11From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 30 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8th. was recieved on the 25th. and I proceed to state to you my views of the present state and prospect of foreign affairs under the confidence that you will use them for your own government and opinions only, and by no means let them get out as from me. with France we are in no immediate danger of war. her future views it is impossible to estimate. the immediate danger we...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 28 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to Governor Pinckney & incloses him the opinion of the Attorney general referred to in his letter of the 18th. and which was not printed at that date. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
13From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 4 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Oct. 22. and we are so near seeing one another at Washington that I should not have troubled you with an answer (which indeed I have little hope of your recieving at Charleston) but that you mention having written to me frequently, & forwarded all the numbers of the [Republican & ] other papers, your speeches &c. I assure you that the letter recieved last...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 28. has been duly recieved, and in it the proceedings of the court on the Mandamus to the Collector of Charleston. I saw them with great concern because of the quarter from whence they came and where they could not be ascribed to any political waywardness. The legislature having found, after repeated trials, that no general rules could be formed which fraud & avarice would...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 1 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 8. to the President of the U.S. having been referred to me, I have given the subject of it as mature consideration as I am able. Two neighboring and free governments, with laws equally mild and just, would find no difficulty in forming a convention for the interchange of fugitive criminals. Nor would two neighboring despotic governments, with laws of equal severity. The...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of yesterday is just now put into my hands. it is so far from being improper to recieve the communications you had in contemplation as to arrangements in your state, that I have been in the constant expectation you would find time to do me the favor of calling & making them, when we could in conversation explain them better than by writing, and I should with frankness & thankfulness...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 8 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your two letters of Sep. 10. & of blank date, probably about the middle of Oct. and to thank you for the communications therein made. they were handed to the two persons therein named. I sieze the first moment it is in my power to answer your question as to our foreign relations, which I do by inclosing you a copy of my message this moment delivered to the...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 24 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although not sufficiently recovered from the effects of my late fall from my carriage to venture it I propose embarking on Sunday to join you at Washington having taken my passage for that purpose & as I cannot travel by land, again venture a Winter Voyage by sea—I write this Line to inform you of it & to mention that having seen in the Northern papers an account that a compromise was offered...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 21 September 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received the honor of your Excellency’s letter of April 4. inclosing the several papers relative to the creditors of S. Carolina in Europe, and undertake with great pleasure to execute your commands on that subject. I wrote immediately to Mr. Strackeiser of Bordeaux to inform him of the measures taken by the government of S. Carolina for the paiment of their foreign debts. I have...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Pinckney, 20 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago a letter from Genl. Wilkinson dated at N. Orleans Dec. 14. in which he inclosed me an affidavit of which I now transmit you a copy. you will percieve that it authenticates the copy of a letter from Colo. Burr to the General, affirming that mr Alston, his son in law, is engaged in the unlawful enterprises he is carrying on, and is to be an actor in them. I am to add also...