7281Bond of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel Carr to the College of William and Mary, 22 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jefferson Randolph Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Carr are held & firmly bound unto the President and Masters or Professors of the College of William and Mary in Virginia in the just & full sum of forty nine thousand, four hundred & ten dollars for the payment whereof well & truly to be made unto them or their successors, we bind ourselves and our...
7282Abraham Runnels to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter which you did my Son , then at N. York , the honour to write him under the 3 November 22 , I perceive you received that, I had the honour of addressing to you in September L.P. And, that, having taken the requisite information from Baron Stackelberg , to whom I took the liberty of referring you without notice of it to him, you had, condescendingly, communicated the result to the...
7283From John Adams to Aaron Bancroft, 21 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of Decr. 30 and above all for the gift of a precious vol—It is a chain of diamonds set in links of Gold—I have never heard or read a volume of sermons better calculated or adapted to the age and country in which it was written—How different from the sermons I heard and read in the town of Worcester from the year 1755 to 1758 As my destiny in life has been some...
7284From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 21 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of the 15th. and the Pamphlet inclosed. Lord Bollingbrook says and every body knows that nobility in China ascends when a Man is ennobled, he ennobles all his Ancestors but none of his Posterity and his Lordship pronounces this law a wise institution, and I believe it is, and much wiser than to ennoble a long list of puppies, and Butterflies to all future ages. In this...
7285Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 21 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Governor and forwards to him the application of another candidate for the place of Engineer. being appealed to for his testimony he thinks it his duty to say that of the writer of the letter mr Brant he knows nothing, nor does he personally know mr Haessler , but his character is well known to him thro’ many channels. he is a Swiss, has been in this...
7286To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 1 January 1823 to 20 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
1st January. If the weather to day is ominous of the storms of the ensuing year we must not expect much quiet—Let it come—I will not flinch be the end what it may—We went to the Presidents where we found a much larger party assembled than would have been expected considering the difficulties attendant on a sortie in such an inclement day—The Corps diplomatique paid their usual compliment and...
7287To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
So much time has elapsed, Since I was delighted with the interesting affectionate Letter, which I received last Summer from Mrs Quincy—Since which I obtained not one Single line from Massachusetts, that I cannot express the delightful Surprise when I did See myself favoured with a fresh proof of your frendship in your Letter of the 5th inst. Yes, my Dear Friend! this Letter was as warm as...
7288To John Jay from Beverly Robinson, 19 January 1823 (Jay Papers)
Knowing as I think I do my own heart, and the Impression which an Act of kindness has never failed to make upon it, I am utterly at a loss to account for my long silence to you upon a subject on which I should have spoken many years ago— Month after Month and Year after Year have I intended to visit you, and express an Obligation, which, I lament to say, you have every reason to suppose I...
7289From James Madison to Benjamin Bell and William Tapscott, 19 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
It is so very long since payments were due from both particularly one of you for the land purchased of Mrs. Willis & myself without our having recd. even a line on the subject from either, that you cannot be surprized at being now reminded of your obligations, and called to discharge them. I am not unaware of the circumstances which may have embarrass[ed] pecuniary transactions, but they...
7290Thomas Jefferson to Thomas M. Randolph (1798–1835), 19 January [1823] (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d the bottle of wine you were so kind as to send me about a fortnight ago and have kept it in the hope your father could come and dine & taste it here. he had at length promised for yesterday but his business obliging him to set out to Richm d and having some friends with me we tried it yesterday . we founded found
7291Thomas Jefferson to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 19 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 19. was long on it’s passage to me, and finds me in a condition but shortly to acknolege it’s reciept. a dislocation of my right wrist while in Paris , and the impracticability of reducing the carpal bones to their order has always been an impediment in my writing, and the effect of age has been gradually increasing the difficulty till now the motion of the wrist is nearly...
7292Thomas Jefferson to Ennion Williams, 19 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d yesterday your favor of the 13 th proposing to purchase the copperplate engraving of the University : but that having been done by order of the board of Visitors could not be sold but by a like order & they will not meet until Apr. I know moreover that it would not suit their views because I am, by their instrns , endeavoring to engage a Landscape painter of the 1 st order from Philada...
7293Hugh White (of Pennsylvania) and John R. Shannon to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Considering the present moment one of the most Important the World has unfolded; We allude To the “ Holy L e ague ” (falsely So Calld,) Being proved so, by the Stoical Indifferance Which they Behold the unequal Combat Between Light & Darkness good & Evil, Maintained Between the immortal ‘Heroes of the East,’ (The greek Nation) & the infernal followers of the false prophet: (the Barbarian “...
7294Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
By means of your friendly aid my Son Alexander is now on board the Shark , Captain Perry from whose report I hope he may in due time obtain his warrant and trust that he may do credit to your recommendation by maintaining the honor of his Country—Your ready compliance with every former request makes me I fear presume too far, but you will pardon me if I do My Son Henry who had the pleasure of...
7295Jesse B. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with considerable hesitation that I venture to intrude upon your retirement and although my name may be strange to you yet I hope you will pardon me when I inform you that I had the honour of waiting on you at Poplar forest in October 1821 for the purpose of requesting a letter of introduction to some gentleman in Boston previous to my departure from Virginia to join the Law School here....
