451To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas G. Watkins, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been much rejoiced to hear from a friend in your vicinity that your general health has continued good and the amendment of your arm progressive, and although I have much reason to believe and indeed to know that your correspondents are already too numerous for your comfort, I must not resist the desire I feel to tell you, how sincerely I pray, that, God may continue to you the blessings...
452To Thomas Jefferson from John Neilson, 5 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the north front of the Rotunda, by comparing it with the flank veiw, you will percieve a small difference in the North front the lower edge of the Architrave falls in the same line as the centre of the Sphere, the column being then taken, leaves 10 ft for the height of the Pedestal, if this be deemed too much which of the following modes would be agreeable to you to reduce it....
453To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 6 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged by your letter. I fear however that you overrate the theological liberality of this State. my representation to the legislature last session, and some pieces on the pretensions of the clergy to Tythes which have been copied into a paper here, from a Philadelphia publication the “Reformer”, have so exasperated the Presbyterian clergy, that they have been, and now are holding...
454To Thomas Jefferson from Robert B. Sthreshly, 6 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Larkin Towles the bearer of this Letter is returning to Virginia and had a great wish to visit Monticello he is a respectable gentleman and your attention to him will be an obligation ever binding on me M rs Sthreshly desires to be remembered to the Ladies of Monticello MHi .
455To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 6 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I Send you, by this day’s Mail, the first Volume of the Journal of Las Casas, I will forward the Others Successively. I am with the highest Consideration & respect MHi .
456To Thomas Jefferson from William D. Fitch, 7 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Milton 7 May 1823 Recvd of M r Thomas Jefferson ⅌ Boy Seven faggots nail Rod on Storage MHi .
457To Thomas Jefferson from James Brown, 8 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In reply to a letter received from M r Garrett the 28 th Ult o on the subject of your favor of the 8 th of the same month, I intimated to him that in order to avoid inconvenience, as a meeting of a Board of the Literary Fund could not be immediately held on account of the absence of two of its members, it might be well that a bond for $30000 be prepared & transmitted, and that as to the...
458To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 8 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note for $2,000, due at the Farmers Bank today, was curtailed 10 p r c t , without any previous notice, say $200, which I paid—This I understand to be a general thing, with all the dealers at that Bank, of course not to be complained of, but think they might have timed it better for their customers—This curtail is to be regular, on both your notes, say $200 each round on the late $2,000...
459To Thomas Jefferson from George W. Irving, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been honored with your letter of April 12;—the very small collection of medals which you are pleased to mention, I ventured to offer to you through the hands of M r Madison, that it might have the best chance of being favorably received,—& am highly gratified in finding that it has been acceptable;—that it is so inconsiderable, proves only that but a narrow compartment in the temple of...
460To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It seems to be my duty to suspend for a few days the operations of my little School in order to attend the Convention. We shall lose about eight days which I shall require to be return’d by a deduction from the period of vacation sh d I give any—Lewis’ progress is as usual, rapid—Benj n is improving very fast & James has surmounted the greatest obstacles that oppos’d his improvement in Greek....