6701James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return the copy of your letter to Judge Johnson inclosed in your favor of the instant. Your statement relating to the farewell address of Gen l Washington is substantially correct. If there be any circumstantial inaccuracy, it is in imputing to him more agency in composing the document than he probably had. Taking for granted that it was drawn up by Hamilton , the best conjecture is that...
6702Jonathan Thompson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By due course of Mail I rec’d your letter of the 18 th instant , relative to the Marble Capitals for the University .— previous to which I rec’d a letter and bill of lading by the Brig Draco , Capt. Perkins , from the U.S. Consul, M r Tho s Appleton , at
6703Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Jonathan Thompson, [ca. 27 June 1823] (Jefferson Papers)
Tho s Jefferson Esq. To Jonathan Thompson —D r $ To Duty paid on Marble capitals, Invoice amount 1913 10 Per Cent addition 191 2104 On $2104 @ 15 Per Centum advalorem $315. 60 discount for cash paid at 4 P r
6704To John Adams from Daniel Webster, 26 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
Genl. Iredell, of North Carolina, son of the late Judge Iredell, & Mr. Hitchcock, son of the late Judge Hitchcock of Vermont, & now Attorney Genl. of Alibama, are desirous of calling to pay you their respects. They are Gentlemen of much respectability; & I regret that I am not able to have the pleasure of attending them to Quincy. I pray you to allow me to add an expression of the great...
6705To James Madison from Robert Wright, 26 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
At the Request of Mr. Samuel T. Anderson who intermarried with my Daughter Caroline, I inclose his Letter to you relative to his Claim created under your Administration, to the just Settlement of which he seems to be estoped by an Entry , as by your especial Order. I have examined the Case and the Compensation allowed, and find that three perCent only is allowed to him for the same services...
6706Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Mead, 26 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Mead for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his address to the Linnæan society at their celebration of the 24 th ult. he has read with great satisfaction the history it presents of the rise and progress of Botanical science, and of the worthies who have particularly advanced it, of whom no one can be placed in competition with him who gives...
6707Thomas Jefferson to George Alexander Otis, 26 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the History of painting which you have been so kind as to send me . it is an art to which I am much attached, and I shall read this history of it with pleasure. the approbn which I have expressed and never lose an oppty of expressing of the merit of Botta ’s history and of your transln of it is due to the work. it is due also to my countrymen to whom it is important...
6708Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Bernard Peyton for Tobacco Sales, 26 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales Ten Hhds: Tobacco by Bernard Peyton for ℀. M r Thomas Jefferson 1823 Rich d 23 June— To Sundry persons, Viz:— T.J. N o 1. 1590–150–1440 ℔s: nett to Ben: Hatcher
6709To John Adams from John Henshaw, 25 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with the direction of the Standing Committee of the Washington Society, I take this opportunity to request, that you will honor the Society with your presence at a public dinner to be provided by Mr Seymour at the Marlboro’ Hotel on the approaching Anniversary of that Independence, in the achievement, of which, you have so distinguished a part— When nearly all your compatriots of...
6710Thomas Jefferson to William Pannill, John McRae, and John Pollard, 25 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just now recieved your favor of the 17 th inst. inviting me to a participation withe with the Volunteers of Petersburg in their celebration of the approaching Anniversary of our National independance. I should with great pleasure prove my respect for the invitation and my attachment to this annual regeneration of good principles, if the remaining powers of life permitted. but the hand...
6711Thomas Jefferson to John Winn and Others, 25 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Gentlemen, for your kind invitation to participate in the celebration of the approaching Anniversary of the birth-day of our nation. no occasion could arise of higher excitement to my feelings than one which recalls the recollections of that day; no society with which I could join more cordially than with that of my beloved neighbors, in congratulations on it’s happy issue.— but...
6712To James Madison from John Winn and Others, 24 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
As one of the distinguished patriots who aided in the establishment of American Independence, your fellow-Citizens of Albemarle who intend to celebrate its next Anniversary at Wm. D. Fitch’s in Milton, have requested the undersigned committee of arrangements, to invite your attendance. In doing so permit them to indulge the hope that no circumstance may render it inconvenient to you to afford...
