1To James Madison from Nicholas Biddle, 12 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr. N. Biddle presents his Compliments to Mr. Madison and has the honor to inclose to him the only late political pamphlets of any interest which he brought from London. He regrets that he has nothing more interesting to send, & hopes that these may not be unacceptable to Mr. Madison PHi : Nicolas Biddle Papers.
2Nicholas Biddle to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have no apology for the liberty I am about taking, except that it may enable you to render service to a Stranger. Some time since I received thro’ the legation at Paris a letter from a M r Jean Baptiste Lefevre , accompanied by a note from the Marquis de la Fayette . M r Lefevre states that he served during the war in Col. Armand’s regiment; that in 1783 you had the goodness to take charge...
3Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 26 December 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of Dec. 12. and should willingly have given any information on the subject of it within my power, but I have not the smallest recollection of mr Lefevre , nor of the transaction to which your letter refers. the any deposit of money made into the treasury of Virginia , will doubtless appear in the treasury books at Richmond , and on what account it was paid. at...
4Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 20 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter from mr Paul Allen of Philadelphia , I was informed that other business had obliged you to turn over to him the publication of Gov r Lewis’s journal of his Western expedition; and he requested me to furnish him with any materials I could for writing a sketch of his life. I now inclose him such as I have been able to procure, to be used with any other information he may have...
5Nicholas Biddle to Thomas Jefferson, 28 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My residence in the country during the Summer has prevented me from answering sooner your very polite note of the 20 th of August covering a communication to M r Allen which was immediately transmitted to him. It is now a long time since I was tempted by the request of Gen l Clark & other friends as well as by the natural interest of the subject to undertake the composition of the narrative...
6John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 28 May 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
My particular friend M r Nicholas Biddle , with his Lady , daughter of the late M rs Craig , are travelling to some of the springs in Your State, to reestablish health & tranquility of mind, which had been much affected by their late Domestic afflictions —Should they have the opportunity—I should feel gratified at being the means of bringing you personally acquainted— M r Biddle’s tour to Europe
7Enclosure: Nicholas Biddle to William Tilghman, 6 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of depositing with the Historical committee , the papers & books which accompany this letter, in compliance with the request of Governor Clark in his letter to me of the 10 th of Oct 1816, transmitted by M r Jefferson — It may perhaps be usefull to add such notices of other objects connected with them, as may enable the committee to extend its researches— It was in the...
8To James Madison from Nicholas Biddle, 9 February 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have so often derived pleasure from your writings, that I should deem it an act of gratitude to present to you the paper which accompanies this note, were I not sensible how little it enables me to repay my obligations. I can therefore only request that you will place it in your library as a mark of my great respect for one who is realizing the best hopes of all statesmen by closing a...
9Nicholas Biddle to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Nicholas Biddle presents his compliments to M r Jefferson , and takes the liberty of sending to him an address , the chief object of which is to satisfy the farmers of this country that instead of desponding over the inevitable loss of foreign markets, they may repair it by improvements in their present husbandry. He will not intrude upon M r Jefferson ’s retirement by a wish that he should...
10Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 20 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Biddle for his very able and instructive address to an Agricultural audience, and is pleased to see the stores of science so happily blended with science. practice. it will surely produce a salutary excitement among our farmers and especially at a moment when the habitual Cannibalism of Europe promises a demand for bread with their blood. he salutes mr Biddle...