The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9)
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Томас Джефферсон. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9)
PART III.—Continued. LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE U. S. DOWN TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. 1790-1826
TO DR. RUSH
TO WM. A. BURWELL, ESQ
TO MR. PEALE
TO MR. CLAY
TO LEVI LINCOLN, ESQ
TO MR. JAMES L. EDWARDS
TO MR. JAMES LYON
TO DOCTOR PATTERSON
TO CLEMENT CAINE, ESQ
TO MR. EPPES
TO MR. PAINE TODD
TO DOCTOR ROBERT PATTERSON
TO DOCTOR ROBERT PATTERSON
TO MR. H. A. S. DEARBORNE
TO MELATIAH NASH
TO DOCTOR BENJAMIN RUSH
TO DOCTOR CRAWFORD
TO MR. THOMAS PULLY
TO COLONEL MONROE
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR BARBOUR
TO BENJAMIN GALLOWAY, ESQ
TO MR. EZRA SARGEANT
TO MR. CHARLES CHRISTIAN
TO MR. VANDER KEMP
TO THE HONORABLE MR. NELSON
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO JAMES MAURY
TO MR. RODMAN
TO MR. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
TO THE PRESIDENT
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO ELBRIDGE GERRY
TO JUDGE TYLER
TO GENERAL KOSCIUSKO
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO NATHANIEL GREENE, MONTAGUE CENTER
TO THOMAS COOPER, ESQ
TO MR. LATROBE
TO COLONEL DUANE
TO GENERAL KOSCIUSKO
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO THE HONORABLE MR. WRIGHT
TO THOMAS LETRE, ESQ
TO COLONEL WILLIAM DUANE
TO THOMAS C. FLOURNEY, ESQ
TO DOCTOR ROBERT PATTERSON
TO MR. ADAMS
TO HENRY MIDDLETON, ESQ
TO MR. RONALDSON
TO MR. MELISH
TO COLONEL DUANE
TO DOCTOR MORRELL
TO GENERAL BAILEY
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO GENERAL ARMSTRONG
TO DOCTOR RUSH
TO M. DE LOMERIE
TO MR. THOMAS PAINE M'MATRON
TO COLONEL DUANE
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO MADAME LA BARONNE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO COLONEL MONROE
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO MR. SHORT
TO –
TO COLONEL MONROE
TO MR. MATTHEW CARR
TO PRESIDENT MADISON
TO JOHN W. EPPES
TO JOHN ADAMS
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO DOCTOR JOHN L. E. W. SHECUT
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
MR ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO DOCTOR SAMUEL BROWN
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO MR. ISAAC M'PHERSON
TO JOHN WALDO
TO MR. JOHN WILSON
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO MR. EPPES
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO MR. WM. CANBY
TO GENERAL DUANE
TO MR. ISAAC M'PHERSON
TO MR. JAMES MARTIN
TO DOCTOR LOGAN
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO JOHN W. EPPES
TO JOHN JACOB ASTOR, ESQ
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO –
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO BARON DE HUMBOLDT
TO MADAM DE TESSÉ
TO DON VALENTIN DE TORONDA CORUNA
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO THOMAS LIEPER
TO DOCTOR WALTER JONES
TO JOHN PINTARD RECORDING SECRETARY OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TO SAMUEL M. BURNSIDE, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
TO DOCTOR THOMAS COOPER
TO OLIVER EVANS, ESQ
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL, ESQ
TO MR. R. M. PATTERSON, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
TO PRESIDENT ADAMS
TO MR. JOHN CLARKE
TO MR. SAMUEL GREENHOW
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL
TO THOMAS COOPER, ESQ
TO DR. JOHN MANNERS
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO GIDEON GRANGER, ESQ
TO HORATIO G. SPAFFORD
TO MR. GIRARDIN
TO M. DUFIEF
TO LE CHEVALIER DE ONIS
TO MR. DELAPLAINE
TO MR. JOHN F. WATSON
TO MR. ABRAHAM SMALL
TO THOMAS LAW, ESQ
TO JOHN ADAMS
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO THE BARON DE MOLL, PRIVY COUNSELLOR OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF BAVARIA, SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOR THE CLASS OF MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES, AND OF THE AGRONOMIC SOCIETY OF BAVARIA, AT MUNICH
TO MR. WIRT
TO THOMAS COOPER
TO MR. DELAPLAINE
TO THOMAS COOPER, ESQ
TO SAMUEL H. SMITH, ESQ
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO MR. MILES KING
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL, ESQ
TO THOMAS COOPER, ESQ
To –12
TO JAMES MONROE
TO DOCTOR ROBERT PATTERSON
TO ROBERT M. PATTERSON, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
TO W. SHORT, ESQ
TO MR. MELLISH
TO M. CORREA DE SERRA
TO COLONEL MONROE
TO MR. GIRARDIN
TO CHARLES CLAS, ESQ
TO GOVERNOR PLUMER
TO JOHN VAUGHAN, ESQ
TO HIS EXCELLENCY MR. CRAWFORD
TO THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
TO M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS
TO JEAN BATISTE SAY
TO FRANCIS C. GRAY, ESQ
TO MR. GIRARDIN
TO MR. WENDOVER.13
TO CÆSAR A. RODNEY
TO GENERAL DEARBORNE
TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
TO MR. GIRARDIN
TO MR. BARROW
TO M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO MR. W. H. TORRANCE
TO MR. LEIPER
TO MR. MAURY
