631Julius B. Dandridge to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am instructed by a resolution of the Board of Directors of this Office , to notify you, that a curtailment of at least 12 1-2 per cent. to take effect from the first Wednesday in August next, and to continue for at least eighteen weeks, has been determined on. You will therefore please be prepared to pay up at least 12 1-2 per cent. on your notes as they become due for the period above...
632Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning your favor of the 20 th Ins t returning the two notes signed, but on the one payable to Tho s J. Randolph you have failed to obtain his signature, and as his power of Att y to me does not authorize my indorsing a note in his name, I send it you inclosed . On the 18 th I gave in charge to James Johnson (boatman) 2 cases of Wine and the small box of seeds, which I am...
633Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing you of this date I have received the above notice , You will therefore be pleased to fill up the note for $2625.— I fear this unexpected resolution will occasion much distress, as it will without doubt oblige the State banks to curtail, so as to meet the demand, which this ma y produce upon them (to the am t of $700.000) and which they are not in a situation to do without...
634Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
upon a close look at my ploughs I find the wood work of one requires to be made intirely new and I shall want it next week I want to set my ploughs agoing at any rate before I leave home I want to so a field of rye in August. I informed M r Randolph that I had a demand on him for money considering it best to give him time if his money was not ready his answer stron g ly insinueates that it...
635Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by my brother William , the signatures of the majority of the subscribers to the funds of the Central College in Nelson County to the deed of conveyance of the property of the College to the Commonwealth on the condition of the location of the University at the Scite of the College . I have met with the ready assent of every subscriber to whom I have yet presented the paper; & I am...
636James Le Ray de Chaumont to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
An Absence from home has prevented me from having the honor to answer sooner the letter you favored me with. I am extremely grateful to M rs Morris to have procured me such a great gratification as has been bestowed on me by your most kind and benevolent letter . Indeed I did not feel bold enough to send you my feeble pro-duction and trespass in such a manner upon your precious moments. I was...
637Richard N. Thweatt to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 6 th inst. I have just received. The wine you speak of, Co l Burton procured and sent to Mr Johnson , a merchant of this town. Mr Johnson informs me that in a few days after he received it, he met with Mr Eppes , and after telling him that he had a cask of wine for you, requested to know what he should do with it,— Mr E. told him he had better send it to
638Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you another N o of the Analectic magazine ;—not, however, as to a subscriber. It was by no means my intention to subject you to a double tax. That of even looking thro’ such light matter is enough, and, perhaps, the more onerous of the two in your estimation. I have no pecuniary interest in the circulation of this journal. There is no branch of “internal improvement” in which I feel so...
639Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I found on my arrival here the day that we parted that the Trustees were assembling for the trial of Watts , after Spending most of the day in warm debate he was Suspended untill he should beg Mr Dashiel s pardon; and promise good behaviour in future, and this in the presence of the whole school , to my great surprise he agreed to these humiliating conditions and was admitted, all goes on now...
640Julius T. Ducatel to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend D r G. Troost has recommended to my care a small box addressed to you, containing I believe a work of M r Faujas . Not knowing exactly how to have it forwarded, I thought that confiding it to the politeness of Cap n Fergusson of the Norfolk packet who in his return turn
641Anthony Finley to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your “Notes on Virginia,” having become scarce, and being frequently enquired for, I take the liberty of writing to you relative to them, and asking your permission to print an edition, if you have not made an arrangement for that purpose elsewhere. If I should reprint it, I would be glad to have a corrected copy for my printer to use, that he might avoid the errors which crept into some of...
642William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I had intended to pay my respects to you at Monticello , but on my arrival here I found you had set off for the Mountain Top , and I could not, with any propriety, break in upon your important avocations there with a business so much of a personal and private nature. My object in taking the liberty to address you in this way, is, in the first place, to ask your attention to the accompanying...
643James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I came home yesterday, & should have called at Monticello this morning, but for an injury I receivd in one of my legs on the journey, which has inflamed it. A few days nurs ing will I hope restore it. I shall call as soon as I can ride out. I hope that you & your family are well, & that the business in which you are engagd has taken a direction satisfactory to you RC ( MHi ); addressed: “M r...
