49551From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 5 May 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor on the subject of the mathematical volume you propose to publish is just now recieved. I have no doubt of it’s value for our schools in general, and that as an elementary work for their use it will be clear & easy, as every thing is which comes from you. but to establish it as a text book in that branch of our institution would be beyond my province. our Professors of Mathematic and...
49552James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 01 September 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir, your letter of Aug. 31st with the 2 Copies of your "Elements of Analytic Trigonometry." For the one to be retained by myself, I tender my thanks: The other will be disposed of as you request. Not pretending to be a competent judge, of the merit of the work, I can only express the confidence in it, derived from the high estimation in which your Scientific character has been...
49553James Madison to Ferdinand R. Hassler, 2 July 1835 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 29th. June, and immediately commicated your object to the Rector of the University with an expression of your scientific qualifications for the professorship lately vacated. With friendly respects & good wishes FC (DLC) .
49554From Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Haswell, 13 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately on the reciept of your letter of Sep. 16. stating the enlistment of Jeremiah Battels, an infant, against the will of his father, directions were sent to the proper officer to enquire into the fact and, if true, to discharge him. perhaps however the officer may not be in a situation to obtain evidence, and the order fail from that cause. in such case it is proper the father should...
49555From Thomas Jefferson to Anthony Haswell, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 20. came to me at this place. I am sorry to learn from that that the officers in the public employment still use the influence and the business of their offices to encourage presses which disseminate principles contrary to those on which our constitution is built. this evil will be remedied. we proceed with circumspection to avoid doing any wrong. your press having been in...
49556From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 12 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson sends to mr Hatch the inclosed order more tardily than he wished, but as soon as he could. he hopes mr Hatch experiences no ill from the storm to which he was exposed yesterday. a night’s rest has restored Th: J. from the exhaustion produced on him by the violence & continuance of the efforts of strength he was obliged to exert. he presents to mr Hatch his friendly and respectful...
49557Thomas Jefferson to Frederick W. Hatch, 8 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
In the antient Feudal times of our good old forefathers when the Seigneur married his daughter, or knighted his son, it was the usage for his vassals to give him a year’s rent extra in the name of an Aid . I think it as reasonable when our Pastor builds a house, that each of his flock should give him an Aid of a year’s contribution . I inclose mine as a tribute of justice, which of itself...
49558Thomas Jefferson to Frederick W. Hatch, 22 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have examined the proposed constitution of the Library society , which I like well, and now return, suggesting only some doubts on particular parts. Art. 9. ‘the committee to purchase such books as shall be agreed upon by the shareholders .’ the committee of 7. will be more likely to make a good choice, than the 200. Art. 11. does not say distinctly whether all, or what, votes are to be...
49559Thomas Jefferson to Frederick W. Hatch, 12 May 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The case seems again to occur when, as in that of the Feudal lord, formerly quoted , an aid was deemed reasonably due on the extraordinary occasions of marrying his daughter or knighting his son. the approaching Convention must bring considerable extra expence on you. I beg leave therefore to offer my contribution towards it on a principle of duty. Altho’ my affairs in Bedford require my...
49560From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 6 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly salutations to mr Hatch incloses him an order on mr Raphael for the tuition fees. of Benjamin & Lewis Randolph for the last half year. NjP : DeCoppet Collection.
49561From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 16 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with regret that Th:Jefferson has been so tardy this year in placing in mr Hatch’s hands the sum for which he annexes an order. he wishes his grandsons Benjamin and Lewis to drop their Greek for the present, and after their Latin lesson, to give an hour daily to Arithmetic, and the rest of the day to French. about midsummer he would wish to enter Benjamin in the University and then Lewis...
49562From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 9 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:Jefferson asks the favor of mr Hatch to dine at Monticello with Gen l La Fayette to-day Tuesday CtY : U.S. Presidents Collection.
49563From 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.