6713Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned home on the 3 d ins t and yesterday attended as one of the members of Nelson Court , where I was engaged with others to procure a suitable plan for a new Jail for our county , in conformity to the provisions of the late act of Assembly on that the subject of Jails . A committee had been appointed at a former term to procure & report to the court at the June term a plan for the new...
6714John Winn and Others to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A number of your friends and neighbours intend to celebrate the approaching Anniversary of their country’s Independence at W m D. Fitch ’s in Milton ; and the undersigned committee of arrangements, in compliance with the wishes of those by whom they were appointed, respectfully invite your attendance. In doing so they feel it unnecessary to express to you the high gratification it will afford...
6715From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 23 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received two kind letters from you not yet answered. Mr Curtis sent me the fish which I found very fine & I beg that you would not give yourself the trouble of sending me any such delicacies for I am not and never was much of an epicure. And now all kinds of food are much alike to me—my own beef & mutton are the best for me. My health about which you seem to be anxious would be best...
6716Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 23 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been lately visited by a mr Miralla , a native of Buenos Ayres , but resident in Cuba during the last 7. or 8. years; a person of intelligence, of much information, and frankly communicative. I believe indeed he is known to you. I availed myself of the opportunity of learning what was the state of public sentiment in Cuba as to their future course. he says they would be satisfied to...
6717Thomas Ritchie to Thomas Jefferson, 23 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I had ascertained previously to the receipt of your last letter (in consequence of Enquiries set on foot by your first ,) that there was a material error in the Acct. presentd to you. Instead of $60 being due, there had been 60 paid—leaving only $15 even up to May next. How this error has crept into the Agent’s book, I am at a loss to know—certain it is, there is none such on the office book....
6718From James Madison to William P. Duval, 21 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
My nephew Edgar Macon having been commissioned by the President District & Territorial Attorney for Florida where he will be altogether a stranger, I take the liberty, for which an apology is perhaps due, of giving him a line of introduction to you. In obtaining his appointment he was particularly recommended by Mr. Barbour Speaker of the federal House of Reps. under whose auspices he pursued...
6719From James Madison to William H. Sumner, 20 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Mr. S. with thanks for the copy of his letter to Mr. Adams, on the importance of Militia. Views of the subject are taken in the letter which are very interesting, and as illustrated by the experience of Massachtts. particularly worthy of attention. As auxiliary to a regular force in time of war and a substitute for a large one in a state of peace, a...
6720To James Madison from John Nicholas, 20 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I observe your name, among many others, on the lists of seasons of Lightfoots Horses Hamilton & Jack Andrews, Kept by James Kinsolving Albemle. some years ago, for several Mares, & that by the leap at $10 each only. As I have discovered many errors in other similar cases, I do not believe you would be at the trouble & expence of sending valuable Mares so far & trusting to such slight chances...
6721Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 20 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask your attention to the bearer of this mr Miralla a gentleman of S. Americ a . I send by him two papers for your consideration & salute you with friendship & respect RC ( ViU: TJP-PP ); written on a small scrap; dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in SJL . The two papers have not been identified. Manuscript: “Americ.”
6722Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I was favor’d with yours of the 13th current , last evening, & immediately paid M r Rawlings $89.77, in full of your dft:, on me, in his favor— I have never failed to pay M r Ritchie whatever claims he presented against you, and recollect distinctly paying him $7.50, for six Volumes of sessions Acts, on 23 d Augs t 1822 , which you will find in your ℀ of that date, I was not apprised that you...
6723James Rawlings to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recv d your favour of 13 t Ins t with a draft on Col o Bernard Peyton for the amount of your quotas due to this society —. That draft has been duly honoured, and I have now to acknowledge the receipt, thro’ that medium of $89 77 100 in full of all demands of this society on your property at Monticello , and also in full of all claims up to and including the quota of 1823 on the building...
6724Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Foreseeing an approaching storm, I wrote to you , on the chance of being able to find shelter against its effects; but I have expressed myself in my letter to you not so clearly as I ought. I am fully of your opinion , that those who govern your University neither can or ought to give countenance to any rival establishment public or private in its neighbourhood. My views were these: It is...
6725Maria Cosway to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have found a favorable oportunity of Conveing a letter, I am happy to profit of it, to thank you for kind & friendly letter which I recived at Lodi . I congratulate you in the Undertaking you Announce me of the fine building which occupies your taste & kn ow ledge, & gratifies your heart, the work is worthy of you, you A re Worthy of Such enjoyment. Nothing, I think, is more usefull to...
