1Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved here your favor of the 13 th . I had seen on my way here Col o Nicholas who told me he had advised the suspension of my note until his return which was to be the last of that week, and of course I presume he is now in Richmond . I write by the mail to Charlottesville to desire my grandson to send you a proper order for the reciept of the money, the propriety of it’s going from...
2John Cook to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Publication which I have the honour to present to you I received very Lately from the Author, now in England , a very near acquaintance and intimate Friend of many Years standing. Permit me to observe Sir, that this is the only one of a series of numbers which commenced some Years ago and are published annually in England , which has appeared in Amer i ca . Having published some...
3Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I know that you must be very much plagued with Letters & communications of all descriptions: it is a Tax upon your celebrity; which makes most of your fellow Citizens solicitous of your approbation. This accompanies a little production that appeared to me adapted to the present posture of affairs: but I do not solicit of you an answer to this, unless both leisure and inclination should render...
4Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I had dated and prepared to put in your note on Wednesday the 22 nd but by the advice of Col l Nicholas did not offer it until yesterday, when it was discounted, I cannot however make use of the proceeds, not having yet received the necessary check from M r T. J. Randolph , it will fall due on the 21 /24 th June . Our flour market continues to decline, the present prices are 8
5Thomas Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Being empowered by the above Gentlemen to collect all sums due to them, I beg leave to annex your Small acc t , which I shall thank you to send me the am t of to the care of Doctor May of this City. your sending the amount by Return of Post will oblige Sir Tho s Jefferson Esq r & c To Kimber & Richardson Philadelphia
6James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the opportunity by Judge Holmes of sending my first Instalment for the Central College , which I beg the favor of you to have pai put into the proper hands. The only subscription to the lists I distributed is the inclosed one from Gen A. T. Mason . Is it worth while to avail ourselves of his solitary liberality in that distant quarter , which connects him so little with an institution...
7Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As there is now no likelihood of the resurrection of the American Register, & as I am about to return with my family to Philadelphia , I think it proper to restore to you at once the valuable manuscript of M r de Tracy . It certainly deserves to be well translated, & published among us; but I doubt the sale would defray the expence of printing. The taste for Such profound speculations is...
8Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter yesterday. For the present I am bound here. The friends who exert themselves in endeavouring to promote my interest, require of me that the pains they have taken shall not be rendered nugatory. If D r Dorsey be elected in the room of D r Wistar , which is likely: if D r Coxe be elected in the room of D r Dorsey , which also is likely but by no means void of doubt, it...
9Wilson Cary Nicholas to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to take a liberty with you, that I hope you will pardon. Before I do, I beg you to understand, it is sincerely my wish, that you shou’d not comply with the request, I am ab o ut to make, if it shou’d be either inconvenient or unpleasant to you, in any respect. I want the use of a sum of money for a short time, I can obtain it from one of the Banks, but to do so, I Must have an...
10“Laban Stringfellow” to Thomas Jefferson, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
This circular which I take the Liberty of addressing to you is the effusion of an old fellow who has like your Honour retired from the world to repose on the Bosom of Literature, and tho: my “ Circular ” will not give me place with Campbell and Tom Moore I dare swear your excellency will agree it is equal to the subject. Before I take my leave allow me in the fullness of my heart to seize upon...
11Enclosure: Poem by “Laban Stringfellow” on a Footrace between William Darby and Joseph Aborn, [by 19 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
F or your edification and amusement, I send the following poem , in which my feeble muse endeavors to describe a Match Race , run about the year 1809, at Oppelousas, in Louisiana , between W illiam D arby , Esq. geographer and map maker, and Mr. J oseph A born , deputy collector of the district of the Teche
12Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 8 th we have duly Rec d The Books in question have been regularly forwarded according to order—& we have no doubt will shortly reach your hands. They were forwarded to care of in a box to F. A. Mayo , Richmond , Jan 13. on which day, Capt Peyton was advised that such a parcel was addressed to his care.—
13James Leitch to Thomas Jefferson, 18 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this Day Changed a Subscription paper to the Central College , making it payable in three Annual Installments have presented it to three persons two have Subscribed $175—my zeal for the Institution have Induced me to act in this (unauthorised) Should this Course meet your approbation I am of Opinion a Considerable Subscription may Still be obtained, & if an Idea Could with propriety be...
14William King (of South Carolina) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
the subject on which on I venture to address a few lines to you I hope will not be disagreable. With becoming modesty I venture to say I have discovered a Method for finding the Longitude at Sea, exceedingly plain & easy. The President of the So. Carolina Colege has examied it, & has writen on it that he has not seen any thing similar to it in any Author. By this Method, both the Lattitude &...