49564From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 11 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The weather having disappointed Th: Jefferson of the pleasure of mr Hatch’s company on Tuesday he will be happy to recieve him to dinner to-day, or any day during Gen l LaFayette’s stay at Monticello which may suit the convenience of mr Hatch. NN : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
49565Thomas Jefferson to Frederick W. Hatch, 9 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the volume of the LXX sent me. the Prolegomena is the only part wanting in my copy. the Psalterion shall therefore be returned. but as I shall send the former to Richmond to be bound, I will take the liberty of sending the latter part also, and will return it to you bound . this being but the 2 d vol. of the Prolegomena, I have still to seek for the 1 st . The...
49566Thomas Jefferson to Frederick W. Hatch, [13 March 1823] (Jefferson Papers)
I observe that a meeting of the inhabitants of Charlottesville is called on Satu rday on the subject of our proposn for a circulating library by annual subscription . I shall not be able to attend it , but sollicit to become a member of the society on any scale they may chuse to adopt great or small .
49567From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 26 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Hatch to dine at Monticello tomorrow (Saturday) Privately owned.
49568From George Washington to Moses Hatfield, 17 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
I wrote to you on the 2d instant requesting to know what quantity of shoes you had upon hand and what you were likely to supply. Having recd no answer I am apprehensive that the letter never reached you—I have since recd a letter from the Board of War, desiring me to see you upon several matters relating to your department. You will therefore be pleased immediately upon the rect of this to...
49569From George Washington to Moses Hatfield, 25 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
The Board of War in a letter of the 9th instant inform me that if two thousand dried Hides could be procured they might be immediately exchanged for Shoes at Philada and they direct, if that quantity is on hand with the Commissary near the Army, that they may be immediately sent forward to Philada. The person, sent yesterday to communicate the several matters respecting your department to me,...
49570From John Jay to Richard Hatfield, 8 November 1800 (Jay Papers)
Being engaged with company this evening, when the committee appointed by the respectable meeting of Citizens from various parts of the State, of which you was chairman, presented to me their address, I could only return them a verbal answer. But it appears to me proper to answer it in writing, as well as evince my respect, as that my Sentiments on the subject may be the better ascertained. In...
49571From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Hatfield, 9 August 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, August 9, 1796. “I have in my hands two bonds one from Joseph Lyon of White Plains, in WestChester for £ 82.10 dated the 9th of Feby 1770—the other from Joseph Lyon and Daniel Lyon dated the 2nd. of may in the year 1768 both to General Schuyler.… As well from finding your name mentioned in the matter as from the belief that you are more likely than any other to know the situation of...
49572From Benjamin Franklin to [d’Haudouin], 29 December 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society No Orders are received from America to send an Officer to replace M. de Coudray. There is no doubt but his Place is long since filled; and I cannot give the smallest Encouragement to any Person to go over with that Expectation. My Thanks however are due to the Gentleman for his obliging Offer. And I have the Honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble...
49573From James Madison to Charles Haumont, 16 December 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 20th. Ult, and assure you that it would give me pleasure to contribute to the means of restoring you to your friends and Country. The Official dispatches of this Government being entitled to inviolable security in passing to their destinations, it must be an important concern not to include among them papers which might injure or give just offence to the...
49574From James Madison to Charles Haumont, 5 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
Your letter enclosing one, unsealed, to the Emperor of the French, came duly to hand; but upon reflecting on its subject and your relation to the French functionaries here, I feel a regret that your wish could not be gratified, as it could not be deemed proper to give the package a conveyance to the Emperor’s hands in the mode you desired. For this late return of it, I must offer the apolo[g]y...
49575Thomas Jefferson to George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 26 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th has been duly recieved with the plate therein inclosed describing your hydraulic engine on which you are pleased to ask my opinion. it’s combinations are full of ingenuity, and especially that for converting a rectilineal into a rotatory motion without the great loss of force occasioned by the ordinary means of a crank. but long experience and multiplied disappointments...
