481From Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 21 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Two of my gr. daurs are on a visit to Lynchburg with their relation mrs Eppes. should any thing strike their fancy in your assortmt be so good as to let them have it on my acc t hav g delivered all my concerns into the hands of my gr. son Th: J. Randolph I leave to him to communicate with you on their subject, only observing that our resources authorise us to count on making a respectable...
482To Thomas Jefferson from Michael Megear, 23 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of presenting the with a Book the title of which is Paul & Amecus, being a Religious controversy, accationed by an attack made on the Society of Friends, by a Presbitarian Clergyman, wherein he has attempted to strip the society of even the name of Christians, which was answered by a friend, & our Doctrines defended against his charges, which are before a deserning...
483To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Colvin, 25 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Ladies, and all the White Women, and all the White Females. (not related to me. connexion or kindred of mine.) Are the pride of their Families. and, they all are, the Pride, of their country. They are considered so. and they are so. in every Nation. in every Country, and in every clime. Particularly. in the United States. You will please, cause them to be protected and Defended. and they...
484To Thomas Jefferson from Rene Paul, 26 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of forwarding to you by mail one copy of a work entitled “Elements of Arithmetic”, which I have recently published. Permit me to hope that you will honor me by accepting it, and that if at some convenient time you should give it a perusal, you will have the goodness to let me know whether it meets your approbation. I had occasion some years ago to read several...
485To Thomas Jefferson from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you cordially for your last favour of Jan. 19 as I too received again a fair proof. that whatever difficulty may attend the expression of our mind in writing—yet—you possess the full powers of body as well as of mind—whenever you can do good, as art inclined to bestow a new act of kindness—In this every reader would coincide, could I, without your consent, publish the contents of...
486To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 27 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I had wrote you several letters which I intend for you but believe me I had not the Courage to forward them from the circumstance of their having too much vinigar and pepper in them and as I was giving you my opinions freely of many parts I see I might mistaken and from that circumstance I retained them—But notwithstanding I am obliged to believe with Horace from my own person knowledge—”That...
487From Thomas Jefferson to I. J. Chapman, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return Home after a considerable absence I find here your favor of the 16 th with a copy of Peter’s letters to his kinsfolk. of this work I am sure we shall feel the advantage when we proceed to form our code of regulars for the University of Virginia to the thanks of which instn you will be justly entitled for this contribn to it’s success, and I pray you to accept mine also with the...
488From Thomas Jefferson to Green Clay, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th is just now recieved, and I am sorry it is not in my power to give you any information on the subject of your enquiries. such a length of time has elapsed, so much is my memory impaired by age, and so much other matter has since past through it, dislodging what had preceded, that not a trace remains of any treaty with the Cherokees concerning the lands you mention. if...
489From Thomas Jefferson to Claudius F. Gojon, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The time for opening the University of Virginia being quite indefinite, and depending on future acts of the legislature. the Visitors deem it premature to take measures as yet on the subject of Professors. it’s commencement, when fixed, will be announced in the public papers. Accept my respectful salutations. ViU .
490To Thomas Jefferson from Gilbert John Hunt, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have enclosed 2 prospectus of a new work, the latter part of which will embrace one of the most important circumstances, singular & extraordinary, that has been know for eighteen centerues perhaps. I had the honor of receiving your signature to the prospectus of the “Late war in the scriptural style,” some years ago, forwarded on to me with the Money in advance more than the supscription...
491To Thomas Jefferson from William Campbell Preston, 28 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A letter of yours to Major Campbell of Richmond on the subject the controversy between Governor Shelby and myself has been recently published in the Enquirer. whether with or without your consent I am ignorant; I beg you to be assured that altho’ no one can be more sensible than I am of the high authority of your illustrious name I have had no agency in bringing it into this controversy I hope...
492To Thomas Jefferson from William Lambert, 29 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the close of the last session of Congress, I have turned my attention to a strict examination of such parts of my astronomical calculations, given in abstract, as relate to solar eclipses and occultations of fixed Stars by the Moon, by various methods and rules, referring to the equator, as well as to the Ecliptic, that the results contained in the report made in November, 1821, might be...
493From Thomas Jefferson to Michael Megear, 29 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of the letters of Paul & Amicus which you have been so kind as to send me, and shall learn from them with satisfaction the peculiar tenets of the Friends, and particularly their opinions on the incomprehensibilities (otherwise called the mysteries) of the trinity. I think with them on many points, and especially on missionary and Bible societies. while we have so...
494From Thomas Jefferson to William C. Somerville, 29 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return home yesterday, after a considerable absence I find here your favor of the 8 th with the volume you have been so kind as to send me on the French revolution. I have not yet had time to peruse it; but from a cursory view into parts of it I find it written in a spirit which harmonises with my own and promises me information as to events which were subsequent to those of which I was...
495From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Tillet, 29 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
After an absence of considerable time, I find on my return your favor of the 1 st instant stating some mathematical propositions for my consideration. a devotion of my attentions for more than half a century to subjects of a very different character has so far lessened my familiarity with these, that I cannot presume to offer my self as a judge of their merit. nor, at the age of 80, do I...