15John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 17 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent by Ja s Johnson s boat to you Eleven cases wine & one of macaroni in good order— You will pay toll for passing the locks at Columbia — I wo d wish M r T. E. Randolph to be more explicit hereafter in sending your flour down as a great deal of trouble has been unnecessarily incurred by the boatman Eye’s not knowing where to deliver it— it has in consequence remained sometime in a...
16Enclosure: Circular from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 30 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
IN resigning my office as Surveyor of the Capitol , I publickly assigned those reasons whi c h were personal. It was my intention to lay those that regarded the public interests, before the proper authorities: but a severe illness, which confined me immediately after my removal from the city , and especially the consideration of the thanklessness, and general uselessness of every attempt of an...
17Enclosure: Nicholas Biddle to William Tilghman, 6 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of depositing with the Historical committee , the papers & books which accompany this letter, in compliance with the request of Governor Clark in his letter to me of the 10 th of Oct 1816, transmitted by M r Jefferson — It may perhaps be usefull to add such notices of other objects connected with them, as may enable the committee to extend its researches— It was in the...
18Extract of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge) to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Grandpapa has been taking such a long nap, my dear Mother that I began to despair of getting ink in time to write to you, but he has at last made his appearance, and as I have very little to tell you, I shall in spite of my fatigue, make an effort to write. we did not stop at Warren the first night as we intended, but after dining with M rs Patterson got on to M rs Gibson’s who received us...
19Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Satisfaction to inform you that the Historical Committee has received from M r Biddle , the MSS. of Lewis & Clarke . I enclose a Copy of the Letter with which he accompanied them, with some Memoranda by M r Vaughan at foot. This enclosure dispenses me from the necessity of stating further particulars. The Society & its Committees go on with Zeal & Spirit.
20Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my retirement from the public service I no longer here hear from You, in answer to the letters I have written transmitting the information you requested, and in the only manner in which I could, myself, obtain it. This is the only bad consequence which has resulted to me from my resignation, and the displeasure of the President US. I enclose you, I hope without offence, as a statement...
21Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your favor of the 10 th Ins t inclosing a letter for M r Vaughan and your dft on the US: bank for the proceeds of a note of $3000.— Col o Nicholas sent me a few days ago, your note for that sum in favor of Tho
22Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson for Flour Sales, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Sales of Flour made on acc t Tho s Jefferson Esq r 1818 Feb y 6 th to A & J Otis 60 d /– 50
23Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Patrick Gibson, 13 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Tho s Jefferson Esq r In Acc t /curr t with Patrick Gibson D r 1818 Jan 5 To cash p d
24Hugh Steel to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I fear the impertinent intrusion of a stranger will not be verry acceptable to one, who no doubt, is too often pestered with similar communications: But considering you as president of the Phylosophical Philosophical Society , I could not resist the desire I had of communicating the enclosed sheet , through you, to that body. It is intended as the commencement of a series of essays, on the...
25Enclosure: Hugh Steel’s Reflections on the Western Country, 12 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Reflections on the Western Country . No. 1. To a superficial observer, or one too indolent for reflection, it might seem that the Western Country was coevial with the eastern, or in other words, that on rising out of the confused mass of chaos, which we will, here, suppose to be the original state of the universe, that the coaptation of particles were simultanious. As no ill can result from...
26Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Bigelow, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the comparative statement of the climate s of the several states, as deduced from observations on the flowering of tree s in the same year. it presents a valuable view, and one which it is much to be desired could be extended thro’ a longer period of years & embrace a greater number of those circumstances which indicate climate. I closed, the year before last, a seven...
27Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Summary of Weather Observations, 1810–1816, [ca. 11 April 1818] (Jefferson Papers)
1. the greatest & least height of the thermometer every day. 2. the greatest, least, & mean height of the thermom. in every month, with the mean of each year, & the mean of the 7. years, which last was 55 ½ °. 3. the minimum & maximum of the whole term, to wit 5 ½ ° and 94 ½ ° 4. the number of freezing nights in a winter [50.] & of freezing days [10.] 5. how long fires are necessary in our...
28Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Bowditch, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of your Mathematical papers which you have been so kind as to send me. I am not strong enough for all their minute details, but am proud to find we have those among us who are so. I had supposed Delaplace beyond correction. most of all I was fond of believing in the solidity of his demonstrations that the variations in the motions of the planets are secular, & r only...
29Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just rec d some copies of the small Bible ordered by you, some time since, we now forward one, & remain resp y RC ( MHi ); in the hand of a representative of Mathew Carey & Son ; between dateline and salutation: “ Tho s Jefferson Esq”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from the elder Carey
30Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 11 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you yesterday , since which it has occurred to me that you can render us a great service. among the duties required by the legislature from the Comm rs for the location of their University , one is to state to them the sciences proper for such an institution, and the number of Professors necessary. to determine this so as not to endanger overburthening any Professor, it is essential...