4891To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Williams, 4 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure to own the reception of your Letters of the 20 May, 29 th . September, & 8 th Oct.—the first and the last of them with Enclosures for M r Tho s Appleton, the United States Consul at Leghorn, to whom they were duly forwarded.—That of the 29 th September contained, or rather was accompanied by a Bill of Exchange for £112..10.—the proceeds of which I immediately remitted to M...
4892From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1824 (Madison Papers)
I return the letters from Mr. Gilmer inclosed in yours of Novr. 30. His account of the engaged Professors is very encouraging. It is a happy circumstance that none of them are beyond the ages mentioned. They will be the less inflexible in their habits, the more improveable in their qualifications, and will last the lo⟨n⟩ger. It would seem that Gilmer’s mind leans now to the station he declined...
4893To Thomas Jefferson from William Dabney, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed I send, and ask your acceptance of, one right to use my New Patent Pump for raising water Or other Liquids by weight, which I have obtained from the Government of the United States under date of the 20th. Nov. 1824. It is made of iron and of course will be durable, usefull and of great convenience. It will be so arranged and fixed, as to draw water from a well, in a tube of an half...
4894William Dabney: Certificate of permission to use invention, 3 Dec. 1824, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Honble. Thomas Jefferson of Albemarle in this State, is hereby authorized to use one right, for himself or his heirs, of my New Patent Pump for raising water or other liquids by Weight, for 14 years from the 20th Nov. 1824 free of any charge for the Patent fee. Given from under my hand and seal of the above Date. MHi .
4895To Thomas Jefferson from John A. G. Davis, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
J. A. G. Davis presents his compliments to M r Jefferson4 and having just procured from the lower country, some oysters which he knows to be sound, takes the liberty of sending him part of them. MHi .
4896To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
During my illness, which still confines me to my room, I have sounded Torrey, as to the Professorship of Natural history. With very high expectations from the university, he for particular reasons, prefers West Point. The next best person I can hear of, and undoubtedly superior to any I saw in Gr. B is D r J. P. Emmet, son of the eminent Counsel of New York. He I find will accept it with...
4897To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the letters from M r Gilmer enclosed in yours of Nov r 30. His account of the engaged Professors is very encouraging. It is a happy circumstance that none of them are beyond the ages mentioned. They will be the less inflexible in their habits, the more improveable in their qualifications, and will last the longer. It would seem that Gilmer’s mind leans now to the station he declined...
4898To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Willis White, 3 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I take infinite pleasure in presenting you with a copy of a small work, entitled Garnetts Lectures.—It is but a few days since I passed it through the press.—and I still waiting for a plate which I expect on from Philadelphia, designed as a frontispiece, before the work is in as complete a state as I wish to see it. If on perusing it, you should find its merits such as would draw from your...
4899To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Above you have the measurement of dome of the Rotunda above the steps—I also send you a Copy of the contracts for the Hotels that I propose making for your inspection and amendments. Measurement of the Dome from the top of the last step to the center of the Sky light 27 feet 5 inches. ViU : Thomas Jefferson Papers (Proctor’s Papers).
4900To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Slaughter, 2 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rev d Mr Patterson and the Rev d Mr Fullerton are on their Way to spend the Winter in the South— they are Desirous of Seeing the University, & of paying their respects to you—I have therefore taken the Liberty of giving them this letter of Introduction— CSmH : Jefferson File.
4901To Thomas Jefferson from Archibald Thweatt, 2 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, to take the liberty, of introducing to you my nephew Richard Kidder Meade, son of my brother in law of that name. His father has a family of children and wishes to locate himself at or near to the University. He owns a large estate in lands and slaves in Brunswick county. He wishes to sell out his lands, and with the funds purchase other lands in Albemarle whereon to settle his...
4902To Thomas Jefferson from John Moody, 1 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In addition to former favours I have to Request the goodness of you to be so Verry oblidgeing to Solicite James Monroe Esq by Letter to be So Very good as to grant me the Appointment of Minister Plenip ty to Portugall or Mexieco as I Beleive myself Qualified for Business of any kind Having Served my Country faithfully in Peace and war I think myself Entitled to Enjoy its favours in any Degree...
