I have intended a long time since to write to you but have been prevented by various avocations. Sincerely have I sympathized with you in your late affliction and you have been frequently in my remembrance. The various trials we meet with in this Life, are perhaps necessary to give us a true Idea of its inefficacy to ensure our happiness and to teach us to place our affections and direct our...
2To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 12 March 1806 (Madison Papers)
The proposal I was directed to make has been promptly and handsomely accepted, as will be expressed in a letter to be delivered to me to morrow. A marriage having taken place in my family and the parties being expected here to morrow evening, if they come, I shall not return till saturday; otherwise the day after to morrow. I saw Payne this morning and delivered Mrs. M’s commands. He is very...
3To James Madison from Joseph Russell, 12 March 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Joseph Russell. 12 March 1806, Washington. “The annexed is a Copy of a letter from Mr. Nathaniel Fellows to Mr. Perez Perten recommending his Nephew Mr. Nathaniel Fellows Junr. as Consul at the Havanna provided Mr. Hill resigns, as Mr. Morton is not Comeing I take the Liberty of sending it to you.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1801–9, filed under “Fellows”). 2 pp.; docketed by Jefferson....
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Duane, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
For a considerable time reports very injurious to the public interest have been in circulation, in this city and in different parts of the State. The sentiments of the people have on no occasion been so strongly mark by sullen discontent, and public confidence has been very much shaken, by the reports in question. The peculiar situation in which I am placed is far from being grateful or...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The President of the U.S. is respectfully requested to put his approbation to the enclosed art. of agreement. He has already approved one which is in the hands of Hartshorne. This is the counterpart which is to remain in our files— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Logan, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
A friendship of several years standing founded on your many personal virtues, may excuse, & the paramount duty I owe to my country will justify the freedom of this Letter. Your errors in conducting the exterior relations of our country, oppress the minds of your best friends, with the most anxious solicitude—you may yet retrieve your character and preserve the confidence of your fellow...
7From Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your letter as a proof of your friendship. I had been some time suspicious there was something on your mind unknown to me, and of which I thought I had a right to expect explanation. we may differ in our opinion of measures; but in matters of fact we cannot differ on due explanation. My present malady keeps me through the whole day incapable of business or conversation; and obliges...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Miller, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to lay before you a small publication concerning the Malignant Fever which has so often prevailed within a few years in various parts of the United States. The importance of this subject, in relation to the foreign commerce of America and the social intercourse of nations, will afford, I trust, a sufficient apology for another attempt to exhibit & arrange the facts on which public...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I very reluctantly trouble you with City Affairs, at this time particularly, when, no doubt, matters of much more consequence occupy a great deal of your attention, but as I do not consider it proper to give an answer to the latter part of the enclosed letter without endeavoring to obtain your Sentiments in relation to it I trust I shall be excused for asking the honor of a few minutes...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Smith, 12 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding that there is a petition, before Congress, the present Session to have this Port, together with Mystic, which is contiguous, and Pawcatuck in the State of Rhode Island made into a District and this to be the Port of Entry Should the Petition be granted the Appointment of a Collector will next follow, It is with real diffidence I write on a Subject wherein myself is concern’d but...