11To Thomas Jefferson from John Dickinson, 28 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately found among my Papers the original Documents relating to the Convention that met at Annapolis in the Year 1786, I think it my Duty to transmit them to the Executive of the Union, and therefore I now send them. I am entirely thy Friend RC ( PHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson President”; written on verso of sheet addressed to Dickinson by George Logan. Recorded in SJL as...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Dickinson, 1 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A respectable French Gentlemen of my acquaintance lately arrived from Louisiana, has, in Conversation with a particular mutual Friend from whom I receive my Intelligence, mentioned Circumstances of such a kind, that I think it my duty to submit the Communication to thy Judgment. He says, that the people settled in the Country ceded by France to The United States, are universally dissatisfied...
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Dickinson, 22 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I should be unworthy of thy kind Attentions, if I was not truly grateful for them. The details mentioned in thy Letter of the 13th, point to Objects of high Importance indeed: Yet, I cannot forbear entertaining a Hope, that thy Knowledge and Love of Country, will apply some Remedy to the threatening Evils. The discontents occasioned by the administration of Justice, in our Forms, Principles,...
14To Thomas Jefferson from John Dickinson, 30 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Tench Coxe informs Me, that General Muhlenberg’s Office is likely to be soon vacant, and he desires to be his successor. By an intimate and confidential Correspondence of several Years and by other Evidence I am fully convinced, that, with correct political Principles, he is faithfully devoted to the true Interests of his Country. Indeed, he is bound to them by the strongest Ties, and, among...