DeWitt Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1817
From DeWitt Clinton
New York 25 April 1817
Dear Sir
I had the pleasure of receiving Your interesting letter respecting the contemplated communications between the great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; and I now send to You the laws of the State on this subject. The work will be undertaken this season and will be prosecuted with order and with rapidity.
I thank you most cordially for the communication—And I assure you that it always affords me the greatest pleasure to see the powerful weight of your opinion and the high authority of your name, operating in favor of institutions and undertakings associated with the honor and the prosperity of our beloved Country
with the greatest respect and the most sincere attachment.1
DeWitt Clinton
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL. Dft (Lb in NNC: Clinton Papers). Enclosure: Laws of the State of New-York, respecting Navigable Communications between The Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean (New York, 1817; , 5 [no. 217]; TJ’s copy in PPAmP); including texts of “An Act to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this State,” passed 17 Apr. 1816, and “An Act, respecting Navigable Communications between the Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean,” passed 15 Apr. 1817.
1. Reworked in Dft from “Accept the assurances of my respect & attachment.”
Index Entries
- Atlantic Ocean; internal navigation to search
- canals; Champlain search
- canals; Erie search
- Champlain Canal search
- Clinton, DeWitt; and Champlain Canal search
- Clinton, DeWitt; and Erie Canal search
- Clinton, DeWitt; letters from search
- Erie Canal search
- Lake Champlain; proposed canal to search
- Lake Erie; proposed canal to search
- Laws of the State of New-York, respecting Navigable Communications between The Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean search
- New York (state); and canals search
- New York (state); Laws of the State of New-York, respecting Navigable Communications between The Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean search