8371Frederick A. Mayo to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I obtained Johnson ’s Dictionary , ( and the only one I could find) it is bound in common Sheep; according to your Order I shall bind the same—The 4 small Vols are done but the office being closed this evening, though by next mail your honour will receive the same RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ. RC ( DLC ); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to John McLean, [25] Aug. 1824, on verso; addressed:...
8372Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 15 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Do not give up the bonds to Morrison . your right to them is sound. Col o Nicholas covenanted to assign certain bonds to Morrison . until actual assignment the legal property remained in Col o N. and on his death that legal property vested in his execrs, & in yourself as one. he was indebted to you and the law allows an exr to pay himself. Morrison can get no hold of these bonds at law. he...
8373From James Madison to Stephen Van Rensselaer, 14 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
I recd. some time ago the copy of the geological & agricultural Survey which you were so obliging as to send me; but I have not till within a few days been able to look into it. I can not bestow more commendation than is due to the liberal patronage to which the public owe the work. Such surveys will not only contribute handfuls of valuable facts towards a Geological Theory, but will more &...
8374James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 6 th , & to forward that to D r Morse enclosed in it , in the manner directed . I have read with great interest & satisfaction, the very luminous view, which you have taken, of the many & very serious objections to the association of which he may be said to be the author. I concur with you thoroughly in every sentiment which you have...
8375To John Adams from William Taylor Barry, 13 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
We take the liberty of addressing you on one of the most important interests of society, the cause of Education . The Legislature of Kentucky, at their last session, made liberal appropriations of money for the benefit of Schools, Academies, Colleges and the University. We were appointed a Committee to collect information and to arrange a plan for carrying into effect, in the best manner...
8376To James Madison from William T. Barry and Others, 13 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
We take the liberty of addressing you on one of the most important interests of society, the cause of Education . The Legislature of Kentucky, at their last session, made liberal appropriations of money for the benefit of Schools, Academies, Colleges and the University. We were appointed a Committee to collect information and to arrange a plan for carrying into effect, in the best manner...
8377From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 12 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you kindly for the Portrate of Mr Jay, which I very much admire, it is a great likeness it is stamped with wisdom sagacity, and benevolence as they have been, stamped upon his Countenance and Conduct, all his Life time.—I have delivered your formal letter to Mr Charles Shaw, to Mr William Smith Shaw the superintendent of the Boston Atheneaum and I shall deliver that inclosed with Mr...
8378To John Adams from James Leander Cathcart, 12 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Pardon the liberty I take, after so great a lapse of time, to obtrude myself on your retirement, but having had the honor to be usher’d into public life by your patronage & that of the immortal Washington, & having received my first Commission from you in 1797 I think that it will not be unpleasing to you that I have not dishonor’d the preference that was given to me, in a time when we were...
8379To John Adams from John Jay, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Considering the Attention you have heretofore paid to constitutions of Government, I presume it will be agreable to you to receive the Book herewith inclosed. It exhibits a detailed account of the Proceedings and Debates of the convention which lately formed a new Constitution for this State—To you any Remarks which I might make relative to it, would be superfluous— My Health throughout the...
8380From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am ever procrastinating the answers to the Letters that are addressed to me this will account to you for h not having an answer to your last and though a miserable excuse must be accepted until something or other occurs to restore me to my wonted capacity and habits—I have the utmost reliance and...
8381From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter and was very much concerned to observe the depression of spirits under which you laboured, but the rapid approach of Spring will I hope restore you to all those blithsome feelings which are so charming and so natural to your nature character and disposition—. It is too true alas that in the attainment of the knowledge of human nature we are obliged to wade...
8382From Henry Clay to John Quincy Adams, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Clay has the pleasure to accept the invitation of Mr. Adams and Mrs Adams to dinner on Saturday next. MHi : Adams Papers.
8383To John Adams from Harriet Welsh, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Having met with the answer & recantation of Campbell the poet to Mr. Everett and being pleased I have thought you too might like to have it read to you, regretting that I cannot receive the pleasure and benefit of reading it to you myself—it has suggested an inquiry which it will gratify my curiosity if you will have the goodness to answer—viz—whether you think that at any period of our...
8384From James Madison to Joshua Gilpin, 11 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of Feby 8. with the little volume on the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, were so long on the way that they did not come to hand till a few days ago. I have not done more than look over the introductory Memoir, which has been drawn up with great jud[g]ment and in a manner well suited to its object. I am a great friend to canals as a leading branch of those internal improvements,...
8385Andrew Wills to Thomas Jefferson, 11 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been engaged, for some time, in the study of Scientific Grammar, I have experienced considerable obstruction from my unacquaintance with the Saxon language.— Judging that you have a knowledge of that tongue,—by recommending it, as a branch of study in the Virginia University ; & knowing no other source, whence I could receive information on this subject, I have taken the liberty of...
