The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement
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© Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method and Apparatus xiii Maps xliii Illustrations li Jefferson Chronology 2 l l k l ' l 1818 From Henry Dearborn, 22 April 3 From Gamaliel H. Ward, 22 April 4 From John Wood, 22 April 6 From John Rhea, 23 April 7 From Stephen Cathalan, 25 April 8 From Thomas Appleton, 29 April 11 Matthew Pate’s Survey of Eighteen-Acre Tract Adjacent to Poplar Forest, 30 April 11 Thomas Eston Randolph’s Memorandum on Wheat Delivered to Thomas Jefferson, [April?] 13 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 May 14 From Stephen Cathalan, 2 May, enclosing Invoice of Items Shipped, 28 April 14 To John Wayles Eppes, 3 May 17 From Patrick Gibson, 4 May 18 From Beverly Waugh, 5 May 19 From Benjamin O. Tyler, 6 May 20 Salma Hale’s Visit to Monticello 22 I. Salma Hale to David Hale, 5 May, with postscript, 7 May 22 II. Salma Hale to William Plumer, 8 May 24 III. Salma Hale to Arthur Livermore, 16 May 24 IV. Salma Hale’s Notes on his Visit to Monticello, [after 1818] 26 From Mordecai M. Noah, 7 May 30 From John Vaughan, 7 May 31 From William F. Gray, 8 May 32 To Lewis D. Belair, 10 May 32 To Mathew Carey, 10 May 33 To Richard Claiborne, 10 May 33 To Ferdinando Fairfax, 10 May 34 xxvii For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS Notes on Mutual Assurance Society Policy, [ca. 10 May] 34 To James Rawlings, 10 May 35 To Gamaliel H. Ward, 10 May 35 Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 11 May 36 From Joseph Milligan, 11 May 36 From William Short, 11 May 37 From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 11 May 39 To Daniel Brent, [ca. 12 May] 41 From John Gardiner, 12 May 41 From David Bailie Warden, 12 May 42 To Patrick Gibson, 13 May 42 From Thomas Jordan, 13 May 43 To LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 13 May 43 From James Rawlings, enclosing Receipt from the Mutual Assurance Society, 14 May 44 From John Vaughan, 14 May 45 From Daniel Brent, 15 May 46 From Bennett H. Henderson, 15 May 46 From Mathew Carey & Son, 16 May 47 To John Adams, 17 May 48 To Henry Dearborn, 17 May 49 From William H. Fitzhugh, 18 May 51 To Reuben Haines, 18 May 52 To Joseph Milligan, 18 May 53 From Peter Poinsot, 18 May 54 To Quinette de Rochemont, 18 May 55 To John Wood, 18 May 56 To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 19 May 57 From James P. Preston, 20 May 58 To John Cook, 21 May 59 To Thomas Jordan, 21 May 60 From John McKinney, 21 May 60 From Thomas Ritchie, [ca. 21 May] 62 From John McKinney, 23 May 62 From John M. Perry, 26 May 64 To John Gardiner, 28 May 64 To James Leitch, 28 May 64 To Mordecai M. Noah, 28 May 65 To James P. Preston, 28 May 66 To Hugh Steel, 28 May 67 To Archibald Stuart, 28 May 67 To John Vaughan, 28 May 68 xxviii For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS From John Adams, 29 May 69 To James Le Ray de Chaumont, 29 May 71 From Thomas Jordan, 29 May 72 Notes on Itch Lotion, [after 29 May] 73 To William Short, 29 May 73 From James Sloan, 29 May 75 From Horatio G. Spafford, 29 May 75 To James W. Wallace, 29 May 76 From Thomas A. Digges, 30 May 76 From Patrick Gibson, 30 May 79 From Archibald Stuart, 30 May 80 To William H. Fitzhugh, 31 May 80 From Caleb Atwater, 2 June 81 From John Barnes, 4 June 84 From William King (of South Carolina), 4 June 84 From André Thoüin, 5 June 85 From William Plumer, 7 June 87 From LeRoy, Bayard & Company, 8 June 88 From Peter S. Du Ponceau, enclosing Prospectus for Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, 9 June 88 From François André Michaux, 10 June 91 To Patrick Gibson, 11 June 91 To Bernard Peyton, 12 June 92 To James Leitch, 13 June 92 From Bernard Peyton, 13 June 93 From Frank Carr, 15 June 93 To Thomas A. Digges, 15 June 93 From Patrick Gibson, 15 June 95 