6301From Thomas Jefferson to Adamantios Coray, 31 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 10. is lately recieved. I recollect with pleasure the short opportunity of acquaintance with you afforded me in Paris by the kindness of mr Paradise. and the fine editions of the classical writers of Greece, which have been announced by you from time to time, have never permitted me to lose the recollection. until those of Aristotle’s Ethics, and the Strategikos of...
6302From Thomas Jefferson to DeBures Freres, 31 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your letter of Aug. 27. wherein you inform me that you hold in your hands a balance of 146 ƒ–70 subject to my order. I observe also that a letter from your correspondent at Leipsic informs you that the 1 st volume of the Dion Cassius of Sturtz is in press . as I infer from this that the whole work is not ready, and I do not wish to recieve it in part only, I abandon it...
6303From Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 31 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
If these things depended on ourselves, I should have great need of apology for being so late in acknoleging your letters of May. 13. & Aug. 15. and many indeed preceding them, as well as brochures, books E t c. but much sickness, age itself, and the debility consequent on it have withdrawn me from nearly all correspondence; and two dislocated wrists and crippled fingers render writing so slow...
6304From James Madison to George Graham, 30 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Having been much disappointed in the rect. of debts, & my crops of every sort having for several years, essentially suffered from insects & bad Seasons, it became a material object with me to obtain a postponement of the instalment which I owe to your Bank on the 4th. of next month; and I understood from Mr. Cutts that this indulgence wd. be afforded. I have accordingly made provision for the...
6305From James Madison to James Monroe, 30 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. from Mr. Jefferson your letter to him, with the correspondence between Mr. Canning & Mr. Rush, sent for his and my perusal, and our opinions on the subject of it. From the disclosures of Mr. Canning it appears, as was otherwise to be inferred, that the success of France agst. Spain would be followed by attempts of the Holy Alliance to reduce the revolutionized colonies of the...
6306From John Quincy Adams to John Adams Smith, 29 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Samuel G. Goodrich, the Bearer of this letter, is a Citizen of Connecticut, of respectable character & acquirements, recommended to me by very estimable friends, and related by blood and marriage, to the late Lieutt. Governor Goodrich, and to Mr. Bradley heretofore a Member of the Senate of the United States from Vermont, and his son a Member elect of the present Congress from the same...
6307To James Madison from Elisha Copeland Jr., 29 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your esteemed favor dated 22d. Instt. is at hand this morning covering a check on the Mechanics Bank NewYork for $154.04 in bala my account of Cost & Expenses on Wine &c pr Hershell. I shall remit this Check to New York, & thus place it without loss. I am very glad to learn that the wine arrived safe. With much esteem Sir, Yr O. H. Sev. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM , with his note: “see Dodge...
6308To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Ritchie, 29 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The last Legislature passed a law, directing certain officers of the Government to lay upon their table on the first day of their Session the Annual Reports of such offices. Among these, were the Reports of the University. The declared object of the Law, as expressed in its Preamble, was to expedite the Proceedings of the Legislature.—As it would contribute very little to the dispatch of the...
6309From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, 27 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
By desire of Mr Cook I write to inform you that there is some business which requires your presence here previous to the fourteenth of next Month and which cannot be delayed—Mr & Mrs. Thompson are supposed to be on their way and you may perhaps be able to join them but I fear will not have time to get ready—I leave it entirely at your at what time you will return and only mention opportunities...
6310To James Madison from William F. Gray, 27 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
This is merely to acknowledge the rect. of your favour of the 24th. with $180. enclosed; which is to your credit. Respectfully Your obt. Svt. RC ( DLC ).
6311To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 27 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith return you M r Coffey’s work on the state Prison of New York, with my best thanks for the use of it. I will take the liberty to retain Roscoe’s work a little longer as I have been so much engaged in my brother’s affairs of late as to have been unable to read it. I am sorry to inform you that I am unable to find the Oxford & Cambridge Guides any where about my House, & that I know...
6312To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 27 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose to you three letters the purport of which you will percieve. Mr Lucas’ prices seem to be lowest.— We are anxious to go into operation as soon as practicable tho’ it be only on a small scale. Only about 70$ have as yet been collected, but it seems to be the opinion that enough to make the amount 250$ might be added to it in a few days, which will be about half the...
