7051To Thomas Jefferson from John Adlum, 14 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send for your acceptance through the Post office a bottle of wine made last September, from a grape I call Tokay, A German Priest who saw the grapes ripe said they were the true Tokay, such as he had seen growing in Hungary, I have no doubt but that these grapes are like them, but I have a strong suspicion that they are native—I found them at Clarksburg in Montgomery County at a M rs...
7052From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 14 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed lre in Gr. Lat. Fr. and Eng. with it’s accompaniments being intended for your inspection as much as mine, is now forwarded for your perusal. you will be so good as to reinclose them that I may return them to the writer. the answer I propose to give is, what I have given on all similar applications, that until the debt of the University is discharged, and it’s funds liberated, the...
7053From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Winslow Hatch, 13 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I observe that a meeting of the inhabitants of Charlottesville is called on Satu rda y on the subject of our proposn. for a circulating library. by annual subscription I shall not be able to attend, it but sollicit to become a member of the society on any scale they may chuse to adopt great or small . as our stock will be small it should be confined to the purchase of books of general...
7054To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 13 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your note of today & am happy to inform you that considerable interest is felt on the subject of the establishment of a Library amongst us. For myself I am fully convinc’d, that if effected, & then properly manag’d, it must be productive of great good. The meeting to which you allude was notified by the Printer at my suggestion but will be defer’d to next week in consequence of the...
7055To Thomas Jefferson from James Pleasants, 13 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you two days since a sketch of the law of the last session relating to the Visitors of the University. Realizing after that letter was in the mail that you might want an authentic copy of the act at your next meeting, I applied to the Keeper of the rolls for one; he informed me the public acts would probably be completed this week & a copy could be forwarded to you in time for your...
7056To John Adams from Harrison Gray Otis, 12 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 9th february was receiv’d by me yesterday—It establishes beyond doubt that your memory at an age when that faculty fails in most men, is more vigorous than mine though I have not yet attained the age at which mental energy by the Constitution of New York is decreed to be ipso facto extinct— My recollection of what passed at the dinner referr’d to by you is too vague to enable...
7057To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 12 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Having received from all our brethren approbations of the loan, I authorised Mr Brockenbrough to engage the work of the Rotunda and have it commenced immediately. We had only two bricklayers and two carpenters capable of executing it with solidity and correctness, these had not capital sufficient for so great an undertaking, nor would they have risked their little all but for a great advance...
7058To James Madison from James Taylor, 12 March 1823 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From James Taylor. Letter not found. 12 March 1823. Offered for sale in the American Art Association, Illustrated Catalogue of President Madison’s Correspondence from American Statesmen and Patriots … Collection of the Late Frederick B. McGuire … , 26 Feb. 1917, item 148, where it is described as a two-page autograph letter signed “relative to the selling of some horses, mentions Judge Todd...
7059From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 12 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the contract with Dinsmore & Nelson which I approve of for the strong reasons assigned in your letter. I think my colleagues, as well as myself are very desirous of being able at certain stages of the work to ascertain the exact state of our funds, that we may stop where they fail. the having to bring measures from Philadelphia may be some obstruction to that. but I presume we may...
7060From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington Cabell, 12 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Having received from all our brethren approbations of the loan, I authorised M r Brockenbrough to engage the work of the Rotunda, and have it commenced immediately. we had only two bricklayers and two carpenters capable of executing it with solidity and correctness; these had not capital sufficient for so great an undertaking, nor would they have risked their little all but for a great advance...
7061To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 12 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you last winter two printed copies of the report of the legislative committee on the affairs of the College, unanimously adopted by the house. I sent them, because every public testimony in my favour, tends to justify your former kind recommendation of me to the Visitors of your University. I hope that report will serve as sufficient proof that you were not mistaken, the clergy...
7062From Thomas Jefferson to George Loyall, 12 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the reciept of your favor of Feb. 13. and of mr Cabell’s approving the acceptance of the late loan to the Univ y I have rec d like approbns from mr Madison, Generals Corks & Brackenridge, I consequently authorised the Proctor to engage & commence the work. Gen l Cocke, with his approbn. expressed a wish that the whole building might be let to an Undertaker, so that we should know with...
