1851From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 9 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. returns the inclosed papers to mr Gallatin. he had put Barnwell’s letter into his hands merely to see if the case called for any thing, and not with a view to any innovation. he supposes Barnwell, tho’ a good man, to be a little querulous in his disposition. affectte. salutns NHi : Papers of Albert Gallatin.
1852From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, [ca. 9 July 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The committee appointed to carry into execution the act concerning the library of Congress having desired me to act for them in the purchase and paiment of the books, I am to request you to furnish me with a bill on London for 1000. D. payable to George W. Erving or order and another on Amsterdam for 1000. D. payable to William Short esq. or order, to enable them to pay for the books which are...
1853From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I send for your perusal another letter of mr Madison which I will ask the favor of you to return immediately with the one sent on Saturday & on which it is necessary to act. the war on the continent of Europe appears now so certain, and that peace is at least one year off, that we are now placed at our ease in point of time. we may make another effort for a peaceable accomodation with Spain...
1854From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 2 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume we must furnish mr Christie with a revenue cutter and sell the Dolly. if Bright & Travis are not fit for their places, it is our duty of get rid of them, & this indirect way will hurt them less. —Bernard Ewell is a federalist, but I believe moderate, and not unjust towards the administration. I did not put into the Tariff the wines of Florence & Nebioule, because the latter is...
1855From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 7 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The following persons have either occurred or been proposed to me as candidates for emploiment in the survey of the coasts. Isaac Briggs Hasler of Philadelphia Garnett of N. Jersey. I do not know that he would accept. Wm Neill of N. Carolina strongly recommended by Mr. [Blackledge] but nothing more known of him. no specific mark of science is mentioned so as to know his grade. Major Rivardi,...
1856From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Decide according to your own & mrs Gallatin’s inclinations on the time and extent of your absence from hence. I sincerely sympathize with you on the circumstances which produce the necessity. I leave this myself on Thursday, and shall stay at home one fortnight. mr Madison goes about the 11th. as I learn and will return a little after me. I wish to write finally to mr Page on the subject of...
1857From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 8 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is suggested to me (indirectly from the person himself) that Jerome Bonaparte is at Baltimore under the name of Monsr. Dalbarton, with a son of Rewbell, and that they mean to ask a passage to France in one of our frigates. if this be the fact, he will have satisfied thereof the minister of his nation, thro’ whom we shall be apprised of it, & relieved from all trouble in deciding on it. this...
1858From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In my last I informed you I should have an opportunity of getting mr Madison’s opinion on the expediency of the sailing of the John Adams. I have done so, communicating to him your’s & mr Smith’s letters on the subject. the latter having informed us that two months pay were already advanced to the men, & her stores provided, the consideration of a defective appropriation was already got over,...
1859From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 10 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Something now occurs almost every day on which it is desirable to have the opinions of the heads of departments. yet to have a formal meeting every day would consume so much of their time as seriously to obstruct the regular business. I have proposed to them as most convenient for them & wasting less of their time, to call on me at any moment of the day which suits their separate convenience,...
1860From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
What would you think of raising a force for the defence of New Orleans by offering a bounty of 50. acres of land to be delivered immediately to every able-bodied man, on condition of settlement & holding himself in readiness to perform 2. years military service if called on within the seven first years of residence. the lands to be chosen by himself of any of those in the Orleans territory...
1861From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 13 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Gallatin and returns him the papers relative to the lighthouse at Faulkner’s island with his [approbation] of Joseph Griffin as keeper of it. the extraordinary voluminousness & late arrival of his last night’s mail puts it out of his power to answer mr Gallatin’s other letter of the 9th. and that of the 7th. till the next post. PrC ( DLC );...
1862From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 30 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
case of the Flensburg. Our laws permit a foreigner to hold any property in our country except lands. a foreigner may contract for a ship to be built for him, so that she will be his from the time of laying the keel, or he may contract so as that she shall be his only when launched, or when rigged Etc. the act of delivery to him or his agent fixes in that case the moment when she becomes his...
