1851From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Lilly having lately sent me the materials for the account of your rents for the year 1802. recieved by him in 1803. I am now enabled to send you an exact account of them from 1796. to 1802. inclusive; those subsequent to 1802. will be recieved by mr Price. the inequalities in those rents are to be explained. when the lands were purchased the tenants were on a fixed annual rent, & could run...
1852From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
There were sent from Philadelphia by Jones & Howell some time since 10. bundles of nailrod to make up the former deficiency , and three sheets of rolled iron, to your address; also by Genl. Muhlenberg of Philadelphia three pipes of wine, & from here lately 12. boxes marked TJ. and numbered 1. to 12. all to be forwarded to Monticello by water. I have directed my manager in Bedford, mr Griffin,...
1853From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 16th. of Nov. since which I have recieved no letter from you. the newspapers inform us you left Kaskaskia about the 8th. of December. I hope you will have recieved my letter by that day or very soon after; written in a belief it would be better that you should not enter the Missouri till the spring; yet not absolutely controuling your own judgment formed on the spot. we...
1854From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering and returns him Hutchins’s book with thanks for the use of it. that on Louisiana he had never before seen or heard of, and it has furnished him the first particular information of the line agreed on by the Commrs. under the treaty of Utrecht , he has ever been able to obtain. he had, the last summer, while among his books at Monticello,...
1855From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 13 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Director of the Mint having made to me his report of the transactions of the Mint for the year 1803. I now lay the same before you for your information. RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.). PrC ( DLC ). Recorded in SJL with notation “Mint.”
1856From Thomas Jefferson to J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 14 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Nov. 17. Dec. 29. & Jan. 4. have been duly recieved. I have desired mr Barnes to remit you 162.52 D according to the statement in your last, which he has either done, or will do immediately, and I pray you to accept my thanks for the trouble which has befallen you with these shipments. no law has yet passed for establishing a regular government in Louisiana. the Custom house of...
1857From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 15 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Vicepresident and is sorry that an error of his Secretary mentioning Thursday the 17th. instead of Tuesday the 17th. in his note of invitation should have occasioned a miscomprehension of the day. mr Harvie wrote a note correcting his error, to the V. President; but lest it should not have been delivered Th:J. asks leave to expect the pleasure of his...
1858Continuation of an Examination of the Boundaries of Louisiana, 15 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
P.S. the Northern boundary of Louisiana, Coterminous with the possessions of England. The limits of Louisiana have been spoken of, in the preceding statement , as if those established to the West & North, by the charter of Louis XIV. remained still unaltered. in the West they are so, as already explained. but, in the North, a material change has taken place. with this however it was...
1859From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering and will send him tomorrow Louis XIVth.’s charter to Crozat , the book having been sent to the Secy. of state’s office to have copies of the charter made out, and the office being closed till tomorrow. he will thank mr Pickering for the return of the paper sent him, when perused, as it was a rough draught & no copy retained, and these...
1860From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 16 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night from mr Higginbotham a draught of yours on me for forty seven pounds payable in April. I shall delay writing to him till the next post by which I may hear from you. I considered our settlement of Aug. 11 and the balance of 558.14 D paiable Dec. 15. and actually paid as soon as the note was presented, as in full of the principal money due on all the purchases, and that the...
1861From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Pickering and sends him an office copy of Crozat’s grant, prepared to be sent by mr Bearing, of which he will therefore ask the return. RC ( MHi : Pickering Papers). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: copy of 1714 charter to Antoine Crozat (see TJ to Pickering, 15 Jan. ).
1862From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 16 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In execution of the act of the present session of Congress, for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France, & for the temporary government thereof, Governor Claiborne of the Missisipi territory, & Genl. Wilkinson were appointed Commissioners to recieve possession. they proceeded with such regular troops as had been assembled at Fort Adams, from the nearest posts, and with some...
1863From Thomas Jefferson to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 16 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Speaker of the H of R and asks the favor of him, when the papers accompanying his message of this day shall have been read in his house, to be so good as to deliver them to mr Harvie, who will be waiting to carry them, with a similar message, to the other house. but one copy of them was recieved, and it was thought best not to retard the communication...
1864Warrant for Delivery of Louisiana Stock , 16 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Whereas by an Act, passed the tenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, entitled “An Act authorizing the creation of a stock to the amount of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying into effect the Convention of the 30th. of April one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America, and the French...
1865From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, 17 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 8th. but the act of ratification which it announces, is not yet come to hand. no doubt it is on it’s way. that great opposition is and will be made by federalists to this amendment is certain. they know that if it prevails, neither a Presidt. or Vice President can ever be made but by the fair vote of the majority of the nation, of which they are not. that...
