6691Enclosure: John Armstrong’s Notes on Tadeusz Kosciuszko, [before 10 May 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Circumstances relating to gen. Kosciusko previously to his joining the America n Ar my. K. was born in the grand Dutchy of Lithuania in the year 1752 . His family was noble & his patrimony considerable. circumstances which he justly appreciated, for as belonging to himself they were never matter of b oasting and rarely subjects of notice and as the property of others only regarded as...
6692John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
About the 1 st week in May last I received a request from an old and useful friend, to whom I could not well refuse a kindness, solliciting from me a letter of introduction to yourself and another to M r W. C. Nicholas . and adding, that he would set out for some of the watering places in your state about the 10 th of that month. I accordingly gave him a few lines for each of you and committed...
6693Thomas Eston Randolph to Thomas Jefferson, 1 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclos’d you will receive your Mill account , which I believe you will find correct—The balance due to you I will make immediate preparation to discharge— as well as the loss sustain’d on the last 27 barrels of flour damaged in my Boat— Should you want more flour for your family use, we can procure it from the Back country waggons, and M r Colclaser will be particular in the choice of it—The...
6694James H. McCulloch to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Two letters rec d from you directed severally to Mons r Cathalan Marseilles & Debures freres Paris , were committed to the master of the Ship Ea
6695Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Reuben Perry, 29 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
1817 M r Thomas Jefferson In A/c with R. Perry . To one pair Stock Brick moulds @ $13.00 1818 〃 one Bed Trussel @ 6.00 $19.00 Rec d of Joel Yancy
6696Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know not from whom or what quarter the inclosed letter to Wanscher comes, nor whether he is still living. I suppose it is from Germany , and invoke your charity to dispose of it according to circumstances. I do it with the more pleasure as it gives me new occasion to repeat to you the assurances of my constant friendship and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of William...
6697Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the date of my letter of the 21 st I recieved Bridgman ’s Index safely, and had taken for granted M c Mahon was coming with it. but as it did not come, I presume it has either been forgotten or is lodged by the way. in either case I ask your information & attention to it; and further that you will be so kind as to inform me whether a copy of Baron Grimm ’s memoirs (16. vols 8 vo )...
6698Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being to set out in a few days for Bedford from whence I shall not return till about a week before our Rockfish meeting, I have been preparing such a report as I can, to be offered there to our colleagues . it is not such an one as I should propose to them to make to an assembly of philosophers, who would require nothing but the table of professorships, but I have endeavored to adapt it to our...
6699Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to return the inclosed Certificate for me to the land office and to pay the usual fees (I believe 1. or 2. Dollars) which mr Gibson will reimburse according to custom. will you have the goodness whenever cotton can be had in Richmond to buy 2. of the smallest bales to be had for me and send one by the Milton boats and the other by the Lynchburg boats to the care of...
6700Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much rejoiced to see your name on the roll of Commis n to meet at Rockfish gap and to report to the legislature on the subject of an University . the day of our meeting will be important in the history of our country because it will decide whether we are to leave this fair inheritance to barbarians or civilised men. the subject of our consultations is vast, because it spreads over all...
6701Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 29. came to hand 2. days ago. age and a stiffening wrist render writing slow and painful, and oblige me to adopt almost a lapidary stile: this is the effect of an antient dislocation of the wrist. I have given up my farms to be managed by my family, and take no concern in them myself. I tried the Ruta baga when first brought from England and found it the best table-turnep I...
6702Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much pleased to see your name on the roll of Commissioners who are to meet at Rockfish gap on the 1 st of Aug. to report to the legislature on the subject of an University : because a dozen winters ago I had recieved testimony of your zeal on this subject in a letter you then wrote to me, in my answer to which I expressed
6703Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Geographic Center of Virginia’s Population, [before 28 June 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Counties on the Western waters. Brooke 5,511 Ohio 7,735 Monongalia 12,442 Wood 2,586 Harrison 9,499 Randolph 2,743
6704Thomas Jefferson’s Draft of the Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners, [ca. 28 June 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
The Commissioners for the University of Virginia having met at the tavern in Rockfish gap on the Blue ridge on the 1 st day of August of this present year 1818 and until the instant when the attendance of a Quorum of members enabled them to form a board, proceeded on that day to the discharge of the duties assigned to them by the act of the legislature intituled ‘An act appropriating part...
6705Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Curricular Definitions, [after 28 June 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Some of the terms used in this table being subject to a difference of acceptation, it is proper to define the meaning & comprehension intended to be given them here. Geometry, elementary, is that of straight lines and of the circle. transcendental, is that of all other curves; it includes of course Projectiles, a leading branch of the military art. Military architecture includes...