1863From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [23 February 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
the inclosed case is entirely unintelligible to me. can you make any thing of it? [ Reply by Gallatin :] Nicholas Reib is an old German who has tormented Congress & more particularly the Pennsylvania delegation for several years with his claim. It has been repeatedly rejected. If an answer is thought necessary, it will be sufficient to tell him that the Executive has no power in that case &...
1864From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, with Gallatin’s Reply, [on or before 24 February 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Are the within terms admissible? [ Reply by Gallatin :] The 1st, 2d & 4th are either in pursuance of, or, not inconsistent with the law, excepting only the words “all other documents belonging to the land department;” the Surveyor general superintends the surveying department, & has nothing to do with the sales of the lands, these being under the superintendence of the several registers, who...
1865From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison and Albert Gallatin, 20 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The application of William Greetham for a Mediterranean pass for a vessel owned here, tho built abroad, being unauthorised by practice; tho’ perhaps not by law, and concerning the departments of both the State & Treasury, I ask the favor of mr Madison and mr Gallatin to give me their opinions thereon: at the same time I communicate to them what passed on the subject of passports under General...
1866From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 27 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your’s of the 23d. and now return you Woolsey’s & Astor’s letters. I send you one also which I have recieved from a mr Thorn on the evasions of the embargo on L. Champlain. the conduct of some of our officers there and of some excellent citizens has been very meritorious, and I will thank you to express any degree of approbation you think proper in my name for Capt. Mayo....
1867From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 23 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My ideas on the questions relative to the Active, letter of marque stated in your letter of yesterday, are as follows. 1. Letters of marque have been considered ever since the decisions of 1793. to be of a mixed character, but that the commercial character predominates; and as a commercial vessel of private property we have in some case, since the proclamation of July, considered them as not...
1868Enclosure: Note on Passports, 20 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
When the war broke out which is now raging in Europe, our treaties with France, and Holland required that we should furnish to the vessels ‘belonging to the citizens of the US.’ passports in the forms prescribed by the treaties. it was very early made a question whether they should be granted to all vessels belonging to citizens of the US. or only to those built as well as belonging here. the...
1869From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Galloway, 28 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19th is dated on the day I left Washington and finds me here, where I propose to pass our annual recess during the sickly season. the letter of which you desire a copy is among my papers at Washington, locked up, and the key here so that no copy of it can be obtained till I return, the last week in September when, if not too late for your purpose it shall be attended to. I...
1870From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Galloway, 14 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 11th. and immediately proceeded to search for the letter of Nov. 30th. 1800. which you suppose to have been delivered to me. I found on reiterated examination that I possess no such letter. as every letter I recieve is filed away alphabetically, the search is short & easily practicable. I then turned to my letter list, for I note in a particular list the...
1871From Thomas Jefferson to Galt & Thomas, 9 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you an order of the B. Bank of this place on that at Baltimore for 194 D. 86c on account of David Higginbotham mercht of Milton, & to be placed to his credit with you as paid by Gent. Your humble sevt MHi : Coolidge Collection.
1872From Thomas Jefferson to James Gamble, 21 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 17th. has been duly recieved. I have long seen, and with very great regret, the schisms which have taken place among the republicans, & principally those of Pensylvania & New York. as far as I have been able to judge they have not been produced by any difference of political principle, at least any important difference, but by a difference of opinion as to persons. I...
1873From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gamble, 15 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 11th. requesting letters of introduction to England & France for your son, & a passport. the passport is now inclosed. early applications after I came into the administration for letters of introduction to foreign parts rendered it necessary to take into consideration the propriety of my furnishing such letters on any occasion. it was decided to be...
1874From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Gantt, 29 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a fresh supply of vaccine matter. the toothpicks are perhaps feebly impregnated; the thread well soaked. they are from pustules in a very proper state; but it is now 3. or 4. days since they were impregnated. we happen at this time to have no subjects in a proper state for communication. by the next post I hope we shall have some who may furnish matter on the morning of the...
1875From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Gantt, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 14th and am sorry I have no subject at present in such a stage of vaccination as to yield the matter in it’s proper state. on the 24th I shall have some, which will be in time to forward by the post which will reach you on the 29th as well as to carry on myself, as I shall be with you about the same time. it is now very much spread in this part of the...
