8701Thomas Jefferson to William Paxton, 1 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose to you a letter to mr Ochiltree, Leyburn , because I wish you to be informed of it’s contents, and when read I will pray you co to contrive it to him by any safe opportunity. After parting with you at the Natural bridge a little reflection may made me sensible that the sum of 5.D. which you named as your fee could not possibly be even the legal fee. I have here turn d to the fee-law...
8702Jonathan Bull & Mary Bull, 1821 (Madison Papers)
Jonathan Bull & Mary Bull, who were descendants of old Jno. Bull, the head of the family, had inherited contiguous estates in large tracts of land. As they grew up & became well acquainted, a partiality was mutually felt, and advances on several occasions made towards a matrimonial connection. This was particularly recommended by the advantages of putting their two estates under a common...
8703Memorandum Books, 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 7. Hhd. xp. .25. 14. Drew on B. Peyton in favr. Joseph Gilmore 27.D. being the balance due Gilmore this day. 27. Inclosed to P. Gibson my note to the Virga. bank for eleven hundred and D. for renewal. 28. Nace sewers 1. 31.
8704Charles Le Brun to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Il s’est déjà ecoulé vingt ans, depuis que j’ai eu l’honneur de vous remettre une lettre de recommandation que m’avait donné pour vous, notre immortel ami le Général Kossiuzko . Ce laps de tems n’a pu me faire oublier les civilités que vous me fites alors, & ce jour, qui m’offre l’occasion de vous en témoigner ma gratitude, est un des plus beaux de ma vie. Je présente donc à votre indulgence &...
8705William Plumer (1789–1854) to Thomas Jefferson, 31 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to send you the enclosed Address,—not with the ambitious hope or expectation that it can in any degree contribute to instruct or amuse a mind so familiar as yours is with every branch of useful knowledge, & particularly with that which is the subject of this discourse—but merely as a mark of the sincere respect & esteem with which I have the honor to be RC ( MHi ); endorsed...
8706Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 31 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed paper was handed to me by our dear Martha , with a request that I would consider it, and say to you what I think of it. General Taylor has certainly stated the objections to mr Hackley ’s claim so fairly, fully and powerfully, that I need not repeat them, observing only that in mentioning the notice which Erving had of the negociation with Alagon , he does not mention mr Hackley...
8707Jonathan Russell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Russell presents his respects to M r Jefferson and takes the liberty to offer to him the homage of the enclosed address— RC ( MHi ); dateline beneath body of text; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Jan. 1822 and so recorded in SJL ; with Dft of TJ to Russell, 5 Jan. 1822 , beneath endorsement. RC (
8708“X.Y.Z Cosmopolite” (Christian Schultz) to Thomas Jefferson, [30 December 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
My apology for addressing to you the inclosed extract from a manuscript volume of 300 pages and now in my possession, is, that fame has given you credit for cherishing sentiments too liberal for the age we live in. If this should be the case, and you think the enclosed extracts worthy of your notice, I shall be gratified with your permission to send the whole work for your private perusal— at...
8709Enclosure: Extracts by “X.Y.Z Cosmopolite” (Christian Schultz) from his Defense of Theism, [ca. 30 December 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
(Title) Theism the religion of heaven—all others the offspring of earth. Exemplified in a review of the Law or Five Books of Moses . In which, all the miracles related by that historian, are deduced from natural or political causes. And the total ignorance of that Legislator, concerning the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments: proved to be...
8710Thomas Jefferson to William Gough, 29 December [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 29. wrote to desire him to allow the negroes 2000 ℔ pork and add what is over to the 10 hogs put by for me, as I shall have 6. carpenters there from Apr. thro’ good part of summer FC ( MHi ); abstract in TJ’s hand on a half sheet; partially dated; at head of text: “ Gough .” Recorded in SJL as a letter of 29 Dec. 1821. William Gough (1781–1863), farmer, was a native of Virginia . He...