12811From John Adams to Thomas McKean, 26 November 1813 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for yours of the 15th. Mr Colman is much pleased and very grateful for your kind reception of him and regrets that his limited time would not permit him a longer Enjoyment of your Society and Civility. As far as I recollect to have heared; your Account of the political Sentiments of Pensilvania and Delaware are mathematically exact, in 1774.5.6 I mean. An Analysis of the Interests and...
12812Thomas Jefferson to Charles Simms, 2 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of May 25. and am thankful to you for the favor of notifying me, as I have not been yet advised by mr Cathalan of the actual dispatch of the wine. I expected 2. parcels from him, the one of 200. bottles of wine of Nice (red) the other a wine of Roussilon , a somewhat larger quantity, but I do not exactly know how much, because it depended on the price. which...
12813Thomas Jefferson to Peter Wilson, 20 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Of the last five months I have been absent four from home which must apologise for so very late an acknolegement of your favor of Nov. 22. and I wish the delay could be compensated by the matter of the answer. but an unfortunate accident puts that out of my power. during the course of my public life, and from a very early period of it, I omitted no opportunity of procuring vocabularies of the...
12814From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 2 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday morning your Letter of 6. November, which I mark number 41 was delivered to me—Why it had been so long on the road I know not—That of the 3d: I had received a full week sooner—It always give me some uneasiness to be more than a week without hearing from you, but as the time for the freezing of the Russian rivers has come I was attributing the delay of your Letters to some such...
12815To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 26 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I should not take the liberty of addressing the following observations to yourself; had I not recently heard that the Secretary of War is very unwell. The Court Martial for the trial of Genl. Wilkinson has been in session twenty three days, and for the want of the principle witnesses on the part of the prosecution, no witnesses have yet been examined, the Judge Advocate having declined...
12816To James Madison from Jabez W. Heustis, 3 January 1816 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to claim your attention for a moment to a subject, to which equity, impartiality and honour, cannot fail to give a candid hearing. Your Exelency and Congress have been duly impressed with a sense of the important acquisition which the honour of our Country has derived from the heroic achievements, and the glorious victories, affected by the valour of our intrepid Navy, and have...
12817Thomas Jefferson to Burgess Allison, 20 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I had seen the advertisement of your spinning machine some time ago, and wished to know it’s principle, as I was certain it would be ingenious. I have just been gratified with it in mr Cooper’s emporium, and am as much pleased with it as I expected. it has some valuable improvements on the Jenny which I am in the use of in my family. will you be so good as to inform me what one of them of 12...
12818From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
After I had written the letter of which I now enclose a copy, intending to have it ready for Mr: Smith, an opportunity was presented me of sending it by another conveyance—and Mr Smith not being ready to go, I dispatched it; so that as he is now upon his departure I shall send by him two letters instead of one, for you—And as the Winter opportunities are so unfrequent, I write by him also to...
12819To James Madison from John Adams Smith, 18 May 1815 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of presenting myself to the President to solicit the appointment of Secretary of Legation to the Court of St. James’s where my Uncle Mr John Quincy Adams has been appointed Minister from the United States. I have reason to believe that my appointment would be particularly agreeable to Mr Adams. I have addressed myself to the Secretary of State with a request that he would...
12820Thomas Jefferson’s Quitclaim to John Harvie, 18 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Know ye that Thomas Jefferson of Monticello in the county of Albemarle in consideration of the sum of one dollar to him in hand paid by John Harvie of the county of Rockingham , and of sundry covenants entered into between the said Thomas & John, doth by these presents remise, release, & for ever quitclaim for himself & his heirs unto the said John & his heirs, all the right, title, & claim...
12821From James Madison to James Monroe, 15 August 1813 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with yours of the 12th. which was due yesterday, but the mail it seems lost a day between Washington & Fredg. I hope the arrival of Bloomfield will contribute to lessen the collisions, which are so inconvenient. In the mean time your & the Secy. of the Navy’s advice cannot but be useful; and I dare say, from Bloomfield’s character, that it will occasionally be acceptable to...
12822Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 28 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A late domestic affliction has occasioned my long inattention to yours of the 13 th Ult o which was duly received. Although the mode of settlement of your bonds stated in your that letter, does not correspond with my own impressions of what is the general practice or the law upon this subject, yet your assurance that other claims of a similar nature have been settled by you on in this manner,...
12823Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 1 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Correa has favored me with a copy of your catalogue of D r Priestly ’s library, on which I have found the articles underwritten , which I will pray you to forward to me, or such of them as remain on hand, to Richmond to the address of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson merchants there, who will pay the freight. I believe there are few weeks or days without a vessel sailing from Philadelphia for
12824José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At Last M rs Barton has sent me a Little morocco bound volume , part of Capt. Lewis journal containing his observations from April 9 of 1805 to February 17 1806 , and the meteorológical observ. for July August Sp September . 1805, together with the drawing of a quadruped which he calls the Fisher . As the chaos of His Library begins to clear, by the separation of printed books which are sold...
12825To James Madison from Alexander J. Dallas, 9 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the President of the United States referred the resolution of the 10th of February, 1816, requesting that there might be laid before the House of Representatives “such of the accounts of James Thomas, late a deputy quarter master general of the United States, as relate to the purchases made, or expenses incurred, under any order of General Smyth, in the...
