391To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 June 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Philadelphia ], 23 June 1791 . Enclosing account of Cuba and statement of Newfoundland fishery for three years. Also sends the Virginia imports which TJ will see are “near a half a million greater in value” than register’s return, owing to later quarterly returns from some customhouses which were then deficient. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 22 June 1791 and so recorded in SJL —an...
392To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The gentleman to whom you wrote on the 26th. of March arrived here a few days ago from Philadelphia, and, during a stay of six days, mentioned to me a passage you did me the honor to write in relation to myself. You will permit me to repeat that I never knew of his writing either of his letters about me ‘till they were sent, that I never asked such an act of friendship of him, and that I...
393To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [before 2 April] (Jefferson Papers)
I am informed that Congress are to rise in the beginning of April, and that the internal Revenues will be repealed before this can depart. The few republicans among my family connections, and others among our political friends concur in the hope that something permanent will be done for me before the Senate shall rise. Mr. Gallatin I am sure will testify that I have never shewn any coldness,...
394To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, with Jefferson’s Note, 31 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that he has purchased of Mr. John Wilcocks a bill on London at 174 ⅌Ct. to the amount of 5000 Drs. Mr. Wilcocks wishes for the Cash this day and will give Mr. Coxe the bills by the time Mr. Jefferson can send a check on the Bank. [ Note by TJ: ] gave instantly an order on the bank for 5000. D. payable to John Wilcocks or bearer. RC ( DLC ); with...
395To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 April 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two last letters for Europe , tho unacknowledged, have long since been carefully forwarded. Peace does not appear to be at hand in Europe by our accounts to the 12th. of March. Belgium seems to be the principal cause. A just and safe disposition of that country for all the parties in the war and for itself appears to be a matter of great intrinsic difficulty. If France and England are not...
396To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 4 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive a copy of your evidences relative to the murders of the family of Logan. They are touching to humanity and must wound the feelings of every man concerned for the honest fame of this Country. As they regard the question between you and Mr. Martin, I cannot suppose that any man will expose himself to the censure which must attend one who would pretend to blame you? I...
397To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
In the course of some recent attempts to improve the public mind with our capacities and progress upon the subject of cotton , several ideas, which did not appear fit for present publication, occurd. It appeared of importance that they should be placed before the government however, to be treated according to their discretion. I concluded to make a little historical note upon the cotton...
398To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 24 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be pleased to consider me as not to disposed to accept the appointments you mention in your letter of the 17th. instant. I hope no person knows that they have been offered to me, particularly by yourself, and I earnestly request that the fact may never be communicated. I could wish, if it is known, that you meditated the offer, that it may be believed that on reflexion you did not...
399Tench Coxe to Thomas Jefferson, 11 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
You are one of the last persons to whom it is necessary to observe how comfortable are the exchanges of the heart among those, who are united in principles at once virtuous and vital. I feel all that belong to such circumstances in the perusal of your letter of the 13 th ult o . It is true that I aspired to be the fellow laboror (juvenile and modest) with superior men. I have been amply repaid...
400To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am requested on the part of Robert Porter, Esqre, to mention his name to you for the vacant Commission of Bankruptcy. I have the honor therefore to represent that gentleman to be a practicing Attorney at Law of this city, of good property & character, and [with?] the habits of Business. He was a Lieutenant of Artillery at the close of the Revolutionary war, & a native of Pennsylvania, & the...
401To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 25 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to inform Mr. Jefferson that Mr. Nicholson is not in Town, and is not expected to be at home before Friday Evening. Mr. Kingston was to have given information by 1, oClock this day concerning £1000 Stg. but has not yet done it. This was the Cause of Mr. Coxe’s omitting the present Note till this hour. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 25 July 1793.
402To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 5 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Public Business having called me to Philada. on the 10th. of March, I did not receive your favor of the 11th. Feby till the 31st. ultimo. The book accompanied it. It was my intention that the papers N. 1. to 8 should have remained in your library, as I have another copy of the Book, and the question of the commencement of violations of neutral trade is very important. The rise and progress of...
403To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 16 March 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor to write you last the inclosed have been delivered to me by a person, who received them from Europe. They were not accompanied by a letter, but were said to have come from the Editor. Last Evenings post brought us the information from London under date of the 20th. Decemr. in Fenno’s Gazette. It has added greatly to the former sensations on the Subject of the depredations...
404To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 16 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Stephen Kingston, a merchant of this city, by birth an Irishman, but now a citizen of the U. S. has applied to me on a subject, which he refrains, for a time, to act upon from public Considerations. The prizemaster of one of the prizes taken by “ the Citizen Genet ” privateer is a debtor to him. He wishes to arrest the man, but is apprehensive, that it may produce some public difficulty:...
405To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 15 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the papers, which I possess in relation to the late transactions of the United states, there are several relative to the British treaty, which it may be useful to pass into your hands. The concessions, sacrifices, and losses of this country may become in some way topics either of argument or negociation, and the papers I refer to, may contribute to the defence of our conduct, or to the...
