31To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 22 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed is a copy of a letter which I wrote to Mr. Monroe the 4th of april, to the care of yourself; and annexed is the copy of one to yourself of the 27th of march; both of which, I presume from their not being acknowledged, have been intercepted: and if this is the case, I wish to ascertain it. I have the honor to remain with the most perfect esteem & respect yours sincerely RC ( DLC ); at...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Louis Clérisseau, 23 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite d’une ocasion tres favorable pour vous faire parvenir ces lignes qui vous prouveront que je conserve toujours les Sentiments les plus Sensibles pour une persone qui a bien voulû m’honorer de Sa confiance et qui a daigné estre Satisfait de mes productions en m’en donant les preuves les plus distingués. Je prend la liberté de vous prier de vous resouvenir de moi. Je me trouverois tres...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 24 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
This forenoon I was inform’d by a Letter from N York that Mr. Apthorp is dead and to be buried tomorrow. The family extremely solicitous that I should come on without delay. I shall from New York write a Letter to Mr. Caffery who wrote me concerning the big Bones and after thanking him for his attention to my former Request shall refer him to such Letter as he may receive from some Officer of...
34To Thomas Jefferson from William Linn, 25 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to excuse the liberty I take in enclosing to you a list which has appeared in the newspapers of the names and numbers of the Indian tribes in North America. A circular address which accompanies it will inform you of the occasion of giving you this trouble. I have nothing to plead for interrupting your attention a moment to the affairs of the nation at this alarming and eventful...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 28 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return last evening from Mrs. Gerrys friends, on the Jersey side of North River, I received your letter of the 25th, and am happy to inform you, that you have received all my letters: it was mine to Mr. Monroe, which was dated the 4th of april. I was mortified to find, that before Mr. Osgood was informed of my intention to be here, he received your letter of the 13th of may and sent it...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 28 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I had expected to inclose a Letter by the friday Mail for Mr. Caffery Nashville, Tennessee for I arrived here on Thursday PM but to write was impracticable. In a family of five young Ladies who had by a very short Illness lost a Parent, they too of much sensibility and delicate Constitutions, I found other attentions than writing Letters. I gave Mr. Cafferrys Letter to Dr. Wistar and wrote the...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Sebastian Bauman, 29 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to inclose to you a pamphlet containing a statement of the cause of the resignation of all the Officers of the Regiment of Artillery of the City and County of New York, which I had the honor to command and which I hope will do away any unfavourable impressions our proceedings may have made in the mind of the public. I am Sir with great respect Your Obedt and very Humbe...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 7 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. T. Coxe returns, with his best respects, the pamphlet Mr. Jefferson was so good as to lend him. It certainly has merit both for information, and reasoning. But Mr: Coxe would wish to see An Enquiry into the means of Prosperity to the United States well handled, before he would think it safe to settle finally the commercial course they ought to steer. Commerce would in his opinion be found...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bell, 12 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18th. Ult. came to hand the 10th. Inst. The delay was Owing to the Small pox in Fredriksburg and a Neglect of the post master not sending on to Richmond. I am Sorry to see that there is a probability of Congress Sitting much longer than you expected and that the tone of the house looks rather hostile. Nicholases Amendment Spoke a Mildness which in our Situation, in my weak...
40To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson, 12 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters to my sister and myself did not arrive here till the 9th. They were stopt in Fredericksburg by the sickness of the post boy, and were at last sent round by Richmond. We learnt with sorrow indeed that you had again been tormented by your rheumatism, the consolation of seeing you when you are ill is the only one I know—and I never feel the distress of separation as much as then. I...
41To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Malon, 15 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Le desir d’etre utile a mon Semblable m’avoit fait naitre l’idée de donner au public par la voie des journeaux le Secret de deux remedes precieux a l’humanité en general, mais plus precieux encore dans un Vaste pais ou la pluspart des habitants épars ne peuvent Se procurer aisement les Secours de la medecine; mais j’ai reflechi que la Classe que j’ai le plus en vue de Secourir, L’honnête...
42To Thomas Jefferson from John Gibson, 17 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have Been honoured with your letter of the 31st. ulto., which I shoud have answered by the return of the same post, But coud not procure a Copy of Logan’s Speech, Before the post set out. I have since seen one in the American Encyclopædia , the Extract of which is said to be taken from your notes, and is, to the best of my recollection, nearly the Substance of Logans Speech as delivered by...
43To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 20 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letter of the 4th. Inst. and beg you to accept my thanks for the various interesting communications which it contains. I shall certainly avail myself of the information which you have been polite enough to give me on the subject of News papers. Bache’s we already have, to this I will add Smiths when he begins to publish. We receive as you surmize the...
44To Thomas Jefferson from Aaron Burr, 21 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you my dear Sir, I thank you sincerely for your letter . The Moment requires free communication among those who adhere to the principles of our Revolution. The Conduct of some individuals of the Treaty Majority has disappointed me a good deal. That of the executive something also, but much less. From the insidious professions Which were made in Feby. and March I had been led to hope...
45To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, 21 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have much pleasure in acquainting you, that at the last meeting of the Board of Agriculture , you were admitted a Foreign Honorary Member of that Board, an honour to which your zeal for the improvement of agriculture so justly entitles you, and which I have no doubt will prove an additional inducement, to your assisting the Board in bringing that most valuable Art to its highest state of...