49576From John Adams to Nathaniel A. Haven, 3 September 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of August 27—and regr et that it is not in my power to give you any positive informati on concerning the subject of it. I was not a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution but though I have conversed very freely with the members of that Convention, I never heard one of them hint at the anecdote you recite. It is not however entirely inconsistent with...
49577From George Washington to Samuel Haven, 10 March 1787 (Washington Papers)
Although I gave the greatest credence to your acct of the talents & good behaviour of Mr Lear, yet before I subscribed to them, I was desirous of a little time to form my own judgment of both. To this, and this only, you will be pleased to attribute my not acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 6th of May, at an earlier period. It is with pleasure I now inform you, that the deportment...
49578James Madison to Aylett Hawes, 1 March 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your letter from Fredericksburg is just recd. The mony of which you were so good as to take charge could not have been more conveniently lodged than at a Bank there. I offer you sir very sincerely many thanks for the favor you have rendered on this occasion. They are the more due, as your charge was of a nature justly warranting a general disinclination to it. I beg you sir to accept with my...
49579Enclosure: Rufus King to Lord Hawkesbury, 21 April 1802 (Hamilton Papers)
By the Treaty of Alliance concluded at Paris in 1778, between the United States of America and France, with the Exception of New orleans the latter renounced for ever the possession of every part of the Continent of america lying to the East of the course of the River Mississippi. This renunciation, confirming that which had been previously made in the Treaty of 1763, between Great Britain and...
49580From Benjamin Franklin to John Hawkesworth, 8 May 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library Dining abroad yesterday, and not coming home till 12 at Night, I did not get your Letter in time to answer it by the Return of the Post as you desired. Dr. McBride of Dublin some time since discovered that putrid Flesh could not only be render’d sweet, but its Firmness restor’d, by immersing it in Fix’d Air; which is Air that has made part of the solid Substance...
49581From Thomas Jefferson to William Hawkesworth, 18 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th has been duly recieved and shall be laid before the Visitors of the University whenever they may proceed to the appointment of Professors, be pleased to accept my respectful salutns DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
49582From Thomas Jefferson to William Hawkesworth, 16 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 11 th is just recieved. our University will be opened on the 1 st day of February next. the qualifications for reception in the schools of Mathematics & Nat. Philosophy will be a good acquaintance with numerical arithmetic as far as Fractions & extractions of the roots, and in the classical school for Latin to be able to read the higher authors, with facility paying strict...
49583From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 18 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Hill’s return to you offers so safe a conveyance for a letter that I feel myself irresistably disposed to write one, tho’ there is little to write about. you have been so long absent from this part of the world, and the state of society so changed in that time, that details respecting those who compose it are no longer interesting or intelligible to you. one source indeed of great change...
49584From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Hawkins, 9 December 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The ground upon which was founded the refusal to receive upon the subscription to the loan in State debt, the Certificates of North Carolina, on account of the Government of that State was simply this. The preamble to the clauses which relate to the assumption and various expressions in those clauses evidently contemplate “a provision for the debts of the respective states.” Now a bond or...
49585From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 1 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
At Mrs. Trist’s desire I forward to you about a dozen beans of three different kinds, having first taken toll of them as she had done before. They are of the scarlet flowering kinds. This is all I know of them. The most beautiful bean in the world is the Caracalla bean, which though in England a green house plant, will grow in the open air in Virginia and Carolina. I never could get one of...
49586From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 4 August 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowlege the receipt of your favors of Mar. 8. and June 9. and to give you many thanks for the trouble you have taken with the Dionaea muscipula. I have not yet heard any thing of them, which makes me fear they have perished by the way. I beleive the most effectual means of conveying them hither will be by the seed. I must add my thanks too for the vocabularies. This is an object I...
49587From James Madison to Benjamin Hawkins, 18 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 18 July 1811. Acknowledged in Hawkins to JM, 13 Oct. 1811 . Discusses political matters and his difficulties with Robert Smith.
