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Letter not found. 15 May 1809. Acknowledged in Gelston to JM, 9 June 1809 . In his letter to JM of 20 July 1809 , Gelston mentions that the letter was “requesting the wine might be cased.”
Not recollecting that I have remitted you your advances for duties on wine &c. as stated in your favor of June 9. I now inclose a note for the amount $146.20. Should my recollection have failed me, it will cost you the trouble of returning it at your leisure. Accept my friendly respects RC ( NEh ).
I have recd. your favor of the 20th. I cannot doubt the pipe of Brandy to which it relates belongs to me. I have long known that one sent by Mr. Lee, was carried into England, where I understood that the neutral part of the Cargo was acquitted; the Vessel being condemned. Mr. Jos. Forrest now in N. Y. with a vessel coming round hither, has been requested to take charge of the Article. You will...
Letter not found. 29 June 1810. Acknowledged in Gelston to JM, 11 July 1810 . Sends $20 to cover various expenses and forwards a box of hams for Robert R. Livingston.
If this should happen to arrive before the sailing of the Hornet, be so good as to forward the packet for Mr. Pinkney by that opportunity; if not in time for that, by any safe one next offering from your port. If no early oppy. should offer for London, it will be nearly as well to send it to Liverpool, endorsing in this case, “to the care of Mr. Maury Consul of the U.S.” Accept my respects &...
16 July 1811, Washington. “The smallness of the sum, and the probability that it might be augmented by some further advances, have occasioned a delay in remitting $11.81. due to you, as intimated in your letter of Octobr. 5. last .” Encloses a draft for the sum on the Manhattan Bank. RC ( NNMus ). 1 p. Docketed by Gelston. See PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
20 December 1811, Washington. “J. Madison, with respects to Mr. Gelston, requests the favor of him, to forward the inclosed letter by the first safe conveyance to the Island of St. Kitts.” Printed facsimile ( Joseph Rubinfine American Historical Autographs , List 104 [West Palm Beach, Fla.], item 19). Enclosure not identified.
I am favored with yours of the 11th. and thank you for your promised attention to the Wine &c. from Lisbon. If the wine should not be cased, I beg that you will be good eno’ to have that precaution taken agst. injury on its way to this City. Accept my respects RC (owned by Marshall B. Coyne, Washington, D.C., 1987). Calendared in PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James...
I have recd. a letter from Francis Hall, charging the President of the U.S. with 2½ years Subscription for the Amn. Citizen, amounting to 25 dolrs. I know nothing more of the case than that since the 4th. of Mar. last, the paper has been sent to me, without being ordered; but as it was not forbidden, I think it right that the charge for one year should be paid by me. I send ten drs. for that...
¶ To David Gelston. Letter not found. 24 December 1815. Offered for sale in Christie’s “American and European Manuscripts and Printed Books” Catalogue, 19 Dec. 1986, lot 33), where it is described as a one-page autograph note, signed, and quoted as follows: “J. Madison requests the favor of Mr. Gelston to have the enclosed letter [not present] delivered according to its address.” MS torn and...
Immediately on the reciept of your favor of Apr. 22. I desired mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , my correspondents at Richmond to remit you the 18. D 25 c amount of duties of the two boxes of wine which you informed me you had recieved for me. this I trust they have done. in the mean time I have recieved one of the boxes containing 3. doz. bottles of wine (considerable breakage excepted) as you had...
A letter from Gen l Armstrong informs me that he brought a plough for me in the vessel in which he came from France , and that on writing to you, you will have the goodness to forward it to my direction. I must therefore pray you to have it sent to Richmond , to the address of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson , who will not only pay the freight there, but any expences incurred at N. York if you will...
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Gelston, & his thanks for his statement of the tonnage of steamboats now actually employed. he has no doubt that this invention will materially improve the condition of our country. he avails himself of this occasion of assuring mr Gelston of his constant esteem & respect. RC ( NNGL , on deposit NHi ); dateline at foot of text; lacks address cover....
I have written to a mr Ebenezer Herrick of West Stockbridge Mass. for a Spinning machine of his invention which he writes me he can more handily send to N. York than to any other port. I have taken the liberty to say to him that if he will commit it to you, you will be so kind as to have it embarked on board some vessel bound to Richmond . should any expence attend this, messieurs Gibson and...
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 26. and lose no time in replying to it. if a conveyance by a coasting vessel to Norfolk or Richmond can be found it is so much the simplest that I should prefer it, notwithstand g the risk brought on by the war. but the enemy have not yet had time to spread their privateers on our coast, nor have their ships of war as yet had time to catch our swift...
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gelston and his thanks for the pumpkin seed he has been so kind as to send him . he will with pleasure give them a trial; the pumpkin being a plant of which he endeavors every year to raise so many as to maintain all the stock on his farms from the time they come till frost, which is from 2. to 3. months. besides feeding his workhorses, cattle &...
Your favor of the 8 th is just now recieved, informing me of the reciept of a box of garden & flower seeds from mr Baker of Tarra gona for me. I do not think I can better dispose of them than by asking from the Botanical garden of New York their a ccept ance of them. perhaps there may be among them something worthy their notice and I am happy in an occasion of shewing my willingness to be...
Charges and Disbursements on 1. Package sundry Goods, marked and numbered as in the Margin, received by H ottinguer & C o from M r Bure — at Paris and shipt on Board the United States Captain Destebecho
I have just recieved a letter from John Martin Baker , our Consul, in which he informs me he had shipped a case of Barsac wine for me from Bordeaux by the American brig Gen l Ward addressed to your care. will you have the goodness to reship it to Richmond to the address of Mess rs Gibson and Jefferson of that place who will pay all charges which can be referred to them. such as cannot, I will...
Your favors of July 31. and Aug. 6. are both at hand. I considered that of A J uly 31. as answered by mine of Aug. 3. altho’ not then recieved: and indeed the general request I made you in that, anticipated the subject of your last letter also; by requesting all articles recieved from for
Your favor of Aug. 31. did not come to hand but by yesterday’s mail, delayed I presume by the late extraordinary floods . it brings me the first notice of the arrival of my books which I have been 3. or 4. months expecting . them but I have not yet recieved either invoice or letter. as we ought to suppose they came by the same ship, tomorrow’s mail may perhaps bring them, in which case you...
I wrote yesterday morning in answer to yours of Aug. 31. and in the evening recieved the Invoice you requested, which I now inclose with mr Warden ’s letters & other papers. I will thank you for the return of these when they shall have answered your purpose. as I presume the usual apprehensions from Equinoctial gales are not of many days, I will request you to forward the books to Richmond as...
Your favor of Sep. 26. was recieved a few days ago, and I have this day written to my correspondents in Richmond , mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to desire them to remit you the amount of the account you inclosed me , to wit 89.11 D which I trust they will do without delay. I am very thankful to you for your kind offices on this & similar occasions which I could with much difficulty arrange...
Your favor of the 11 th came to hand last night. supposing that mr Gibson will have sent on the former sum of 89.11 as mentioned in my letter of the 16 th before I could advise him to enlarge it, I have thought it best to inclose to you directly the additional sum of 6.60 D in Richmond bank notes which we understand to be at par in N. York , or if not exactly so the fractional cents on the...