46To Thomas Jefferson from Luther Martin, 24 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In your notes on Virginia, combating certain sentiments of the celebrated Buffon, you have given us an eulogium of the North American savages, and, to establish their eminence in oratory, have introduced the speech of Logan ( whom you have dubbed a Mingo chief ) to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia;—a morsel of eloquence, in your opinion, not to be excelled by any passage in the orations...
47To Thomas Jefferson from Van Staphorst & Hubbard, 26 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
We have before us your very esteemed favors of 27 and 28 March. Accept our hearty thanks for your kind and friendly interference in procuring an Act aggregating us to the Citizenship of the State of Virginia, And be assured, We shall ever be happy on all occasions to testify our gratitude to You and to the State. As matters have turned out in this Country it is little probable We shall have...
48To Thomas Jefferson from La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 30 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je recois avec une sensible reconnoissance, Monsieur, lavis que vous voulés bien me donner de L’arrivé du Colonel Munroe. Votre Obligeante lettre qui auroit du me parvenir hier ne m’est parvenue qu’aujourdhuy. Et j’avois esperé des hier Cette importante arrivé. J’ignorois toute fois Les agreables détails qui me Concernent et ils acquierent un prix de plus en me parvenant par vous. J’ay pris la...
49To Thomas Jefferson from Willem H. van Hasselt, 30 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The manner in which I go to adress meself to you hath I confess something extrordinary in it, and deviating from the common forms received by the world, will perhaps surprise you, and dispose you in my disadvantage, as being an utter Stranger to you: but Sir as necessity acknowledges no law, and the report I often heard of you as a Philosopher and a Citizen, I presume to take this step, and...
50Account with John Francis, 3 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
To John Francis Dr. To 7 Weeks & 5 days board at 26 dollars a week 200.55 To Wine porter &c 25. 225.55 Phila. July 3d. 1797 Received payment of the above account in full MS ( MHi ); entirely in Francis’s hand; endorsed by TJ on verso. Not recorded in SJL . John Francis was the owner of the hotel at 13 South Fourth Street in Philadelphia that served as TJ’s residence while in the city during...
51To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 4 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Peace being happily restored on the Western Frontier, I had form’d the design of living in quiet, the remainder of my days, that is to decline writing, or almost thinking, of politics. But again we see our Country verging to an eventful crisis. I am fill’d with anxiety respecting her liberty, and independence, lest they are lost, and with them the happiness of so many Millions of the human...
52To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Charles Genet, 4 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Long Island, 4 July 1797. Stirred from his present tranquil life by a speech Giles made in Congress on 25 May, which blamed Genet for rude conduct toward the executive and for attempting to appeal directly to the American people, Genet responds not to Giles but to TJ, who has been his principal accuser and was the person through whom the government primarily dealt with him when he was minister...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 5 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Je Suis aussi touché de Votre offre, en la considerant et quant au fonds et quant à la forme, que le peut être un cœur qui Connaît le Sentiment de L’amitié et le prix de la générosité. Je N’hesiterais pas de l’accepter, si j’étais dans le cas. Mais heureusement mon œconomie et ma prévoyance ne me laissent rien à desirer du coté de l’argent. Mon motif de rester ici porte sur d’autres causes,...
54To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 6 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your obliging letters of the 12th of may , and 21st of June, I have received; and have taken a step, by accepting the appointment to France, which it is difficult to justify to my family, under existing circumstances. Your information and opinion, which had great influence in this decission; the weighty considerations, that the appointment having been once declined, a second refusal might at...
55To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here two days since and sit out in return the day after to morrow for Phila. where I shall probably be a fortnight before I proceed on home. Here I have had an interview with the friend of Mr. or Mrs. R. each of us having a friend present , and which furnished no result, the business being adjourned over to Phila. where we meet the day after my return there in company with the other...
56To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, 15 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inclose a Copy of my address to The Board of Agriculture , delivered at the close of our late Session, from which you will perceive the present State of our Pursuits in the great Cause of Agriculture ; I hope it will have the good fortune of meeting with your approbation. I also have the pleasure of herewith sending the remainder of the Original Surveys according to the...
57To Thomas Jefferson from Volney, 19 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Surlendemain de Votre départ, le propriétaire du Vaisseau qui réunissait Mes Convenances s’etant decidé à Ne point l’expedier, je me decidai de mon côté à quitter philadelphie, et depuis cinq à Six jours je respire dans la Ville-campagne d’où je Vous ecris un air peut-etre aussi chaud Mais plus pur. Il N’est plus question de la fievre. Vous M’avez demandé Mon plan de Marche, le Voici. Le...
58To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 26 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy in being favored with yours of 18th—on Receipt of which, I opened the Box, and shall repack, the enormous tooth, Address, and deliver it, as directed. Annexed, you have Invoice of sash doors, as well your account up to this day, which on examining—I trust and hope will be found pretty Correct; though different—from yours’s in some items—and mode of Statement: if any errors—pray Note...
59To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 31 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai appris dans le tems Avec bien de l’interet votre Election et j’ai tout de Suite Compris par la nature des Suffrages, qu’il ne vous Seroit pas possible de vous refuser Au Vœu de vos Concitoyens. Lorsque les votes pour deux places éminentes Se portent Sur deux personnes Seulement, il est clair qu’elles n’ont pas la liberié de refuser et que ces personnes Sont destinés pour toujours à etre...
60To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bee, 1 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 22d May received yesterday by Mr. Rutledge addressed to the President of the Agricultural Society accompanied with four Seeds of the Bread Fruit Tree, the greatest Attention will be paid to the raising this Fruit if they once Vegetate, but I am sorry to inform you that very few of the Seeds of the Rice which you sent by Mr....