To John McKinney, 15 June 95 From James Oldham, 15 June 95 To James Sloan, 15 June 96 From John M. Perry, 18 June 97 From Bernard Peyton, 18 June 97 From Bernard Peyton, 18 June 99 To Joseph Darmsdatt, 19 June 99 To Thomas Ritchie, 19 June 99 To Caleb Atwater, 21 June 100 To Mathew Carey, 21 June 100 To Patrick Gibson, 21 June 101 To William Plumer, 21 June 101 From Thomas Cooper, enclosing Geology Syllabus, 24 June 102 xxix For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS To James Wilkinson, 25 June 105 From Mathew Carey & Son, 27 June 106 To John Barnes, 28 June 107 To Mathew Carey, 28 June 107 To James Madison, 28 June 108 To Bernard Peyton, 28 June 109 To Spencer Roane, 28 June 110 To Horatio G. Spafford, 28 June 111 To Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 June 111 Account with Reuben Perry, 29 June 112 From James H. McCulloch, 30 June 112 From John Armstrong, 1 July, enclosing Notes on Tadeusz Kosciuszko, [before 10 May] 113 From Thomas Eston Randolph, 1 July 116 To Baker Beaven, 2 July 117 To George Divers, 2 July 117 From Levett Harris, 2 July 118 To William King (of South Carolina), 2 July 119 To Thomas Eston Randolph, 2 July 120 From John Barnes, 3 July 120 From Anthony Charles Cazenove, 3 July 121 From William S. Jacobs, 3 July 122 From Wilson Cary Nicholas, [received 3 July] 123 From Charles J. Ingersoll, 4 July 124 From James Sloan, 4 July 125 From Mathew Carey & Son, 5 July 126 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 July 126 To Richard N. Thweatt, 6 July 126 From Robert Walsh, 6 July 127 From Brett Randolph, 7 July 128 From John Wharton (1771–1845), 8 July 128 From Thomas Lehré, 9 July 129 From John H. Cocke, 10 July 129 From Thomas Lehré, 10 July 130 To John Wharton (1771–1845), 10 July 131 From Patrick Gibson, 11 July 131 From Samuel J. Harrison, 12 July 132 From Salma Hale, 13 July 132 To James P. Preston, 13 July 132 From Edmund Bacon, 14 July 133 From Edmund Bacon, [ca. 14–29 July] 135 From John Hancock Hall, 15 July 136 xxx For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS From David Bailie Warden, 15 July 137 From James Madison, [16 July] 138 From John Adams, 18 July 138 From Frank Carr, [received 18 July] 139 From Mr. Couscher, [received 18 July] 139 From John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson), 18 July 140 From George Rogers (for Bernard Peyton), 18 July 140 To John C. Calhoun, 20 July 140 To Patrick Gibson, 20 July 141 To Charles J. Ingersoll, 20 July 142 To Thomas Lehré, 20 July 142 From Bernard Peyton, 20 July 143 To Robert Walsh, 20 July 143 To John Barnes, 21 July 144 To Levett Harris, 21 July 145 To Brett Randolph, 21 July 146 To James Sloan, 21 July 146 From Gerard Troost, 21 July 147 From James Cutbush, 22 July 148 From James Monroe, 22 July 150 From Margaret Page, 22 July 152 To Marc Antoine Jullien, 23 July 153 From William Kean, 23 July 154 To Franz X. Zeltner, 23 July 155 To William Huntington, 2[4?] July 157 From the Seventy-Six Association, 24 July 157 From Julius B. Dandridge, 25 July 159 To Salma Hale, 26 July 160 Central College Donors and Founders to the University of Virginia Commissioners, [before 27 July] 160 Conveyance of Central College Properties to the President and Directors of the Literary Fund, 27 July 163 From Patrick Gibson, 27 July 165 From Patrick Gibson, 27 July 165 To John Steele, 27 July 166 To James Leitch, 28 July 166 From Edmund Bacon, 29 July 167 To Patrick Gibson, 29 July 168 To Joel Yancey, 29 July 168 To Edmund Bacon, 30 July 169 To Allen Bernard, 30 July 169 From Joseph C. Cabell, 30 July 170 xxxi For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. CONTENTS To Patrick Gibson, 30 July 171 To Charles Simms, 30 July 171 From James Le Ray de Chaumont, 31 July 172 From Richard N. Thweatt, 31 July 173 To Patrick Gibson, 1 August 173 From Robert Walsh, 1 August 174 From Francis Eppes, 2 August 175 From Julius T.