7063From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 11 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have been so sick with the Influenza it has not been possible to write independent of which the perpetual round of dissippation in which I have lived seems to have deadened all my faculties and destroyed all the little gleam of light which was wont to illumine my ideas when I wished to throw them on paper—Party’s of every description being done with there is not a word of news stirring and...
7064To James Madison from Charles Yancey, 11 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Enclosed is Mr. Crawfords Rect. for his paper One Year Agreeable to your Request. I am Dear Sir, Your Most Obed. Sert. Ps Messrs Jefferson, & Monroe, & all the heads of Department, ordered said Paper. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . See JM to Yancey, 4 Jan. 1823 , PJM-RS David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (3 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). ,...
7065To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a contract entered into between myself as Proctor of the U. V a and Dinsmore & Neilson subject to your approval—I have adopted this plan for several reasons, I found great difficulty in fixing the prices of a great portion of the work, to fix the prices of a few items only, would be almost giving them their own prices for the balance, for a great part could not be correctly...
7066From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great pleasure, as it proved your arm to be restored and your pen still manageable—may it continue till you shall become as perfect a calvinist as I am in one particular. Poor Calvins infirmities his rheumatism his gouts and sciatics made him frequently cry out Mon dieu Jusque au quand Lord how long! Prat once...
7067From John Adams to William Cranch, 10 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 27th. Feb—with great satisfaction and sincere gratitude, I can reciprocrate your sentiments with great truth, the loss of my sight and a parilitic quiveration of my hands have rendered it impossible for me to write, And the dictation of a letter costs me more pain, than to write four, when I could write, You have rarely been out of my thoughts and I have...
7068To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great pleasure, as it proved your arm to be restored and your pen still manageable—may it continue till you shall become as perfect a calvinist as I am in one particular. Poor Calvins infirmities his rheumatism his gouts and sciatics made him frequently cry out Mon dieu Jusque au quand . Lord how long! Prat once...
7069To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your cooperative and successful efforts in procuring happiness not only for the present, but future generation of this Mighty Republic are encircled with immortal honours. Your triumphal exertions in erecting the house of Mental illumination on the mountain-top will throw a light on the unborn sons of Virginia and direct and compel them to associate with the name of Jefferson every thing...
7070To Thomas Jefferson from James Pleasants, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 5 th inst: reached me last evening. I enclose to you a sketch (cut from a newspaper) of certain acts passed at the late session. Among them you will observe one relating to the subject of your letter. M r Cabell mentioned to me during the session the circumstance of M r . Johnson’s commission as a visitor having expired by failure to attend two meetings, and requested that he...
7071From Thomas Jefferson to John A. Graham, 9 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Graham for the copy of his speech in Maxwell’s case which he has been so kind as to send him. he has read it with the pleasure which he recieves from every instance of attention to the preservn of our rights, and especially to the principles by which those of life are protected. mr Graham by his advocation of them in this case has deserved well of the...
7072From Thomas Jefferson to Sidney Edwards Morse, 9 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your geography which you have been so kind as to send me. I have examined the Statistical part to which you particularly refer my attention, and I find it truly a very valuable addition to the book, and constituting a convenient Repertory of the matters of which tabular views are presented. there is yet one table which has never been given, and would be...
7073From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Perpignan, 9 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Perpignan for the miniature likeness of Gen l Washington, which he has been so kind as to send him. it’s motto may truly be multum in parvo , as presenting the greatest man in the world within the smallest compass, and condensing within it the faithful expression of his countenance. Th: J. with his thanks requests mr Perpignan to accept his respectful...
7074From James Madison to Jedidiah Morse, 8 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison presents his respects to the Revd. Dr. Morse & to his son, with acknowledgments for the Copies of “The New system of Modern Geogy.” and “The new System of Geogy. antient & Modern,” with which he has been favored. He has not been able to give them a particular examination. A very cursory one, has left no doubt that each will bear a very advantageous comparison with any similar...
7075From James Madison to Creed Taylor, 8 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Decr. 21. with a Copy of the “Journal of the Law School,” taken charge of by Mr. Stringfellow, were handed to me a few days ago only. The delay will have been explained to you by himself. Having never engaged in the practice of the law, and the very limited knowledge of it acquired in the Closet being much obliterated, I find myself little qualified to appreciate the merits of...
