1From James Madison to Isaac Clason, 20 February 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Isaac Clason. 20 February 1806, Department of State. “I have received your letter of the 15th. inst: respecting the capture and condemnation at Gibraltar of the Ship Hare, under an imputation that she had violated the blockade of Cadiz. The documents you have transmitted will be placed among those of a similar nature; but in an individual case so circumstanced it is not usual for the...
2From James Madison to George W. Erving, 20 February 1806 (Madison Papers)
The letters which I have received from you since your arrival at Madrid are under dates of 25th. Octr. 20 Novr. and 7th. Decr. last. The communications made in the last relating to the general dispositions of the Spanish government and of the presiding character in its councils, are not without importance; but in the actual posture of the relations between the two Countries, it continues to be...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Washington Boyd, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Licence Granted to the President to use private Cariages in Washington City untill the first day of August. 1805. were as follows 1 Charriot $12. } If the President Continues to use the same Carriages The same amount is due for Licence untill the first of August. next. 2 Phaetons 18. There is also due from the President the 2nd. Instalment. on his Subsciption to the Public Schools
4To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Cox Barnet, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. de Salemberi having requested me to forward the enclosed Letter under my cover, I beg leave to seize the occasion to draw towards me for a moment the eye of the man on whose good opinion my happiness so materially depends. Not Sir, merely as the Magistrate upon whose pleasure my political existence as an officer rests, for I feel confident that this existence will be prolonged in...
5To Thomas Jefferson from David Gelston, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of the 9th instant, and now enclose bill of lading for the wine, as also a bill of the expenses paid on it— Upon examination very little difference could be discerned in the colour, but by your description, I am pretty well satisfied the one you wished is forwarded. I hope it will not prove I have been mistaken— I have requested the collector at Alexandria...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John George Jackson, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
J G Jackson with his best respects sends the enclosed letter to the President of the U.S. & requests to be informed if he has received the papers alluded to. and (if proper) what disposition in his opinion it will be best to make of the said application— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
T Munroe respectfully begs to know whether it is the pleasure of the President to renew the proclamation concerning wooden buildings in the usual form; or whether, as he sometime since intimated he will vary the regulations, or leave them as originally established, which interdicts the erection of wooden houses of all sizes. The Surveyer has designated the Streets which are obstructed by the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Noah Webster, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I request you to accept the book accompanying this, & after examining its merits, give it such encouragement as you may think it deserves—Having examined the primitive English or Saxon, as it existed from the reign of Ina to the Conquest, & a century or two later, I have lately discovered that none of the English Lexicographers whose works we now use ever pursued the same course of...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Cox Barnet, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
General Kosiusko having mentioned, a few days ago his writing to Mr. Jefferson (about the commencement of his Presidency), on the subject of dispersing information more generally among the People—and the fact of my friend William Maclure having engaged, at his own expense—a Professor (Mr. Neef) to go out to the United States for the purpose of instructing Children according to the Method of...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 20 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation Nathaniel Smith of New York, Thomas Jones Beall of Rhode Island, Henry Lynd Martin of North Carolina & Luther Dyer of Vermont as Cadets in the Regiment of Artillerists. I am, Sir, with respect and consideration Your Obedt. Servt. PHi : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.