4561Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg leave to suggest some few alterations in the arcade in front of Hotel A without altering the height of the building, as the Span of the arch is 6 feet and the arches in front of the adjoining dormitories are only 5. F 4 I it requires 4 inches more height for the arcade in front of the Hotel than those in front of the dormitor i es, I think it will look better to let the entablature...
4562David McClure to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time since I took the liberty to forward you a description of a plotting table. I have concluded to present it to the public and the pamphlet I forward you contains a sufficient description by which to make, and apply the same. The pamphlet you will perceive is my report on a late survey of a section of the River Delaware , and contains some original matter which I would be happy to have...
4563Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with Yours of today inclosing a Draft On Capt Bernerd Peyton of Richm d for Five hundred Dollars at sight, to be placed to Your Credit with me, I was spoken to by Your Amiable Grand Son , y several months past, a s king my indulgance, On the debt due from You, untill I might want it; I informed him; I had made Arrangements for its use, On the 25 Dec r
4564Tobias Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
As it may afford you some gratification to know the result of your representations concerning Mr. Gerardin , I have taken the liberty to intrude on you once more, to say, that that Gentleman has been unanimously elected by our Board of Trustees , Principal of Baltimore College . Permit me to use this opportunity to thank you for your polite and prompt reply to my letter , and to renew to you...
4565Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in rec t this morning your esteemed favor covering J. W. Eppes ’s draft on the Virg a Bank for thirty five hundred $3,500 dollars payable to my order, which is drawn & at your credit, & will be paid to your orders as fast as called for— In the last three or four days have paid several small drafts of yours to various persons— I have met with the half of a delightful double Gloucester...
4566Pascal Etienne Meinadier to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1819 I had the honour to address a letter to you requesting your friendly aid in enabling me to pursue with effect my just demands against Isaac Cushing , my former partner, who carried off a large amount of property; and I had the honour of an answer from you on the 31 st August of that year. I have lately heard of the death of Cushing by the enclosed advertisement dated at...
4567Andrew Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday was favor’d with your respected Letter dated the 19 th Inst , enclosing your Draft for $68–78 on Capt n Bernard Peyton , which was promptly paid, together with interest from the 18 th of June 1819 , say $5–57 in all $74–32. for which be pleased to accept my thanks— I believe I already informed you of my having resumed the Agency of the Boston Glass Manufactory , in my Individual...
4568William Short to Thomas Jefferson, 25 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I could hardly have thought it possible that a letter from you could have remained in my hands unacknowleged so long, as I find your last to be, which I have now before me. It is of the 4 th of August last , but was not recieved by me until the 23 d . I was then on the sea shore, whither I had fled from the heats of Philadelphia , in pursuit of cool air—As this is a retired part of the state...
4569Martin Dawson to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Edmund Meeks hath drawn on you in my favour for eighteen Dollars Thirty five cents payable 1 st Jan y next Please to write me—whether I may put the same to your Acco t or not With Esteem $18.35 RC ( ViU: TJP-ER ); addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson esq re }
4570Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was favor’d last evening with your two esteemed favors of the 21st: & 23 d Inst: the latter addressed to “Capt: Craven Peyton ”; expecting tho’ it was a mistake, ventured to open it:— the former covered one addressed to R. Rush Esq r
4571Michele Raggi to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Si puol persuadere Sig re , che se mi fosse stato bene spiegata la ricevutta che lei qui mi a rimesso copia nella pregiatissima sua letera , non avrei avutto coraggio di ricercare il giusto viaggio; lei ben sà che io non lego l’inglese; ⅌ conseguenza quando il Sig r Brochenbord scrisse la ricevutta, aciò io mi firmassi, lo pregai prima di metere il mio nome, che avrei desiderato mi fosse...
4572Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have forwarded a few papers just printed in the 4 th Vol. of the Memoirs of the Academy , with the request that you would do me the honor to accept them It gives me great pleasure to hear that your health is better than it was a few months since & I pray that it may long continue so. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 28 Nov. 1820 and so recorded in SJL . RC : left half of address cover...
4573John H. Rice to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me, Sir, to offer thro’ you to the Library of the University of Virginia , a copy of the new edition of Smith ’s History. It is a small donation, indeed, but a token of deep interest felt by the donor in the prosperity of that institution. May it become an honour and a blessing to our native state , and a model for the literary establishments of others. Pardon me, a stranger, for adding...
4574Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I waited untill this time (before writing) that I might be able to give a more satisfactory, and circumstantial account, of the course and regulations of this institution , which are pretty nearly the same as those of the northern colleges, differing only in two points. in the first place the course here is neither as full nor as comprehensive a one as that of Cambridge , secondly the...
4575Thomas W. Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
My relation William Maury of Liverpool will be here in a few days on his way (thro the States of Kentucky , Tennessee , Alabama & Mississippi ) to New-Orleans . I have lately received a letter from him, in which he requested me to ask the favor of you to give him letters to a few of the distinguished men in those states. Should you find it convenient to do so, be good enough to send the...