4903To Thomas Jefferson from James Savage, 1 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In a work, on which I have been some years engaged, I propose to insert a note, that will involve an opinion, ascribed to you, in which I coincide, but knowing the delicacy with which such a subject, and such a name as yours should be treated, I beg your attention to the subjoined transcript. The matter, on which my comment is made, is in Govr. Winthrop’s History p. 148 of the errours of M rs...
4904To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Thompson, 1 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I received per Brig Argus, from Mess rs Dodge & Oxnard, Marseilles, an Invoice & Bill of Lading of Eleven cases of Merchandise, on which have paid the Duties, Freight &c, and have forwarded the same to Richmond, V a as per bill of lading enclosed to Col. Bernard Peyton. I also enclose the Invoice & a Letter from Mess rs Dodge & Oxnard to you, & remain, Jonathan Thompson Coll r Amount of Duties...
4905From John Adams to James Monroe, November 1824 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you Mr Ticknor & his Lady, this Gentleman is a Professor at our University in Cambridge and one of the most Conspicuous Literary Characters in this State, he has been for several years intimately acquainted with Mr Jefferson and is highly esteemed by him I believe he has been acquainted with Mr Madison, & he proposes to visit him Montpelier as well as well as...
4906Memo re. Salaries of U.Va. Professors, Nov.-Dec. 1824, November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The salaries of the Professors were to commence from the day of their embarcation at 1500. D. a year. Mess rs Dunglison, Key & Bonnycastle embarked at London on the 27 th of October each recieved £50. sterl. advance on account of salary which is 220. D. at par, as it should be settled without regard to the fluctuations of exchange. from Oct. 27. to Dec. 31. inclusive are 66. days, which @ 1500...
4907To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
I detained the inclosed letters awhile to enable me to write my letter of informn. addnal. to our Report to the Governor, and then in expectation some of the Visitors might call on their way to the legislature and wish to read them. None have called however, and I now inclose them for your perusal. On the reciept of Gilmer’s letter of Sep. 15. from London which came to hand 3. days after those...
4908From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 30 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By your letter of the 21 st to Col o T M Randolph I learnt with sincere regret that you were still confined by your illness. I am quite impatient to see you here. we hear nothing yet of the arrival of our Professors, and not knowing at what port they will arrive, I am unable to apply to the Government for instructions to the Collector of the port not to require duty on their books. you said in...
4909To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 30 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I observe from the paper, that both the Trident, & the Columbia (Liverpool packet) have just arrived at this port, and no doubt our professors with them; but being too ill to be of any service to them, I may not perhaps see them. They could not at the time procure a passage to the Chesapeak. It may be of use to you in making fixtures for their reception, to know, that, Blaettermann has a wife...
4910From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I detained the inclosed letters awhile to enable me to write my letter of informn addnal to our Report to the Governor, and then in expectation some of the Visitors might call on their way to the legislature and wish to read them. none have called however, and I now inclose them for your perusal. on the reciept of Gilmer’s letter of Sep. 15. from London which came to hand 3. days after those...
4911To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 29 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You will herewith receive the first of four codes, which forms a system of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana. The manuscript copy, and draft of the whole work, having been destroyed by fire, I have, with unceasing labour, retored this part, while the subject was fresh in my recollection; but the haste with which it was done, renders a compliance with the request I am about to make...
4912From John Adams to John Adams, 28 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your letter, of the 21st. sprightly and entertaining like all the rest, has been recieved. I participate in all your apprehensions concerning the election. The odium, which has been conjured up against the family, is indeed a formidable motive of national action. Not a reason, not an argument even original; it is a prejudice! and it is a consolation to see that it does not prevail in...
My health is so bad that I am obliged to relinquish my correspondence almost in spite of myself for if the inclination to write seizes me my Letters can give no pleasure to those who receive them as they are tinged with the languor and weakness which pervades both my mind and my frame.—My friends here tell me that the great struggle which is now making in the political world is in great part...
4914From James Madison to Richard Peters, 28 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for the copy of the Agricultural Almanack, obligingly sent me. You do not fail, I see, to dispense thro’ that medium, rays of instruction on a favorite subject. I hope your good constitution, good health, & good habits, may have their full effect, in keeping you above the Horizon, for that and other enlightening services. I should have acknowledged your favor some what...
