1III. Sample Encipherment: "To the People of Great-Britain" [after 25 December 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
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2To James Madison from David Humphreys, 25 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
In requesting you to be referred to my letter dated the 18th inst:, I have now the pleasure to inform you that Mr Pinckney is considerably better in health than he was at that date. I enclose to you herewith the Sentence of the Supreme Council of War, in the Case of the Ship South Carolina, Paul Post Master, detained first by an English frigate, recaptured by a Spanish & French armed force,...
3To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 25 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
The paper enclosed directed to yourself I wrote a few days ago. Since that time I have been waiting, in order if possible further to discover their real intentions & penetrate their designs. Unless we are serious in the business I am persuaded they will persevere to the end. If they do, they effectually destroy all hopes of success on our part at the next election & I fear will blast all our...
4To James Madison from John Morton, 25 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 December 1801, Havana. Announces 25 Dec. order banning all foreign vessels from Cuban ports, effective immediately. No warning of this action was given. Immediately sought audience with the governor to discuss final adjustment of American concerns and the situation of ships already en route but failed because of its being a holy day. Sends this information by a vessel that sails early the...
5To James Madison from John Baptiste Sartori, 25 December 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 December 1801, Philadelphia. Refers to his letter informing JM of his arrival in the U.S. and of his deputation of his father to transact consular business in his absence. Finds that his stay will be longer than he had contemplated because of court delays in pending lawsuits “for the recovery of considerable property.” Requests permission to prolong his absence from Rome and authorization...
6To James Madison from John Morton, 25 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
Having written to you more fully on the eleventh current by Mr. Geo. C. Morton, I have at present, chiefly to inform you that, by an or der of the Government of this Island, pub lis hed this Day, the Admission of our Vessels, as well as of all other foreign Nations, into a ny of its Ports, is prohibited from this da te. Altho’, as I observed in my last co mmunication, some restriction on the...
7To James Madison from John Baptiste Sartori, 25 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor Some time ago of informing you by Letter of my arrival in the United States, & of my having deputed my Father to transact the Consular business in my absence. I find Sir, that the business which brought me heither, will require my Stay here Longer time than I had at first contemplated I therefore request that you will permit me to prolong my absence from the Roman State untill...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Overton Carr, 25 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer will deliver to your Steward, a Bacon Ham, which has been cured Seven years, & which I request the favour of you to accept as a present. Dean Swift observes, that a present should consist of something, of no great value, and which cannot be purchased with money. If his definition be correct, of which I have no doubt, this Ham comes perfectly within it; for although Bacon Hams may be...
9From Thomas Jefferson to James Currie, 25 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a publication of Aiken’s on the Cowpox, as also some pieces from the newspapers. you will see Dr. Coxe’s experiments of the variolous after the vaccine inoculation. the matter for the latter was from me, & consequently proves that we kept the disease in it’s genuine form at Monticello, as well as that the matter I sent you was genuine. but as you deferred using it, it probably...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted to you for several favors unacknoleged . I have waited till I could inform you that some variolous after vaccine inoculations had proved that I had preserved the matter of the cow pox in it’s genuine form. Dr. Coxe of Philadelphia has ascertained this, having recieved his vaccine matter from hence. to this is added your information that the matter I sent you produced the genuine...