4576Thomas Appleton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The tranquility of Sicily is restored, by the Surrender of Palermo to the neapolitan arms; the low populace have been disarm’d, & the factious leaders have been Sent to Naples .—The attitude of the Kingdom of Naples , is imposing in the highest degree—the Capital has a well-organiz’d national guard of 30,000–men, commanded by tried & experienc’d officers—the provinces are guarded by two or...
4577Bernard Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteemed favor 28 th ulto: did not reach me until this morning— When the additional drafts you speak of having drawn on me appear, they shall be honored, as have all that have yet been presented. The first Boat for Milton shall carry you the Oil written for in Jugs—Casks never failing to leak with Oil for the first five or six months, however tight they may be made: The Bolting Cloth I...
4578James Publius to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
A youth now addresses you, who has experienced the severest misfortunes—Not yet twenty years of age, turned on the wide world for suppor t and protection, to whom shall I look, but to Jefferson . Do not beleive for a moment that any of the dissipations of youth are the causes of my misfortune—nor is it ill directed ambition to which man so often falls a prey—The causes of my misfortune’s were...
4579Archibald Robertson to Thomas Jefferson, 2 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me to introduce to your acquaintance the bearer Mr Read who expects to pass through your neighbourhood: any attention shewn him will oblige RC ( MHi ); addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello ” by “ Mr Read ”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Nov. 1820 and so recorded (with additional notation: “by mr Reed ”) in SJL . Landon Cabell Read
4580Thomas G. Watkins to Thomas Jefferson, 5 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have made this year a small experiment of r the probable advantage of raising the mangel Wurtzel of the germans in our part of the country—It is the Disette of the f French —scarcity root of the English—Beta altissima of Botanists. Those I send you are not quite the largest I have—one with the leaves weighed 10 ¾ ℔s without—8 ℔s— I intend to report
4581David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 6 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I Shall have to Pay my Overser M r Moon on the 15th In t his Sallery for his last years Servises, if you can with any convenience Pay me by that time the am t of your small note to me for corn as under I shall be very thankfull I am your mo t Obt Note due 20th Mar 1820 $150. 90 In
4582Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you will find my duplicate report in the first report I had made an error in the addition, it should have been $ 59.158.81. instead of $ 49.158.81 in consiquence of that error I have varied the form of report, but making the balance required to complete the buildings nearly the same, I hope it will make no difference in the report made by the visitors you will find I have layed on 25...
4583Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note in the Virg a bank for $1240.—falls due on the 14 th Ins t before which time I hope to receive one from you for renewal say for $1180. as advised in mine of the 12 th Sept r : no flour or remittance has yet been received With much respect & esteem RC ( DLC ); between dateline and salutation: “
4584Milton W. Rouse to Thomas Jefferson, 8 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Long have I meditated upon the propriety and probable result of thus intruding upon your attention; but, knowing him whom I now address to be the friend of science and confiding in his willingness to afford every possible assistance to those who are in pursuit of wisdom , I shall proceed without dull apologies to lay before him my famishd heart divested of that glossy covering which prosperity...
4585Tench Coxe to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
You are one of the last persons to whom it is necessary to observe how comfortable are the exchanges of the heart among those, who are united in principles at once virtuous and vital. I feel all that belong to such circumstances in the perusal of your letter of the 13 th ult o . It is true that I aspired to be the fellow laboror (juvenile and modest) with superior men. I have been amply repaid...
4586Thomas Ewell to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter you last favoured me with , found me on a sick bed with a bilious fever from which I am now slowly recovering. Your kindness in giving me the consolation of better times arising from vigour of mind & body—I duly appreciated; but felt anew the impracticability of making any efforts, without receiving some spring or countenance from those in influence and power. I am tied down to this...
4587Francis W. Gilmer to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received the farewell of Mr. Corrêa to Virginia , to you, and to us all. I cannot so well acquit myself of the obligation his kindness has laid me under, as by inclosing his letter to you. I who know the sincerity of the sentiments it contains, can appreciate its worth. Read it, and be good enough to return it at your leisure. RC ( MoSHi : Gilmer Papers); at foot of text: “...
4588James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive herewith a copy of the message, in which I have endeavour’d without looking at the old governments of Europe , to place our own, in such prominent circumstances, as seem’d to require attention from me, at this time, in such a light, as to shew a striking contrast between them. The amount of the debt paid off since the war, is, I presume, greater, than has been generally...
4589Joseph Wheaton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I approach your exalted character with great diffidence; but contemplating as I often do your labours, and how much good those labours have bestowed on the present & will on future Generations, (our decendants), I the more, admire and adore that Providence which continues your invaluable life to So long a period; an example and blessing to the present age—that I may be permitted to evince to...
4590Receipt from Samuel Garland to Thomas Jefferson, 18 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Rec d Lynchburg Nov 18 th 1820 of M r Thomas Jefferson a draft on Capt B Peyton for Six hundred Dollars, in part payment of his bond to A Robertson & C o in my hands for collection as the atty in fact of