8821To James Madison from the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, 30 November 1821 (Madison Papers)
We learn that it is in contemplation with other seminaries of science in the US. to petition Congress at their ensuing session for a repeal of the duty on books imported from abroad. This tax, so injurious to the progress of literature, concerning nearly the interests of those for whose benefit our state has established the institution committed to our charge, we think it our duty to cooperate...
8822University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 30 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
To the President & Directors of the Literary fund . In obedience to the act of the General assembly of Virginia , requiring that the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia should make report annually to the President and Directors of the Literary fund (to be laid before the legislature at their next succeeding session) embracing a full account of the disbursements, the funds on...
8823Enclosure: Alexander Garrett’s Account with the University of Virginia, 31 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
DR. THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA , in account with ALEXANDER GARRETT , Bursar. CR. 1820—October 1, To this sum erroneously credited the University the
8824Petition of University of Virginia Board of Visitors to United States Congress, 30 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. The Petition of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia on behalf of those for whom they are in the office of preparing the means of instruction, as well as of others seeking it elsewhere, Respectfully representeth That the Commonwealth of Virginia has thought proper lately to...
8825University of Virginia Board of Visitors to Virginia’s Senators and Representatives in Congress, 30 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We learn that it is in contemplation with other seminaries of science in the US. to petition Congress at their ensuing session for a repeal of the duty on books imported from abroad. this tax, so injurious to the progress of literature, concerning nearly the interests of those for whose benefit our state has established the institution committed to our charge, we think it our duty to cooperate...
8826To John Adams from Smith Thompson, 29 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 19th. Inst. inclosing one from Master Jesse Y. Shaw soliciting your aid in procuring him a Midshipmans warrant. Altho the Department is much pressed with applications for the service, yet the oddity of this Young Gentlemans letter is calculated to excite curiosity, and shall receive due consideration, more especially as you have deemed it worthy your...
I was much pleased to observe that you had taken more pains with the writing of your last Letter than you generally do and sincerely thank you for it as all these things prove your affection for me much more strongly than could possibly be manifested by any other method and immeasurably encrease maternal affection by adding esteem to the strong ties of nature—You have yet but little idea of a...
8828Henry A. S. Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Messrs. Dodge & Oxnard , of Marseilles , have sent to my care, twenty five Cases of wine, oil, macaroni, & Anchovies, for you, in the Brig Packet . I shall send them, by the first vessel bound to Richmond , to the charge of Capt. Bernard Peyton , & in a few days will transmit you the invoice, amount of duties &c. RC ( DLC ); mistakenly endorsed by TJ as a letter of 19 Nov. 1821 received 9 Dec....
8829John Hemmings to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to complain to you so near the close of my worck above all things on earth I hate complants but I am bledg I hav bin going to Poplar forest sevrield falls and that is not the seson for raseing eny kind of vegetable and the very moment your back is turnd from thee Place nace takes evry thing out of the garden and carries them to his cabin and buryis them in the grownd and says that...
8830From John Adams to Richard Rush, 28 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I love to see a young, Man, who in the language of Montesquieu is capaple de s’estime beaucoup; but in an old Man this is rather odious than amiable. The kind Compliments in your letter of the 30th. September, make me too proud for a Man in his 89th. year; but your idea of a picture overcame all my gravity and made me laugh outright. What would the Lords of the Gentlemens and Seats in England...
8831James Breckinridge to Thomas Jefferson, 28 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a copy of Greenlee’s Plat which I intended to have deliverd in person when I rec d it but the day after, I was compelled to take a journey which detained me from home untill last night; so that it is now impossible for me to attend the meeting of the board of visitors RC ( CSmH: JF ); endorsed by TJ as received 5 Dec. 1821 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( MoSHi: TJC-BC ); address...
8832Thomas Jefferson to Frederick C. Schaeffer, 28 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns his thanks to the rev d mr Schaeffer for the renewed mark of his attention in sending him a copy of his ‘ address Address .’ which he has been so kind as to send him he has read it with the pleasure he always recieves it always gives him to see a spi
8833John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 27 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter arrived here while I was absent on a short visit to my sister Lane the management of whose affairs have devolved on me— Firmly persuaded as I am that such a view of the a eight years of your administration as would be presented by yourself would be the best antidote to the political poison circulating among us, I should consider myself as violating the duty I owe to my country...
8834Thomas Jefferson to John Moody, 27 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Time has so much obliterated so much of persons & things from my memory that I cannot always command the recollections for which I am called on. this is the case with respect to yourself. I know I have long been acquainted with you, during the revolution, I believe before it too I believe & since while acting for Oliver Evans . but the particulars of our intercourse have very much escaped my...
8835Elizabeth Page to Thomas Jefferson, 27 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I shoud be very much obliged to you to give me all the information you can recollect respecting the Money expended in the Revolutionary War, by my Father General Thomas Nelson . I make no doubt Sir you recollect the Sacrifice my Father made of his Property to Raise Money to carry on the Proceedings of the War at that time. The Widow and Heirs of General Thomas Nelson are in want, and mean to...
