31From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 9 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
My letter of yesterday was public. this is to cover one to M. and M e Pini, which, as you are acquainted with the subject I leave open for your perusal, and will pray you to seal it before delivery. I formerly asked of you what would be the price of plain marble slabs, which would be generally from 4. to 5. feet long and from 6. to 8 inches wide and 1. I. thick. they are intended for the plain...
32From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 8 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Notes of acc t between the University & Tho s Appleton 1824. Feb. 8. by lre of this date 10. Capitals & 2 semi d o for Rotunda w d cost 6,140 1400 marble squares of 12.I. @ 22. D 50 c the hundred 315 6,455 By proceeds of 4000.D. remitted 3940.50 2514.50 DLC
33From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 11 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I write you as usual a private letter separate from my public one as I wish to keep in my own files whatever relates to myself entirely unmingled with what is on public acc t I hope soon to learn from you the exact cost of the articles I requested, towards which the small surplus of the remittance to Pini of the last year, say 42.D. and whatever surplus there may be of the present remittance...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 9 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I write by this day’s mail to my Correspdt at Richm d Col o B. Peyton to procure a bill of exchange on London which shall nett there clear of exchange 444.D. payable on your acc t to mr Sam l Williams your correspondent there, and to be paid over by you to M. & M de Pini. I am later in this duty this year than usual, this depends on the earlier or later date by which the produce of the...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 18 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
private In your letter of Feb. 8., in answer to my enquiries on the subject, you inform me of the price of best plain, polished marble slabs, proper for the fascia of architraves for fire places, I can reduce the fire places in my house to 2. sizes, and I must request you to furnish me marble fascia for 3. larger & 5. smaller ones as follows all plain without any moulding 6. plinths 9 inches...
36From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, 10 July 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Draco arrived at N. Y about the 10 th of June & by her came your two favors of Apr. 2. and the Capitals of our columns. these last are now on their passage to Richm d there has been some dissatisfn at the delay of the capitals which were expected to have been here a 12 month sooner. the buildings for which they were destined have been that long finished, and their columning gaping for...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Franklin Bache, 17 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you, dear Sir, for the volume of chemistry which you have been so kind as to send me. the attention which prevails through the whole work to apply it’s science to the utilities of life gives it that high merit for which your illustrious ancestor was so distinguished. he seemed to pursue no discoveries but with a view to the uses of man. I have to apologise for the qui pro quo...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Franklin Bache, 10 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 27. was duly recieved. the Visitors of our University will not make their final appointment of Professors until October next, when your application will be under their consideration. I am glad to find a son of my late friend Doct r Bache qualified to take a stand in so honorable a line of competition, and beg leave to assure you of my respect and good wishes for your...
39From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 9 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d in the last month your letter of Aug. 22. and begin it’s answer by remitting the balance of what I owe you. this should have been sooner done, but we have been unusually late in getting our produce to market this year. the balance which the order on mr Terril left me on the 1 st of Sep. 23. still in your debt was 22. D 36 and calculating back interest, and forward from that date, to...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 18 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 26. came to my hands May 8. and I was gl ad to learn that after all your sufferings on the road from rain & sickness, you had got safely at length, into a satisfactory position. we had here, from the time of your departure the finest weather possible, and were every day remarking how lucky you were in your weather. our family is all well and has been generally so, except...
41From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 19 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid I shall give you more trouble than I expected with the letters I lately inclosed to you under cover to Giacomo Raggi. they are of real importance to our Univ ty or I would not do it. Raggi now informs me he is not able to proceed on his voyage to Italy without an advance of 100.D. more. this I am not authorised to make him and therefore, should he not get a passage to Italy, &...
42From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 17 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved from London a letter informing me that a friend had put into the writer’s hand what he calls ‘a small packet to be forwarded to me, and not knowing that the size will admit of it’s travelling by mail he gives me notice of it.’ these are books sent by the author as a donation to our University. I see always with uneasiness this abuse of my Frank by Foreigners and authors...
43From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 29 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly salutations to Gen l Bailey asks the favor of him to superscribe on the inclosed mr Vanburen’s proper post office not knowing what it is, and to put it into the post office and assures him of friendship and respect. Privately owned.
44From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 28 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his friendly salutations to General Bailey asks the favor of him to give a passage to the inclosed letter by one of the packets to London. ViU .
45From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 2 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr King covers a bill of exche. for 1350. £ sterl. for the purchase of an Apparatus for our University, and the two accompanying letters are from two of our Professors on the same subject, wherefore I have placed them under my cover. the importance of these papers occasion me to take the liberty of assuring their safe passage to N.Y. under your cover and of requesting...
46From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 8 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The person to whom the inclosed letter is addressed is about taking his passage from New York to Leghorn and promised to be the bearer of some letters inclosed to him and to call for them at your office. lest he should be gone or fail to call, the letters being important, I take the liberty to inclose them to you with a request that should he not call for them you would do me the friendly...
