1George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of June 6 reached me July 29 and contained—what I had long desired—the very welcome intelligence, that the Books Mr. Warden shipped from Havre and those I sent from Hamburg had reached you in good condition and met your approbation. Yesterday your duplicate of the same letter arrived, together with your order to the Messrs. De Bure . In this order I made but two alterations— one...
2George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind letter inclosing an introduction to mr. Erving reached me in Italy just as I was beginning my journey to this country and I should have answered it immediately on my arrival here if I had not at that moment heard you had forwarded through my father another for Cardinal Cardinal Dugnani of which I also wished to give you news. For this, however, I have waited in vain, and after...
3Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 25 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be presented you by mr George Ticknor , a gentleman from Massachusets whose father is of distinguished standing in that state. this gentleman has been 4. years travelling and and sojourning in the different countries of Europe for the purposes of instruction, and with the same views will pass the approaching winter in Edinburg , Oxford , Cambridge and London
4George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few days since in London your letter of Oct. 25 , with some later from my friends in Massachusetts , which relieved me from the apprehensions respecting your health with which I had been filled by one of the publick papers. A letter from General Lafayette noticing one received from yourself which you wrote subsequently to your illness has confirmed me in the belief, that I may, if...
5George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As I again approach my native country, I cannot choose but recollect all the kindness you have shown me during my long and dreary absence from it, and as it comes up before me, I grow doubly anxious to do something which shall show you, that I am not insensible to it, though I cannot hope to return it. Your last letters to me have informed me, how deeply you are interested in the extensive...
6George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very kind letter of Dec. 26 did not reach me, from some inexplicable accident, until a full month after its date;—but, still, notwithstanding this, I should have sent you my acknowledgements for it much sooner, if I had not been prevented by an indisposition, which has for some time been troubling me, and which, at last, I have been obliged to respect so far as to diminish my occupations....
7George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I have had the pleasure of hearing directly from yourself, that I should hardly venture now to address you, unless I had business of some consequence, as an apology for my intrusion. The present occasion, however, and the instances of some of my friends seem to justify me in again coming before you; and, I trust, I need not say, that I am happy in having an opportunity that...
8Enclosure: Memorial of Learned Institutions to Congress, [before 1 December 1821] (Jefferson Papers)
to the HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES . The Memorial of divers Colleges , Academies , and literary and scientific Societies within the United States humbly shows , T hat the several Institutions, who, by their respective presiding officers, have subscribed this Memorial, are deeply interested in the progress of good knowledge; and regret to find from...
9George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour’s of Sep. 28 th with an enclosure and Oct. 24 , introducing two young gentlemen, came in due season. The latter, I have acknowledged in the way you desired, by offering the persons you presented me such assistance as they needed, & having found them lodgings they liked and suitable instructers, they are, I believe, as well off as their friends could have reasonably anticipated, and...
10To Thomas Jefferson from George Ticknor, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is very rarely that I venture to address a letter to you; because I am quite aware how constantly you are exposed to the solicitations of correspondence and, how they must, in a situation like your’s, resemble persecution. But, I wish now to send you a copy of the Syllabus I have prepared for my course of Lectures on Spanish Literary History & Criticism, and should be sorry to have it go...