6726Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter informs me of the arrival at New York of some marble capitals from Leghorn for the columns of our University . I have no bill of lading, but there is probably one addressed to yourself. the letter is inclosed to inform you of the cost. if you will be so good as to drop me a line of the freight duty and other charges it shall be remitted by the first mail by way of Richmond...
6727From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter from Cambridge arrived yesterday my dear Charles and I was sorry to find you still suffered from your old nervous timidity—Do not however despair I struggled many years of my life from against the same difficulty but fortunately conquered it and now can almost generally command myself—Habit and constant practice will soon get the better of this very unpleasant sensation and reading...
6728To James Madison from William Pannill and Others, 17 June 1823 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From William Pannill and Others. Letter not found. 17 June 1823. Described as a one-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force ( DLC : series 7, box 2), inviting JM to their Fourth of July Independence Day celebration in Petersburg, Virginia.
6729Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Holmes, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recollect probably that about 3. or 4. years ago you were so kind as to engage of mess rs Blackford and co three Cornshellers, in two for myself and one for Gen l Cocke but all in my name, and to undertake to pay them, and I was to replace the money at the University on account of your instalments due there. you accordingly paid them 75.D. (the price at the furnace probably,) the...
6730William Pannill, John McRae, and John Pollard to Thomas Jefferson, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Volunteers of Petersburg entertaining a grateful recollection of the eminent patriotic services you have often rendered to your country, in the hours of danger and trial; respectfully solicit the honor of your company, in participating with them, in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of our political existence ; and confidently hope that the countenance of one of their most...
6731Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 13 th on the subject of my arrearages. on looking into mr Gibson ’s acc ts who acted for me till 21. I find a payment of 10.D. for the Enquirer on June 9. 20. so that I suspect I was mistaken in supposing I had written to Col o Peyton to pay for the paper. I presume that on changing my agent in 20. or 21. I omitted to give the general order and that my arrears commence after...
6732Memorandum on List of Documents Requested from James Monroe, [ca. 16 June 1823] (Madison Papers)
1. The date of the assignment of Genl. Jackson to District No. 7. 2. date of Genl. Harrisons resignation & of its receipt at the War Dept. 3. The letter from War Dept. to Genl. Jackson communicating his appt. of Brigadier, with Brevet rank of Majr. Genl. till a vacancy of Majr. Genl. sd occur in the line. 4. Letter from same to same transmitting the Commission of Majr. Genl. to Jackson 5. Any...
6733Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you yesterday the ill effect of the acute angles in the passage of the Rotunda. I send you my drawing of the building in which I have drawn portions of a circle to cover those angles. you will consider whether it is best to make them of brick or studs & laths. you will see in the drawing whereabouts the centers of those portions of circle are taken, so as to make the circle a...
6734John Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you M r Coffee’s communication with my thankful acknowledgments for it’s use. I learn that the undertaker of the Locks of the James River canal has succeeded in making the chambers impervious to water, by laying the masonry in a mortar of Roman-Cement, without lining the walls with plaster. He supposes that with well burnt bricks, or such as have a vitreous coat, a cistern may also be...
6735George Richardson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately rec d a letter from W m Richardson of Alabama State, that he has lately rec d an account that my brother Richard i s dead, & knowing that he Was sometimes in the habit of Corresponding With you, I take the liberty of asking the favour of you to Write to me, if you are in possession of any information relative to his affairs & if he is dead, What Steps his relations had better...
6736George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very rarely that I venture to address a letter to you; because I am quite aware how constantly you are exposed to the solicitations of correspondence and, how much they must, in a situation like your’s, resemble persecution. But, I wish now to send you a copy of the Syllabus I have prepared for my course of Lectures on Spanish Literary History & Criticism, and should be sorry to have it...
6737From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 15 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday brought me your Letter my Dear John and your father and myself were both pleased to see the account you give of our dear fathers health for whom we have been very anxious for some time—According to your account I am a little afraid you will get spoilt among so many belles who will so inflate your natural vanity that you will be likely to share the fate of Narcissus—Some of these...
