6991To Thomas Jefferson from William Waller Hening, 31 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you, to the care of M r Winn Merrut 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 Universty.—retaining the 10 th for the purpose of preserving uniformity in the binding. The three first volumes are now republishing in New York and Philadelphia, and some additional matter, gleaned from ancient M.SS since...
6992To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 31 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to the request contained in yours of the — Inst:, have purchased for you C ’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 formally ordered, for your Grand sons, all of which hope will reach you safely— MHi .
6993From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your journal which has become a necessary of life to me has failed me for so a long a time but I must excuse it because it too severe a tax upon you & I hope & presume that George is too deeply absorbed in the studies of his profession to be able to spare time to copy your records. We are here in a newspaper flurry of flickerings for Govenor & they will associate your husband with Mr Otis as...
6994From John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, 29 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Voltaire at eighty, raved Tradgey; And I fear that you will think that I, at eighty seven and a half, am raving politicks and history. Be it so. but a regard to my own family and above all, to the sacred regard to the honour, the interest and duty of my Country, imperiously, demand of me that I should rave on—I must confess to allude to some former figures, when I was running the gantlet, and...
6995From John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 29 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your letters, to your Parents and to your Sisters, as well as those to me, and I advice you to write as many as you can, but have a care not to write in too much haste, acquire a habit of care and attention not only to the beauty and distinctness and legibility of your hand writing but to the correctness of your Grammar, spelling and even punctuation by this habit, you...
6996From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 29 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In answering a letter from mr Short I indulged myself in some off-hand speculations on the present lowering state of Europe, random enough to be sure; yet, on revising them, I thought I would hazard a copy to you, on the bare possibility that, out of them, you might, as we sometimes do from dreams, pick up some hint worth improving by your own reflection. at any rate the whole reverie will...
6997From John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, 28 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Since my last letter to you fate, or fortune as Jefferson says, has thrown into my hands two Volumes of amusing Travels, entitled a Journal of a Tour and residence in Great Britain by a Native of France; who it seems has resided a quarter of a Century in America, by the name of Simond.—in page 247. of the first Vol I read as follows.— “ Since 1801. The United States have had a philosophical...
6998From James Madison to Jedidiah Morse, 28 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to Docr. Morse with the annexed answers to the Queries accompanying his letter of the 14th. inst: as far as they were applicable to this State. The answers could not be conveniently extended as much as might perhaps be desired. Their brevity & inadequacy will be an apology for requesting that if any use should be made of them, it may be done without reference...
6999To James Madison from John Adlum, 28 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending you a bottle of domestic wine which I call Tokay. It is made of a grape that I found some years since at Clarksburgh Montgomery County Maryland, at a Mrs. Scholls. It is one of the greatest bearers of any grape that I know of, and tolerable for the table. They are also very handsome, the bunches are of a good size and a beautiful black colour, covered with a...
7000From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 28 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
From your letter of prophecies I too have caught the spirit of prophecy: for who can withold looking into futurity, on events which are to change the face of the world, and the condition of man throughout it, without indulging himself in the effusions of the holy spirit of Delphos? I may do it the more safely as, to my vaticinations, I always subjoin the Proviso ‘that nothing unexpected happen...
7001From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 27 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 20th. is received, I have not Delaplaines Biography. I have no reverance for catch penny publications, or ephemeral Repository’s, This Gentleman has long been a Correspondent of mine, he has long solicited me to write my life but as it would take me eighty seven years, I have neither expectation, hope, or wish to live so long, And there-fore have never begun it, And never...
7002From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 27 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
The easy manner in which you appear to take your College studies is diverting to me I confess but notwithstanding all your boast’s I flatter myself I shall assist at your Commencement with as much pleasure as I anticipate at John’s—The effect that your brothers success has produced upon your fathers spirits is such as to produce the greatest emulation in his Children for he has recovered his...
7003From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 27 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Surely my dear John you were not in your usual state when you wrote and enclosed George’s Letter to me or you could not have put such a construction upon it—Remember that when we undertake to correct the faults of others we should have attained to years of experience and have acquired by this means the capacity of advizing or else have conquered and eradicated all those failings in ourselves...
