1To James Madison from James Barbour, 14 February 1824 (Madison Papers)
In reply to yours of the 11th. I beg leave to inform you that I presented again to Mr. Barbour your claim, who has promised to meet it in a few weeks. Should he do so I will advise you of it immediately. On the subject of our note to the Bank Mr. Allen informed me that as the Mr Taliaferros did not present a satisfactory note the old one was continued. He had written them on the subject. I...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Alden, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the kind attention of the trustees of Allegany college, in sending me a copy of the catalogue of their library, and congratulate them on the good fortune of having become the objects of donations so liberal. that of D r Bentley is truly valuable for it’s classical riches, but mr Winthrop’s is inappreciable for the variety of the branches of science to which it extends,...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Engelbrecht, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of my letter will perhaps appear of rather an odd nature, but their being persons of many difrent notions in the world, and mine being of a peculiar cast, I do hope you will favour me with my request. I mearly wish a letter from you in your own hand writing, which I wish to frame after your death, which I wish to preserve in honour of you,—as to the Subject matter. it may be what...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Selden Garnett, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of Col o Taylor’s New views of the Constitution, and shall read them with the satisfaction and edification which I have ever derived from whatever he has written. but I fear it is the voice of one crying in the wilderness. those who formerly usurped the name of federalists, which in fact they never were, have now openly abandoned it, and are as openly marching,...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By Mr A. Whileton you will receive Ten Boxes Tin if deliv d in good order by fght at three shillings per recivd’d MHi .
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Rogers, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of Nov. 20. being in the box with the Columbian coffee did not come to hand till the 7 th inst. I thank you for the specimens sent me , and as you have requested my opn of it, duty to you as well as to myself requires that it should be given with truth and candor. the coffee bean, from it’s mild, and smooth, bitter, it’s essential oil & the aroma that gives it is become the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Simpson, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 1. never came to hand till the 10 th instant. I pray you to be the channel of my thanks to the Agricult l society of S t Louis for the honor they have done me in associating me with their body. it’s object Agriculture is certainly the first in human life and household manufacturing is it’s genuine companion & handmaid. I wish to them both all possible prosperity, and to the...