406To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 15 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 3d. instant I had the honor to enclose you a letter (of introduction) from the hon. Js. Maddison Jr., and another from myself directed to the person, who will deliver you this. The Nature of my Object did not permit my entering at that time into any explanation of the reasons by which I had been induced to request the favor of Mr. Maddison’s Letter, and at this time I think it will be...
407To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 5 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to inform you that a distribution of the first parcel of the Sea-letters, which was sent to my office after that of the Secretary of the Treasury ceased to be attended, was immediately made, in the best manner of which my defective information of the preceding distributions, admitted. The greater part of the Second parcel was treated in a similar Manner, and the remainder I...
408To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [11 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. C. has the honor to send to the Secretary of State a copy of a letter received this day. The names of the persons, to and from whom the letter is, have been omitted, because they will be both known to the Secretary. Mr. C. thinks it his duty to the writer, respectfully to request, that the matter may be confined to the P. and himself. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; endorsed by TJ as received...
409To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to learn from the person, who left you on the 31st. instant that you were then well. The Situation of our post office is a great evil. It has occasioned me to be very guarded in my correspondence for some time. I have missed two letters, one of which related to private business of very great consequence to myself, and others. The republican interest of the United States have...
410To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 July 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Matthew Carey of Philadelphia wishes for the honor of conversing with you on the republication of the several treaties of the United States. Tho he cannot expect to insert them in his Museum by your Authority , he justly conceives it of great importance that they be strictly true copies. I proposed to have done myself the honor of waiting upon you with him to ask for him the favor of such...
411Enclosure: Thoughts on the Navigation of the United States, and concerning further means of encouraging it, 5 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The following propositions are freely hazarded by way of opening the subject. None of them should be tenaciously insisted on, nor will they it is hoped be hastily rejected. If on reflexion they shall appear reasonable and safe, they may serve to guide us in this interesting and difficult enquiry. It is affirmed then— If the members of the legislature from the several parts of the union should...
412To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 8 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As I had the honor to receive from you some remarks on the office I now hold from Genl. M , I trust it will not be improper to give you some information on the subject, and I take this liberty the more freely, because I cannot deprive myself of the satisfaction of believing, that my situation, as an Individual and as connected with the sufferings & exertions in the cause of American & human...
413To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 31 May 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
I had learned from Mr. Maddison and Mr. Monroe the delay of all letters to you before I had the honor to receive your acknowledgment of those I have written to you at Montecello. Your agricultural pursuits must be a delightful recreation after the fatigue, vexations, and nonsense of city life and public station. The subject is very captivating in the theory, and it is so peculiarly interesting...
414To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 30 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have postponed to answer the letter you did me the honor to write last untill I should have found a good opportunity to forward your pacquets to Mr. Monroe, and M. Van Staphorsts & Co. They went, about two weeks ago, in an American Ship, and were committed to the care of a Mr. Murgatroyd of Philadelphia. He is a young [man] of good connexions here, and I doubt not will place them in the...
415To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, [before 18 April 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The papers announce that the legislature is to rise in ten days. This critical and peculiar situation in which I am placed impels me, contrary to my intention, to address you once more before the conclusion of the Session. It was in the Month of Decemr. 1800, that a gentleman now in Washington then recently returned from that place, informed me here, that a number of the persons who were...
416To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 14 December 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Necessary attention in my Office, and the badness of the day preventing me from having the honor of waiting upon you as early as the case requires, I take the liberty to draw your attention to a little inaccuracy which has inadvertently taken place in the President’s proclamation of the 12th. Instant. You will perceive that in promising the reward of 500 dollars, it is offered for “the above...
417To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Coxe has the honor to make his acknowledgements to Mr. Jefferson for Sir John St. Clair’s pamphlet—the last nine lines of which are as free from reason and as full of passion as anything in Lord Sheffield. The little publication relative to Scotland is curious, and in parts interesting even to the United States. Mr. Coxe begs leave to add a few facts relative to the dutch commercial...
418To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 20 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Treasury Department, 20 July 1791 . In the unavoidable absence of the Secretary of the Treasury, Coxe requests the Secretary of State to have prepared and sent to the Treasury a correct list of U.S. consuls and their places of residence, being necessary for the collectors of the impost. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); in a clerk’s hand; endorsed by Remsen as received 20 July 1791, but not recorded in...
419To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 17 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
An application has been made to me, since I had the honor of seeing you, to know whether it will be illegal, or, in any respect, improper for a Citizen of the United States to accept the business and to perform the service of an agent for the prizes sent and to be sent into the port of Philadelphia by the French ships of war, public and private. I have promised the applicants information upon...
420To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 27 January 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive this afternoon your note relative to the value of the transportation of the whole produce of the United States to foreign markets. By this I understand the amount of the freight money that would be paid by the owners of our produce to the owners of the vessels in which they are laden, if they were always different persons. In the very imperfect state of the documents...