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Whereas Dolley P. Madison the wife of James Madison of Orange County, Virginia, purchased at a public vendue of the furniture of Richard Cutts at the City of Washington, by her agent George Bomford, sundry articles of said furniture mentioned in the Bills or Schedules hereto annexed & signed by Tench Ringgold Marshal of the District of Columbia, and by P. Mauro, the said articles having been...
I had the honor, Sir, to write you very fully, on the 17 th of October by Raggi , and in which, I explain’d the impediments thrown in the way, by jealousy and other unworthy passions, to retard the completion of the capitels.— they would have been sent in December, as I then assur’d you, but owing to the most boisterous winter, experienc’d probably in 50 years, the vessel which has now brought...
It was my intention, Sir, by this conveyance, to have written to the late Governor Miller of North Carolina , requesting the favor of you, to give it a safe course to him; but uncertain as I am, if he is even Still in existance, and not knowing the name of any other individual in the State , will you allow me, so far to trespass on your kindness towards me, as to relate to you, the motive of...
Cr editors to be p d in 1823 principal remain g Int. to July 1. 23. annua l int.     Rawlings James 84 .40      
Albemarle Expences. Monticello   Income   Bedford D  Store acc t includ g iron 800  400.B. flour 2400  store account. 400  
Your Letter of the 15th. instt. which informed me of the part assigned to you at the next exhibition has given me great satisfaction; and I now indulge the hope that your performance of it, will be still more creditable to you than the assignment. The question will afford full scope for all your abilities, and as I believe the affirmative to be the right side, you will have no lack of argument...
I have recd. the copy of an Address in behalf of the Juvenile Library Company of Richmond which you have been pleased to forward to me. Knowledge of the useful kinds, is so conducive to individual & social happiness: and so essential to the form of govt. most friendly to both, that all the means of diffusing it have their merit. Among these means, libraries adapted to the early period of life,...
It would be proper for me to apologize for this Intrusion on your retirement was it not at the request of Col n Peyton who wishes me to advice you of the recept of One Hundered Dollars which I have placed to your Acnt. It came to hand this day the Col n took the most Prompt & Proper means to expedite Buisness, he obtained an order from One of the Banks in Richmond upon one of the Banks in this...
I sent you, to the care of M r Winn Mercht of Charlottesville , a few days past, two copies of the 10 th Vol of the Statutes at Large, for yourself, and the 9 th Vol. for the Univers i ty . — retaining the 10 th for the purpose of preserving uniformity in the binding. The three first volumes are now re-publishing in
Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the — Inst:, have purchased for you Cruden ’s Concordance, at $9, and will forward it by the first Waggon, for charlottesville , to the care of M r Raphael — I send by this mail the last of the three Books formerly ordered , for your Grand sons, all of which hope will reach you safely— RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as...