7296Robert Smith (printer) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
you must know that in the year 1800 the 17 th day of May I left Philadellphia , to go on election for you—at Annopolis . I put a card in Mr Greens paper at Annopolis which brought Judge Duwal to address a number essays which was inserted in all the papers through the United States — I have got in years and shall than k
7297From John Adams to John Farmer, 16 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
my apology for neglecting so long to acknowledge the receipt of your Historical Collections, is that eighty seven years is a heavy load to carry, or in the more expressive and more elegant language of one of my Farmers, the eightyeith year of a Mans life, is a hard outside roe of corn to hoe, but I am weary of alledging age and infirmity as excuses for procrastination.— You have sent me a very...
7298From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 [January 1823] (Madison Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 6th. with the letters of Mr. Cabell, Mr Gerry, and Judge Johnson. The letter from Mr. C. proposing an Extra Meeting of the Visitors, & referred to in yours was not sent, and of course is not among those returned. The friends of the University in the Assembly seem to have a delicate task on their hands. They have the best means of knowing what is best to be...
7299Lewis Brantz to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
M r F R. Hassler , late astronomer to the commissioners on the part of the United States under the Treaty of Ghent for establishing the Northeren Boundary , is desirous of becoming a Candidate for the, now vacant, office of Engineer of Public Works in Virginia . His remote retirement in the State of New York , prevented his being informed in time to make a regular application and prepare...
7300James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 15 [January] 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received yours of the 6 th with the letters of M r Cabell , M r Gerry , and Judge Johnson . The letter from M r C. proposing an Extra Meeting of the Visitors
7301Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Jefferson to the President and Directors of the Richmond Branch of the Bank of the … (Jefferson Papers)
We are about to make arrangements for the discharge of the debt of W. C Nicholas , dec d to your Bank for $20,000. accrued by Th Jefferson and Th. J. Randolph . in the following manner. viz. an amt exceeding one fourth of the principal. to be paid in a few days, a sum not less than two fourth more to be paid in December 1823. the remaining fourth to be discharged in december
7302From John Adams to Timothy M. Cooley, 14 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am honoured with your letter of January 9th. 1823. It would give me great pleasure, to send you any Books for the use of your Classical school but I have already given my Library to a Classical School in Quincy, excepting a very few, which are a necessary of Life to me, I send you the second and third Volume of my Defence, of the first volume I have but one Copy—Of the Discourse’s on Davila...
7303From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 14 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Wonderful Woman, wife of a wonderful Man, How it is possible for you with your delicate Constitution and tender Health, to go through such a hurry of Visits, Dinners, and parties, Converse with such a variety, of Characters, masculine, and Feminine, and at the same time keep so particular a Journal. Yours of the 14th of December, up to the 30th. has arrived this Morning. your journal is a kind...
7304Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 13 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 9 th is quite reviving. you say that as soon as the bill has past, yourself and colleagues will come up to a special meeting. this will be indispensable, because our workmen will be obliged to be looking out for other work for the ensuing season, if their employment here is not soon decided on. but observe that to make a special call legal, reasonable notice must be given to all...
7305Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 13 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am rejoiced to see you have taken up the subject of Primary schools . I consider them equally interesting, perhaps more so than the University . it is impossible the legislature can consent longer to throw away the public money on so desperate a plan as the present. I recieved yesterday from Kentucky the most able report on that subject which we have ever seen. I inclose it to you in the...
7306Ennion Williams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of promoting the Interest of the University , I called upon our friend Bernard Peyton for one of the ground Plans of the University of Virginia ; which I have colourd in such a manner as at a Glance, the various Gardens, Yards, Lawns and Buildings can be distinguish’d; to which are added the Elevations of the Rotunda, the Pavilions and Hotels, adjoining their respective ground...
7307To John Adams from A. Stanton, 12 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I take the Liberty of Sending my little work to the Nestor of the united States, who more fortunate than he of ancient times, has a Son Who So honorably fulfills the place of a Ulisses. I have the honor to be / Venerable Sir / your most humble / and obedient Servant DNA : RG 59—ML—Miscellaneous Letters.
7308From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 5th. instant full of wise reflections philosophical and moral. I am glad you think so much and so prudently. You must be very happy all of you together I wish I could be one of your family circle during the vacations notwithstanding all the silly trécasseries of the times. Your Fathers notice of General Smyth was brought to me last night and read to me by Mr....
7309From John Adams to Daniel Coney, 11 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 7th. upon a very grave, serious, and important subject—You enquire how I get on this cold weather; I will tell you in few words—I have a bottle of hot water quart Bottl filled with boiling water, laid between the sheet at the foot of my Bed, and it defuses its heat through the whole Bed, and keeps me as warm as an egge under a setting hen— Your machinery is...
7310From Joseph Hopkinson to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received and read your letter with great deference and pleasure; but, of course, without any conviction of error in my opinions, you so ingeniously combat—The truth is the difference between us is marked by such light shades and mingling colours that it is not easy to detect the precise point where it is found—I am well satisfied it will not do, in this day and country, for publick men...