1866From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 19 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your friendly attentions the bearer mr Harvie . he is a young gentleman of the first order of talents, education, standing, and prospect in our country. he is the son of my particular friend , and with a view to prepare him for the public scene on which he will shortly enter, I invited him to become a member of my family for about a twelvemonth, in order that he might...
1867From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 19 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Harvie, a young gentleman who has lived with me since the departure of Captn. Lewis on his expedition up the Missouri, making a short visit to Paris, I have thought I ought not to deny him the advantage of your acquaintance. he has fine talents, great information, is moral & honourable. he is destined by his genius, acquirements and standing in society to run the career of political honour...
1868From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Pickering (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to the honble mr Pickering and returns him the paper on the subject of boundary with thanks for the communication. he acknoleges the ingenuity of the views it presents, but thinks they can be combated on very solid ground, and that it is our duty to meet them. he thinks it impossible that an express stipulation that we shall go to the N. Western point of...
1869From Thomas Jefferson to William Brent, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The departure of mr Harvie for Europe within a day or two, will leave the office of my private secretary again vacant. a continuance of the same sentiments with respect to yourself, induces a repetition of the offer , under the possibility that the reasons on your part for declining it may not continue. I shall willingly admit every accomodation which may reconcile the few duties it will...
1870From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desirous to obtain two copies of the New testament in Greek or Greek & Latin, both of the same edition exactly; and two others in English, both also of the same edition; and all four of the same format, that they may admit being bound up together. the format to be either 8vo. or 12mo. but the latter of preference. will you be so good as to endeavor to procure these for me? Accept my...
1871From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas T. Hewson, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The renewed evidence of regard which I recieve through you from the American Philosophical society, calls for my grateful acknolegements. the suffrage of a body of men, of the first order of science, associated for the purposes of enlightening the mind of man, of multiplying his physical comforts improving his moral faculties, and enlarging the boundaries of his knowledge in general, is a...
1872From Thomas Jefferson to the Portsmouth, Virginia, Baptist Society, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is some time since I recieved a letter from you of which it has not been in my power sooner to make the acknolegements justly due for it. The satisfaction which you express, on behalf of the Baptist society of the town of Portsmouth, with the course of the present administration in general, and particularly with the substitution of economy for taxation, & the progress and prospect exhibited...
1873From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 22 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters since your departure have been of July 11. & 15. Nov. 16. and Jan. 13. yours recieved are of July 8. 15. 22. 25. Sep. 25. 30. & Oct. 3. since the date of the last we have no certain information of your movements. with mine of Nov. 16. I sent you some extracts made by myself from the journal of an agent of the trading company of St. Louis up the Missouri. I now inclose a translation...
1874From Thomas Jefferson to David Meade Randolph, 23 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
An appeal to the Executive, when justice is understood to be refused by any department, is always proper. on the receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. I inclosed it to the Secretary of the Treasury for explanations. the business lying within the Comptroller’s line of duty, he has returned the answers which I now inclose you, and from which it would seem that the final liquidation of your...
1875From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Our Milton post not having come in last night, we are without news from you. I suppose he has been delayed by the weather, a severe snow storm having begun yesterday morning & still continuing. the snow is supposed to be now a foot deep, and is still falling with unabated fury. as it is the first, so I hope it will be the last of our severe winter weather. it is so tempestuous that I presume...
1876From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 23 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17th. is duly recieved; and consoles me under the chagrin of the necessity which had come upon me, contrary to my calculation but it will not lessen the devotion of my efforts to the main object. I had just before the reciept of your letter fallen on a bundle of papers which I had brought with me from Monticello to put into your hands. but they escaped my recollection &...
1877From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 24 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Harvie concludes not to go to Richmond. I think it would be best for you to write to Baltimore & N. York for information of every vessel in port, and to sail soon, & on what day, for any port on the Western coast of the Continent of Europe. this being known we can take our choice, and, without any previous engagement of passage, mr Harvie can arrive at Baltimore or N. York 24. hours before...
1878Notes on Lewis Harvie’s Mission, 24 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Harvie Lewis. to be allowed 38.05 D per month for months, his passage there & back, also his passage from the seaport to Paris with the stock, as would have been paid to a special person by our Consul who should have employed one to carry it on. if taken & carried to England , such extra expence to be allowed him as would have been allowed to the Lieutt. destined for that service in the same...
1879From Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 24 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Governor Claiborne’s letter accompanying this is communicated merely for information. some of the matter, proper for the hearing of the house, would yet be improper for the press. over two passages, which are personal, blank papers are fixed, because they are not important enough for closed doors, nor proper even to be read with open ones. will you be so good as to return the letter, when...
1880From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicate, for your information, a letter just recieved from Governor Claiborne, which may throw light on the subject of the government of Louisiana, under contemplation of the legislature. the paper being original, it’s return is asked. RC ( DNA : RG 233, PM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. PrC ( DLC ). RC ( DNA : RG 46, LPPM , 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a...