644James Wilkinson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Residing as I do on the right Bank of the Mississippi seven Leagues below N. Orleans , it is no matter of surprize that your Letter , of the 25 th of June , was not received before the 1 st Inst. I perceive with great pleasure, that the chat chaste harmony which has distinguis h
645Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, [5 August 1818?] (Jefferson Papers)
C. Johnson presents his respects to M r Jefferson , and asks the favor of him to drink tea with him this evening. RC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 213:38059); with Dft of TJ to Thomas Cooper, 7 Aug. 1818 , on verso; partially dated; addressed: “ M r Jefferson . Present.” This note was probably written during TJ’s brief stay at Staunton
646Hugh Holmes to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In transitu I drop you a line of introduction to make you acquainted with M r Blackburn the bearer a gentleman of science and for many years the professor of Matthematics in W m & Mary colledge —not personaly acquainted with this gentleman before the Accidental meeting on the road to day I have still no hesitation, from a knowledge of his reputation gained through unexceptionable channels to...
647Caesar A. Rodney to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home, after an absence of many months, I am naturally led to enquire, after the health & happiness, of those, who are the constant objects of my respect regard & solicitude. Among the first in my affections, is the sincere & uniform friend of my youth to whom I have always been personally & politically attached. The people, of S. America whom I have lately visited, resemble in...
648Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg that you will accept the copy of the Federalist which you will herewith receive as the joint present of Jacob Gideon Jr and myself he is the printer & publisher and I am the binder RC ( DLC ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello Milton V ia [i.e., Virginia]”; endorsed by TJ as received 1 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
649George 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...
650Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Confirm you my Respects of the 25 th april & 2 d may Last , which I hope will have Reached you, as well, as the nine Boxes of wine, with one Basket of Maccaroni, I Shipped, on the Ship fair Trader , Geo Fletcher Master, Bound for Alexandria , amounting as per Invoice to F 257=70= to your Debit; on the 16 th
651John Steele to Thomas Jefferson, 13 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 27 th ult. was duly received, and the two cases of wine have been forwarded to Richmond agreeably to advice, as ⅌. enclosed bill of lading. I send you also a memorandum of the duty, freight and other charges—Any service that you may occasionally require will be rendered with pleasure RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC ( DLC...
652Charles G. Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you my pamphlet, concerning the Great Western Canal, written at the request of The New York Corresponding Association for the promotion of Internal Improvements . I cannot but congratulate a Statesman, so distinguished as yourself among the Fathers of our Republic, that you have lived to see the day, when your toils and your sacrifices are repaid by the...
653Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your honoured letter of april 5 in due time, it mentions, your preceding of feb. 22 , which has not reached me till now, the same is with my consular commission you think in my power; i certainly would not have failed to make it Know to you, and to answer to your letter; t’is the less i ought do in return of the trouble i have caused you for the said commission, i don’t forget it...
654Ate. Bourier to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens d’ètre informé que qu’ une académie d’enseignement allait S’établir sous peu à charlottes-ville . Dans le cas oû il faudrait quelqu’un pour enseigner la langue Française, Je prends la liberté de me recommander à vous pour l’emploi de professeur. Veuillez avoir la bonté de m’addresser votre réponse, au Soin de M r le Doct r S. Henkel ( New-Market .) avec qui je demeure actuellement. Je...
655Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I did myself the honor to present you a few months Since some mathematical papers , printed in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . I have now taken the liberty to forward another paper of the same series, lately printed, which I hope you will do me the honor to accept. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL . RC (...