7076To James Madison from Isaac Briggs, 8 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
On the 30th. of January last the Board of Public Works of Virginia elected, for their principal engineer, Col. William McRee. This gentleman, who is beyond question a very accomplished military engineer, has declined the acceptance of that office on the ground that “its duties embrace the business of civil engineering in general, and its particular application to such objects of internal...
7077To Thomas Jefferson from Creed Taylor, 8 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you have the goodness to accept a copy of the journal of the law school; and believe me, when I assure you, how much gratified I should be, if the system should meet your approbation, and you would allow me, to make it known, through the medium of the press. Permit me, as one of your fellow citizens, to tender you, my most sincere thanks, for your unwearied exertions in the establishment...
7078From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
In one of your letters if I remember right, you expressed a desire to see my letters to Mr. Calkoen, the history of those letters is this. At a dinner with a large company I met with that learned, civilian who came to me and seated himself by my side and expressed an ardent curiosity to converse with me upon the subject of the American war he asked me many questions in French in which language...
7079To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Law, 7 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you Cap n Chapman an accomplished British officer the nephew of an old East India friend. I have been deprived of my only daughter & of my son John & my only son Edmund has been much afflicted with a rheumatism which I feared would leave me fatherless—these successive blows & the severity of the winter have much affected my nerves—Could I see a N l C y established &...
7080To Thomas Jefferson from Return Jonathan Meigs, 7 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received yours of the 3 rd instant—and have given directions—that letters and packets—addressed to You be mailed for and directed to Charlotteville— MoSHi : Thomas Jefferson Collection (formerly Bixby).
7081From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
As I consider y’r ladyship as always imprison’d during a session of Congress I congratulate you upon y’r jail delivery by their rise they have not been very angry during this session consequently not very entertaining—our two sons arrived here in good health & spirits at the proper season and a furious snow wh’ blocked up all the roads detain’d them here for three or four days and enliven’d my...
7082To Thomas Jefferson from Ann Cary Morris, 6 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your goodness will excuse the liberty I take—Your name is held so Sacred by the Post Masters that it prevents the loss of my scrawls— MHi .
7083From James Madison to Peter Perpignan, 5 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
J Madison presents his respects to Mr Perpignan, with thanks for his minute & neatly executed representation of General Washington. RC ( NjP : Jasper E. Crane Collection of James and Dolley Madison). See Perpignan to JM , 26 Feb. 1823 , PJM-RS David B. Mattern et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Retirement Series (3 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2009–). , 2:670.
7084From Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 5 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The law concerning the University makes the non-user for a whole year vacate the office of a visitor. mr Chapman Johnson failed to attend both our semi-annual meeting, of the last year from sicness, which has determ d his commn. I should have sooner notified you of this & asked a renewal but that mr Cabell wrote me he would do it yet not hearing from him again, and anxious that it sh d not be...
7085From John Adams to Peter Perpignan, 4 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have rec’d y’r letter of the 26th of last month—and I thank you for y’r infinitessinal miniature of President Washington—I cannot see it even with the help of a solar microscope & should not be able to distinguish the features or the figure, clearly enough to know; whether it is a fair representation of the hero —I am always pleased to see correct representations of that great man—the more...
7086To James Madison from Richard Peters, 4 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
I received with great pleasure your letter of the 22d Feby, not for any polite expressions it contains, so much as the gratification I enjoy when I see the hand writing I have been accustomed to be familiar with, in olden times, & days of tribulation. So few of us remain, of those who bore the burthens, & encountered the dangers of those times & days; & so dispersed in distant sections of our...
7087To Thomas Jefferson from William Baxter, 4 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
With diffidence and awe, I beg leave to present to your worthy consideration, and your opinion would likewise conduce much to my own satisfaction—in knowing whether such an undertaking would be any benefit to our present rising republic. Knowing that your Excellency has always been a friend and patron to every thing which may conduce to the welfare of that Republic, which your venerable Self...
7088William Baxter: Prospectus for The Washingtoniana, a Lancaster, Pa., ca. 4 Mar. 1823, 4 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
PROPOSALS, BY W. BAXTER, For Publishing in Lancaster, (Penn.) a weekly paper, to be entitled, the WASHINGTONIANA. IN presenting this Prospectus to the Citizens of the United States, the publisher begs leave to say, that this journal will be the most important state paper, that has ever yet appeared in the United States. The Editor intends to devote it entirely to those great important eras...