7004To Thomas Jefferson from William John Coffee, 27 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your goodness will Please to Excuse this Application for as Circumstances stand, it is not to be avoided, I think I stated to you in mine of the 15. Last Febr y my Intentions to leave this City on the first day of April and wishing to be as Punctual as I can to any Contract made, I have tharfore packed up all my moveables. My House is Let and myself only waiting your very obligeing remittance...
7005To Thomas Jefferson from William John Coffee, 27 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I receved Valued favou a few howers after I sent to you my Last Letter and am sorry I have given you that Trouble. I also recved a Letter from Mr Brockenbrough of which I Cant help saying that I am not only Very much astonished but much disapointed, your Condesention to peruse the Inclosed Letter will Inform you of my dissatisfaction, you be so kind as to Inclose as soon as you & M r B. has...
7006From Thomas Jefferson to Creed Taylor, 27 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of the 8 th and have to return you my thanks for the copy of the Journal of the Law-school which you have been so kind as to send me, requesting at the same time an opinion on it’s merits for the press. it is now 50. years since I retired from the practice of the law, and my vocations since that time have not been of a character to keep me in familiarity with...
7007From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 26 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I begin my letter, as you end yours of March 13th. with the word Amen . I admire your liberal philosophy and the large scale of your Religion, I cannot conceive however in your preferance in Presbyterianism, the presbytery have too much priestly Authority in matters of faith, like that which is claimed by the Episcopal Church, And the doctrines of both the Churches are too Calvinistical for...
7008To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 26 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with much pleasure I proceed to send you a few lines the sincere respect which I posses for you certainly compels me to a rememberance. I have cut a little short my Journey in stead of going on to Missouri have haulted in Kentucky. we had the wost weather while travelling that ever travellers experienced after our departure from albemarle about the end of the first weeks travel it. began...
7009From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 26 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers which I now return have been delayed only long enough to be communicated to mr Madison & returned by him. They are advantageous testimonials certainly of your familiarity with the languages in which they are written. but until the debt of the University (180,000.D) shall be discharged and it’s funds liberated, the institution cannot be opened, and the uncertainty when this will be...
7010From James Madison to James Maury, 24 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed letter is from a man who takes care of my garden to his brother in Scotland from whom I lately recd. a letter saying that the brother here had not been heard of for several years, and requesting that the distress of the family might be relieved by a few lines from me wth. whom it was known he had been living. As a no. of letters have been sent, & of course miscarried, the writer...
7011To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Dodge, our Consul at Marseilles, wishing to pay his respects to you on his way to Richmd. and apprehending that altho presented to you some half dozen years ago, you may not now recollect him, requests me to give him a line of re-introduction. You will find him a person of very general information and good sense, and particularly familiar with the affairs of Southern Europe. We shall hope...
7012To Thomas Jefferson from John Adlum, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you some days since a bottle of domestic wine that I call Tokay—I now send you a bottle of what I call Burgundy. neither of these wines have had any brandy in them,—I will after I have bottled it send you a bottle of my Champaign, made of the miller Burgundy grape, which will have to be kept perhaps two months before you drink it, when, I expect it will be brisk and sparkle—I have but...
7013To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of receiving your favor of 12 th ins t I am at all times disposed favorably to every thing which you think best for the University and make no doubt but that on this occasion you have pursued the course best calculated to promote its interests. I certainly intend to leave this on thursday the 27 th ins t and after making a visit to my farm in Nelson, to come to...
7014J.N. Davis: Lists the mail schedule for Fredericksburg, Richmond, and Lynchburg, 24 Mar. 1823, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Fredericksburg Mail arrives Tuesday & thursday 8 Am & Saturday 6 pm departs Monday Wednesday & Friday 3 pm Richmond Mail Arrives Tuesday 8 Am & Wednesday & Saturday 6 pm departs Tuesday 6 Am. Wednesday 3 pm & Saturday 6 Am Lynchburg Mail Arrives Sunday 6 pm departs Thursday 10 Am MoSHi : Thomas Jefferson Collection (formerly Bixby).
7015From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Dodge, our Consul at Marseilles, wishing to pay his respects to you on his way to Richm d and apprehending that altho presented to you some half dozen years ago, you may not now recollect him, requests me to give him a line of re-introduction. you will find him a person of very general information and good sense, and particularly familiar with the affairs of Southern Europe. We shall hope...
