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....
461To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have sent you by Mail this day Matthew Carey Apeal to Common Cause and Common Justice—Matthew Carey address to the Philadelphia society for Promotion of National Industry & M Carys New Olive Branch & Matthew Careys treatises on M r Cambriling’s work entitled an Examination of the New Tariff & Matthew Carey Desultory Facts and Observations & James Gray Sketch of the Present condition and...
462From Thomas Jefferson to James L. Mitchell, 9 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to Doctors Mitchell and Pascalis for the attention with which they have honored him by the notification in their letter of Apr. 28. of the purpose of the Linnæan society to commemorate the birth of the great founder of that school by a fete Botanique on the 24 th instant. he regrets that he cannot join them physically on the occasion, but will certainly be with...
463From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 10 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I hereby certify that Alexander Garrett is Bursar of the University of Virginia and is authorised to recieve from the President and Directors of the Literary fund their warrant for thirty thousand dollars for the use of the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia, to transact the same in the necessary forms with the Auditor & Treasurer of the State, and to place the said sum to the...
464From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 10 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
My affairs in Bedford not permitting me to wait longer I shall set out for that place the day after tomorrow, to be absent 2. or 3. weeks. altho’ we have not heard of our Bedford tob o having arrived at Richm d yet Jefferson seems confident that some must have arrived, and that all will do so soon from that and this place. in the mean time I must pay some neighborhood debts before I set out, &...
465From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Garrett, 10 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The warrant on the treasurer of Virga from the Pr. & Dir. of the Literary fund & the Auditor for the payment of 40,000 D. to the Rector & Visitors of the sd University of Va shall be validly discharged by delivery to Alexr Garrett bursar of the University of the Treasurers order on either of the banks in Richmond for the payment of that sum to the sd Rector & Visitors ViU .
466From University of Virginia Board of Visitors to Literary Fund Board, 11 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jefferson rector and James Breckenridge, James Madison, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke Chapman Johnson and George Loyall, Visitors of the University of Virginia are held and firmly bound to the President and Directors of the Literary fund in the sum of eighty thousand Dollars, to the payment whereof, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves...
467To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Birkman, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with feelings of respect due to the Man so dear to his country and so justly honoured by his fellow citizens, that a stranger, in that happy country, approaches to place in your hands a work composed in the U. S. which he hopes, will on examination be found in some degree useful.— The German language is becomming of more importance in the U.S. in the same degree that, a knowledge of the...
468To Thomas Jefferson from Claudius F. Gojon, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The Subscriber whose name is Claudius F. Gojon,—at Doctor Allen’s Accademy; Hyde–Park, Dutches County, State of Ne-York, humbly beg you will excuse his Liberty & permit him to tell you that—having heard that you are a Member of the Trustees of the New College of Virginia, about the be achieved and organized, should it be not yet provided with a French Teacher, I offer myself in this capacity;...
469To Thomas Jefferson from Marc Antoine Jullien, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite du départ de votre illustre et respectable Compatriote M r Gallatin, qui retourne aux Etats-unis et que nous espérons bien voir revenir en france l’année prochaine, pour vous envoyer quelques extraits de notre Revue Encyclopédique , sorte de Journal central de la civilisation, qui parait mériter, sous ce rapport, que les hommes de bien, les vrais philantropes et les hommes éclairés...
470To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
If I could be induced by any means to attaching any value to any prophecy of mine, it would be the having led you to give me your foresight into futurity. Although I am willing to to take it with the prudent proviso which you annex to it, yet I value it most highly, as I have ever done what I have received from your for now near half a century. The ultramad ministers of France seem disposed to...
471From University of Virginia Board of Visitors to Literary Fund Board, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Jefferson rector and James Breckenridge, James Madison, Joseph C. Cabell, John H. Cocke Chapman Johnson and George Loyall, Visitors of the University of Virginia are held and firmly bound to the President and Directors of the Literary fund in the sum of sixty thousand Dollars, to the payment whereof, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and...
472To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 13 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days ago I wrote you and by the same mail I sent you Two small Bundles of Pamphlets and if you have not time to read them please put them into the hands men who are well disposed to Curtail our import and encrease our Exports—I was of the opinion that the Millit perhaps had not got into your part of the country because every thing in the farming line does not spread rapidly for altho’...
473To Thomas Jefferson from I. J. Chapman, 14 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have much pleasure in sending you a Copy of Peter’s Letters, which I trust will be found to contain some interesting information, not only relative to the University of Edinburg, but to those of Oxford Cambridge and Glasgow; as well as many anecdotes of literary characters, which I hope may amuse you. That part of the Letters which relates principally to Edinburg, is written by M r Lockhart,...
474To Thomas Jefferson from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 15 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter By mr Gallatin I announce to you, my dear friend, two Books of which I now inclose. my affection for the author makes me wish to know your opinion of the only book from An English pen that is in favor of American Institutions and American character. Your old affectionate friend DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
475To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 15 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I use the opportunity of mr. gallatins return to the United States to acknowledge the receipt of your letter. of the 30th of oct last, and to inform you that he has taken charge of five small parcels for you containing bose and Brocheeses. Baron Humboldt sends you a copy of his last publication and Bishop gregoire a copy of his manuel de Visté . Your Parisian friends are glad to hear of the...
476To Thomas Jefferson from William John Coffee, 19 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Lettere of the 30 Last Month was received and on it’s arrival I felt much gratification from the Honor your kind Attention showed me. I am glad you are satisfyed that every thing has been Properly sent, to you, and to M r Brocknibro, but am sorry that Col o Peyton should have been so little attentive to my directions but those are matters of small importancs to the Col o and Therefor do...
477To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 19 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just rec d , & this day forwarded to Charlottesville, care Jacobs & Raphael, a half Bll:, containing Botled scuppernong Wine, ship d by Tho s Cox of Plymouth North Carolina, by request of M r Burton of that state, for you—which I wish safe to hand—In haste— MHi .
478From 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...
479To 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...
480To 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...