181From 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 .
182From 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...
183From 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...
184From 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...
185From 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 .
186From 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...
187From 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...
188From 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...
189From 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...
190From 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...
191From 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...
192From 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...
193From 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...
194From 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...
195From 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...
196From Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 9 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 31 st ult. and my grandson Th: J. Randolph having set out for Richmond the day before, I immediately inclosed the papers to him by mail, and informed him that I should be ready if thought necessary to bear testimony to the honorable character of our dec d friend, as I knew him. I am sorry to learn that you are among the sufferers by his misfortunes. I am...
197From Thomas Jefferson to Jared Mansfield, 10 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be handed you by mr Dabney Overton Carr who goes to your instn to qualify himself for a military life. he is the son of my nephew, Col o S. Carr of good habits and genius, and I feel an interest in his education and future course. on these grounds permit me to ask your notice & favble disposns towrds him, and the benefits of your counsel and protection should any occasion...
198From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 11 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Considering that I had not been to Bedford for a twelve month before, I thought myself singularly unfortunate in so timing my journey as to have been absent exactly at the moment of your visit to our neighborhood. the loss indeed was all my own; for in these short interviews with you, I generally get my political compass rectified, learn from you whereabouts we are, and correct my course...
199From Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 12 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Our correspondence is of that accomodating character which admits of suspension at the convenience of either party, without inconvenience to the other. hence this tardy acknolegement of your favor of April 11. I learn from that with great pleasure that you have resolved on continuing your history of parties. our opponents are far ahead of us in preparations for placing their cause favorably...
200From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the 4. vols of Las Casas, & have to ask the favor of you to send me a copy of the Nautical almanac for this & the next years, and 2. copies of Phædrus’s fables in Latin for school boys, by successive mails, sending also my account which shall be promptly remitted. MiU-C .
201From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated to you a former part of a correspondence between Judge Johnson of Charleston and my self, chiefly on the practice of caucusing opinions which is that of the supreme court of the US. but on some other matters also, particularly his history of parties. in a late letter he asks me to give him my idea of the precise principles & views of the Republicans in their oppositions to the...
202From Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I requested you in a former letter to assure mr James Rawlings that as soon as I could get my tob o to market I would draw on you in his favor for a balance due the mutual assurance co. I have accdly drawn on you this day for a sum of about 89 or 90.D. I had formerly desired mr Ritchie to apply to you annually for my subscription to the Enquirer, and supposing it regularly paid, I had not even...
203From Thomas Jefferson to James Rawlings, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been more tardy in remitting to you my balance for insurance than I expected at the date of my letter of October last, because I have been later in getting my produce to market. I now inclose you an order on Col o Bernard Peyton for the amount as below. The last remains of the ruins at Milton for which the insurance was reduced to 1.D 94 are now not worth a cent, and I wish to withdraw...
204From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 21. there were inserted in your paper three series of essays on the case of Cohen, subscribed by Algernon Sidney, Fletcher of Saltown & Somers, which compleatly pulverised the opinion of the Federal court in that case. had these been published in the papers of the other states, they would have left no doubters on that subject. I have an oppy of putting them into the hands of a...
205From Thomas Jefferson to James Lindsay, 14 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 6 th and have been truly thankful for the indulgence to my convenience which you have exercised hitherto, and which my unskilful management of my plantations and a series of disastrous years have made a real accomodation. age and debility have obliged me to relinquish the care of my own affairs and to put them entirely into the hands of my grandson Th: J....
206From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The reasons assigned in your favor of the 7 th for preferring to retain Loudon instead of Albemarle are such as cannot be controverted. the society of our children is the sovereign balm of life, and the older we grow the more we need it, to fill up the void made by the daily losses of the companions and friends of our youth. nor ought we of this neighborhood to regret a preference so conducive...
207From Thomas Jefferson to Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 16 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I mentioned to you yesterday the ill effect of the acute angles in the passage of the Rotunda. I send you my drawing of the building in which I have drawn portions of a circle to cover those angles. You will consider whether it is best to make them of brick or studs & laths. you will see in the drawing whereabouts the centers of those portions of circle are taken, so as to make the circle a...
208From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Holmes, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
You will recollect probably that about 3. or 4. years ago you were so kind as to engage of mess rs Blackford and co three cornshellers, two for myself and one for Gen l Cocke but all in my name, and to undertake to pay them, and I was to replace the money at the University on account of your instalments due there. you accordingly paid them 75.D. (the price at the furnace probably,) the company...
209From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 17 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 13 th on the subject of my arrearages, on looking into mr Gibson’s acc ts who acted for me till 21, I find a payment of 10.D. for the Enquirer on June 9. 20. so that I suspect I was mistaken in supposing I had written to Col o Peyton to pay for the paper. I presume that on changing my agent in 20. or 21. I omitted to give the general order and that my arrears commence after...
210From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Thompson, 18 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter informs me of the arrival at New York of some Marble capitals from Leghorn for the columns of our University. I have no bill of lading, but there is probably one addressed to yourself—the letter is inclosed to inform you of the cost. if you will be so good as to drop me a line of the freight duty and other charges it shall be remitted by the first mail by way of Richmond,...