5371To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington Adams, 23 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Should it be thought presumptuous to address to you a pamphlet little worth your acceptance but for the occasion which gave it birth, it may yet be excused by the remembrance of your personal friendship for my Grandfather and your intimate connection with the glorious event it was attempted to commemorate. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5372To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 23 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Col Bernard Peyton deliverd me your letter I shall with pleasure introduce him to my friends & do what I can to serve his Interest—I am to see him again on his return.—We yesterday lost our President of the UPS. R Patterson, has been some time complaining, but I think his exertions (above his Strength), in the last meeting of the Genl Assembly, accelerated his departure—I am not as yet aware...
5373From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 22 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
During my long absence from home my Dear Charles I could not write to you as it was difficult to procure conveniences for the purpose business and the chambers were not furnished in a suitable manner for those purposes— I am happy to learn from John that you are well and in very good spirits and I hope that the Commencement will pass without any unpleasant occurrence—I am very glad that Thomas...
5374From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
Accept my congratulations my Dear George on your success in the performance of a task become unpleasant from its constant repetition and the almost impossibility of striking out something novel either to amuse or instruct—The line you adopted was very correct and gave more scope than the beaten topic’s usually appropriated to the day and avoided one of the evils into which fourth of July...
5375From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 22 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14 th was rec d yesterday Your son in law, the son of D r Patterson the elder and D r Patterson the son himself have a right to every service I can render them. I have not hesitated then to write to the President on the subject of your lre and to add my testimony to your’s in favor of your friend and connection. there was one point unknown to myself and on which your lre was...
5376From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 22 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Thomas Lieper, the Doyen, you know of the genuine republicans of Pensylva, who, on the prospect that the Director of the mint is about closing the term of his life, wishes that Doct r Patterson son of the Director, could be appointed his successor. my testimony in his favor is not from personal acquaintance, but from the information of others which is very highly in...
5377To Thomas Jefferson from John Browne Cutting, 21 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received this morning your favour of the 18 th but that of the 2 d —in which you had the goodness to send me one document (the presscopy of my account,) and other information, no doubt partinent to my case has not arrived in Washington. I have examined the minutes kept at the post office here: and no mail dated the 2 d or 3 d was receiv’d from Charlottesville. I write this day to John...
5378To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 20 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Parr (Samuel) was delighted with your letter, and received me with the greatest kindness. I have now been two days with him. Tho’ not above 76 years of age, I soon discovered, that he was too infirm, to be of much service to us in the selection of professors. Tho’ he is our decided and warm friend, my interview with him has been the most discouraging. He has however been of great...
5379To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 20 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I was honoured with a letter from you in the Spring of the last year relative to the University. In it you were pleased to notice my “familiarity with the languages,” in which my letter to you was written. Your answer with a few letters enveloped in an Introduction from my friend M r Roane of King William County, I subsequently sent to M r Monroe; but have not received his answer. I am...
5380To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Sigourney, 20 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
An apology may perhaps be thought necessary for one who, being a stranger to you probably even in name, takes the liberty, at this time, to claim your attention. But, if needed, I trust may be found in the community of feeling which must exist among all who take a deep interest in the respectability of the American character, & the reputation of American literature. Possibly you may have...
5381To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 20 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer the Honble Col. Dawson, having, proposed to make the Tour of our beloved Country; I could not do otherwise than present Him to the Chief of Monticello, where I am pursuaded this distinguished young Gentleman, will experience that Urbanity & those sweet Courtesies, which are familiar to the Master of the Mansion. It is not the noble descent of Col. Dawson, who claims for maternal...
5382To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 19 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The date of this letter will shew that I have been detained here much longer than I had expected—Whilst the extent of this delay remained undefined I was unwilling to give you the trouble of a letter, & therefore have abstained even from acknowleging & thanking you for yours of the 17 th of May— I now think I may fix with sufficient certainty the time of my departure, to venture to mention...
5383To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 18 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
With great pleasure I saw it announced in the public news papers that you was able to attend the celebration of the 4th Instant—it was at least an evidence that your Health & Strength had improved since the date of the last letter you favor’d me with—I have since been solicitous to gather from every wayfareing passenger thro’ this place who have called on me, what they knew or could learn of...
5384From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved the two copies of the facsimile of the Decln of Indepdce which you have been so kind as to send me under a resoln of Congress. with a due sense of respect for this mark of attention to myself I contemplate with pleasure the evidence afforded of reverence for that instrument, and view in it a pledge of adhesion to it’s principles, and of a sacred determination to maintain...
5385From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne Cutting, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d your favor of the 9 th at which date it seems you had not rec d mine of the 2 d but as it must have got to hand very soon after I do not further answer your last. mine contained all the informn I possess and one document (the press copy) of your account) which in case of miscarriage, cannot be renewed. MHi .
5386From Thomas Jefferson to Marcus Garry, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th has been duly recieved, and by that I percieve you had not seen an advertisement in the public papers which would have put you in possn of the constn of the University of Virga and the proceedings of it’s visitors. I therefore inclose it as an explanation of the number of professorships to which it is limited and the distribution of the sciences among them neither of...
