1Thomas Jefferson to Vachel Worthington and George W. Anderson, 17 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the testimony of respect rendered me by the Calliopean society , in naming me an honorary membe r of their institution. if distance has rendered my personal a ction with them impossible, I am endeavoring nevertheless to m erit the association with which they have honored me, by emp loying the slender faculties which time and nature have spared me in fostering an...
2John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson) to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of the 11 th ins t last night & hasten to reply to it—tho’ I regret to say in not so satisfactory a manner as I could wish— At the time of Co l Nicholas ’ failure I knew you were indorser on some notes of his & should have informed you of his being protested, but doubted not Co l N would (as he has done) write you himself —I this morning called at his house & there...
3Enclosure: Resolutions of the Creditors of Smith & Riddle, 6 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Creditors of the late firm of Smith & Riddle , Richmond , July 6, 1819. Joseph Marx , Esquire , in the Chair. After examining the papers laid before them, containing a statement of the situation of their affairs, it was resolved unanimously, That while we regret the unfortunate issue of their business, arising chiefly from misplaced and much abused confidence in a...
4Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 17 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters from Monticello informing me of the President ’s return, I lost no time in bringing under his attention the wish of your son Robert to be placed in our new Southern territories; but unfortunately I had forgotten the particular office he had in view, and having left the letter at home could not have recourse to it. but I supplied the lapse of memory by taking the broader ground that...
5José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very glad of what i knew, about your perfect convalescence and about the progress of the Virginian university , but it has been to me a great additional pleasure, to read it in your handwriting. Your health i am confident will with proper attention continue strong and i hope and wish, for a pretty Long period too. Serus in cælum redeas diuque Lætus intersis — My anxiety about the...
6Thomas Jefferson to de Bure Frères, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The books you were so kind as to send me the last year arrived safely and in good time. the letter and invoice which should have accompanied them got separated and did not arrive until a month or two after the books, which occasioned some difficulties and delay at the Custom-house for want of the invoice to settle the duties. it would be best always when you have closed a box of books for me;...
7Enclosure: Petty Vaughan’s Notes on Guinea Grass, 29 March 1819, enclosure number 2 in Petty Vaughan to Thomas … (Jefferson Papers)
The Guinea Grass succeeds well in Jamaica upon dry, stony uplands; & when well established, will last for 20 or 30 years.—Used as grass for cutting, it may be cropped 3 or 4 times annually.— If for pasturage, it should not be fed too low in the dry part of the season; as the sun then gets at the roots, & burns them up. The common rule is, to feed it about 4 times in the year, & not to reduce...
8Curtis Carter and William B. Phillips to [Nelson Barksdale], 24 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
we will contract with you to make & lay from seven to ten hundred Thousand Brick for the Virginia University and compleate it by the first day of November next for the following prices to wit For all walls faced with oil stock Brick $18/ M For all walls faced with sand Stock Brick $ 13 do all walls such as partitions brest of chimneys and Seller walls below the surfice $12 do The Bricks to be...
9Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 28 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Apr. 4 . which went by duplicates. since that I have recieved yours of Apr. 29. Aug. 26. and Nov. 10. the accident which delayed the reciept of the bill of exchange for M. and M e Pini has been the subject of infinite regret and mortification to me; there being nothing on which my attention is more religiously fixed than on the punctual remittance of the annual interest...
10Thomas Jefferson to William Davenport, 4 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long waiting in the hope of picking up a 5.D. bill of the US. bank to remit you according to the account transmitted to you me thro’ mr Patterson : but in vain. our inland & uncommercial situation offers nothing but the paper of our state banks: to prevent further delay therefore I inclose you a Richmond 5.D. note and as the banks of every state are at discount in all others, I add...
11Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter from Philadelphia which very much affects our arrangements for this year. mr Ware on whom we relied to come himself and brick bring brickmakers & layers to do a whole range of buildings was it seems under embarrassing circumstances, & on it’s being known that he was coming here, he was arrested by his creditors & was in jail at the date of the letter. what are we to...
12Arthur S. Brockenbrough to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters p r the last mail is this moment rec d (5 OClock P.M) the one enclosing a Df t on the President of the literary fund for eight hundred and forty dollars shall be attended as soon as possible, I should have been with you ’ere this but for the hope and expectation of the arrival of M r Ware and his hands, at any rate I shall be with you by the 8 th RC
13Thomas Jefferson to John H. Cocke, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Successive circumstances too long to be detailed in a letter, have prevented me hitherto for p from proposing a meeting of the Visitors of the College . that of the Visitors of the University being postponed to the 29 th of March renders our immediate meeting indispensable. I therefore propose to you to be at mr Madison ’s on in the forenoon of Friday next the 26 th
14Gerard E. Stack to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendship of D r Cooper enables me to take the liberty of informing you that I purpose to set out for Charlotte s ville in the hope of acting as classical teacher, connected with the College now erecting near that place. I expect the Richmond Packet to sail tomorrow. RC ( ViU: TJP ); endorsed by TJ as received 1 May 1819 and so recorded in SJL .
15Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 21 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8 th is recieved with my acc t from July 10. to that day. these accounts alone enable me to settle my flour rents with those who owe them, and to know if they have delivered all which should be delivered. in proceeding to this examination for the last year, I am stopped short by a chasm in the acc ts which I possess from the 13 th of April to the 10 th of July. for this...
16Thomas Cooper to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M. Leshot found me yet confined to my bed; he gave me 125 Dlrs, and by the time he returns from New York , I shall in all probability be enabled to procure the Stoves. Mr Slack goes tomorrow to Norfolk & thence to Charlottesville . As to the Seal, I must wait till I can get up, and procure a classic drawing of the Peplon. The Peace Minerva, I believe has wings to her helmet. I know of no...
17Chapman Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Brooks , who tells me, that he is going to the University , to cover some of the buildings with tin, has asked my opinion as to different modes of putting it on, and desired me, to commun i cate that opinion to You— I do so, not from any confidence at all in my judgment upon the subject, but because I have been able to learn the opinions of others in this place, who have used this covering...
18Thomas Jefferson to George Blackburn, 4 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Mar. 8. and to thank you for the Synopsis of your process in teaching Mathematics, which is lucid as far as it goes, and goes as far as utility requires with us. what transcends it may be considered as the luxury of science, rather than as immediately useful. I am strengthened also by your sound observations on the art of instruction generally....
19Thomas Jefferson to John Coles, 5 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
In the hope you may be returned from Richmond , I send to ask the favor of you to attend for examination on Tuesday next, the day after court , at Milton where I have given notice that I should examine some witnesses, tho’ I have none now to examine but yourself & Col o T. M. Randolph who is just returned from Richmond . it is of capital importance to me to prove that while the jury were...
20Samuel B. T. Caldwell to Thomas Jefferson, 31 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that a printer will be wanted, when the central college at Charlottsville goes into operation, for the benefit or convenience of the institution, and not knowing to whom I could so well apply for correct information on the subject, as to yourself, I would beg leave to solicit you for such information as will enable me to assertain what encouragement would probably be held out in...
21Thomas Jefferson to Rodolph Schaer, 4 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Mar. 25. offering some books and philosophical instruments to the purchase of the University ; and have to inform you that all it’s funds are at present called for in the building department, and that for a considerable time to come, none of them can be applied to purchases of the nature of that you have been so good as to offer. Accept the assurance of my...
22Thomas Jefferson to James P. Preston, 11 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday recieved your favor of Feb. 27. covering the appointment of the 13 th of the same month with which you have been pleased to honor me as a Visitor of the University of Virginia . impressed with the important effect which well conducted education will produce on the character and happiness of my native state, and ambitious for it’s reputa tion and pro s perity, I accept the charge...
23Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After the passage by our legislature of the act for establishing their University at the Central College , several incidents of expectation suspended my asking a meeting of our visitors , which might enable me to write to you. one of these was the hope that the legislature would make a further donation to enable us to erect our buildings, so that we might be ready soon to open our general...
24Samuel L. Mitchill to Thomas Jefferson, 4 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Jonas Horwitz M, D, is well understood here to be a proficient in the hebrew language. Some of our most distinguished clergymen in New york , have received lessons from him. And, it is understood, that he possesses rare attainments in this department of knowlege. He wishes the Situation of professor of oriental literature in the College recently founded at Charlottesville . I have been...
25John Coles to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I will be at Monticello tomorrow to dinner or in the evening, I was much mortified to disappoint you before, Nothing but be g taken So ill, between this and monday, as not to be able to get as far as Milton Shall now prevent my attend g RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 26 June 1819 and so recorded in SJL . m rs carters was likely Redlands , the
26Thomas Jefferson to Robert Taylor, 3 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have learnt with pleasure your nomination as a Visitor of our University ; and with the more as it will give us occasions of seeing you here. the object of this letter is to ask the favor of you to make Monticello your head quarters on t all these occasions, and for the present to express my wish that you could come a day at least before our meeting of the 29 th instant . the papers being...
27George Divers to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that you do not abound in asparagus this spring, I send you a part of what we cut this morning, My health is improving very fast but I am not able to get my feet into my shoes, I have however Road over my Farms twice within the last three days Our peas are very backward this year, we shall expect you will come and partake of the first dish, of which I shall give you notice, in...
28Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 7 th was recieved in due time. mr Perry is entitled to what we agreed to, not to what he proposed . we agreed that Gen l Cocke ’s bargain with Whately should be ours. that was that he was to find all and do all for 11 ¼
29Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 2 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 23. was recieved the day before yesterday, and I was quite mortified to learn that my telescope had been delivered you without the letter of explanation which accompanied it. it must have placed me in an awkward attitude before you. on the preceding page of is a copy of that letter; and to lesson the trouble I occasion you with this commission I inclose a letter for mr...
30Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 29 th ult. I have duly rec d . It is now before me. The fifteen Dollars enclosed are duly carried to your credit. The Religious Olive Branch is not yet fairly begun. I was diverted from it by the shameful attack on my Country in that horror-inspiring attack on my Country contained in novel Mandeville, which led me to undertake Vindiciæ Hibernicæ , which I shall publish in...