47From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 22 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your kind favor of the 11 th inst. M r Raggi had assured me that he was promised a passage in the Cyane capt Creighton to sail for Gibralter about the 20 th of Oct. but as he had not sailed at the date of your letter, I must consider his getting a passage as too uncertain to be waited for. I must therefore request you to withdraw from him my letter to mr Appleton, and to...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Theodorus Bailey, 20 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found my letters for Europe to which I have taken the liberty of asking your attention get always to their destination with so much certainty, that I am tempted to abuse your goodness by often asking the same favor. the communicns with Leghorn, which the wants of our university will still for a while continue, are so necessary to that instn as to render their safe transmission greatly...
49From Thomas Jefferson to Ambrose Baker, 17 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed printed notice from the Proctor of our university will answer most of the enquiries of your letter of the 2 d instant. it says nothing of the two articles of cloathing and pocket money. of the former you are the best judge. of pocket money from a half dollar to a dollar a week is an ample allowance. the letter sum indeed is too much. the students go to what schools they please...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Jerman Baker, 22 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Other engagements have prevented my earlier attention to the enquiries of your’s of the 3 d as to the title of the late Col o Skipwith to the lands at Indian Camp. that title is unquestionable. the part of the tract , called Indian Camp was originally 2,400. a s (if I recollect the quantity correctly) the property of Francis Eppes of the Hundred, who had a son, Col o Rich d Eppes (father of)...
51From Thomas Jefferson to Edward D. Bangs, 4 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Bangs for the copy of his oration on the 4 th of July which he has been so kind as to send him. his acknolegement of it’s reciept has been rendered tardy by an illness from which he is just recovered. he recieves with heart felt satisfaction every proof of the continuance of genuine revolutionary principles in all their vigor; and with the particular thanks...
52From Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Bank of the United States, 15 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
We are about to make arrangements for the discharge of the debt of W. C. Nicholas, dec d to your Bank for $20,000 accrued by Th Jefferson and Th. J. Randolph. in the following manner. viz. and amt exceeding one fourth of the principal to be paid in a few days, a sum not less than two fourth more to be paid in December 1823. The remaining fourth to be discharged in december 1824. The interest...
53From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Barber, 12 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is recieved. the visitors of our University at their last session concluding to open it at the commencement of the next year, found it necessary to take immediate measures for procuring Professors. they wished than to be of the 1 st order of science in their respective lines, and doubting whether such could be found in the unemployed portion of science in the US. they...
54From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 30 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 24 th inst. covering an invitation to some one of the Professors of the University of Virginia to attend the examination of the Cadets at West point on the first Monday in June next. in most of the Seminaries of the US. I believe there is a Summer vacation which may admit the attendance of such of their professors as are honored by a like invitation. but...
55From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 20 January 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It is in vain that I determine never to intermeddle with the proceedings of the govmt, political or personal, and especially that I will not permit myself to be the channel of tormenting them with sollicitns for office. cases will arise sometimes of suffering worth to which the human heart cannot be insensible. one of these presents itself in the situation of mr James Leander Cathcart. he was...
56From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 16 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Pray, Dear Sir, expedite by every means in your power the dispatch of our 50. M .D. our Agent who is to proceed to Europe for the purchase of the library, awaits only for the money. in like manner the orders for apparatus of every kind await the same thing. we wish to have all in before winter. I ask this favor of you not as belonging to your deptmt but as a Virginian and friend to the...
57From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 2 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you mr Cathcart’s letter, and to his, I join sincerely my own thanks for what you have obtained for him. you could never have served nor the government take into it’s employ a man of stricter integrity. while consul on the Barbary coast, where immense sums past thro’ his hands to be disposed of without a voucher, he might have made himself, as some colleagues did, as rich as he...
58From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 26 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You know the situation of our claim on Congress for the donation of 50. M .D. and I am very anxious to obtain it from them, and not to harrow up again the displeasure of our legislature, by saying any thing to them on the subject. I have therefore recommended to our friends at Richm d to be silent there, in the hope we may get it from Congress. I must pray you therefore to press it vigorously,...
59From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 15 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My colleagues Visitors of the University now in Richmond have sent me the inclosed pamphlet as containing documents which may be useful to you in urging our claim on Congress. they join me also in pressing you to force it to a decision. we did not think it advisable to ask any thing from our legislre, and our Instn will be deeply distressed should we fail in obtaining from Congress the portion...
60From Thomas Jefferson to James Barbour, 31 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sure you have found, ere this that the being in a position to bestow offices, is not a very pleasant circumstance and you had before experience enough that the sollicitation of them is not more so. I have therefore made it a general rule not to trouble the government with such sollicitations. yet there are now and then cases which oblige one to disregard rule. I dare say you must well...