1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph G. Chambers, 13 August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not the happiness of any personal acquaintance with the Secretary of State but am not a stranger to his public reputation as a Statesman and philosopher. In this Character Sir I presume there needs no Apology for troubling you with projects which have for their Object the general benefit of society and the cause of humanity. Permit me therefore without farther preface (which I am so ill...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph G. Chambers, 10 October 179[2] (Jefferson Papers)
I troubled you formerly on the subject of an improvment on the use of Fire Arms in War &c. signifying my Desire of communicating the Experiment to some of the European patriots. Whether my letter be not come to your hand or the proposal may not be deemed of sufficient consequence to claim attention I cannot tell. It is the common fate of all projects to be despized before their execution and...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph G. Chambers, 20 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited with impatience for an Answer on the subject of my last letter. Unseasonable Delays are incompatible with the nature and success of Military Projects. And I begin to be anxious lest the Tyrants of Europe should complete their Triumphs before you will suffer me to bring my Guns to bear upon them. Poland has bowed the neck to the yoke of Despotism: And France with Difficulty...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph G. Chambers, 20 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
From the Plow I withdraw my hand to address the President of the United States. But the Plow is not mean in the Eyes of Jefferson, the Friend of Farmers, the Patron of the Republican Virtues of Agricultural life. I should however scarcely have presumed to intrude upon the Presidents leisure, from a situation so obscure, were it not for the small Acquaintance which I had the Honor & very great...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph G. Chambers, 17 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
From certain insinuations in the public papers I have supposed it probable that the President had given some attention to Mr. Fultons Experiment of Submarine Navigation. Considering likewise that this Experiment (if susceptible of any practicable degree of Perfection) might be of very great importance to our Country as well as to Human Society in general by preventing the usurpations &...