1To Alexander Hamilton from Oliver Wolcott Junior, [February 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
By Letters lately recd. from Albany, by Gentlemen interested in the Merchants Bank, we are informed, that a meeting of political characters connected with the Legislature, has been held, and that it has been resolved at all events to suppress this Company. This violent decision was altogether unexpected, as from prior intelligence, it appeared that several influential characters of the ruling...
2To James Madison from Alexander Baring, 1 February 1804 (Madison Papers)
I received with the letter you honored me with of the one for Mr. Munroe as also a parcel from the collector here and beg you will be assured of my particular attention to their carefull delivery. I have determined after some hesitation to take my passage in the packet as there are no good American vessels at present ready for Europe, we are now only waiting for Mr. Merry’s dispatches which I...
3From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Department of State. “I beg leave to trouble you with the enclosed documents concerning Benjamin Stedham and Andrew Malony, who appear to have been impressed into the British Service, the first into the Isis, and the latter into the Boston Frigate, from American Vessels on the American coast, where it is supposed the frigates still are. In doing this I must ask the favor of...
4To James Madison from James Leander Cathcart, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Leghorn. No. 2. Enclosed his accounts with the U.S. up to 31 Dec. 1803 with his 28 Jan. 1804 letter . “At present I send you a copy of a negotiation with Mr: Anthony Dugan for bills upon you for 5000 dollars at 5 ⅌C: discount on the ammount receiv’d which makes a considerable difference between the terms of this negotiation & that for 20,000 dollars negotiated by Messrs. Degen...
5To James Madison from John Mussey and Others, 1 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 February 1804, Portland. “Should the Laws of the United States, hereafter, be published by authority in the Eastern Argus , it will gratify the Subscribers, and, we believe meet the wishes of our Republican Brethren, in every part of this District. The considerations which induce us, to trouble you on this subject, are, the limited Circulation, the ordinary appearance, and equivocal Politics...
1 February 1804, Lyon. The person to whom Mr. Adet had given the enclosed letter of recommendation, having been detained in Europe first by business, then by illness, has decided to forward it directly to JM. He presumes that this letter might contain things that would not admit of a longer delay, and if he goes to the U.S. he will have the honor of being the bearer of other letters for JM. RC...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Ellicott, 1 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Western boundary of Louisiana, after getting a certain distance from the sea, being the high lands inclosing all the waters running into the Missisipi or Missouri, I think it probable Congress will enable me to send two or more parties the next summer to ascertain some of the most important points in that contour. one will probably ascend the Red river from it’s mouth to it’s source, pass...
8To Thomas Jefferson from George Hay, 1 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Carr informs me, that you were acquainted with the Character, and respected the talents of the late Mr. Thomson. I therefore take the liberty, of begging your acceptance of a Copy of the new Edition of the letters of Curtius: to which is prefixed a short sketch of his life, hastily written by myself. The way in which the parties in the dialogue are mentioned, is intentionally, vague. The...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your obliging letter , and, with it, of two very interesting volumes on Political economy. these found me engaged in giving the [leisure moments I rarely find] to the perusal of Malthus’s work on population, a work of [sound] logic, in which some of the opinions of Adam Smith, as well as of the [economists], are ably examined. I was pleased, on turning to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Taylor, Jr., 1 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of Jan. 24. and thank you for your attention to me as to the Champagne you have recieved. my desire to take of it must depend entirely on it’s quality. if fine I should be willing to take 30. dozen: but if not fine, it would be useless here. will you be so good as to send me a single case of it by the first possible conveyance by water, so that I may try it,...