6313From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, 26 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you a few lines to tell you that I have no particular choice in point of colour for a bonnet but want something stylish and fashionable—Your Aunt Caroline says she has no choice but hers must be such an one as she can wear at Church— We are all well and expect to see you very soon—Abigail is on her way and will be here soon—I send the Engraving to Mr. Hopkinson with this Letter—As I...
6314From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 26 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter is mr Randolph, late Governor of this state, and my son in law. proposing to pass a few days of business in New York, and being a stranger there, he naturally wishes to be made known to some of it’s prominent characters, and to no one with more desire than to yourself. altho’ personal acquaintance may not authorise my claiming an introduction for him to you, yet the...
6315From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 26 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter is mr Randolph, late Governor of this state, and my son in law. he goes to your city with a view to some pecuniary negociation, and being a stranger there, it becomes of great importance to him to understand well the ground he will be on, and the circumstances and persons which may have relation to his object. knowing no one more able than yourself to give him this...
6316To John Adams from John H. Hall, 25 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
Having not the honor of a personal acquaintance, you will pardon the liberty we take in thus addressing you in doing which we feel a peculiar delicacy on the occasion. The subject of this communication is Col. M. M. Russell formerly of the army and, late Consul to Riga, this gentleman we have been intimately acquainted with for several years and has always been considered a useful and Worthy...
6317From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 25 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have this day received your Letter of the 20th. instt. with the copy of the lease to Joseph Baxter—The substance of the proposition of Mr. Balch is that I should give him or Mr Baxter five hundred and fifty Dollars to induce them to return my house to me—To this proposition I cannot consent—I will say now nothing of the terms upon which Mr Baxter originally obtained the lease—The rent which...
6318To Thomas Jefferson from Theodorus Bailey, 25 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 22 d instant I acknowledged your letter covering one addressed to M. Giacomo Raggi an Italian Artist; and informed you, that I had on that day delivered your letter to him—By the Mail of yesterday I was favored: with yours of the 19. instant,—I immediately had an interview with M r Raggi, and on your behalf requested him to redeliver the Packet enclosed to him for M r Appleton Consul of...
6319To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Dougherty, 25 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time has now elapsed since we have heard from you. We are all well, and Still aliving in the city but in very poor circumstances, M r Dougherty is now Commissioner of one ward in the city, and that he only receives two hundred dollars a year for, He is a great deal in debt sinc he kept porter Celler in A street, which takes the greatest part of his salary to pay them and his house rent,...
6320To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Walker Gilmer, 25 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me dear Sir, to introduce to your acquaintance, Mr. Greenhow, a well informed young gentleman, who just returning from Italy, to his native state, is desirous of visiting Monticello. At the same time, I beg to present to you, a copy of Cicero’s “Re Publica,” lately recovered by the diligence of the Abbé Mai. It is a rare satisfaction, to have it in my power to offer to so distinguished...
6321To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 25 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am pleased at an oppertunity of gratifying my friend W m Coffin (who travels thro’ Am a for Information) with an introduction to yourself—His being a Grand nephew of D r Price & nephew of WMorgan so well known by his annuity publications—will acco t for the respect he entertains for this Country, & his wish to see it & be acquainted with some of her most eminent Characters—We are pleased...
6322To John Adams from James Walker, 24 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
Various causes, connected with the absence & illness of Revd Mr Fay of the old church, have delayed my going into the investigations which you requested me to make respecting the elder Mr. Shepperd & the Messrs Quincys. I am sorry, now that I have made them, that it has been to so little purpose, or rather to no purpose at all. You ask whether the Records of the Town or Church were destroyed...
6323From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 24 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
...I now fulfil the promise I made you at my last visit to Princeton...The communications & disclosures which you made to me on the morning of the day that I passed with you, have left a deep impression upon my mind memory The sentiments to which they gave rise, mingling with the sensation which I experienced in the near view of your Wachusett Hill during the short walk we took together...
6324From James Madison to William F. Gray, 24 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for your obliging aid in procuring the remittance of $154.[o]4. to Mr Copeland, and inclose that amt. with the $22 due to yourself. The little surplus of $3.96. may pass into our future acct. Draft ( DLC ).
