text-book is prescribed to the several schools as the Norma docendi in them; and this is frequently done by the Trustees. I should not propose...
4643To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Garrett, 1 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the letters & c with which I was charged by Mess rs Gilmer & Cabell to which I beg to add, a part of a New York paper giving some information of the Competitor, by a still later arrival at Norfolk, later intelegence is recieved, the Norfolk Herald of the 27 th Jan y states, that the Competitor was at Plymouth on the 5 th December to sail soon, I succeeded in selling $10,000 of the...
4644From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I concur with you in the favorable opinion of mr Barber; and altho’ I should prefer Preston, as rather of a more acadamical cast, yet I could readily give a first vote to Barber. his reputn in Congress would be of service. In most public seminaries a text-book is prescribed to the several schools as the Norma docendi in them; and this is frequently done by the Trustees. I should not propose...
4645From James Madison to George Long, [Post–26 December 1824] (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To George Long. Letters not found. Post - 26 December 1824. Mentioned by Long in his letter to Henry Tutwiler, 30 May 1875, published in Thomas Fitzhugh, ed., Letters of George Long (Charlottesville, Va., 1917), 24–25: “Soon after my arrival in Virginia, and it was either in December 1824 or in January 1825, I received a letter from Mr. Madison, whom I had not then seen. He asked me if I...
4646From William Eustis to Thomas Boylston Adams, 31 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have been so much gratified by the mail of to day as to induce me to continue the mail as far as Quincy. I was somewhat prepared for this recount—its conformation from such a source is truely gratifying. With my best respects to your father You will with the return of the letter have the goodness to let me know how he is. Yrs MHi : Adams Papers.
4647From James Madison to Henry Lee, 31 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
The urgency indicated in your last letter as to the request in a former one having quickened my attention to the subject, I have at length looked enough into the evidence that the Movement of the Southern Army from Deep River to the Santee in the Campaign of 1781 was suggested by your father, to be satisfied of the fact; the more readily admitted from the acknowleged traits of his military...
4648To Thomas Jefferson from William Harris Crawford, 31 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day’s mail I send you a sample of the flour of Cremona & a parcel of various seeds which have been sent to mr W Appleton the American Consul at Leghorn with a request that they should be sent to you— My general health is now good but my hand–writing is nearly destroyed as you will perceive by this letter. You may be surprized at the declaration that my general health is good,...
4649To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 31 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Intelligence has at last reached us, that the Competitor is not lost; it put into Plymonth in the gale, & was there on the 8 th Dec r We may expect the professors every day. The delay is vexatious, but less distressing than the loss of the professors would have been. MoSHi : Francis Walker Gilmer Papers.
4650To Thomas Jefferson from John Moody, 31 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In addition to your former favours I have Now to Request a Small one which is will you have the goodness to Recommend me to James Monroe Esq r President of the United States To grant me Some Valuable appointment foreign or Domestic as I Believe myself Qualified for any Mission I Served, my native Country faithfully in War & Peace and Venture to think it reasonable I should now Enjoy some of...