I had the pleasure to rcve your Request for a few articls from Canton which I have orderd—I thank you Madam for your Congratulations on the Marrage of my Son he requsts me to present to you his best Respects as Dos also Mrs. Bentzan & my Daughter I have the Honnor to be / Most Respetfully— / Madam your obd Set MHi : Adams Papers.
2John Jacob Astor to Albert Gallatin, 14 February 1813 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Parrishes Reply to the proposition to A purchas in the Loan was only yesterday Reced and I am Sorry to Say that tho he Says he Should Leik to be engagd yet he must Decline b[e]cause he See no provability of a Speedy arrangement for Peace and he is of opinion that not more than 2 or 3 Millions could be raisd in Philadelphia and that at not Less than 7 pct. In consequence of his Declining...
3John Jacob Astor to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
From the corect view which you had of the Importancs of my undertaking Relative to the trade in the Indian country and Particularly our establishment near the mouth of Columbia River I am Lead to belive that it would have afortd you pleasure to have heard of our Sucess which I had hopes to have Comunicated to you & which I Should have had in my Power to have Done had we not fallen a Sacrifics...
4John Jacob Astor to Thomas Jefferson, 14 March 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to take the liberty of addressing you, from a belief that it will afford you some satisfaction to be informed of the progress which has been made in carrying on a trade with the Indians, which at it’s commencement was favoured with your approbation. Since I had the pleasure of speaking to you first at Washington concerning it, my constant study has been to attain the object; and...
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Jacob Astor, 27 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It was my Intention to have presented Myself before you & to have Stated to you my wish of engaging in an extensive trade with the Indians Provited two objects could be obtaind viz the countenance & good wishes of the Executive of the united States and a Charter from this State to Incorporate Such a Company. for the Latter I have addressed the Honorable Dewitt Clinton who is Disposed to favr...
6John Jacob Astor to Dolley Payne Madison, 22 June 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 June 1813, New York. Sends “a hat Choosing by Mrs. Gallatin which he prays Mrs. Madison to accept as a Mark of her kind Remberenans of her frie[n]d Mr. Astor—who has Learnt with Deep Regreet the Indisposition of Mr. Madison and who most fervently prays to kind Providence to Restore him to hea[l]th & to continue a blessing to his Country.” RC ( CtY ). 2 pp.
7To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, August 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. August 1811. Mentioned in Astor to Jefferson, 14 Mar. 1812 (DLC: Jefferson Papers) as an application to the president for permission to import from St. Joseph’s goods purchased for the Indian trade which were being excluded from the U.S. by the Nonintercourse Act. JM apparently replied that Congress had left no power with the executive to grant permission.
8To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 3 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I had the Honnor to Rive your letter of the 29 ulto in which you are pleased To express a wish that I would Remit to Mr. Gallatin on your account A Bill on Paris for 338 Francs—which I will Do on my Return to new york and of which I will have the pleasure to Transmit to you an account. I have the Honnor to be Most Respectfully Sir your obtd Humbl Servt PS. Would you have the goodness to...
9To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 27 July 1813 (Madison Papers)
From a belive that the merrits of the undertaking of the american furr company may not have ben Perfectly understood in as much as the Same is Rather abstract from genral Buisness. I tak the Liberty to Sumit to you a Sctch thereof in order that you may read it when at Laisure and thereby be better enabled to judge of its Merits and the Importanes of the objects embraced in it. It is well known...
10To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 1 October 1814 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ From John Jacob Astor. Letter not found. 1 October 1814, New York. Offered for sale in Julia Sweet Newman catalog no. 209 (1966), item 7, where it is described as an autograph letter, signed.
11To James Madison from John Jacob Astor, 13 July 1807 (Madison Papers)
You will excuse the liberty I take in addressing you without comment. I am considerably engag’d in the China trade, and have now a Ship called the Beaver being Coppered & 430 Tons burthen, carrying 12 Guns, ready for Sea, say to Sail for Canton in China Her funds on board will consist of about $250 M in value. The object of this is to request as far as may be perfectly Consistent, any...