6325To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I forward you two most important letters sent to me by the President and add his letter to me by which you will percieve his primâ facie views. This you will be so good as to return to me, and forward the others to him. I have recieved Trumbull’s print of the Decln. of Independance, & turning to his letter am able to inform you more certainly than I could by memory that the print costs 20. D....
6326From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I forward you two most imporant letters sent to me by the President and add his letter to me by which you will percieve his primâ facie views. this you will be so good as to return to me, and forward the others to him I have recieved Trumbull’s print of the Decln of Independance, & turning to his letter am able to inform you more certainly than I could by memory that the print costs 20. D. &...
6327From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 24 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of independance that made us a nation; this sets our compass, and points the course which we are to steer thro’ the ocean of time opening on our view. and never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious. our first and fundamental maxim should...
I have been so sick my Dear Charles since my arrival at home it has been altogether out of my power to write to you or to George and I now sieze the earliest opportunity that you may be convinced I can never neglect you or forget my promise of writing frequently—Washington looks very dull although it is full of strangers but it is said we are to have a very gay and crowded Winter unless...
6329To Thomas Jefferson from Mathew Carey, 23 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose you six copies of the first number of a set of papers, which I have commenced. Should you find it convenient, to furnish any matter to support the plan, it will be thankfully rec d by MHi .
6330To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 23 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just learn’t, by a letter from my Brother, that his Bag of Old Java Coffee, had been left in Charlottesville for you, & yours carried on to him, thro’ mistake, both being in the same Waggon, & exactly alike, except, that yours weighed 154℔, & his only 120℔—I have corrected this however, by charging him, & crediting you, with the difference, on my Books—I have some fears however, that no...
6331From James Madison to Elbert Anderson, 22 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th instant. The attention of the Ex. of the U.S. being divided among the Several Depts he cannot be supposed as particularly acquainted with the transactions under Each as their respective Heads of them. What I can say with truth & with pleasure, in your case is that every thing I recollect to have known of your Agency in supplying the Army during the late was...
6332From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, ca. 22 October 1823 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Thomas Jefferson. Letter not found. Ca. 22 October 1823. Referred to in Jefferson to JM , 24 Oct. 1823 , and listed in Jefferson’s Epistolary Record as being received on 23 Oct. 1823 ( DLC : Jefferson Papers).
6333To Thomas Jefferson from Theodorus Bailey, 22 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since I had the pleasure to receive a letter from you, covering one addressed to M r Raggi of Leghorn. This gentleman returned yesterday from Virginia and this morning I delivered your letter to him:—He proposes to embark at this port for Leghorn, by the first opportunity that offers; of which he will probably advise you. I pray to accept my grateful acknowledgments for your Kind...
6334From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 21 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your Letter N 1. dated the 15th. instt. with its enclosure, and am much pleased with the attention you are paying to my Affairs and your own—In entering upon a new Scene of life, it is important to begin well; to commence the formation of good habits, and to form a system for the employment of time which will obviate the formation of bad ones. At your Season of life, it is...
6335From James Madison to James Monroe, 21 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
The friends of Mr. Geo: Conway now of Alabama, who are among my near & much respected Neighbours, understanding that an Office of Register of land is become vacant by the election of its holder to Congress, are anxious that I should name him for consideration in appointing a successor. Notwithstanding the claim they think they have to my favorable attention, I yield to their wishes with a...
6336To James Madison from William F. Gray, 21 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Not having any remittances to make to Boston on my own acct. I have procured a draft on the Mechanics’ Bank of New York for the sum you wish to remit. And presuming it would be more agreable to you for the remittance to go directly from yourself I herewith enclose it to you. This is the best mode we in this place have of remitting money to Boston. The draft will answer the purposes of your...
6337To James Madison from John Trumbull, 20 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your Favor of the 11th. inst. is before me; an opportunity of sending your print to Washington offers tomorrow by a fast sailing packet. I have therefore enclosed it in a tin tube, and that in a wooden Case, and addressed it to Mr. Cutts, to whom the Captain Lynch promises to deliver it. I hope it will reach you in perfect safety, & meet your approbation. The price of the print is Twenty...
