7591Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 22 d instant I recieved yesterday, and devolving in my mind what I could best do to serve you , determined to take the springs from my traveling Poligraph, made of Brass wire, which perhaps are better than those made of Silver, unless the silver should have considerable of alloy, and the wire drawn very hard. I believe I have some of the Wire left of which your springs are...
7592Stackelberg to Thomas Jefferson, 29 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Je m’empress d’accuser la reception de la lettre que Vous, Monsieur le President, a bien daigné m’adresser en date du 23 m courant , relativement aux informations que vous avez bien voulu me demander consernant le Pere & fils Runnells de L’Isle St: Barthelemy . J’ai l’avantage de connoitre Monsieur Runnells le Pere ; très particulierement, et il me fait un plaisir infini d’avoir l’honneur...
7593From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In replying to your Letter of the 12th. instt. I might begin, by asking an explanation if its first paragraph—You say that you was taught to think when you came back from Europe, that your Letters were only an incumbrance—It has always given me pleasure to receive Letters from you, and I cannot imagine to what you refer in your supposition to the contrary—If the assurance is necessary from me...
7594From James Madison to J. F. Daniel Lobstein, 28 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 19th. inclosing a specification of the contents of a work you are about to publish. The topics you have selected will afford ample scope for information and observations on the State of this Country. An eye which is aquainted with Europe will be best able to mark such features of America, as will present a comparative view doing justice to one without injustice...
7595Nelson Barksdale to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brokenbrough & my self wishing to Settle & close all my acc t with the Central College & university think it would be expedient to Settle for my services as proctor (for the last 18 mt s of Service) which has not been done we are not of an opinion as to the Value of Sirvices therefore must appeal to you for some instructions on the Subject my Idea was that I was to be paid a Reasonable...
7596Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 28 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I will not, my dear friend, undertake to quote by their dates the several letters you have written me. they have been proofs of your continued friendship to me, and my silence is no evidence of any abatement of mine to you. that can never be while I have breath and recollections so dear to me. among the few survivors of our revolutionary struggles, you are as distinguished in my affections, as...
7597Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 27 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have deferred my thanks for the copy of your Life of Gen l Greene until I could have time to read it. this I have done, and with the greatest satisfaction; and can now more understandingly express the gratification it has afforded me. I really rejoice that we have at length a fair history of the Southern war. it proves how much we were left to defend ourselves as we could, while the...
7598From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 26 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the12th. instt. In the Letter to which it was the answer, it was not my intention either to grieve you, or to threaten you with the loss of your visit to Washington, during the next vacation—It was only to encourage you by the success of your former exertions and to exhort you, by my own anxious wish for your own credit and reputation, to persevering and...
7599Elbridge Gerry (1793–1867) to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The warm interest which you have always manifested, in the advancement of literature, has induced me to intrude upon your valuable time, & to solicit your attention for a moment, to a subject, connected in its nature, with the history of our country. M r Sanderson of Philadelphia , having with laudable zeal, commenced publishing a biography, of the signers of American Independence, to...
7600Receipt from Willis Liggan to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Recieved of Th: Jefferson twenty Dollars, on loan; which I promise to repay MS ( DLC ); in TJ’s hand, signed by Liggan ; endorsed by TJ: “ Liggon Willis . rec t & Note.” Willis Liggan (Liggon; Ligon) was living in 1820 in Nelson County , where he owned five slaves. He worked as a millwright for both TJ and Thomas Eston Randolph in 1822. By 1830 Liggan resided in Albemarle County
7601Thomas Oxley to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
As my bad state of health obliges me to return to Europe and as it is probable I may sail in the course of a few weeks, but previous to my departure I would wish to deposit the Models of my Invention the American Land Clearing Machine where they may be carefully preserved, so that if fortune do not smile upon me and enable me to put it into practical operation before the expiration of my...
7602From John Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In the reign of Charles 1st of England, Henry Adams came to America from Devonshire and settled at Mount Wollaston with eight sons, one of whom returned to England. Four removed to Medfield, Medway, Bellingham and the neighbouring towns—two to Chelmsford Thomas and Samuel by name; Joseph only, my great grandfather, and the great grandfather of Samuel Adams of Boston, remained in this place...
John in his last Letter to me tells me that you make a secret of my Letters to you and will not let him see them—I did not think you were so boyish more especially since you have become a Sophomore—Do not then embitter by such nonsense the hours you have to spend together and be assured that the affection of your Mother is so equally divided between her Sons that each is the equal object of...
7604From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your last is written under such disagreeable circumstances it partook a good deal of your general discomfort in its tone and expression. I have therefore delayed my answer until your difficulties shall be smoothed and your usual equanimity returned when I know my Letter will be welcome and you will not misconstrue the affectionate anxiety of Parents who have perhaps an exaggerated idea of the...
