1To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 11 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
...interests, remove animosities & hostilities, and increase common cause. It is a matter of confidence and union, that the capacity of Pennsa. in the manufactory of rifles, muskets, pistols, swords, gun powder, cannon, ball & shells is an internal security for defence to Georgia and Maine, to Delaware & Kentucky.
2To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 1 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
...the squadron could either destroy the city or refrain, but give no quarter to ships of other nations they might meet there. They could then cruise from Tangier to Marseilles, shelling Algiers from time to time for a year afterward and ignoring any treaties or offers because the Algerines fulfill none. This would persuade the emperor of Morocco to uphold his treaty and refrain from providing...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Elmslie, Jr., 12 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
marine Shells
4To Thomas Jefferson from “A. Z.,” 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately read your justly celebrated Notes on the State of Virginia, it occurred to my mind to account for the shells of fishes being on the mountains in Virginia and So. America in the following manner—...thrust upward to a high elevation; and third, a suggestion by Voltaire that nature might create shell-like forms without the presence of marine life. In TJ’s opinion, “the three...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William Caruthers, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...against an object Would have—Whethe the Violent Motion and mode of Dischage Would increase the Shock more than the Common mode of Discharging a Phial—if it Should be found to be the Case Shells in the form of Boms might be Constructed of a Size perhaps to answer the purpose Mentioned in the first of this letter but their Will be Considerable Diffiquilty in enclosing the Charge so that...
6From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 August 1801 (Adams Papers)
...with great pleasure. There are too many Subjects of curious speculation in them for me to enlarge upon them. There is one Subject of Investigation however that I wish you would pursue. The Generation of shell fish. Will you be So good as to inform me, in which Writer this Subject is most fully treated.—I Suspect that the Generation of the greatest part of them is on the Surface of...
7To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 October 1801 (Adams Papers)
I do not scruple, to confess my ignorance, with respect to the best authors on the generation of shell-fish. There are manÿ valuable productions in respect to it in the Dutch language—which I have perused—when in Europe—of the English I have only seen Woodward’s, who dived deep in this matter, and small......of the formation of the shells—though it struck me by its novelty, and was highly...shells
8To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 11 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
All the Morasses where these Bones have been found, have marly Bottoms. Bones found in the whitest shell-marle, are most perfect, those parts found in a bluesh coloured marle, less so, and bones found in the black marles, generally in total decay....have found, exhibits these facts in the clearest point of view. The Shell-marle it is probable possesses much anticeptic qualities—The Spring...
...Isle of Wight I saw Boats from Colchester daily employed in collecting this Spat to carry home to be deposited on the oyster grounds at that place, where they grow very fast. Whether the eggs laid by the shell fish at the bottom of the sea, are light enough to rise to the surface and are there blown about by the Winds untill they are hatched by the Warmth of the sun I know not. this is...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Stuart Kerr, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
as received 22 Nov., but has not been found. On 23 Nov. 1802, TJ requested that Bridges deliver the box of shells from Armenteros to Caspar Wistar at the American Philosophical Society ( ; at foot of text: “Mr. Robert Bridges”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso). The same day, TJ wrote Wistar, informing him to expect the shells and forwarding the letters from Bridges and Armenteros ( ...shells at...