5387From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly rec d your favor of the 12 th inst. and concur in every sentim t you express on the subject of mine of the 2 d they were exactly what I should have said to you myself had our places been changed. my lre was meant only to convey the wishes of the party, and in few cases where circumstances have obliged me to communicate sollicitns have I ever suffered my own wishes to mingle with...
5388From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not wonder that visitors to your Museum come from afar if not equal to some in Europe it possessed much which they have not. of the advantage of Mr. Waterton’s mode of preserving animal subjects with sublimate instead of arsenic you are the best judge. I greatly wish success to Rembrandt in his new enterprise of the equestrian portrait of General Washington. he is no doubt however aware...
5389To Thomas Jefferson from Charles B. Rice, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In hourne nation have listen with the ear of approbation to the patritism wisdom and integrity that you have in such an examplary maner Continued to you alone most honrable Sir I take the present but unhapy time in makin an application to as i am at this very moment so exanimated and spiritless that I can hardly finish my letter i must confess that i have been a very disobedient child and by...
5390From Thomas Jefferson to Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you Madam, for the kindness of your letter of June 30. and the partial notice you are so good as to take of the part I bore in our great revolutionary struggle. I was one only of many, very many indeed who exerted their best endeavours in the accomplishment of that change in our condition. its success will make it the greatest event in human history, and although rivers of blood are...
5391From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 17 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have not replied to your Letter of the 24th. of June, having been in expectation of receiving your statement of Account, of the first of this Month—I shall this day give a Check on the U.S. Branch Bank, Boston, payable to R. Smith, Cashier of the Branch here or Order, for one thousand Dollars—You will on receiving this Letter, take care that it shall be duly paid—I have drawn it directly on...
5392To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Rush, 17 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heretofore acknowledged your favor of the 26 th of April, and a few days ago that of June the 5 th reached me. The enclosure which it contained for Mr Gilmer I immediately forwarded to him at Cambridge, where he now is prosecuting his objects, yours, those of Virginia, and I will add of our common country. This I know from himself, and I also heard of him accidentally a couple of days...
5393From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis E. Beck, 16 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your pamphlet on the climate of the West, and have read it with great satisfaction. altho’ it does not yet establish a satisfactory theory, it is an additional step towards it. mine was perhaps the first attempt, not to form a theory, but to bring together the few facts then known and suggest them to public attention. they were written between 40. & 50. years ago, before...
5394To Thomas Jefferson from DeBures Freres, 16 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Nous avons l’honneur de vous prevenir que nous vous avons expedié le 6 de ce mois, une petite caisse qui contient presque tous les livres de votre demande, nous vous en mettons de l’autre coté la facture. la caisse est adressée au havre a M. g. Beasly, Consul des Etats unis, a qui nous l’avons bien recommandée. Outre la caisse, vous recevrez, Monsieur, un petit Ballot couvert en toile cirée,...
5395David Higginbotham and TJ: Memo re. visit to D. Higginbotham, 15 July 1824, 15 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Memm July 15. 24. I called on mr Higgenbotham in consequence of his letter of the 9 th inst. and expl d to him the losses and disappointmts of the last year which disabled me from making now the paim t I had engaged. to wit money expected from N. Orleans mill rent Coopers, flour barrels tob o H. and tob o burnt in Bedf d I proposed to have the int t due on my bond calculated to this day, and...
5396To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 14 July 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have attentively read your letter to mr. Wheaton on the question whether at the date of the message to Congress, recommending the embargo of 1807 we had knolege of the order of council of Nov. 11. and according to your request I have resorted to my papers, as well as to my memory, for the testimony these might afford, additional to yours. There is no fact in the course of my life which I...
5397To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
As M r Gorman is about to commence with the back steps of the Rotunda it is necessary that the plan should be posatively fixed on, I therefore wish to know your wishes on the subject. I have layed down several plans if you approve of any one of them mark the one you like best or send a plan that you like better than any one of them—If the earth is removed from steps, it will make the flight 13...
5398To Thomas Jefferson from William Hilliard, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By the politeness of M r Coolidge of this city, I have recently received an application to supply your University with such Books as may be wanted for Your course of studies, when in operation. I rejoice for the republic of letters, that an Institution of this description is to be established in the ancient dominion, independent of all personal advantages, I may receive. I have for many years...
5399To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Lee, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honour to transmit for your examination, a small political essay, which for a particular purpose I prepared some weeks ago. I sincerely hope that its style & sentiments may attract your notice without incurring your disapprobation. Your long and efficient patriotic labours, Your devotion to the freedom of this country & to the rights of mankind, your task for the elegant &...
5400To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 14 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Robert Patterson is extremely ill and not expected to Live many days— This unhappy Occurrence will leave a vacancy in the Office of Director of the Mint—Several persons has been already named as the future officer and Among them his son Doctor Robert M Patterson who is also my son in Law—This Gentleman is now in every respect such as his Father was when he received the Office at your...