1Notes on Appointments, 13 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
✓ Minister to Paris. Genl. John Armstrong. Commrs. to Spain. Jonathan Russell Pierpoint Edwards Bowdoin Young. Peleg Morton Tunis. < Lyman? > Irving. < Bollman? > ✓
2From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 13 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I should be much better pleased to see a due proportion of candidates for the place of midshipmen from the North. they ought not to expect to reap that whereon they have bestowed no labour, nor where others have laboured that they should reap the fruits. I am sorry they are not disposed to make the sacrifice of time & money necessary by which our young midshipmen qualify themselves for...
3From Thomas Jefferson to the Ursuline Nuns of New Orleans, 13 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Soeur Therese de St. Xavier farjon Superior, and the Nuns of the order of St. Ursula at New Orleans I have recieved, holy sisters, the letter you have written me wherein you express anxiety for the property vested in your institution by the former governments of Louisiana. the principles of the constitution and government of the United states are a sure guarantee to you that it will be...