12826Thomas Jefferson to Martin Oster, 5 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, four days ago, a letter from M. de Pauly with such a statement of the facts in the case of Mons r & M de de Beauvois as enables me to write him an opinion as to the course to be pursued. not knowing how the good offices required to be rendered M. de Beauvois may be divided between you, I have thought it might serve him further to inclose you a copy of my letter to M. Pauly , which...
12827From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
At length, after another interval of nearly seven Months since I had been favoured with the sight of a line from any of my friends at Quincy, yours of 29. July has come to hand—It is nearly seven Months old, but is more than three Months later than your last previous letter. As it came under cover to Mr Barlow, I suppose it did not reach Paris, untill after his departure from that City— Thence...
12828Thomas Jefferson to William Caruthers, 12 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 3. has been recieved, and in answer to your enquiries respecting sheep, I will state that I have three distinct races which I keep at different places. 1. Merinos; of these I have but 2. ewes, and of course none to spare. President Madison has been more succesful, and sells some ram lambs, but not ewes. the Merino is a diminutive tender sheep, yielding very little wool, but...
12829John Ledyard to Thomas Jefferson, 28 May 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You will without doubt, upon opening my letter of the 26 th instant , be much supprised at my unbounde request, indeed my mind is much altered from what it was when I poot my letter of the 26 th instant into the post office I am sensible that my request was much more than I had any right to suspect from any one,—but sir if you will comply with the following request, you will much oblige one...
12830To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 30 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
With sincere Sympathy I sit down to inform you that this evening your amiable nephew expired. His Sufferings from the last Symptoms of his disease were much less than is common in similar Cases. I write this note in great haste, as the post office will close in a few minutes, and with a View that your brother may be stopped on his Way to Philadelphia. From Dear Sir yours truly and respectfully...
12831Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 5 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Dec. 14. reached this place just after I had left it for Bedford . this has occasioned the delay of the answer. I now inclose you the paper you requested on the boundaries of Louisiana . it is a bad Polygraph copy; however it is legible. there is nothing secret in the paper and therefore may be freely used as you please, except that I would not have it printed, but with the...
12832Robert Turner to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not the honour of being personally acquainted with you, I have taken the liberty of enclosing to you, a paper containing my ideas concerning the earth, which was were lately published in this Town. As you have have no doubt thought much on the same subject, I shall consider it a great favour, if you will examen the theo r y in the enclosed, and honour me with your opinion of...
12833From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I shall send you by the earliest opportunity the newly published numbers of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; but unless you read Cobbett’s New-York Register, you will not have the key to the secret History of those works—There are now three very distinct parties in this Country—Tories, or the Ministerial party—Whigs—and Reformers—The Quarterly Review is the Literary instrument of the...
12834William Plumer to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been sometime engaged in writing the history of the United States , & the biography of some of its most eminent citizens ; & knowing, from the acquaintance I had with you at Washington during the five years I was a member of the Senate , of your extensive knowledge of historical facts not only relating to this country but of the world in general, I am induced to take the liberty of...
12835To James Madison from John McMaster, [ca. 18 February 1811] (Madison Papers)
The Petition and representation of John McMasters now a prisoner in the common gaol in Wiscasset in the district of Maine, humbly sheweth, That your petitioner at the instance of the Attorney of the United States for the district of Maine has been sued in two actions for a supposed breach of the laws of the United States, commonly called the Embargo Laws ; that at the district Court holden at...
12836Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 19 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you the horse agreeable to your request, & think you will find him to suit you. M r Gilmer said nothing about the time of payment for his horse to me but I am so certain that he will not be straitened for money before the time you mention, that I shall not hesitate to accept your offer if you like him upon trial. The Horse while in the Service of M r Carr , for one or two Winters was...
12837From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have already written you once, by Mr: Gallatin, who, together with Mr Bayard left this City on the Evening of 25. January, for Amsterdam—But as Mr Harris our Consul, who was also the Secretary of Legation to the Extraordinary Mission is to follow them in a few days, and expects to overtake them at Berlin, I consider it as another opportunity for writing to you, and have prescribed it as a...
12838To James Madison from William Plumer, 27 March 1813 (Madison Papers)
The recent elections in New Hampshire, it appears, have terminated by small majorities in favor of the federalists. The three branches of our State government in June next will each of them have small majorities of that character. Mr Gilman is probably elected Governor by a constitutional majority of from one to three hundred votes. Had our republicans who are in the army & in privateers been...
12839From John Adams to James Madison, 14 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I was yesterday honoured with the favour of the 5 inclosing Dr Waterhouses letter to me of the 23 of April announcing to me the afflicting news of the death of one of my oldest and most intimate Friends Dr Rush. Though I can scarcely look over an obituary without mourning some ancient friend or acquaintance, none has affected me more sensibly than the sudden departure of Dr Rush. His merit as...
12840To James Madison from Daniel Parker, 29 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I came to this city near four years since at the particular request of Mr. Eustis & without application on my part to be Chief Clerk in the War Dept. I then left the practice of law in which I had been several years established with good reputation & declined delivering any letters of introduction which my friends had pressed on me or sent to this place for that purpose—determining to have no...