1876From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Gantt, 20 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to Judge Gantt, and on behalf of James Oldham a former client of mr. Gantt, and now in the employ of Th: J. takes the liberty of asking whether he can give any information on the subject of Oldham’s claim against Jackson’s estate, or to whom Th: J. can address himself to obtain information which will be thankfully recieved. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1877From Thomas Jefferson to Michael Garbut, 6 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter to me on the subject of an invention respecting sea-vessels I sent it to mr Smith the Secretary of the Navy, to whom subjects of that kind belong. I now inclose you his answer, by which you will percieve what he further requests from you. Accept my best wishes. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
1878From Thomas Jefferson to John Gardiner, 30 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gardiner he has recieved his letter informing him that the city council had elected him a trustee to the institution for the education of youth in the city of Washington: & begs leave through him to return his thanks to the city council, and to assure them he shall always be ready to render the institution any service within his power. DLC : Papers...
1879From Thomas Jefferson to John Gardiner, 19 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the paper you were so kind as to inclose me, having had scarcely time to give it a hasty perusal. my time is so entirely engrossed with the public business, now more than ever crouding on me, that it is impossible for me to bestow attention on subjects not immediately incumbent on me. no one wishes success, more than I do to domestic manufacture, & especially under present...
1880From Thomas Jefferson to William Gardiner, 11 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The nomination of the principal officers of the government only resting with me, and all subordinate places being in the gift of those immediately superintending them, I return you the letters you were pleased to inclose me as they may be useful to you should you propose to make application to those directly who have the appointment in their several lines. if any vacancy be to be found it is...
1881From Thomas Jefferson to William Peppers, 8 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The offer of your service in support of the rights of your country, merits and meets the highest praise; and I tender you, for your country the thanks you so justly deserve. at the same time it is my duty to observe that by the act of Congress, referred to in your letter, the appointment of the officers to the Volunteer companies offering their services, is recognised as in the State...
1882From Thomas Jefferson to James Garrard, 18 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the date of my letter to you of Dec. 16. the Memorial of the Senate & House of Representatives of Kentucky to the President of the US. and the Senate & House of Representatives of Congress came to hand. in that letter I informed you that we had reason to believe that the suspension of the right of deposit at New Orleans was an act merely of the Intendant, unauthorised by his...
1883From Thomas Jefferson to James Garrard, 16 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 30. has been duly recieved. the occlusion of the port of N. Orleans by the Spaniards, which is the subject of it, was calculated to give great alarm through the US. and especially the Western parts. information of it was recieved here from N. Orleans on the 6th. inst. and on the 8th. measures were taken to have the proceeding rectified. we think the evidence tolerably...
1884From Thomas Jefferson to John Gassaway, 17 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the resolutions of the republican citizens of Annapolis and Anne-Arundel county, of the 4th. inst. which you were so kind as to forward to me. That the aggressions & injuries of the belligerent nations have been the real obstructions which have interrupted our commerce, & now threaten our peace, & that the embargo laws were salutary & indispensably necessary to meet those...
1885From Thomas Jefferson to John Gassaway, 12 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved a letter, which I presume I may consider as coming from yourself—proposing that your son, of 4. years old only may recieve the appointment of a Midshipman. after acknoleging my sense of the kind disposition manifested in the name given him, it is my duty to observe that the earliest period at which midshipmen are recieved is about 10. years of age, when they have learned to...
1886From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 8 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege your friendly letter of Feb. 9. as well as a former one . before that came to hand an arrangement had been settled; and in our country you know, talents alone are not to be the determining circumstance, but a geographical equilibrium is to a certain degree expected. the different parts in the union expect to share the public appointments. the character you pointed out was...
1887From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 20 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 7th. inclosing the work of your mathematical friend mr Garnet. I should once have been better able to estimate it’s merit and accuracy than I am now. many years of constant application to matters of a very different kind have lessened my familiarity with mathematical operations. the paper however sufficiently proves that your friend is an adept in this...
1888From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 11 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I accept with pleasure, and with pleasure reciprocate your congratulations on the acquisition of Louisiana: for it is a subject of mutual congratulation as it interests every man of the nation. the territory acquired, as it includes all the waters of the Missouri & Missisipi, has more than doubled the area of the US. and the new part is not inferior to the old in soil, climate, productions, &...
