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...
4681To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th 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...
4682Thomas Jefferson: Bill for discontinuing the College of William & Mary, 22 Jan. 1825, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
A Bill for the discontinuance of the College of William and Mary and the establishment of other colleges in convenient distribution over the state. Whereas it has been represented to this General assembly by the Visitors and Professors of the College of W m and Mary that the sd College, from circumstances of climate or other causes unknown has fallen much into disuse, has generally few...
4683From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of the 16 th yesterday at noon and immediately turned in on the task it prescribed to me, in order that I might get it into the mail which is made up this evening. I am so worn down by the drudgery that I can write little now: the bill is most hastily drawn and will need your severe amendmt. I have said nothing of the manner of obtaining an account of the funds of the...
4684To Thomas Jefferson from William Lee, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored by your letter of the 17th. I was induced to write you on the subject of M r Wiers cabinet, from what had occasionally fallen from him and D r Wallace in relation thereto. M r Wier purchased this collection in spain last year, expecting to sell it in the U. States to advantage, in which he has been disappointed and as he contemplates going to Europe, he would prefer selling...
4685To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Rush, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday received from Mr Bowring the enclosed letter and packet to your address, which I have great pleasure in forwarding. Mr Bowring, with whom I have had much intercourse in this country, is a man of talents and attainments, of liberal opinions in government, and of good feelings towards the United States. He has a connexion with the Westminster Review, a new periodical work established...
4686To Thomas Jefferson from John Bowring, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I deem it no small honor, nor trifling priviledge to be permitted to send to one of the fathers of American liberty, some evidence of the attempts which the younger votaries are making in the European world to establish these great principles of usefulness and truth which by & bye we hope will pervade & influence and bless society. It is not for me to say that we have labored wisely—yet the...
4687To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Capt Garrett I am told has set out to Richmond—If he should not succeed in obtaining a loan from the Bank to be paid out of the subscriptions as they come in, can any part of the annuity be applied to the discharge of the present debts of the institution? I shall have many calls from the creditors immediately Capt Garrett returns and should be glad to know before hand how the annuity is to be...
4688To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this M r Nathaniel Chamberlain has requested me to give him a recommendatory letter which I take pleasure in doing—M r Chamberlain was one of the Undertakers of the Brickwork of the Rotunda you well know the stile in which that work is executed both for buty and strength. in addition to his being a first rate bricklayer, he has management and skill in conducting business, is a...
4689To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Marx, in writing to me from London, nov r 6 th says, “the professors sailed in the Competitor.” He does not mention on what day. This gives them on any estimate, a voyage of near 80 days. Tho alarming, the case is not desperate. It grieves me however, that their delay, should frustrate our opening in Feby. which I knew you had so anxiously at heart. My recovery is constantly retarded by...
4690To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
When Mr. T. J. Randolph was down the other day, he directed a sale of your nine Hhds: of Tobacco, which have been here for a year past—I sold them accordingly, as per a/c sales here with—I found them a miserable parcel of bugs, not much wanted by any description of purchasers—they would not command, at public Auction, in presence of all the dealers, more than is here exhibited, which is, to be...
4691To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 21 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of Nine Hhds: Tobacco by Bernard Peyton 1825 Rich d for a/c. Thomas Jefferson Esq r 20 Jan y To Sundry persons for cash TJ x 64— 1149 〃〃 65— 1305=2,454. lbs nett, to D. W. & C. Warwick at $3.05 $ 74.84 〃〃 8— 1231 〃〃 11—
4692From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 20 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your lre of the 13 th was rec d on the 17 th and I can only express my sincere regrets that you do not permit us to consider you as accepting our Law-professorship. no one knows better than yourself the difficulty we shall have in getting a competent substitute. I abhor the idea of a mere Gothic Lawyer, who knows nothing out of Co. Lit. who would not be able to an iate with his colleagues in...
4693To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth Shackelford, 20 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will not deem me bold, or presumptuous, in addressing you altho a stranger, I have frequently had the pleasure of seeing you when you, usd to stop at my Fathers at Culpeper Ct House, when on your way to congress; after the Death of my father I was persuaded to reside in Phi la , where I have been upwards of seven years; but the Climate dissagreeing so much with my health, that I am...
4694To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 20 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have addressed you several letters to you and, sented to you of my going to Claibourne for you in the year 1800—It was me that put into the Annapolis paper Md a to bring forward G. D. Duwald who wrote essays that made you the President of the US. and I think you should assist me having laboured for you as you are on decline of Life I should think you should assist me with a few Dollars at...
4695From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 19 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
You know that the arrearages of our subscriptions were appropriated particularly to the works of the Rotunda. but they come in most tardily: and will never be recieved but on suits, which we determine to commence against every man in arrears in time for the March courts. but this will be a chase of a couple of years, and in the mean time mr Brockenbrough is in the utmost distress for about...
4696From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 19 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 1 st came to hand on the 7 th I immediately sent to mr Brockenbrough the one directed to him; and taking for granted that in that you had signified the remittances as in the one to me, I did not send him my letter. the roads being very bad I did not go to the University for 10. days. yesterday however I went, and then for the first time learnt that mr Brockenbrough had not...
4697To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Postlethwayt Page, 19 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I do rejoice that you are living. Four presidents, each 66 years. 4 times 66 are 264, & 2, 6, 4 are 12, the Urim and Thummim number. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4698To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 19 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The vol s of Hall arrived safe. I am much pleased that they gave the pleasure which I hoped, to the several readers at Monticello, & only regret that you did not keep this little work. I have learned since my return here that he is the son of the Sir James Hall who was in Paris with a son of Lord Lettish, Lord D. They were both the friends of Dugald Stewart & both inclined to republicanism—If...
4699To Thomas Jefferson from Joshua Dodge, 18 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The Count Vidua, Son of the late Minister of the Interior to the King of Sardinia, being on the point of embarking for the United States & anxious to become personally acquainted with the venerated author of the Declaration of our Independence, I have taken the liberty of handing him these few lines of introduction. This gentleman has travelled a great deal in Europe and Asia & I am confident...
4700To Thomas Jefferson from J.A. Storrow, 18 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to use the name ne of your antient friends—that of Mr William champe Carter whose son in law I am—as my means of introduction. The bearer is a young gentlemen of Fauquier, the son of a particular friend. He is destined for the University & proceeds to charlottesville for specific information respecting his future course—the time when the Lectures are to commence, the requisites for...