1To John Adams from Jacob Brown, 18 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have the satisfaction to acknowledge your kind Letters of the 19th: Novm. & 1st. inst. The favourable opinion you have been pleased to express of my Address is very grateful to my feelings. The belief, that the effort I was about to make when I commenced this Address, would plead strongly with minds like yours in favour of the Author, altho, his work should not merit much praise cheered me...
2From James Madison to Bushrod Washington, 18 December 1819 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your favor of Sepr. 14 and have delayed acknowledging it, till you should have returned from your autumnal Circuit. Presuming this to have taken place, I now offer my thanks for your ready assent to my request of August & particularly for your politeness in referring to myself the mode of attaining its object. The one which will probably give you the least trouble, will be...
3To James Madison from Thomas B. Barton, 18 December 1819 (Madison Papers)
My Report in the case of Madison vs Strode &c has been completed & the deft Berkley Ward is found indebted for rents received by him in the sum of $173:60 with Int. from 1st Jany 1820 on $140. My fee for Report is $8:69 which is charged to the plaintiff & the receipt of which will be promptly acknowledged by Yr respectfull & obt St RC ( DLC ). A copy of Barton’s report, dated 13 Dec. 1819, can...
4Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 18 December [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th is duly recieved. having been long confined at home by ill health, so as rarely to see any body, I have no opportunity of doing any thing with the subscription paper for mr Lobstein ’s book, but to give my own signature which I have done with pleasure, and with my best wishes for it’s success to add my respectful salutations. PoC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 216:38643); on verso...
5Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the Seal for the University a long while by me, without knowing how to transmit it. The cost $16—which I think cheap. It is paid for. I shall set out to Columbia in South Carolina by the time you receive this. They have elected me Professor of Chemistry at the Columbia College ; at my request for 12 months only; as I stated to the trustees , my engagements in Virginia . should any...
6Thomas Jefferson to Julius B. Dandridge, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Dandrid ge and incloses him a certificate of the record of his deed of trust in the Bedford office, with the assurance of his great respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; dateline at foot of text; edge trimmed; endorsed by TJ. For the certificate of the record , see note to TJ’s Deed of Trust of Bedford County Land to Andrew...
7Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th came to hand last night. the former one of the 24 th of Nov. was recieved on the 3 d of Dec. and on the 4 th I inclosed you mr Beasly ’s letter, and Debure’s invoice of the books which had come by the same mail. their amount 575–65 ƒ .
8Thomas Jefferson to Morgan Neville, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
On reciept of your letter of the 10 th I turned to my papers respecting the medals given by Congress to certain officers. they charged their minister of finance with procuring them, and he put the execution into the hands of Col o Humphreys when he went to Paris as Secretary of legation. but he returning before much progress was made, left the completion with me. I had them compleated and when...
9Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
It is my misfortune to be mistaken for a sturdy Mathematician. I was never but an Amateur, and long desuetude has lessened even the familiarity I once had with these subjects, and rendered it difficult for me to recall what I may have once known. be this as it may, this false reputation has made me a kind of Vortex into which the projects of our country are very much emptied. the views of...
10Thomas Jefferson to Emma Willard, 18 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mrs Willard and his thanks for the copy of her book on female education which she has been so kind as to send him. the subject is of great importance and of lamentable deficiency in this country. it must be confessed to be also of great difficulty and he is happy to see it brought before the public so ably and eloquently by mrs Willard , to whom he...