4915From Thomas Jefferson to John C. Calhoun, 28 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Emmet’s letter which you were so kind as to inclose to me supported by your own would have had powerful claims on our University for the chemical professorship had it been vacant, but the difficulty of finding professors of the high grade of science which we wished among those of our own country who were unemployed had induced us to send an Agent to Europe to procure some from that side of...
4916To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 28 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Blaettermann will arrive in the Trident, bound from London, to new York; & I wonder he is not in. The other professors will arrive in the Liverpool Packet of the 16 th octr. at new York also, & that too, must be here in a few days. My health is still so low, & my future strength so precarious, after such a continued & dreadful shock, that I could not with propriety give a positive...
4917To Thomas Jefferson from Granville Sharp Pattison, 28 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured last Spring, by a communication from you on the subject of anatomical Preparations for the University of Virginia...My object in addressing you at present, is, to ascertain the sum, the Trustees of your University might feel disposed to expend in the purchase of an extensive Anatomical Museum. The reasons which make me anxious to obtain this information, I shall state with...
4918From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 27 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
I return with thanks, Mr Jarvis’s Letter, enclosed in your’s of the 6th.—The sense of the People, throughout New. England, as signified by their suffrages in the choice of Electors, has been very gratifying to me—If in other parts of the Union it has been less favourable, I have in almost every part of it been honoured with a support for which I ought to be grateful—The opposition in...
4919To Thomas Jefferson from Catesby Jones, 27 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am guardian to a youth that I wish to receive his education at the University of Virginia. He has read through latin—and in greek the New Testament & Græca Minora—.—Some progress in arithmetic—geography &C—.— He is a youth of good capacity & wishes (at this time) to be a Physician—So that, as I wish to indulge him in this respect, in giving him a general education that might be attended to...
4920From John Adams to John Adlum, 26 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received from Mr Curtis your valuable present of American Wine; whether it is made from original American Grapes or from plants imported from abroad is an equal proof that wine can be made in this country. Indeed Grapes are raised in the City of Boston and its neighbouring Towns in such quantities that wine might be made of them here. I have in my own garden a vine, of one of the finest...
4921From John Adams to Alpheus Cary, 26 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received your respectful & affectionate letter of Novr. 4th. for which I thank you as well as for your Address before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association—The Address is neither unlettered nor unworthy of the Association to which it is addressed. It is a manly, well written and well informed peice of Composition. I feel a pride in it as the production of a Son of the Town...
4922To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 26 November 1824 (Jay Papers)
I have received a very Kind letter from Maria & Nancy but fear I shall not have time to answer it by this morning’s mail— Your Marble Mantle Piece has been sent up by the Sloop General Delavan. And a stove which William bought has been sent by the Sloop Montgomery Capt Montross— Some iron Jambs & an iron back have also been sent by the Gen l . Delavan— I am sorry to hear that you have been...
4923To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 26 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d of the 21st. is now before me, & contents observed— I rec d a letter some days since, from mr Gilmer, at New York, saying he had given the professors, expected out in the next ship, letters of introduction to me, & consigned the packages &C:, intended for the university &C: &C:, also to me, without however saying whether they would arrive at Rich d direct, or where, I learn...
4924To Thomas Jefferson from Andrea Pini, 26 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Essendo stati informati da una compitissima sua Lettera del 8. Ottobre 1823. che ella si sarebbe compiaciuta trasmetterci la terza parte del Capitale unitamente ai Frutti, è così nel corso di tre Anni si sarebbe ricevuto l’intiero Capitale che VS, ritiene a cambio di Propietà dell’Erede Mazzei. Conoscendo l’estrema puntualità di VS, si siamo lusingati che secondo hà sempre praticato per il...
4925From John Adams to Nathaniel Curtis, 25 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of October 29th: and the four bottles of Native wine very politely sent me by John Adlum Esqr. of Georgetown. Please present my thankful acknowledgement to Mr Adlum for his valuable present. I am not certain whether the word Native means, that it is made of American Grapes or of foreign Grapes planted here; but in either case it proves that the wine is made of...
4926From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Dodge, 25 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter is mr John Carr a midshipman on board the N. Carolina ship of war of the US now about to sail on service in the Mediterranean. he is the son of Col o Sam l Carr my nephew, neighbor & particular friend. should he have occasion to visit marseilles I will ask for him your kind attentions and good offices, of which his correct character will render him worthy, and the...