6338From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, 19 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
The Miss Cottringers have just called on me and inform me that their Mother went to Philadelphia yesterday Morning from whence she is to return in a week—As this will be an excellent opportunity for your return I shall wish you to come home with her at the time mentioned as I find that the accounts of the sickness are very much exaggerated—You will find her at Mr. J. Dugan’s between Spruce and...
6339From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 19 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I shall give you more trouble than I expected with the letters I lately inclosed to you under cover to Giacomo Raggi. they are of real importance to our Univ ty or I would not do it. Raggi now informs me he is not able to proceed on his voyage to Italy without an advance of 100.D. more. this I am not authorised to make him and therefore, should he not get a passage to Italy, &...
6340From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 19 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I forward to you the inclosed letter on the same ground on which it is addressed to me, and not that Duane has any Moral claims on us. his defection from the republican ranks, his transition to the Federalists, and giving triumph, in an important state, to wrong over right, have dissolved, of his own seeking, his connection with us. yet the energy of his press, when our cause was laboring, and...
6341From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, 18 October 1823 (Adams Papers)
We have arrived safely after a most unpleasant journey which however I richly meritted for my wilfulness in travelling in such weather—I lost all my opportunities of procuring the Milinery that I wanted and you must get the Bonnet and Cap for your Aunt which she wants and have it sent on—If you should a pretty hat or Bonnet not too high you may get one for me at the same time— You will...
6342To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
I return you mr. Coxe’s letter which has cost me much time at two or three different attempts to decypher it. Had I such a correspondent I should certainly admonish him that if he would not so far respect my time as to write to me legibly, I should so far respect it myself as not to waste it in decomposing and recomposing his hieroglyphics. The jarrings between the friends of Hamilton and...
6343To Thomas Jefferson from Mathew Carey, 18 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose two copies of a new set of papers of which I request your acceptance. Phi MHi .
6344From Thomas Jefferson to James E. Dekay, 18 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return thanks to the Directors of the Lyceum of Nat. hist. of New York and to yourself for the kind attention of sending me the 1 st N o of their Annals. the preservn of such tracts as this N o contains is well worthy of their care and science, and with my wishes that they may furnish the scientific world with many more of equal value I tender to them & to yourself the assurance of my high...
6345From Thomas Jefferson to John Griscom, 18 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the two volumes of your year in Europe. I percieve, by the tables of contents that they will agreeably shorten for me the long evenings now approaching and the more so as you seem to have pursued, on the continent nearly the same line which I did myself, except that I did not enter Switzerland. they will furnish me with pleasant recollections of things of 35. y. date. I...
6346From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 18 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Coxe’s letter which has cost me much time at two or three different attempts to decypher it. had I such a correspondent I should certainly admonish him that if he would not so far respect my time as to write to me legibly, I should so far respect it myself as not to waste it in decomposing and recomposing his hieroglyphics. The jarrings between the friends of Hamilton and...
6347To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas Philip Trist, 18 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of the first opportunity that offers to return your catalogue, the absence of which will have proved, I fear, a greater inconvenience than can be compensated by the copy I have made.—I should certainly not have taken it with me, had I Anticipated the long detention I am experiencing; but this has been caused by a chain of unhappy circumstances which it was as impossible to...
6348To James Madison from James Monroe, 17 October 1823 (Madison Papers)
Two dispatches have been lately receivd from Mr. Rush, communicating a proposition from Mr Canning, confidentially made to him, of cooperation between our two governments, in opposing, by reciprocal declaration, in the first instance, a project which he thinks exists, of the holy alliance, to invade the So. american states, as soon as the business with Spain is settled, & which he intimates...
6349To Thomas Jefferson from Mathew Carey, 17 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to enclose three copies of the first Number of a Set of papers, the design of which, I presume, you can scarcely fail to approve. Should you be able to favour me with any communications towards continuing the plan, I shall be thankful. MHi .
6350To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 17 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit to your two despatches, which were receiv’d from mr Rush, while I was lately in Washington, which involve interests of the highest importance. They contain two letters from mr Canning, suggesting designs of the holy alliance, against the Independance of S o America, & proposing a cooperation, between G. Britain & the UStates, in support of it, against the members of that alliance....