656Robert B. Stark to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of M r Rob t Greenway of Dinwiddie —I address you—for the purpose of making a tender of a Botanical work (in manuscript)—accompanied with a “ Hortus siccus ”—written & carefully collated by his Father, the late D r James Greenway . It purports to be a collection of three hundred plants, growing spontaneously in Virginia & adjacent parts of North Carolina
657Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 21 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Our election for the chemical chair comes on the first day of September . The issue is uncertain. I think the family influence of M r Rob. Hare is likely to prevail. I have received an invitation from De Witt Clinton , D r Hosack and D r M c Neven
658Spencer Roane to Thomas Jefferson, 22 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
On my arrival at this place, a few days ago, I found your favour of 28 th June . The postmaster here had not sent it to Hanover , where I usually reside in the spring & Summer.—I am much flattered by the terms of your invitation, and should certainly have called on you had that letter been duly received. As it was, I sh d have given myself that pleasure, had not my departure been delayed ’till...
659Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have receiv’d, Sir, only this morning, your letter in date of 4 th of April , covering the Statement of your account with Mad: Pini ; and as a vessel will depart for Balt o in the course of an hour, it affords me just the time to say, that your letter was accompanied by one from m r John Vaughan , mentioning, “that he then inclos’d a bill of exchange by S: Girard on La fitte & C o
660Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 26 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I write now in reply to yours from the warm Springs, of the 7 th Instant . D r Patterson is not chosen Chemical Professor, nor do I think he will be. The election does not take place till the first day of September . The event you shall be informed of, without delay. If I should not succeed (a very possible case) M. Correa , M rs Cooper and myself, set out forthwith for Charlotteville . She is...
661William D. Simms to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the absence of the Collector, I have the honor to address you, with the information, that I have shipped (via Norfolk ) nine Boxes of wine and on e Bale of Macaroni, to the care of M r Gibson at Richmond .— Below is a note of the duties and charges which I have paid. Am t of Duty on wine 8 Bottles
662Richard Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 29 [August] 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Within 2 or 3 days of each other, I received your friendly favor of the 10 th of May last , and one from the Marquis De Lafayette . Such a working of feelings as took place within my breast, at the occurrence, you may very well imagine. Reflecting too that we were among the few remaining characters of old revolutionary times, I was filled with a serious degree of melancholy. But providence...
663Alfred H. Dashiell to Thomas Jefferson, September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me for one moment to obtrude myself on y r notice.—Being about to establish an Academy near Balt o I am anxious to secure all means of success. As you were pleased to express a favourable opinion of the School near N London , & did me the honour of placing y r grandson under my care, could you send me a line w h I might give to the publick as a recommendation?.— Excuse, Sir, the liberty...
664Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Hare was elected to the chemical Chair of this University to day: Hare 10. Cooper 7. Patterson 3. On a second vote the three for D r Patterson came over to Hare . I have therefore lost no reputation, it being generally understood that the family influence of M
665Robert Miller (1775–1861) to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I Take the Libberty of Enclosing for your inspection, a few Heads of a Subject I have been Employ’d in for Some Months. I cannot Suppose it is Strange to you, but certainly it is to myself. chance and a Little spare time has Enabled me to Go a Length that Alarms myself. Yet I Should think the pursuit of Knowledge and Truth Should not be Laid asside, meerly to please the caprices of Self Styl’d...
666Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
W d it not be well to get some thing like the inclosed inserted in the papers of Virginia , Kentucky , & Carolina , with a set of queries whe r this is not the time to ascertain if students cannot be taught medecine in Virginia by Virginians, as well as in Phila a by Virginians? Whe r the morals as well as the studies, and the expences also, of the sons of virginia planters, could not be as...
667Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Correa and I will set out about the 16 th . He will have to stay 2 or 3 days in Washington : we then set off for your Place. In mean time, I think the present opportunity afforded us by Hare ’s election ought not to be lost; but the moment should be taken to appeal to the Parents in Virginia , on the strange infatuation of sending their children to be educated here, when they could have...
668James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
mr Poinsett , whose name & character are I presume well known to you will have the pleasure of giving you this introduction. He was employd very usefully in S o America , several years, under mr Madison , & had previously travelled thro’ most of the European countries & particularly Russia , by whose Sovereign he was known, & treated with much attention. I expected to have presented him...
