7401From Thomas Jefferson to John Browne Cutting, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes D r Cutting with antient & friendly recollections, and with a mind which does not easily part with early impressions. he hopes the years which have intervened since they last saw each other have been to D r Cutting years of health and pleasantness, & that he yet has many such to come. Marching abreast with mr Law in the Calender of time, it is his particular lot to suffer...
7402From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Greenway, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
By your favor of the 3 d inst. I find that you cannot have recieved mine of Apr. 17. 1821. I therefore now send you a copy of it. your letters being dated Dinwiddie, and there being no such post office, I presume I sent it either to Dinwiddie C.H. or Petersbg, as I must do the present one, not knowing your Post office. I have since had the MS. volume bound for better preservation, and put it...
7403From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin King, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor covering the drawing of your equilateral level. I think it ingenious and likely to answer well the purposes proposed, and especially that of ascending roads. if your strawcutter answers well and is cheap, it will be in demand. we have a patent one, most excellent for it’s purpose, but so dear that no one buys it. I wish you success with both and hope that the...
7404From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recieve from N. York for the University a box of 250. engravings of it’s plan. the object is to sell in Richmond as many as will sell readily, and to forward the remainder to us. their price is 50. cents to be credited to the Proctor of the University. perhaps besides placing some of them where you think they will be seen and sold readily, it might be worth while to employ a person...
7405To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday rec d bill of lading from Peter Maverick of New York, for 1 Box, containing 250 impressions of a plan of the University of Virginia— on the arrival of the Box, would you allow me to take a copy out of it for myself?— I think it would have a good effect to distribute a few amongst the members of the Assembly— but you know best as to that:— I should be glad of one to keep myself— I...
7406To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day seen a M r Mauray of this place who has about 4 or 5 quarter casks, of the Scuppernon wine, 2 Yrs. old, which he says he will sell at 87½¢ a Gall. if you take it all, he brought it in from Carolina for a gentleman of Norfolk, who declined takeing it because it is not sweet —It is very different from that I drank at Monticello, I have therefore obtained a bottle which I shall send...
7407From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 10 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of the 4th: Instant. I wish that time may bring forth as able a vindicator of the merits of your useful life, as Mr VanderKemp, has proved in defence of my reputation with posterity, for some little usefulness in Holland—This testimony of Mr VanderKemp was as unexpected to me as if Luzac, De Geislaer, Van Berkel, Father Dumas, Cerisier or VanderCapellen de Pol,...
Your Letter came yesterday and was received with even more pleasure than they generally are from its amiable and grateful tenor. Every advancement you make in your education or rather in the mutual improvement of both mind and heart is an additional blessing to you and to us and you will feel the delight accruing from it in the pleasure derived from the expansion of your own intellect and...
7409To James Madison from Philip P. Barbour, 10 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I received your letter with the one from Mr. Taylor enclosed; I fear it will be not practicable to effect his object. It seems to have been the opinion of the Attorney General, that a pensioner once stricken from the roll, cannot be re-instated by the Secretary of War; there are many in this situation; the subject was before the house at the last session, & will I think be resumed at this;...
7410To James Madison from Junius Johnson Jr., 10 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
Permit a stranger to take the liberty of asking a favor at your hands. Aware of your devotion to literature and the improvement of your country’s youth, I know that you will grant it with the utmost cheerfulness. I am about to commence the study of a course of history, preparatory to that of the law; and having seen the one selected by yourself, am anxious to obtain it. The only means, at...