7605From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 25 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
An absence from home with some pressing avocations since my return have delayd. thus long my acknowledgment of your’s of the 3d. inst; and of the pamphlet on our commercial policy, which is another proof of your disinterested zeal on an important subject. You have placed in a strong light the evils necessarily resulting from the excess of our importations over our exportations, and the...
7606Dabney C. Terrell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I received but yesterday your letter of the 28 th of Aug. with the inclosed papers; supposing you must feel anxious from the length of time they have been on the road, I hasten to inform you of their safe arrival. I hope Sir, it is needless to say that it affords me the greatest satisfaction to have it in my power to be in anywise useful to you; and I am truly flattered that you r confidence...
7607From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 24 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have received with your favour of the 11th. a copy of the “Collection of Documents” which you had recently published. The Treaty of Ghent forms a prominent epoch in our National History; and will be a lasting monument of the Ability and patriotism with which it was negociated. Incidents elucidating the transaction, can not therefore but be interesting, and they are made the more so by the...
7608Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 24 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved, my dear friend, your favor of July 10. and made it my first duty to forward the letter you inclosed to your brother and to request him to make me the channel of your hearing from him. I now inclose you his letter, and with it the assurance that he is much respected in Washington , and, since the death of Latrobe , our first Architect. I consider him as standing foremost in the...
7609Frederick A. Mayo to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Should be glad to know, if the last Books bound had been recieved,—Remain your Honours RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “The Hono. Tho: Jefferson ”; endorsed by TJ as received 29 Oct. 1822 and so recorded in SJL .
7610Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favor’d with yours covering a set of notes for the renewal of yours at the several Banks, which shall be attended to. I have rec d 93 Barrels your Flour from Shadwell Mills this season, not one Barrel of which have I yet been able to dispose of, owing to the entire absence of demand for the article—I will however embrace the earliest favorable opportunity of effecting sale the whole, of...
7611Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Adams for the copy of the Ghent Documents which he has been so kind as to send him. so far as concerns mr Adams personally, the respect and esteem of the public for him was too firmly and justly fixed, to need this appeal to them. but the volume is a valuable gift to them his country fellow citizens generally, and especially to the future historian whom...
7612Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I could never be a day without thinking of you, were it only for my daily labors at the Polygraph for which I am indebted to you. it is indeed an excellent one, and after 12. or 14. years of hard service it has failed in nothing except the spiral springs of silver wire which suspend the pen-frame. these are all but disabled, and my fingers are too clumsy to venture to rectify them, were they...
7613Thomas Jefferson to Stackelberg, 23 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from a mr Runnels of Saint Bartholomew ’s asking from me some attention to the wish of his son , now in New York , to be appointed Consul or Agent of the US. to the islands of S t Vincent’s , S t Lucia
7614To John Adams from Edward Livingston, 22 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
The honor of a communication from you would at all times have given me the highest gratification, but your letter of the 5th. Septr. was received with more pleasure, because I scarcely dared flatter myself that, fatigued as you must be with applications of this nature, you would have found time or inclination to favor me with your sentiments on the report. It was submitted to you solely from a...
7615To John Adams from John Adams, 21 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with your request in your condescending favr. of the 30th. Ulto. that I should transmit the Pedigree of my family. I applied to my Father, who had taken some pains to inform himself respecting his Ancestry—being incited thereto, very much by the important circumstance, that One of the name had risen to the highest honours of our Country; and others, to very distinguished honours...
7616To John Adams from Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein, 21 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
To address so distinguished a personage is in a stranger a liberty perhaps unpardonable, but it is from a conviction that any effort, however feeble, that has a tendency to remove the unfavourable and erroneous impressions Europeans have imbibed of this Country, will meet your approbation, and induce you to pardon the writer for transmitting you the contents of his contemplated work—A...
7617From James Madison to Peter Minor, 21 October 1822 (Madison Papers)
I was prevented by a prolonged absence, from recg. yours of the 9th. inclosing the late Resolns. of the Socy. untill the 16th. and I have since barely found time for the hasty sketch of the required address which I now inclose. I wish it may have seized the precise views of the Society, which not being present I may not fully have comprehended. Should any corrections or additions occur to you,...
7618Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius Camden Blatchly, 21 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I return thanks for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me on the subject of Commonwealths. it’s moral principles merit entire approbation; it’s philanthropy especially; and it’s views of the equal rights of man. that, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order industry and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness...
7619John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by my friend M r Maxwell of Norfolk . He calls at Monticello for the double purpose of paying his respects to you;—and understanding more fully, the footing upon which the Board of Visitors in their last report , have proposed to the Legislature , to place the Theological Schools at the University .
7620Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 2[0] October 18[2]2 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last which was of the 9 th yours of the 7 th and 10 th have been recieved. the things sent by Wood ’s boats are arrived at Milton . on learning the fate of my note I settled otherwise the balance due to Bacon and for which I had not yet drawn on you. but I was obliged to draw on you, as mentioned in mine of the 9