8836From John Adams to David Sewall, 26 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 13 Nov has made me laugh and cry almost or quite like an ideot. The epitaph on the greasy tables I have never seen since I read it on the post. Although it must have been a stupid thing I would give an mille for a copy of it. The conflagration of the tables is a proof of the capacity of our country men equal to the inundation of the tea. The actors in both scenes have shown...
8837From John Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I also am an advocate first for universal suffrage 2dly. for universal emancipation 3dly for universal toleration & fourthly for universal education. But I must still inquire, what is meant by universal suffrage? If reading & writing were necessary, that rule would in the middle ages have excluded all mankind except the clergy and a greater part of them and even Charlemagne himself. I have...
8838Hiram Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have presumed to address you for the purpose of offering as a present a Small pocket knife which I have lately made, and which you will find in a packet accompanying this letter. It is defective in many parts particularly the Spring which is rather weak, but its faults you will readily excuse when informed of the inexperience of the artist it being the first thing of the kind I ever...
8839Thomas Magruder to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am well aware, Sir, of the Apology a Stranger Should make for intruding upon your time for a moment; and I offer the Subject of this Communication as that Apology. It is Simply to enquire of you, the fountain head, as we all Conceive, in this lower Country, when, in your Opinion, the university now erecting under your auspices, will go into Operation with any degree of Certainty—the probable...
8840Frederick A. Mayo to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Should like much to Know, if your honour has received the books, and my last letter .— RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “ Tho: Jefferson sq”; endorsed by TJ as received 2 Dec. 1821 and so recorded in SJL ; with FC of TJ to Mayo, 3 Dec. [1821], beneath endorsement.
8841From John Adams to F. C. Schaeffer, 25 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of Nov 19. & for the address inclosed. The Ceremonial for at laying the corner Stone of St Mathews church & the address pronounced on that occasion, were solemn affecting & impressive. You have not in my humble opinion given too much credit to Luther I love & revere the memories of Huss Wickliff Luther Calvin Zwinglius Melancton and all the other reformers;—how...
8842From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I sympathise with Alexipharmacus in his resentment of the indignities offered to Richardson, Lock, Barrow &ca: yet I cannot approve of the principle of Clarissa Harlow’s history, because such virtue ought never to be rendered so unfortunate; for I believe it never is, even in this world; nor was ever so infernal a villain as Love-lace ever able to maintain, for so long a time, the esteem and...
8843From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 25 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your No 5. I have now finished reading and hearing read the Four volumes of Hallam’s middle ages. It is a great work and deserves to be kept constantly in your view. It has a good Table of contents and an ample Index, without which accommodation, a book after the first reading, is commonly a useless piece of Lumber. I esteem it the greatest work of the 19th Century. He has made good...
8844Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you my report of the general state and condition of the University with my estimates of what will be required to complete the buildings and a statement of the am t drafts since 1 st oct: 1820 to the present time—I hope this will meet your views. I have not had time to make out more than one copy of the report if another should be wanting will make it after the meeting of the visitors...
8845Thomas Jefferson’s Transactions with James Leitch, 3 March–24 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Leitch Daybook MS daybook of Charlottesville merchant James Leitch, 2 Mar. 1820–8 May 1823, ViCMRL on deposit ViU, bound volume with ruled paper, in a clerk’s hand , p. 210, 3 Mar. 1821 : . 395. Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Self 1 Co Orbis Pictus 7/6 1.25
8846To John Adams from Mathew Carey, 24 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote you last, I had not only considered the contents of the letter to which I replied—& therefore deem it necessary to make some addition to it On the subject of the Western insurrection, the Olive Branch contains some animadversions, sufficiently caustic, as I am persuaded you will allow, if you examine them. But had I been wholly silent on this tender topic, it wd. have been no...
8847Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 24 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your welcome favor of the 12 th came to hand two days ago. I was just returned from Poplar Forest which I have visited four times this year. I have an excellent house there, inferior only to Monticello , am comfortably fixed and attended, have a few good neighbors, and pass my time there in a tranquility and retirement much adapted to my age and indolence. you so kindly ask an explanation of...
8848From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 23 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Under an expectation that after our personal interview at Cambridge, you would provide yourself with the Article of dress which you required, and a new Hat, at Mr Fairbanks’s, I have been less urgent to answer your Note which was received and acknowledged by your Aunt, in my absence from Quincy. I have now only to Say, that whatever Garments you or your brother may want, if not, like yours, of...
8849Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 23 November [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you D. S. for the volume you have been so kind as to send me on the gigantic enterprize of N.Y. which will immortalize the govmt of N.Y. by her canal commncns. this will add an 8 th wonder to the world, to which I wish all possible success, and to yourself health & happiness with the assur ce of my const t frdshp & respect. FC ( MHi ); on verso of
8850Thomas Jefferson to Hutchins G. Burton, 23 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The repeated trouble you have been so kind as to take in having me furnished with some of the Scupernon wine makes it a duty to inform you that the 2 d cask was rec d which went to sea, came safely and about half full, and but perfectly pure & unadulterated which I considered as a favor redeem g the necessity which had arisen