49588George Graham to Benjamin Hawkins, 12 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
Extract of a letter from George Graham, chief clerk, in the department of War, to Col. Benjamin Hawkins, Creek Agent, dated “12th: July 1815.” “I am directed by the President to request, that you will report to this department, as soon as practicable, your opinions on the following points: 1st: As to the nature and extent of the indemnity which the friendly chiefs claim in consequence of the...
49589From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 16 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs. Trist who is here brought me her letter to inclose after I had [sent off my public ] one to the post office: […] I give it a special cover, which she thinks will render it safer than if committed to the post uncovered. she had neither sealed nor directed: but it [goes as I] […] [prying] into […] between […] & to lie. I forgot to say in my public letter that I shall be with the heads of...
49590From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 15 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Chandler has contracted with the post-office for carrying the Orleans mail through your country. he has been personally known to me about a year or two, and is an active, enterprising, intelligent young man. I have great confidence in his fitness for effecting this purpose which we have so much at heart and are determined to go through with. he wishes to be placed under...
49591From Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Hawkins, 12 March 1794 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your Note of Yesterday inclosing the Resolution of the 11th. of January last, in the House of Commons of North Carolina, with a Request of Information. The Papers of the Commissioners are deposited in the Treasury—but it would not be thought consistant with its Duty to enter into Explanations and Exhibitions of the Nature of those contemplated by the Resolutions, without the...
49592From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 4 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Isaac Briggs, Surveyor general of the territories of the US. South of Tennessee, now on his return to Natchez the place of his residence. being anxious to get the most direct road from Washington to N. Orleans, without crossing the mountains, mr Briggs has consented to go what we deem the most direct & practicable road to ascertain & plat all it’s remarkeable points...
49593From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 13 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 14. is come to hand and I am to thank you for your attention to my queries on the subject of the Indians. I have sent many copies to other correspondents, but as yet have heard nothing from them. I shall proceed however in my endeavors particularly with respect to their language and shall take care so to dispose of what I collect thereon as that it shall not be lost. The...
49594From James Madison to Benjamin Hawkins, 5 May 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 5 May 1789. Acknowledged in Hawkins to JM, 1 June 1789 . Encloses draft of the House of Representatives’ address to President Washington.
49595From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 22 March 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I am going to put you on a wild goose chace to find out the person to whom the inclosed letter is addressed. He moved to N. Carolina in 1782. and is settled somewhere up towards the mountains and not a great way from the Virginia line. This is all which his family here can tell me of him. A son of his here claims under him 100. acres of land which are in my possession, but he has no deed for...
49596[From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 28 December 1783] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 28 Dec. 1783 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Hawkins. Vocabulary—Buffon’s character of Indians.” Not found.]
49597From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 14 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I had twice before attempted to open a correspondence by writing to you, but recieving no answer, I took for granted my letters did not reach you & consequently that no communication could be found. yesterday however your nephew put into my hands your favor of Jan. 23. and informs me that a letter sent by post by way of fort Wilkinson will be certain of getting safely to you. still I expect...
49598From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Hawkins, 11 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
By the return of mr Wheaton I learn with great satisfaction that we at length have a clear prospect of a good road from Athens to Fort Stoddert, at least. he tells me you are satisfied it is best, & even nearest to go by Coweta. my own opinion is that distance is not to be so much regarded as levelness, firmness and to be clear of obstructions. from Coweta, I think, nature has traced out the...
49599From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, Benjamin Hawkins, and Andrew Pickens, 16 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. inst. covering letters to the Secretary at war, left open for my perusal, came to hand yesterday. General Dearborne being at present at his own house in the province of Maine, were we to await an answer from him, the object of your application would be passed by before you could recieve it. to prevent the public from recieving injury therefore from this circumstance I...
49600From Thomas Jefferson to John Hawkins of Kentucky, 11 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Hawkins & his thanks for the trouble he has taken in proposing to him the purchase of the pair of elks: but having no inclosure for confining such animals, nor expecting to have one for several years, he is obliged to decline it. PoC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ. proposing to him : Hawkins to TJ, 1 Mch.