To you, Madam, on behalf of the family of your late illustrious and venerable father, Thomas Jefferson, I have the honour, in the name of the Institute, to transmit a copy of Resolutions lately passed by that Body in respect for his memory. By the death of the “Sage of Monticello”, the Institute...

“In testimony of the profound respect entertained by the Institute for the illustrious memory of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the founders of the Republic, who descended to the tomb on the fiftieth anniversary of its independence; who, during a long life successfully devoted to their...