1To James Madison from Edmond Kelly, April 1820 (Madison Papers)
I this day read the presidents last message wherein (agreeable to a wish of the rusian Emperor) he recommends it to congress to deferr any resolution to occupy E Florida untill as I suppose it shall be convenient to Ferdinand to signify how he has or will dispose of it—very probably to England for an armament and money to subdue the south An. colonies or some of them. I consided [ sic ] the...
A special meeting of the Visitors of the University having been called in the month of February to be held on this day Apr. 1. signed by Th: Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge & Robert Taylor, and duly notified to John H. Cocke to whom no opportunity had occurred of presenting it for his signature, the sd. Th: Jefferson and James Madison attended...
3John Laval to Thomas Jefferson, 1 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I Sent you, by this Morning’s Mail, Potter ’s Æschyllus, 1 Vol. 8 vo boards, London Ed $2.50 I Sold, two weeks Since, the only copy I had of Potter ’s Euripides, 2 vols 8 vo boards for $6–75=; &, after having ransacked all the Bookstores in the City, Only One Copy Could be found, bound Calf Extra, for Which they ask $10=, Which I Shall not Send, unless you order it. There is No Æschyllus,...