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...
4651To Thomas Jefferson from John Neal, 31 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 5th of Dec. last I took the liberty of sending you a list of able men (Europeans) who if proper means were used, might be secured as professors, on very advantageous terms, for the university, which has been set up in your state, under your especial countenance. I inclose you a letter, now, to Lafayette, from one of their number. He desires you to read it before it goes to the address....
4652To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been greatly relieved by finding from a Norfolk paper that the Ship Competitor was at Plymouth on the 5 th Dec.—I had given them up as lost in the gale of the last of October, & myself almost to despair. I now hope all is safe.—I think there is a majority for moving the College: but I am confident the plan of splitting up the funds will succeed, if the opposite party should not be able...
4653To Thomas Jefferson from Adamantios Coray, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Veuillez bien me faire le plaisir d’accepter un exemplaire de la réunion des opuscules politiques de Plutarque, que je viens de publier. Mon âge ma vue ne me permettant plus d’éditions fatigantes, il faut bien que je finisse ma carrière par des occupations qui me sauvent au moins de l’ennui d’une inaction complète. Dans le Dialogue qui sert de Prolégomènes à ces opuscules, vous observerez que...
4654From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I should sooner have complied with the request of your’s of the 26 th but that I had asked the account of another person which I had wished to include in the same draught on Richm d and I expected to have recieved it yesterday, but being disappointed I send you a separate draught for which mr Raphael will I expect give you the cash. Accept my friendly salutations Privately owned.
4655From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 30 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the approach of your crisis and my own heavy balance due to you I have kept off some neihborhoods calls for some time. but two of these can no longer be delayed, the one for 60. D. for which I have this day drawn on you in favor of Jacobs & Raphael, the other will be something under that I expect, it’s amount being not yet known to me. I have entirely depended on Jefferson as to the...
4656Martha Burke Eppes: Draft on TJ for U of Va, 29 Jan. 1825, 29 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
$100 Dollars At sight please to pay M r Thomas, Collector for the University of Virginia, one hundred dollars, being the amount due on John W. Eppes’s subscription to the Central College Martha, B. Eppes Executrix of John W. Eppes dec d Mill Brook 29 th January 1825 MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4657From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 23. inclosing a copy of the Bill sent to Mr. Cabell, but omitting the letter from him. Without that I can not estimate the reception such a measure will have in the Assembly. The grounds on which the Bill dissolves the Charter of the College, and disposes of its funds are captivating. But there will probably be a powerful opposition to it. The uncertain & scanty...
4658To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 28 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of 22 d covering your bill is received, & I beg you to accept my most heartfelt thanks. I have held a conference on it with some of our friends, and I think it will be a powerful instrument in our hands. Our friends in the other house were committed to the Williamsburg party to vote in the first instance , for the postponement. Then they will be free. If that question should not be...
4659To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 28 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d yours of the 23 d inclosing a copy of the Bill sent to M r Cabell; but omitting the letter from him. Without that I cannot estimate the reception such a measure will have in the Assembly. The grounds on which the Bill dissolves the Charter of the College , & disposes of its funds are captivating . But there will probably be a powerful opposition to it. The uncertain & scanty...
4660To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 27 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by Mr. Garrett, a short report, such as my state of health enables me to make out at a sitting, without being irksome. I will enter into details when I see you, which shall be as soon as the roads are passable. I send also, a catalogue of the books & apparatus. Part only of the books have arrived. They should be opened without delay. Some delay I fear will occur, in sending a portion of...
4661From Thomas Jefferson to Honoré Julien, 27 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you, my good friend M. Jullien, for your magnificent present of Canvas backs. they came sound and in good order, and enabled me to regale my friends here with what they had never tasted before. their delicious flavor was new to them, but what heightened it with me was the proof they brought of your kind recollection of me. I enquire concerning you of every one who comes from...
4662From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Kean, 27 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I most sincerely regret your determination to leave us and at the very moment too when the state of things is commencing which would enable you to judge of the expediency of continuing. I had really hoped we were secure in the possession of your medical aid in this neighborhood. I have remaining but a short term of life. that may be expected to be made up of infirmities., which I had hoped...
4663From Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Shackelford, 27 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly rec d , Madam, your letter of the 20 th your enquiries are too late for the present year. the Hotels or boarding houses of the Univ y 6. in N o were all let in Nov. after long notice having been publ d in our papers of the day on which they would be let. their rent is 200. dollars a year each, they have 2 rooms of accomodn for the family, a dining room for 50. persons, good offices...
4664To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 26 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My school being too small this session to permit any sufficient inducement for the continuance of Mr Hern in the establishment, he is about to leave Town with a view to a situation elsewhere. My engagements to Mr Hern pledge me for one half of the whole amount of tuition, which circumstance together with my almost sole dependance upon my school for the necessities of my family, compel me,...
4665To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 26 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter Has found me at Richmond where I Came in obedience to a kind invitation from the assembly of Virginia, and I now am on my way to meet another kind Call from the assembly of pennsylvania at Harrisburg, so that I cannot Be Returned to Washington Before the 5 th or 6 th February, and on the 24 th I Contemplate to set out for the Carolinas, georgia, alabama, new orleans, and the...
4666From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 25 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
your letter of the 6th. of January gave me much pleasure, to which was added was that of your Brothers for the lone of which I thank you and here-with return it— he writes in fine spirits, and I hope will be able to accomplish his designs, but what his views are unless he has been fortunate enough to find the affections of some fine English Lady of Moderate fortune, who is adventurous enough...
4667From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 25 January 1825 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letters of the 13 th ., & 20 th . Inst, and also the account mentioned in the latter. We all rejoice in the Recovery of your dear little promising Girl; and in the Tidings brought by William respecting her and all your Family. The Rise in the Value of real property in the City, and the Prospect of Tenants for our Houses, are agreable Circumstances— altho Rents may rise, I...
4668Francis Walker Gilmer to the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 25 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
It was my intention on leaving England, to have drawn up during the voyage, an extended report of all my proceedings on the mission with which I was entrusted. A most boisterous passage, with continued & severe sickness prevented me, and since my arrival, I have had neither leisure nor strength for the undertaking. A short account of my pecuniary transactions however, I feel myself bound to...
4669From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 25 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the Certificate requested for mr Chamberlaine. the last estimate by the Visitors was at their meeting in April last. I think I furnished a copy of it to mr Garrett and yourself: and I now inclose you another. there will be a saving of about 2000. D. in the salaries of the Professors from October 1. to Jan. 31. a letter from London of Nov. 6. to mr Gilmer says that the 3...
4670From Francis Walker Gilmer to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 25 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It was my intention on leaving England, to have drawn up during the voyage, an extended report of all my proceedings on the mission with which I was entrusted. A most boisterous passage, with continued & severe sickness prevented me, and since my arrival, I have had neither leisure nor strength for the undertaking. A short account of my pecuniary transactions however, I feel myself. bound to...
4671From John Adams to John Adams, 24 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your account of the Death and Character of General R. G. Harper gave me a great deal of pain, he was a man indeed of eminent character and great talents, he made a great figure in Congress and was considered a rival to Mr. Smith, till he was sent to Portugal; I am not able to give you any account of his Parentage, or the place of his birth, or that of his Education; The first that I ever heard...
4672To Thomas Jefferson from Mariano Cubi y Soler, 24 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The desire which you have evinced during your arduous, but successful and illustrious career for the promotion of education, science, and literature; and the active part you have lately taken for the advancement of the first; induce me to take the liberty to send you a copy of the second edition of a Spanish grammar I have just now published. The flattering manner with which the first...
4673To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Massie, 24 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yours of the 21 Dec r I was not prepared to send the cider till the present. I discovered last spring that there had been cider drawn out of a large cask that my people informed me had been sent to you; I was verry sorry to find that it was not as good as I wish d it was done through a mistake in my absence. another circumstance occurd some years past by selecting the fruit from trees...
4674From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
We think ourselves possessed or at least we boast that we are so of Liberty of Conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment, in all cases and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists I believe throughout the whole Christian world a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the...
4675To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you a letter from mr. Cabell and a copy of the bill I prepared and sent him as he requested. I send you also a letter from mr. Gilmer, by which he seems determd. not to undertake our professorship. What are we to do? I abhor the idea of a mere Gothic lawyer who has no idea beyond his Coke Littleton, who could not associate in conversation with his Colleagues, nor utter a single...
4676To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 23 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We think ourselves possessed or at least we boast that we are so of Liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment, in all crises and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists I believe throughout the whole Christian world a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the...
4677To Thomas Jefferson from Moritz Furst, 23 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You did me the honor of answering a letter which I took the liberty of addressing to you last Spring, in which You stated that I was the bearer of a letter from M r Appleton the American Consul at Leghorn to You, dated June 11th. 1807. The object of this is humbly to request with all due respect that, (You will pardon the liberty I take in addressing You again) and forward to me at this place...
4678From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 23 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from mr Cabell and a copy of the bill I prepared and sent him as he requested. I send you also a letter from mr Gilmer, by which he seems determ d not to undertake our professorship. what are we to do? I abhor the idea of a mere Gothic lawyer who has no idea beyond his Coke Littleton, who could not associate in conversation with his Colleagues, nor utter a single...
4679From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. has revived me—It is true, that my hearing has been very good, but the last year it has decayed so much, that I am in a worse situation than you are, I cannot hear any of the common conversation of my family, without calling upon them to repeat in a louder tone. The presidential election has given me less anxiety than I, myself could have imagined, The next...
4680From James Madison to William Dabney, 22 January 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 15th. enclosing a right to the use of your invented pump. Having been able to procure a supply of water by pipes from a spring above the level of my & other Dwelling Houses I shall not have occasion, unless the spring shd. fail, or the renewal of the pipes be too expensive, to avail myself of the privilege kindly granted me. I am not the less sensible however of...