7016To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 24 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with yours of the 21st: & 22 d Inst: with their several enclosures: I will forward, without loss of time, to M r W. J. Coffee of New York, a dft. for $100, as directed by you, to cover which, you have credit by Th: J. Randolph’s dft:, in your favor, for that am t , on recd. The Books you write for shall be immediately procured, & forwarded, as directed—one by this mail— The...
7017From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 23 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter and the pleasing information it contains has greatly delighted your father and I think you will now be rewarded by his full approbation of the exertions which you have made and which at last have proved successful—We shall certainly visit Boston as I wrote you and George has engaged to study with Mr Webster who is now here—Miss Hopkinson is at Alexandria to which place I took her...
7018To Thomas Jefferson from Bayard & Co. LeRoy, 23 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 15 th is received and it again affords us pleasure to comply with your wishes you will therefore at your convenience have the goodness to remit us the interest and we will wait until next year for the payment of the principal. In the meantime we beg leave to Subscribe DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
7019From Thomas Jefferson to William John Coffee, 22 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in due time your favor of Feb. 15. mr Brockenbrough has rec d a part of the ornaments & expects the rest dayly. as mine were to come with them I presume Col o Peyton has rec d and forwarded them to Bedford . I this day inclose him an order for 100. D with a request that he will remit them to you immediately, and I some time ago informed mr Brockenbro’ that his remittance must be with...
7020To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Garrett, 22 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send for your perusal, a letter recieved yesterday from M r Brockenbrough stating the want of $500. to meet some pressing demands upon the University I also send a check for the $500. for your approval provided you consent to apply the $500. heretofore reserved to meet the freight &c. of the marble caps. as M r B. proposes: there is yet a balance of the annuity of 23. undrawn, how much...
7021From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 22 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday inclosed to you the necessary blanks, and now forward a draught on you for 100. D the proceeds of which I must pray you to forward to M r William John Coffee at New York. he is to leave that place the last day of this month which gives no time for delay in the remittance, will you also be so kind as to send me the school books ment d below. they are for my grandsons. They may come...
7022From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 21 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Worn out by fatigue parties influenza and all sorts of weariness both of mind and body I have really been too idle to attend to my correspondence and have scarcely taken a pen in my hand—The apology is a poor one but such as it is you must be content to accept it for it is the truth— The City has been profoundly dull since the adjournment of Congress and we have had but one event to enliven us...
7023From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your two letters of the 12 & 14. inst. You will have inferred my approbation of the course taken in order to avoid a loss of time in executing the Rotunda. I shall be with you at the Meeting of the Visitors if possible. The letter from O. Flaherty with its companions, are herewith inclosed. It is quite presumable that he possesses the technical qualifications for the professorship...
7024To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 21 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have rec d your two letters of the 12 & 14. inst: You will have inferred my approbation of the course taken in order to avoid a loss of time in executing the Rotunda. I shall be with you at the Meeting of the Visitors if possible. The letter from O. Flaherty with its companions, are herewith inclosed. It is quite presumable that he possesses the technical qualifications for the professorship...
7025From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 21 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I this inst. recieve your of y17 th and hasten to inclose the blanks wh ch had escaped me. I am in hopes they would in time altho’ I do not recollect their exact days. will you be so good as to send up the remainder to mr Brockenbro’ of the plans of the Univ y I expect you have rec d from mr Coffee and fowarded for me to Bedford a box of ornaments of Architecture I suppose the Sicily Madeira...
7026To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 20 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
In looking over a number of Delaplaine’s Repository , which was lent to me by Mr. Vaughan, for the purpose of reading a life of Dr Franklin written by Walsh, I was also attracted by an account of Samuel Adams which I had never seen. It contains some interesting anecdotes but there is one that strikes me as being somewhat exaggerated, and as the peice of history is a very interesting one I turn...
7027To James Madison from William F. Gray, 20 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 17th. as well as a former note on the subject of the Reviews, has been duly recd. Your wishes shall be complied with. Your subscription to the London Quarterly Review is discontinued, and I send to you by this Mail the North American Review for Jan. 1822. The subsequ[e]nt Nos. shall be forwarded as soon as I recieve them. At present I have none in store but what were already...