6706Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 27 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of 21 st inst. came to hand yesterday with fifty dollars for w h please to accept our thanks— Agreeably to your directions we have forwarded the above books per mail, w h we hope will come safely to hand.— The price of Walsh ’s American Register 2 Vols. is $6— We shall forward next week, per mail, an extensive Supplement to our Catalogue, w h is now in the press— M. Carey & son ✓ ...
6707Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 25 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A life so much em p loyed in public as yours has been , must subject you often to be appealed to for facts by those whom they concern. an occasion occurs to myself of asking t his kind of aid from your memory & documents. the posthumous volume of Wilso n ’s Ornithology, altho’ published some time since, never happened to be seen by me until a few days ago. in the account o f his life, prefixed...
6708Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Coxe ’s election comes on the first Tuesday of next month. They talk of deferring the election for chemical professor to the first Tuesday in September. I am not sufficiently instructed to know the causes of this inconvenient determination. I send you, ad interim , a Syllabus of lectures of which I have delivered two courses. They have produced very complimentary letters of approbation...
6709Enclosure: Thomas Cooper’s Geology Syllabus [ca. 24 June 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
SYLLABUS Of the Lectures of Thomas Cooper , Esq. M. D. as Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania . Of the characters of mineral substances, as distinguished by the sight, the touch, the taste, the smell, the hearing. Of the means of distinguishing mineral substances artificially; by the file, the knife, the blow-pipe, the mineral acids: by their crystallization...
6710Thomas Jefferson to Caleb Atwater, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the paper you have been so kind as to send me , and I have read with pleasure the disquisition on the origin of our Indians. this long contested question seems no nearer it’s solution now than when first proposed. I am glad to see the ingenuity of others employed in such investigations, but have lost all interest in them myself . the advance of years tells me they are not...
6711Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The miniature Bible came safely, and Bridgman and M c Mahon are arrived at Richmond and are now on their way here. the Viri Romae came also safely but was lost by an accident soon after it’s arrival, wherefore I must ask another copy of the same edition with a dictionary at the end. I inclose you 50. Dollars which, covers my balance if I keep our account right. but there is the article of the...
6712Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of 15 th . am sorry my awkwardness in business gives you so much trouble. I had supposed that the promisee of a note endorsing the note, authorised the holder to write over his signature an authority to recieve the money. I now correct the error by inclosing you a power of attorney from my grandson g i ving as fully as I know how to express it a power for the...
6713Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Governor Plumer , and his thanks for the copy of his message, recieved yesterday. it is replete as usual with principles of wisdom. nothing needs correction with all our legislatures so much as the unsound principles of legislation on which they act generally. the only remedy seems to be in an improved system of education. he is happy in every occasion...
6714Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Darmsdatt, 19 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to ask from you my annual supply of fish. that is to say 6. barrels of herrings to be forwarded by the Lynchburg boats to the care of Archibald Robertson merchant of that place and 6. barrels of herrings and 1. of shad to be forwarded to Milton by the boats of that place, and to be so good as to send me a note of the cost that I may provide payment. Accept the assurance of my antient...
6715Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 19 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I find it impossible to get a copy of Madison ’s map without linen or rollers, and as it is indispensable to have one at the meeting of the Commissioners for the University I must pray you to get me one of those which you say can be had with linen & rollers. I should prefer one with the borders of the county counties coloured, but not the body. the agent who has them, will roll one very...
6716John M. Perry to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the Brick layers got here yesterday and will begin to lay Some time this evening— I Should be glad you Could make it Convenient to Come to the building to day— the dormetorries will be laid of f to day—the Circle next the Road is Staked of f So that you Can See how to fix on the level RC ( ViU: TJP ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esquire Monticello ”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 June 1818.
6717Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1818 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
I was favord by the last mail with your esteem d letter of the 12th: current enclosing a piece of Slate which I lost no time in submitting to the judgment of the best skilled Quarrier in this City; ( M r Baker Beaven ,) he has no doubt but it will work well provided there be enough of it to make it an object—I have engaged him to go immediately to Monticello and rece i ve your...
6718Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1818 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this M r Baker Beaven is the Gentleman who I have employed to examine your Quarry of Slate & who I am persuaded you will find entirely qualified to discharge that duty— I have written you more fully by this day’s mail on this subject to which I now refer you In haste RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 21 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
6719Frank Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Frank Carr avails himself of M r Jefferson ’s kindly proffered attention to letters from M r Terrell ’s friends, and asks the favor of him to put the enclosed in a way to reach him. F. Carr tenders sentiments of high consideration. RC ( ViU: TJP-CC ); addressed: “M r Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL
6720Thomas Jefferson to Thomas A. Digges, 15 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
a letter from the shadows of 41. to 43. (for these I suppose are the years of our births) is like one of those written from the banks of the Styx , it is so long since we have exchanged salutations, that I had almost been afraid to hazard mine to you without inclosing in it an Obolus as postage for Charon . I wish too that your letter had given a better account of your health and situation. to...