20011From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was delivered to me among a mass of letters from the post office, and reading only the first line of the superscription, I fell into the same error with the post office, & broke the outer seal. percieving the mistake, I did not break the inner one, and now inclose the packet to you, trusting to your indulgence for an error so entirely unintentional. I salute you with great respect...
20012From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Willis Daingerfield, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am later this year than usual in expressing to you my willingness to retain for the next year the negroes I have heretofore hired of yourself & miss Sarah Dangerfield, because the letter of mr Hooe of Nov. 18. of the last year assured me it would be your desire to continue them with me as long as I might have occasion for them. I have counted therefore on retaining them, with the exception...
20013From Thomas Jefferson to Lem. Chipman, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Electors of the county of Ontario in the State of New York. The wrongs which we have sustained, fellow citizens, from the belligerent powers of Europe, & of which you have taken so just a view in your address, recived by me on the 27th. of the last month, could not fail to excite in the bosoms of freemen the sentiments of high indignation expressed by you. the love of peace had long...
20014From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson wrote to me a few days ago to know whether he had ever had the small pox, & added that till he could learn that fact he kept himself from the Anatomical dissections by advice of Dr. Wistar. I wrote him that I thought I recollected that he & Anne were inoculated in Richmond under your eye, but that I was not quite certain. will you be so good as to give the answer by return of post...
20015From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 13 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I now transmit to both houses of Congress a report of the Commissioners appointed under the act of Mar. 29. 1806. concerning a road from Cumberland to Ohio, being a statement of the proceedings under the said act, since their last report communicated to Congress, in order that Congress may be enabled to adopt such further measures as may be proper under existing circumstances. DNA : RG...
20016From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns the inclosed report to mr Gallatin with his entire approbation & affectionate salutations. P.S. on reconsideration. the use of the words ‘temporary’ & ‘permanent’ in the 6th. page applied to the embargo, may give countenance to the federal charge & clamour, as if we had really contemplated it as a permanent measure: and altho’ the idea as here explained, is just, yet they...
20017From Thomas Jefferson to William Ray, 14 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr William Ray and his thanks for the book & poetical epistle he has been so kind as to send him. a Narrative of the expedition & loss of the Philadelphia, of the sufferings of her crew, & exploits of our brave Tars before Tripoli, cannot be read by an American but with great interest. he should have read it however with more satisfaction had he found...
20018From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 14 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate the several persons named in the inclosed list, signed by the Secretary at War, to the several commands therein proposed under the act of Apr. 12. 1808. for raising for a limited time an additional military force. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
20019From Thomas Jefferson to Catherine Church Cruger, 15 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The favor of your letter by mr Cruger was recieved with great pleasure, & I have further to acknolege that of making him known to me. it would have been a great gratification, had the occasion permitted me to be useful to you in giving the license sollicited by mr Cruger. but the time for doing that expired some months ago, after having been duly announced in the public papers. since that no...
20020From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 15 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have prepared the two principal answers to the Indians, & pray you to read them attentively & to suggest any alterations you would advise. in that to the Poughtewatamy, it is difficult to go exactly as far in restraining him as we can without committing ourselves absolutely to oppose force, which we must not do. I do not think I yet understand sufficiently the evidence against the claim of...