1To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 28 March 1770 (Jefferson Papers)
I am disappointed hitherto in every attempt to get ordained. The Commissary wrote against me in these words. Colo. Mercer saw the letter. “Mr. Ogilvie applied to me last spring for a recommendation to your Lordship for holy Orders. For reasons which then existed I refused him. He has now applied to me a second time, as these reasons are not removed I have denied him again, but he goes home in...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 20 February 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you a line from Wmsburgh last October; but lest that may have miscarried I take this opportunity of repeating what was material in that. On receipt of your letter (and, oh shame! of your only letter) of March 28. 1770. which came not to hand till August we took proper measures for prevailing on the commissary to withdraw his opposition. But lest you should be uneasy in your situation...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 26 April 1771 (Jefferson Papers)
Though I have wrote you and Mr. Walker twice, yet I am at a loss to know whether any of my letters have come to hand or not as I have never heard from Virginia, but once since I left it which was a letter dated last Novr. from my young freind at Belvidere . I have the pleasure however to inform you that I have got into deacon’s Orders by the Bishop of Durham, independant of Horrocks by means...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, [before 3 July 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
I consider it as one of the characteristic blessings of Republicanism that it disentangles man from that labyrinth of ceremonial and those entrenchments of rank that inoculate and dissever society in countrys where monarchy prevails and opens a free channel to that stream of intercourse and communion from which so much of the improvement and felicity of mankind springs: Tis on this account...
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 11 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am this moment apprised that it is probable you will pass thro’ Stevensburg on the 15th. Inst: On that day, my junior pupils will undergo a public examination in the forenoon, & in the afternoon, original orations will be pronounced by the senior students. Indulging a hope, that you may find it convenient to honour the Academy with your presence, I take the liberty to observe, that few...
6To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 29 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of requesting your attention to an Address to the Inhabitants of the City of Washington & its Vicinity, which I have transmitted for insertion in the next Intelligencer.—Whilst I disclaim every intention of soliciting any thing at your hands, that requires the preface of an apology & have not the smallest right to expect from you any exertion of the nature of private favour,...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 11 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
You will not I hope think me chargeable with impertinence or presumption when I take the liberty to request your attention to a subject, which altho’ in a great measure of a personal nature, may not in its consequences be altogether unconnected with social happiness.—You have probably heard of an academical institution , which is about to be organised in S. Carolina.—I have announced myself to...
8From Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 17 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11th. has been duly recieved, but Colo. Hampton had been gone several days. I hope you will have seen him as he passed thro’ Richmond. I shall with pleasure render you any service I can with such other of the members from South Carolina as may be in connection with the institution there. Accept my friendly salutations and assurances of great esteem & respect PoC ( DLC ); at...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Every person in Virginia fond of reading, & those, more especially, who have cultivated a taste for miscellaneous research, must frequently experience interruption & disappointment from the difficulty & expense of procuring books.—Few, probably, have felt the disadvantages, arising from this circumstance, more painfully than I have done.—Engaged in a profession, the duties of which call for...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Ogilvie, 31 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. came to hand yesterday. I had understood that mr Randolph had directed that you should have the free use of the Library at Monticello, or I should have directed it myself. I have great pleasure in finding an opportunity of making it useful to you. the key is at present in the hands of mr Dinsmore, at the place, who on sight of this letter will consider you as at all...