7089To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Task Duleny, 4 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
An unfortunate Man who is a total stranger to you, but who is nevertheless acquainted with your Character and your worth, has prevail’ d upon himself with much difficulty (and he fears it may be thought with much presumption) to Solicit a Loan of $1000 on good Security for 12 Months. In making this entreaty he cannot but be aware that he shall create Surprise, and perhaps Suspicion,—He regrets...
7090From Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 4 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I delayed some time the acknolegement of your welcome letter of Dec. 10. on the common lazy principle of never doing to-day what we can put off to tomorrow, until it became doubtful whether a letter would find you at Charleston. learning now that you are at Washington, I will reply to some particulars which seem to require it. The N. American Review is a work I do not take, and which is little...
7091To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I cordially thank you for your affectionate Letter of the 4th—So Soon I did not expect a fresh proof of your kindness—my wife and Daughter Shared in my happiness—I was pleased with the explanation of your Seal—It Shall be preserved with the Seal—and—after my death—with all your Letters—and those of your beloved Lady—delivered to J. Q—or Th—— So that no unhallowed eye may be cast upon them. I...
7092From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Crawford, 3 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson begs leave to remind mr Crawford that his paper should be addressed to Charlottesville , without which it goes to the Milton office with which he has no commn MHi .
7093From Thomas Jefferson to Return Jonathan Meigs, 3 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am aware that no individual ought to expect that a post office, in distributing it’s letters, will attend to any thing but their superscription. yet it would be a signal service to me if your distributor could recollect to put my letters into the Charlottesville mail, instead of that of Milton. with the former place I have daily communication, with the latter none. but if this request is out...
7094From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 3 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson asks the favor of mr Ritchie to add Charlottesville to the address of his paper, without which it goes to the Milton P.O. with which he has no intercourse, & the consequence is that his Enquirers accumulate there till some accident offers a conveyance whereas with Charlottesville he has daily communicn. he salutes him with esteem & respect MHi .
7095To John Adams from Joseph Bartlett, 2 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
It gives me the most heart-felt pain—to address you another line on the subject of my little Vol: —My only apology Must be—”et necessitate rei .”—to a mind like yours, it will be Sufficent—: My old friend Doctor Danforth—advised me, to remove for a few Weeks into the Country—My State of health, imperiously demands it—I wish to go this Week—if I can gain a trifle for the purpose —I am now out...
7096To John Adams from R.H. Gardiner, 1 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Knowing the interest which you feel in every thing relating to the improvement of the rising generation I take the liberty of inclosing to you an account of the Gardiner Lyceum recently established in this town & the inaugural address of its first principal. With the greatest / respect / I remain / Your Most obedt MHi : Adams Papers.
7097From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 1 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I like your philosophy very well, I will pursue an idea suggested in my last; I do sincerely wish that the Mandarins of China, the Bramins of Hindostan the Priests of Japan, and of Persia, could be influenced with the same zeal de propaganda fide as the Roman Catholics and Calvanists of this day are for propagating their Creeds, and ceremonies, I wish they would form into societies, open their...
7098From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 1 March 1823 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has just returned me your two letters & the papers accompanying them. Supposing that I had yet to acknowledge them he annexes a line requesting me to do it for him also: observing that it would hurt him much to leave unnoticed an old friend, and that the difficulty of using his pen with his crippled hand, had compelled him to abandon writing, but from the most urgent necessities....
7099From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 28 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your note of Feb’y 12th. and for the communication of Judge Troups letter. I am very much obliged to him for his civility to me as well for his testimonies in honor of your meritorious exertions for the public good. Your active life has been employed as far as I have known the history of i, in the promoting useful Knowledge and useful arts: for which I hope you have received or...
7100From John Adams to John Graham, 28 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have rec’d and heard y’r favor of Feb 23d and the pamphlet enclosed, it is a free manly & independent argument at the bar—it is quite orthodox in liberty, humanity, & in law—at least I think so as far as the judges express’d their sentiments—“The court agrees with Dr Graham, in most of the points wh’ he has taken on the subject of examinations & confessions taken in the police office;.” A...