496From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Birkman, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your chart of German grammar simplified, which I shall preserve for the use of our Univ ty whenever it shall be opened. this depending on future acts of our legislature, renders it indefinite in point of time, it has often been a subject of regret to me that I never learned the German language, now among the richest depositories of human science: I regret it particularly...
497To Thomas Jefferson from John Brockenbrough, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
From your well known patronage of the arts I take the liberty of asking some information concerning the construction of water-cisterns. Our arid climate & the difficulty of obtaining good well-water at my residence render a resort to this plan of domestic economy indispensible to the comfort of my family. I have hitherto had a wooden cistern made after the manner of the ordinary tan-vat, that...
498From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry to learn by your letter of the 6 th that the genus irritabile vatum revive their persecutions against you in a state on whose liberal opinions I had believed that fanaticism had no hold. I still hope you will be safe under the wing of the legislature which has given such eminent proofs of their sense of your value to them. the question you ask with respect to this place is one which...
499To Thomas Jefferson from Frederick Winslow Hatch, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Our library is status quo . We expect however to have our room (Mr Leschous old abode) fitted up in a few days. We receive some donations occasionally & am about to apply to our City booksellers for propositions.—I thank you for the catalogue, wh will be of much use to us, & as soon as I can command my time, will do myself y e pleasure to call on you with a view to some advice as to y e point...
500From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper, 31 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
On my late return from Bedford I found here your three favors of May 9. 13. and [blank] the millet you have been so kind as to send me is not yet arrived. accept my thanks for it, as well as for the details as to it’s culture and produce. I shall turn it over to my grandson Th: J. Randolph, to whom I have committed the management of the whole of my agricultural concerns, in which I was never...
501To Thomas Jefferson from John C. Calhoun, 2 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance M r Ruggles, who, in taking an excursion on account of his health intends to visit your neighborhood and is desirous to pay his respects one, who occupies so much of the affection of the American people, as yourself. He is a young gentleman of respectability, and I take much pleasure in gratifying his desire of making your acquaintance....
502To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 2 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I regretted very much that my duties here, with the necessity I was under to pass through Loudon & remain there some days, detaind me so long, as to deprive me of the pleasure of seeing you, on my late visit to albemarle. Being informed by M rs Randolph that you intended to return in a fortnight I should have prolongd my stay there for that term, but was compelled to return, to revise the...
503From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cox, 3 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of May 2. and since that the 20 bottles of Scuppernon wine you have been so kind as to forward. I am gratified too to learn that the two casks of that wine furnished me heretofore thro the friendly agency of Col o Burton were from you. they were really fine. I had urgently pressed on him that there should be no cooking on them of brandy, sugar or other...
504From Thomas Jefferson to Joshua Dodge, 3 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I now as usual make my annual application for supplies of wine E t c as noted below. according to arrangement with your mr Dodge on his late acceptable visit to me instead of remitting a bill for the conjectural am t as heretofore I shall pay on demand your draught for the actual amount in favor of mr P. P. F. Degrand or any other person you may think proper: and I pray you to forward these...
505From Thomas Jefferson to John Brockenbrough, 4 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 30 th May on the subject of Cisterns. I have four of brick,. 8 feet cubes each, and had not been able to satisfy myself how to line them until a mr Coffee, known I believe in Richmond, and peculiarly familiar with the arts of that nature advised me to use the Roman cement and instructed and assisted a bricklayer, a black man, how to use it. the...
506To Thomas Jefferson from James O. Morse, 5 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your highly esteemed favour of the 30 th of April last came to hand, and after the Presidential election is over I shall put it in a frame and bequeath it to my children.—I have long been anxious to have in my possession some memorial of our republican patri ar ch, and am now happily gratified. as your name is frequently in conversation, and sometimes in the newspapers made use of to advance...
507To Thomas Jefferson from W.H. Sumner, 5 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In enclosing to you a printed letter to Mr Adams on the importance of the Militia, as a civil, as well as a Military institution, you will permit me to express a hope that the Sentiments it contains will meet with your approbation. MHi .
508To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Bruce, 7 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
an extract of your letter to M r Adams and his answer fell into my hands. the sastisfaction they gave me is more than I can express to find my opinion of death preported by two of the greatest character’s in the Union, It was a considerable time before I could get my own consent to address you. but believing if their was nothing that would entertain or amuse you it would not give offence to...
509From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Russell Jefferson, 7 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 25. came to hand the day before yesterday something more than 3. months after date. at what post-office it has so long loitered is useless to enquire, and the delay is mentioned only to shew that it is not imputable to me. and now that it is recieved, I wish it could be of the avail you count on. it is now exactly 50. years since I left the practice of the law, and during...
510To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 7 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I deeply regret to have been compelled, as you will see by the gazettes, to advertise my lands in albemarle for sale, but in truth the debts which I owe, owing to bad management, bad crops, expensive trusts with incompetent salaries, untill the present, the savings from which, with the most rigid œconomy, will do little more than pay the interest, leave me no alternative. I am too far advanced...