15061Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 24 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I return by our first mail the note for renewal inclosed in your’s of the 20 th inst. and I am very thankful for the accomodation obtained, and payment remitted to Leroy and Bayard . if the Virginia bank cannot consistently with their rules renew it, I am in hopes that of the US. may come to my aid, as I understand it begins business this week. I observe a stamp on the paper you inclosed me;...
15062From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Since my last letter to you, which was of 28 February I have received yours of 6 and 12 Feby both numbered 24. of 19 Feby. N 25. & of 13 april N. 26 with all their enclosures. Mr Ogdens Bill for £877.10. has also been duly received and paid. I am now so much hurried by the preparations for my departure that I have no time to trouble you with observations upon my affairs. The only instruction I...
15063Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 23 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Peyton to come and take a pea-dinner with him the day after tomorrow (Sunday) RC (Mrs. Charles W. Biggs, Lewisburg, W.Va., 1950; photocopy in MsSM ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ M r Peyton Monteagle .” Not recorded in SJL .
15064To John Adams from James Madison, 22 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 22d Ult: with the two vols. bearing the name of Condorcet. If the length of time they remained in your hands, had been in the least inconvenient to me, which was not the case, the debt would have been greatly overpaid, by the interesting observations into which you were led by the return of them. The idea of a Government “in one center” as explained and espoused...
15065From James Madison to John Adams, [22] May 1817 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 22d Ult: with the two vols. bearing the name of Condorcet. If the length of time they remained in your hands, had been in the least inconvenient to me, which was not the case, the debt would have been greatly overpaid, by the interesting observations into which you were led by the return of them. The idea of a Government “in one center” as explained and espoused...
15066James Gibbon to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
It happen’d very opportunely, that at the moment I rec d y r letter , a Cap t from Boston appeard at my office with your parcell of seeds of which I had been apprizd by Mr Dearborne ; they have been sent on by Mr Gibson in charge of a boat man who usually takes parcells for you under an injunction to keep it dry as Mr D . dir e cted I hope you will rec
15067Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Value of Lots in Beverley Town (Westham), [ca. 22 May 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
my lots in Beverly town N os 57. 107. 108. 151 1751. June 5. cost 86/ each what worth at 6. p.c. comp d int. 1817. June 3 formula l = ar n − 1 Log. 1.06 = r 0.0253059
15068Isaac Briggs to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 15 or 16 instant I wrote to thee from New York , informing thee that I had received an appointment from the Canal commissioners for employment in the mathematical department for making the grand Canal between the Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean . In that letter I expressed my decided opinion that if the Commissioners could avail the public of the talents and services,...
15069Luis de Onís to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Not doubting that it will be gratifying to you to be informed of the respect paid at the Havana to the memory of the late D r Valli , whose death was occasioned by a dangerous experiment which he tryed on himself, which was announced some time ago in the Public Papers of this Country, I take the liberty to send to you inclosed, the Funeral Oration that was pronounced at an extra meeting of the...
15070David Higginbotham to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
If you have not yet sold your westham lots and are still disposed to sell them, be pleased to say the number you have and the size and the price you ask for them, I will perhaps purchase them if the price is not two high, I may perhaps be able to turn them into Cash in some way or other to suit us both, be pleased to say what is the loss we shall all sustain this year by the Hessian fly, shall...