7028From James Madison to Edward Everett, 19 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I recd. on the 15th. your favor of the 2d. instant; with the little pamphlet of remarks on your brothers work on Europe. The pamphlet would have been much improved by softer words and harder arguments. To support its construction of the 18th. art: of the Treaty of 1794. the writer ought to have shewn that there are cases in which provisions become contraband according to the Law of Nations;...
7029From John Adams to Robert Mayo, 18 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received and procured to be read to me your pamphlet—The very title of a Juvenile Company Liberary Company sounds delightfully in the ears of an old Man who wishes well to posterity—The vivacity intelligence ingenuity and elegance of the address has given me great pleasure, And the whole plan appears to me to be judicious and meritorious—To reccommed Books of merit to your adoption...
7030From James Madison to James Pleasants Jr., 18 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I find that in consequence of the failure of the Board of Public Works to obtain the services of Col. McRee as its principal Engineer, the vacancy in the office remains to be filled. Not knowing whether Isaac Briggs may have yet received the consideration of the Board, I am led by my acquaintance with him to express the belief that he possesses a full measure of the Science, with a...
7031To James Madison from Caleb Atwater, 18 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I herewith forward to you, the Report of our commissioners of common schools, to our late General Assembly. The bill is badly printed, which I have corrected. This system is now before the people of this state and will be acted on at the next Session of our Legislature. Should your leisure permit, I should feel myself greatly obliged to you, for any suggestions you may think proper to make, as...
7032To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 18 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose the last Report of the Canal Board & to be NNPM .
7033To Thomas Jefferson from Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of visiting you at Monticello, I mentioned a letter from the late Governor Milton to me, relating to rumours, on the day that Congress adopted the Declaration of Indepence, which I had sent to M r Rives, who, unfortunately mislaid it. The other day he was lucky enough to find it, & to deliver it to me; and I now enclose you, agreeably to my promise, a copy of the...
7034To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Walsh, 18 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of recommending to your attention, the Prospectus sent herewith. My object in addressing it to you is to induce you either to furnish me with the dates & principal incidents appertaining to your career, or to indicate to me where they may be found recorded with accuracy. I need not say that I wish to be exact & full, in noting the services which you rendered to your...
7035To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Brantz, 18 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15th January last, I did myself the honor to adress you in behalf of M r F. R. Hassler, respecting the Office of Engineer of Public works in Virginia, for which he became a candidate, and to which Colonel M c Ree was preferred by appointment in January. This Field being again opened by Col o M c Ree’s declining the Situation, M r Hassler continues his wish to be considered a candidate...
7036From John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, 17 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 12th. march instant—The contents of which are entirely satisfactory to me—Your memory is quite as particular as I could expect any Gentleman of the company to retain, except myself. I must confess I was very s ure on the subject of my mission to France I was attacked by two armies, a french army and an English army—each warring upon me to conquer me into...
7037To John Adams from Joseph Bartlett, 17 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
The Most severe sickness has prevented Me, since last Novr. I was confined to a small bed in my Office without any attendant except My faithful Dog—or any Medical Aid— Alas! poor Yorick —I was too Much like Lazarus to take private lodgings—this has delayed my small Vol: to this late period, & which has caust caused—Many errors to creep into its pages—which a Gentleman of Your Head & heart will...
7038From James Madison to Isaac Briggs, 17 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his friendly respects to Isaac Briggs, and incloses a letter to the President of the Board of Public Works at Richmond. As it may be expected to reach Washington within the time named, this is directed to “Sandy Spring Maryland.” RC ( DLC : Isaac Briggs Papers); draft and draft of enclosure ( DLC ). Draft of enclosure, addressed to James Pleasants Jr. and dated 17 Mar., is...
7039To Thomas Jefferson from Abiel Holmes, 17 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By the encouragement and aid you were pleased to give me in preparing the American Annals for publication, I am emboldened to ask your advice in reference to another edition, which I am preparing for the press. One of the English Reviews, while, with other foreign Journals, sufficiently honouring the works with its commendation, suggests, that it had better have begun with the English...
7040From Thomas Jefferson to William Huntington, 17 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Huntington to dine at Monticello with mr Dodge of Marseilles tomorrow. Privately owned.