TO MR. MAURY
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO MR. CORREA
TO MADAME LA BARONNE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN
TO ANDREW C. MITCHELL, ESQ
TO WM. WIRT, ESQ
TO JOHN ADAMS
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO JUDGE ROANE
TO CAPT. A. PARTRIDGE OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, WEST POINT, NEW YORK
TO DOCTOR LOGAN
TO MR. GALLATIN
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO MR. WM. BENTLEY
TO MR. GEORGE FLEMING
TO M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS
TO CAPT. A. PARTRIDGE
TO COLONEL YANCEY
TO CHARLES THOMPSON
TO BENJAMIN AUSTIN, ESQ
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO DABNEY CARR
TO DR. PETER WILSON, PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES, COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW YORK
TO MR. AMOS J. COOK, PRECEPTOR OF FRYEBURG ACADEMY IN THE DISTRICT OF MAINE
TO MR. THOMAS RITCHIE
TO NATHANIEL MACON
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL
TO REV. MR. WORCESTER
TO JOSEPH C. CABELL, ESQ
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO THOMAS W. MAURY
TO JAMES MONROE
TO BENJAMIN AUSTIN, ESQ
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO GOVERNOR NICHOLAS
TO MR. JOSEPH MILLIGAN
(A Note communicated to the Editor.)
TO JOHN ADAMS
TO GOVERNOR NICHOLAS
TO M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS
TO MR. FR. ADR. VANDERKEMP
TO M. CORREA DE SERRA
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
TO JOHN TAYLOR
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Dear Sir,—I write to you from a place ninety miles from Monticello, near the New London of this State, which I visit three or four times a year, and stay from a fortnight to a month at a time. I have fixed myself comfortably, keep some books here, bring others occasionally, am in the solitude of a hermit, and quite at leisure to attend to my absent friends. I note this to show that I am not in a situation to examine the dates of our letters, whether I have overgone the annual period of asking how you do? I know that within that time I have received one or more letters from you, accompanied by a volume of your introductory lectures, for which accept my thanks. I have read them with pleasure and edification, for I acknowledge facts in medicine as far as they go, distrusting only their extension by theory. Having to conduct my grandson through his course of mathematics, I have resumed that study with great avidity. It was ever my favorite one. We have no theories there, no uncertainties remain on the mind; all is demonstration and satisfaction. I have forgotten much, and recover it with more difficulty than when in the vigor of my mind I originally acquired it. It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay. Our old revolutionary friend Clinton, for example, who was a hero, but never a man of mind, is wonderfully jealous on this head. He tells eternally the stories of his younger days to prove his memory, as if memory and reason were the same faculty. Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican constitution of our government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain. I have had a long attack of rheumatism, without fever and without pain while I keep myself still. A total prostration of the muscles of the back, hips and thighs, deprived me of the power of walking, and leaves it still in a very impaired state. A pain when I walk, seems to have fixed itself in the hip, and to threaten permanence. I take moderate rides, without much fatigue; but my journey to this place, in a hard-going gig, gave me great sufferings which I expect will be renewed on my return as soon as I am able. The loss of the power of taking exercise would be a sore affliction to me. It has been the delight of my retirement to be in constant bodily activity, looking after my affairs. It was never damped as the pleasures of reading are, by the question of cui bono? for what object? I hope your health of body continues firm. Your works show that of your mind. The habits of exercise which your calling has given to both, will tend long to preserve them. The sedentary character of my public occupations sapped a constitution naturally sound and vigorous, and draws it to an earlier close. But it will still last quite as long as I wish it. There is a fulness of time when men should go, and not occupy too long the ground to which others have a right to advance. We must continue while here to exchange occasionally our mutual good wishes. I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. God bless you and preserve you through a long and healthy old age.
Your application to whatever you are engaged in I know to be incessant. But Sundays and rainy days are always days of writing for the farmer. Think of me sometimes when you have your pen in hand, and give me information of your health and occupations; and be always assured of my great esteem and respect.
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