4927To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 25 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be delivered to you by my son William and perhaps my Daughter Julia whom I have ordered them to wait on you and present my best compliments as Julia is travelling for the benifit of her health I have no doubt a sight of you and the air of Monticello will contribute to it I am with utmost esteem and Respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4928From Thomas Jefferson to James Leitch, 25 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Leitch is requested to pay to Hieram Sanders or order eight Dollars on account of his humbl serv t PU : Hugenschmidt Autograph Collection.
4929From Thomas Jefferson to John Hartwell Cocke, 24 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your liberal donation of 60. D. for the purchase of the Polyglot bible for the University I wrote to Mess rs Cummings & Hilliard of Boston to know if the book was still on hand, and, if it were, to send it to us, and the price should be immediately remitted to them. I have recieved for answer that it was sold before the reciept of my letter. I now therefore return you the...
4930From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 24 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Report of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virga which accompanies this letter, expressing a doubt, from the informn then possessed , whether our Agent would be able to effect the purposes of his mission to Europe at as early a day as we had expected, observed that ‘of this more would be known in time for it’s communication by the Rector with the Report’. I have to give the...
4931From James Madison to William B. Randolph, 23 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 20th. inst. Whatever satisfaction I might feel at your being placed in a situation preferred to the one you hold, such have been the no. & nature of resorts to me in reference to vacant offices as to have presented the general rule of abstaining from requested interpositions; In the present case, I cd. not interpose very consistently with the course observed...
4932To James Madison from James Warrell, 23 November 1824 (Madison Papers)
In the early part of Septemr. last I received the Enclosed letter from your connexion Dr. Rose of Alabama together with a letter of introduction to you—on my hearing that my Family were sick I was compell’d to hasten to Richmond. Expecting that you & Mr. Jefferson would have been at York Town, or at this place, and calculating that I should in all probabillity pass through Orange on the first...
4933To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 23 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 27 th of last month I duly received and the contents agreeably to your instructions are retained with myself— I have no doubt your reasons for not Granting my request are perfectly correct as all your actions are— At the time I wrote you my mind was not made up of the propriety of the measure but my wife and others anxious for the interest of M rs Taylor in which her...
4934To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 23 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your much esteem d of the 16th: is now before me, and have already paid your dfts: favor Ja s Leitch, & Jacobs & Raphael, which leaves the balance against you, up to this day, $1412 Dollars—which is stated agreeable to your request— MHi .
4935From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 22 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 5th November gave us all great pleasure and certainly none more than me. I was delighted to hear that you had such good company from Boston to Newport and from thence on the Steamboat to New York, a circumstance which takes away the unpleasantness both of journeys & voyages, nor was I less gratified to hear of your safe arrival at Cedar Grove, and that you found your dear...
4936To Thomas Jefferson from John C. Calhoun, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot make known to you in a more satisfactory manner the wish of m r Emmett in relation to his son, than by transmitting to you his letter, herewith enclosed. I am not personally acquainted with young m r Emmett, but from the recommendation of gentlemen of science, and on whose judgement I can rely, I feel persuaded, that his qualifications for the professorship, for which he applies, are...
4937From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday in answer to yours of the 12 th and 13 th and to-day I recieve your letter of Sep. 15. from London which gives me many particulars, all acceptable except one: that where you speak of having declined your appointment here. we have never so considered anything recieved from you, and hope you will not think of it. it would be, I assure you, a severe affliction to us;...
4938From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Ritchie some time ago requested me to send you the Report of the Visitors of the University with the documents as early as I could in the hope that you would permit him to print it in time to lay it earlier on the table of the legislature. It has not been in my power to do it till now it accompanies therefore this letter you will percieve in it an intimation that I am to communicate to you...
4939From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 22 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been in my power to forward to the Gov r the Report & documents of the Visitors of the University till this day. there were 2. blanks in the Report which our Collector never enabled me to fill till yesterday. I now forward those papers to the Gov r but there will still be a letter to accompany them which is to give him such informn subsequent to the date of the Report as may be...
4940From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer, 21 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The pleasure which I recieved from the information of your letters of the 12 th & 13 th announcing your arrival in N. York was much abated by the state of health in which they represented you to be. fevers are rarely of long continuance, and I hope yours will not be so. you do not mention at what port our Professors will arrive. I am in hopes it will be at Richmond, and I this day write to Col...