1889From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 27 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is so pleasing as to find that what we have done is so exactly what is approved by the friends whose judgment we esteem. not a tittle of what you recommend has been omitted; and it has been in train from June last. one article only varies. the situation of fort Rosalie, now the Natchez, being less favorable for a fort, one of the best on the Missisipi, which happened to be very near...
1890From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Geanty, 23 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 15th. sincerely a friend to science, and to the promotion of it as the only means of relieving man from the tyranny of body and mind, I should have been happy to have been instrumental to your plans for this purpose. but my duties to the General government are so numerous, that I have been constrained to leave altogether to the states, or to the...
1891From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 14 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 26. was recieved on my return to this place. I have no information of a plough destined for me from England. but the Agricultural society of Paris informed me some time ago that they should send a plough for me to one of the ports of France, as a model. I presume this is the plough arrived, and that the vessel may have been carried into England. of the cost I know nothing,...
1892From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 30 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from Mr. Lee at Bordeaux I learn he has shipped for me to your address five cases of Bordeaux wines and 3. cases of preserves, the cost of the former 738.₶ of the latter not mentioned. I inclose you the bill of lading and will ask the favor of you to have the cases forwarded to this place by the first vessel, and to be so good as to inform me of the amount of duties & other charges...
1893From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Gelston for having forwarded the Stylograph recieved from Majr. Hunt, which came safely to hand. he has no information what it cost, in order to ascertain the duty; but observes by a printed advertisement that those of the highest price (folio) are 4. guineas in London, the middle price 3. guineas, the lowest (8vo.) 2. Guineas. his being a 4to. is...
1894From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 21 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Hoping that the present favorable change of weather will re-establish the health of New York, and restore it’s commercial communications, I take the liberty of recalling to your mind your letter of July 23. in which you mentioned that you had recieved from mr Appleton a bill of lading for 10. cases of Tuscan wine, & that you would forward the wine. I presume the wine itself arrived and now ask...
1895From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Two tierces of cotton seed sent me from Savanna to Baltimore I have desired messrs. Falls & Brown of that place to forward by the first vessel to New York in the hope they may arrive there before the departure of the public vessel bound from thence to France. should they arrive in time I will pray you to put them on board that vessel, with a card on them addressed to ‘M. Sylvestre Secretary of...
1896From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 20 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Gelston, acknoleges the reciept of his letter of the 4th. (since his return to this place) and will thank him to forward the two boxes of wine to this place or neighborhood by the first vessel. he will also, at his convenience, be so kind as to inform Th:J. of the reimbursements he has to make him. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
1897From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 5 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Oct. 9. was recieved in due time, & the articles mentioned in it are safely arrived. I now inclose you a draught of the US. bank here on that at N.Y. for 13.50 D which covers your account of 11. D. for duties &c, and I have taken the liberty of including with it 2.50 D for a mr D. Frazer of N. York author of a book entitled the ‘History of Man’ printed by Southwark & Hardcastle...
1898From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor announcing the shipment of one of the pipes of wine from mr Jarvis for this place, and I have heard of it’s safe arrival at Alexandria. I now inclose a draught of the bank of the US. of this place on that at N. York for 51.48 D the sum you had been so kind as to advance for me on it. Accept my salutations & assurances of esteem & respect MHi : Coolidge Collection.
1899From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing the within it occurred that the Vice President might have left New York. I therefore think it best to inclose it open to you for perusal, & to desire you to do immediately what is therein desired to be done by you, & then seal & have the letter delivered to the V. President, saying nothing of it’s contents to any other person. I pray you to lose not a moment in taking &...
1900From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 9 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I yesterday recieved your favor of the 1st. inst. announcing the reciept of 95. bottles of wine for me. it is a wine of Nebioule in Piedmont, and I presume of the non-enumerated class in the tariff of duties. that a box of medecines should come to me is incomprehensible, nor have I any advice of it. but as I am in the habit of recieving seeds & plants from mr Appleton, and from the Botanical...