8386From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your No 19, 24, Feby. When I recollect the freedom of speech, which I indulged, and in which I was indulged, and which I fear I sometimes abused in congress from 1774, to 1778, I ought not to be very severe upon Mr Randolph, or on Mr M. Durfee, I must say however that the liberty I claimed I always granted to others, and my pertness was plentifully retorted upon me. I think...
8387From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Contrary to my established habit for many years I must now become an intercessor for a candidate. You must remember a virtuous & industrious lady old lady the widow Owen who lived to be 90 odd years of age, and maintained an always an excellent character and was highly esteemed by your mother. You must remember also young Hollis her grandson who lived some time in our family and was the...
8388From James Madison to Edward Everett, 9 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. with your letter of Feby. 14. the volume on “Europe” for which I am indebted to the politeness of your brother and yourself. I have run thro’ it with pleasure, and return my thanks to you both. The interior view which the writer takes of the Institutions and situations of the several Nations of Europe furnishes more information of the valuable sort than I have any where found....
8389To James Madison from James Monroe, 9 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have had the pleasure to recieve your letter with one from Mr Lee, and regret that you should say one word, as to the necessity you are under to send it, or such papers on to me. I need not assure you that I am always happy to hear from you, and am glad of any occurrence which draws from you a letter. My situation, as you well know, renders it impossible for me to write you often or...
8390Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to let me no how much oats will be wanting to be bought as an Oppertunity now offers to supply ourselves. we have ingaged 250 bushels and has been feeding on it for some days so that we may count from the begining of this month. you have 6 horsis and the mule at your stable besides Mr Coffee s horse makeing 8. We have 7 mules and one horse here and four oxen and three...
8391Thomas Jefferson to Roger Sherman Baldwin, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Feb. 24 . and am sorry it is in my power to furnish no other materials for the biography of your very respectable grandfather, mr Roger Sherman than such as are very generally known. I served with him in the Old Congress in the years 1775. & 1776. he was a very able and logical debater in that body, steady in the principles of the revolution, always at the...
8392Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 14. came to hand on the 3 d inst. with the Address to the Medical board, which I read with the pleasure I recieve from every exhortation for the advancement of science. the other printed paper gave me deep concern. the first obstacle to science in this country is that the means of promoting it are at the sole disposal of those who do not know it’s value. but a second, a...
8393Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Cosby, 9 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not answer your letter of Feb. 28. immediately on it’s reciept because I knew that efforts were still to be ma de in the legislature in favor of the University . you have seen by the newspapers that these have all failed , & of course that nothing can be done as to the library this year. If you will be so good as to let me know what I am in your debt for the bricks you furnished me, &...
8394Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Giacomo Raggi has worked, within six weeks of the time specified by contract including the lost time in going to Philadelphia , we have no more caps or bases to work, therefore I beg leave to suggest the propriety of discharging him at once, he is not disposed I find to give up a single day of his time, his work will not pay his board & extra: expences, or I would employ him in cuting steps,...
8395DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of transmitting to You a report relative to the State of our Canals. I also take the liberty of enclosing two metallic pens made by the Shakers near this City : They can manufacture enough for the supply of the U. S. —and their pens write better and are much cheaper than any imported. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “ T. Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Mar....
8396Extract from Martha Jefferson Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 7 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to Jefferson your idea of removing the negroes to a country where they would be so much more profitable, he assented at once to the advantage of such a step, but said what I knew to be the fact that his Grandfather would never lissen listen to such a proposal it for a moment , a l though moving them in a body it would occasion little or no distress to them, not a tenth part which a...
8397To James Madison from Richard Rush, 6 March 1822 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 20th of November got to hand in January. The letters which it enclosed for Mr Keilsall and Mr Joy, were both delivered, no difficulty having occurred this time in finding the former. I had equal pleasure in procuring his book, which was sent to Liverpool in January with directions to be forwarded in the regular packet from that port on the 1st of February. I hope it will have...
8398Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned on 3 d ins t to my family at this place , after having experienced the mortification of losing all our propositions in favor of the University . Shortly after the date of my last letter to you, I determined to give my assent to the restriction, in regard to the Library House Rotunda , insisted on by M r
8399John D. Godman and John P. Foote to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The first number of the Western Quarterly Reporter, is forwarded to you by the mail that conveys this. We should feel wanting in duty, if we neglected presenting to you by the first opportunity, an evidence that the western Country is appreciating the advantages of that free government for which you have so long, and so successfully labored. We hope that you will be derive some pleasure, if...
8400Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 6 March 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know by what individuals the association was formed which is the subject of the inclosed letter to mr Morse . I suppose them to have been few and private, and that the undertaking must have been on too partial a view of the subject. I observe your name not on the roll, and for a reason too light to have been the true one: and I suspect therefore it has been refused for good reasons....