669Stephen Cathalan to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Poinsot , now at Cette , Recommended to me, by a Relation of mine, M r J s Cathalan of Marseillan , has Requested me to Send him a Letter in his Behalf addressed by me to you, & to be Forwarded by him Self; (by 2 ta
670Archibald Stuart to Thomas Jefferson, 8 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume you have seen M r Wirt’s Sketches of the life of Patrick Henry ; and that he denies M r H. favored the project of Establishing a Dictator during the revolutionary War.—Even doubts respecting events of such recent date tend greatly to impair the credit of History.—There are many now living who witnessed the part M r Henry took on that subject.— After the Assembly was dispersed at...
671James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 9 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Sometime ago you intimated to me a desire to dispose of a small tract of land, which you have between mr Alexander s & my land lying below the Blenhims tract. As this is detatched from your other lands, it is probable, that you may still be desirous of parting from it, and that it may fall into other hands, [which I should regret] without an arrangment between us. If my impression is correct,...
672Honoré Julien to Thomas Jefferson, 11 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
je vous Ecrit ce peu de Lignes que je Desire qui Vous trouve en Bonne Santé …. ainsi que La famille de M r et M dm Randolph .— vous Récevré par Le Courié une Boite Contenant un fromage Suisse ordinairement on Le mange Rápée Sur des tartines de Beur— il-i-à des Lentille Si vous jugé apropos de Les Semer Ce Doit Etre a La fin de mars ou au Commencement Davril La nouvelle Lune—Dans une tere...
673Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 12 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
D’aprés la lettre de recommandation de mon digne ami feu General Kosciuzsko de Soleure du 3 Juin 1817 que j’eus lhonneur de vous addresser le 25 suivant , avec le plan & Copie de mes terres par duplicata: N’ayant pas eu l’honneur d’être favorisé de vos nouvelles Je me permis de vous écrire le 18 mai d er sur le même Sujet, en me référant à leur contenu. Je me permets de joindre inclus une...
674Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly concern’d to find from your letter of the 10 th Ins t that your health has suffer’d so severely from the use of the waters—I trust however that the painful effects produced will be but of short duration and that they will prove ultimately beneficial to you— The 50 bls: flour sent down I sold at $9 ½ and am sorry more was not sent at that time, even at an extra expence of carriage,...
675Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I was sincerely concerned to hear of your indisposition: On saturday it gave me infinite pleasure to hear you had recovered. Will you pardon me if I take the liberty to entreat you, to spare your self the fatigue & exposure you so frequently encounter. Your life is too precious to be risqued. But for your indisposition, I wou’d last week have sent you the enclosed with a request that you wou’d...
676Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The suite I had in the Staunton Chancery Court has been desided in my favour. Your being absent from home, prevented my informing You sooner. Your warm friend Judge Brown has given a lenthy Opinion which I will send You On my getting a coppy. I hope Your health is improveing fast. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL .
677José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In the mountains of New Jersey i read in the Newspapers that your Legislature had decided that the central college of your University was to be at Charlottesville . Immediately on my return in Philadelphia i have witnessed the injustice done to M r Cooper , by preferring to him a man poor in science , and unfit to increase his capital. I congratulate you for both these events which contribute...
678Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning under blank Cover your note to Tho s J. Randolph , on which I observe you have, I presume inadvertently, written a special indorsation, making it payable to me, which renders it necessary that I should put my name to it, or erase the indorsation, in which case I presume the Bank would not receive it—and as the addition of my name would be of no service to it, you will...
679James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
J. M ’s best respects to mr Jefferson . He has the pleasure to send, for his perusal, a late letter from mr Rush , which it may be gratifying to mr Jefferson to see. J. M. will retake it, the next time he calls at Monticello . He hopes that mr Jeffersons health continues to improve. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Sept. 1818 from
680Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sorry to hear of your weak state of health, but I hope to find you better by the comforts of home and rest. M. Correa ’s carriage has undergone repairs, and will not be fit for use till Sunday morning when we propose to set out. I suppose it will require seven days to bring us to Montecello . M rs Cooper declines being of the Party. I defer all further communication, till I have the...