7281To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 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, & 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...
7282From Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823 (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. and 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 1824. The interest...
7283From 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...
7284From 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...
7285From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Carrington 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...
7286From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell 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 hope...
7287To Thomas Jefferson from Ennion Williams, 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 colour’d 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...
7288To 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.
7289From 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....
7290From 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...
7291From 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...
7292To Thomas Jefferson from James Barbour, 11 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed essays were written for the Enquirer in which they appeared—The partiality of a few here, who read them, determined to give them a more permanent shape—The object cannot fail to have obtained your approbation—What has been the writers success it is for others to decide—He is anxious to submit them to your perusal— CSmH : Jefferson File.
7293From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 11 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recollect that when at Lynchburg I proposed to mr Gorman to come and engage in our service at the University, I observed to him that there being no buildings as yet or accomodations for workmen, he could have the use of one of the dormitories for awhile. I do not remember that I specified any particular term, and suppose I did not. an indefinite understanding of that kind I should think...
7294To John Adams from Timothy M. Cooley, 9 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Permit the undersigned most respectfully to inform you that a Gentleman in our vicinity has made a donation to establish a Library for the benefit of the youth in this Village and as an appendage to a Classical School established here; and we have also been gratified gratuitously by several Authors and Editors of periodical publications with their several productions— We now Sir have presumed...
7295To James Madison from Charles Yancey, 9 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 4th Instant has been Recd. & I feel much honored in Communicating it to Mr. Crawford, the Editor of The Va. Times: shortly to Issue from here. He will be here in a few days, & I shall take his Rect. for $5. enclosed by you, for the paper in question to be sent on &c. I sincerely hope it May prove satisfactory. Yours truly & sincerely RC ( DLC ). Addressed by Yancey to JM, and franked.
7296To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Carrington Cabell, 9 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your letter of 28 Dec: and am mortified at the circumstance of my having been the cause of so much trouble to you. I am happy to inform you that our prospects are now very favourable. Every thing is understood, every thing is arranged. Our bill will be introduced in the Committee of Schools & Colleges in a day a two. We ought to have had a select Committee to get...
7297To Thomas Jefferson from S. Waydown, 9 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Some months ago my daughter delivered to me your kind invitation to make your hospitable mansion my home while supplying the office of M r Hatch It was my sincere intention Sir to have thanked you in person and it has often given me pain that I did not so I am also indebted to M rs Randolph & the ladies for their very kind attentions to my dear children I hope you are getting over the painful...
7298To John Adams from Daniel Coney, 7 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
This morning at Sunrise the Thermometer indicated the cold 12° below Zero.—contemplating before I rose from my bed, It occured to me how does Presdt. Adams in his old age get on this cold weather; concluded to write a few lines, if able, & respectfully ask him “how do you do”—I will say nothing about Theology Am reading Dr Bancrofts 29 Sermons printed at Worcester 1822—I will say nothing of...
7299From John Adams to Charles Thomson, 6 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Col: Pickering has sent me in your name your Synopsis of the four Evangelists, The whole of which has been read to me, except the notes, I cannot delay to express my gratitude for your Rememberance of me, and for this rich present, It is much more intelligable to me than King James translation— I know of no Man who has spent the last thirty years of a long life in so much serenity, industry...
7300To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I send you a mass of reading, and so rapidly does my hand fail me in writing that I can give but very briefly the necessary explanations. You will observe that mr. Cabell, if the loan bill should pass, proposes to come up with mr. Loyall, probably mr. Johnson, and Genl. Cocke to have a special meeting. This is necessary to engage our workmen before they undertake other work for the ensuing...
7301To James Madison from James McKinney, 6 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I recd. yours this Morning & Observe the contents. I will call & See you as Soon as I can Which I hope will be Soon. Mr. Fray goes to Fredericksburg in the Morning & will be gone nearly all the week. We cannot both leave the place at the Same time. I beg you to Accept My Sincere respects RC ( DLC ). Addressed by McKinney to JM, and marked “Zachary.” JM to McKinney, 3 Jan. 1823 . John Fray...
7302To Thomas Jefferson from William Canby, 6 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I lately saw the comm n between thee & John Adams( as in the News paper) with some satisfaction, having often had seen, in comparing Notes with particularly one cotemporary, respecting the progressive decay of this body & its Mind, curiously different in degree, yet going on toward dissolution, but how is it with us, with respect to an increasing degree of a divine intimacy or communion; I am...
7303From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a mass of reading, and so rapidly does my hand fail me in writing that I can give but very briefly the necessary explanations. 1. mr Cabell’s letter to me & mine to him which passed each other on the road will give you the state of things respecting the University, and I am happy to add that letters recieved from Appleton give us reason to expect our capitels by the first vessel...
7304To Thomas Jefferson from James Morrison, 6 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust that you will pardon the liberty I have taken, of putting under cover to you, the enclosed letter for M r Randolph—one of the Executors or Administrators of my deceased friend Co l Mr. C. Nicholas—Will you have the goodness to forward it as early as Convenient? my apology for imposing this trouble is—that I have understood M r Randolph’s Residence is in Albemarle: but in what section...
7305From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Joseph Hopkinson, 5 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
The safe arrival of the Bust has given me much pleasure, and its safe installation in the Academy of Arts and Sciences, which the head was formed to grace, assures to me of its permanent security— To continue the very interesting conversation in the pretty porch of Bordeu, lighted only, as you say, by the softened rays of a pale but brilliant Moon, I must ask you to put yourself into the...
7306From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 5 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I have received the “Report” on the state of the South Carolina College, covered by your favor of December 21. I have read it with very sincere pleasure as the harbinger of days happy for yourself, as well as prosperous for the Institution. You are not, I perceive, without an adversary of the same family which raised its cries against you elsewhere. The triumphs of education under your...
7307To James Madison from George W. Erving, 5 January 1823 (Madison Papers)
I am highly flattered by the very obliging manner in which you have condescended to receive the small articles which I took the liberty of offering to you; I wish that I could devise more adequate means of expressing my respectful & grateful feelings towards you & Mrs Madison: You still augment my obligations by your joint good wishes for my happiness, but alas! that to which Mrs Madison more...
7308From John Adams to John Coffin, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Better late than never, to acknowledge your discourse on Medical Education, which I read in the Season of it, with great pleasure. and intended to have immediately to have acknowledged my obligation for it—It is as elegant and instructive a Composition as any I have read of the kind; but in the confusion of my papers an it has slipped my memory for which I ask you pardon, And I pray you to...
7309From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 26th. December just now received, has thrown me into a kind of froliksome mixture of gaiety and gravity, which has raised my Spirits. I am glad you are so fond of Swift; I know of no Man who has exhibited stronger proofs of a sound rational mind, and profound information on one hand, or of wanton fun, on the other; even his indecent drollery is instructive, and even moral....
7310From James Madison to Charles Yancey, [4 January 1823] (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 21st inclosing a prospectus of a Newspaper about to be printed at Richmond. I have for a considerable time found it convenient rather to reduce than extend my receipts of Newspapers; and have no farther lost sight of that object, than by taking, in one or two instances a new Gazette for a single year . Under that limitation the paper in question may be forwarded...