1To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 4 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon the liberty I take in giving a few hints of the events which have taken place since last Session of Congress disolv’d, & the present State of the public mind in this State.— If the Aurora finds its way into your neighbourhood, the whiping business which follow’d the Nothampton expedition , Mr. Liston’s recent dispatches (found on the horse thief) together with many other...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 8 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The republicans in general, & your particular friends in this quarter, have just recovered from sensations of the keenest regret & heartfelt sorrow; consequent to a Current report of your death. We have just congratulated each other on a satisfactory contradiction of what we considered a general calamity; and an individual affliction to ourselves. We feel anxious to know what, or whether any...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States have now time to contemplate the late astonishing political Scenery. That incongruous aggregation; the high toned federal faction, the staunch old tories, the whole tribe of English renegadoes & apostate Americans, with views widely distinct from each other. Again the Lancasten & Spartan band, the conflagration of public offices and the last expiring struggle in congress;...