1To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Jones, 14 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A variety of avocations have delayed for some, time, the Gratification of my desire, to Congratulate you on your final Election to the office of President. It is with pleasure I am Conscious, that I can indulge my personal sentiments towards you, with perfect security to the Considerations I owe to the public welfare; as I am convinced that the Capacity, Experience & Principles of no Citizen...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I was already almost in the act of mounting my horse for a short excursion home, when your favor of the 14th. was put into my hands. I stop barely to acknolege it, and to thank you for your kind congratulations, and still more for your interesting observations on the course of things. I am sensible how far I should fall short of effecting all the reformation which reason would suggest and...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Jones, 8 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
W. Jones presents his respects to the President, and more distinctly informs him, as well as One perusal of J. Bells work in octavo, at a distant time permits him; that he thinks the Title is, Discourses on Surgery —it consists of five or Six distinct Tracts, on Aneurism, Gun Shot wounds, & other Capital Branches of Surgery.—The introductory discourse contains a very full exposition of his...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Jones, 28 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I prevailed upon Mr. Randolph to lose some blood—a remedy he resisted till the last Evening—his fever in Consequence, has abated to day, & I hope the operation of some Cream of Tartar, will remove some uneasiness in his Stomach & Bowels, which has served to keep up his fever.—he is however still affected by very general febrile symptoms, which probably will not quit him intirely for some...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William MacCreery, 5 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the conversation with which you honor’d me yesterday, on the Subject of the appointment of a successor to Mr. Christy, as collector of the Port of Baltimore, I now proceed to state on paper, distinctly & concisely the names & pretensions of those Gentlemen whom I then took the liberty of mentioning to you; and will begin now, as I did then, with my freind & Colleague Mr. Moore....
6From Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 15 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th. Jefferson salutes Dr. Jones with friendship and encloses him an additional letter in behalf of Rob. C. Page. he is certain that his claims as well as those of Edward Lloyd Lomax cannot be better placed than under the patronage of Dr. Jones, with whom the merit of their fathers & families will have a just weight, when all other considerations are equal. an anxiety that the higher officers...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Walter Jones, 31 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
How far the complaint made in the inclosed Letter, may either admit or deserve a remedy, I cannot presume to say: but as it comes from a man of great Probity, patriotism & firmness and probably expresses the Sentiments of a considerable class of officers, as well as his own, I have deemed it best to submit it your perusal, with my request that it may be returned to yours Dear Sir with great...
8Walter Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I take much satisfaction in renewing to you, in y r Retirement, my professions of attachment, founded as well on Sentiments of private friendship, as on a Conviction of your firm Adherence to republican principles, which gives you a lasting and honorable claim to the Esteem of your living Friends, & to the Applause of Posterity. dear as those principles and the Institutions which have flowed...
9Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 5 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of the 19 th Ult. & I salute you with all antient & recent recollections of friendship. I have learned with real sorrow that circumstances have arisen among our executive counsellors which have rendered foes those who once were friends. to themselves it will be the source of infinite pain & vexation & therefore chiefly I lament it, for I have a sincere esteem for...
10Walter Jones to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
A change for the worse, in the aspect of our political Parties, within twenty years, cannot, I think, have escaped your observation.— Instead of a close adherence & frequent recurrence to first principles, as the invariable Standard by which men & measures should be tried, party has more & more assumed the character of personal Factions. measures are supported or opposed, with little regard,...