6738To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 14 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you, for it was out of my power to see you before I left Roxbury for this place, and afterwards found my intentions of sending you some of that species of Fish you say, you are most fond of—and are only caught at one particular season—had been so far fullfilld as to be put into the Hands of a person who faithfully promised you should have them the day they were caught—I hope he...
6739From James Madison to William Eustis, 14 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 6th. inst: in which your pen has done justice to the elevated devotion to the public interest which it had to express. I had previously recd. under your blank cover, a printed copy of your Address to the Legislature. The coup de grace which the address gives to the factious ascendency so long forming a cloud over the State of Massachts. could not fail to...
6740To James Madison from George Alexander Otis, 14 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Beyle, formerly private secretary of Napoleon, the writer of the work which I have the honor herewith to transmit you, has commissioned me to distribute a few copie⟨s⟩, at discretion, among the enlightened patrons of the Fine Arts in the U.S. I thus execute his wishes with the more alacrity as it affords me the occasion of renewing at the same time my offerings of respect to one of the...
6741Thomas Jefferson to James Lindsay, 14 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 6 th and have been truly thankful for the indulgence to my convenience which you have exercised hitherto, and which my unskilful management of my plantations and a series of disastrous years have made a real accomodation. age and debility have obliged me to relinquish the care of my own affairs and to put them entirely into the hands of my grandson Th: J....
6742Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The reasons assigned in your favor of the 7 th for preferring to retain Loudon instead of Albemarle , are such as cannot be controverted. the society of our children is the sovereign balm of life, and the older we grow the more we need it, to fill up the void made by the daily losses of the companions and friends of our youth. nor ought we of this neighborhood to regret a preference so...
6743From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 13 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
It is an old fashion thus to begin a Letter but there is something so pleasant in the spontaneous feeling which dictates the words, that I write or indeed find them written, ere I am aware that my Letter is begun; so that tho’ fashion is a tyrant ruler, and I generally submit with very good will to its sway, reason sometimes (not often) as you once observed takes the lead, and nolens volens...
6744From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 13 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your last Letter my Dear John was indeed filled with grievous news and I sincerely pity the afflicted family who are left in a situation so melancholy—The shock must no doubt have been severe to your Grandfather although it was expected; but the strongest minds insensibly repel the idea of death until the inevitable doom is sealed, and we cannot fly from conviction by its sad and solemn...
6745To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1823 (Madison Papers)
I communicated to you a former part of a correspondence between Judge Johnson of Charleston and myself, chiefly on the practice of caucusing opinions which is that of the supreme court of the US. but on some other matters also, particularly his history of parties. In a late letter he asks me to give him my idea of the precise principles & views of the Republicans in their oppositions to the...
6746Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the 4. vols of Las Casas , & have to ask the favor of you to send me a copy of the Nautical almanac for this & the next years, and 2. copies of Phædrus ’s fables in Latin for school boys, by successive mails, sending also my account which shall be promptly remitted. RC ( MiU-C : Thomas Jefferson Collection); addressed: “M r John Laval Philadelphia ”; stamp canceled;...
6747Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated to you a former part of a correspondence between Judge Johnson of Charleston and myself, chiefly on the practice of caucusing opinions which is that of the supreme court of the US. but on some other matters also, particularly his history of parties. in a late letter he asks me to give him my idea of the precise principles & views of the Republicans in their oppositions to the...
6748Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I requested you in a former letter to assure mr James Rawlings that as soon as I could get my tob o to market I would draw on you in his favor for a balance due the mutual assurance co. I have accdly drawn on you this day for a sum of about 89 or 90.D. I had formerly desired mr Ritchie to apply to you annually for my subscription to the Enquirer, and supposing it regularly paid, I had not even...
6749Thomas Jefferson to James Rawlings, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been more tardy in remitting to you my balance for insurance than I expected at the date of my letter of October last , because I have been later in getting my produce to market. I now inclose you an order on Col o Bernard Peyton for the amount as below. The last remains of the ruins at Milton for which the insurance was reduced to 1.54 D are now not worth a cent, and I wish to withdraw...
6750Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 21. there were inserted in your paper three series of essays on the case of Cohen, subscribed by Algernon Sidney, Fletcher of Saltoun & Somers , which compleatly pulverised the opinion of the Federal court in that case. had these been pub republished in the papers of the other states, they would have left no doubters on that subject. I have an oppy of putting them into the hands of...