1To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 29 November 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here the 25th instant, and sincerely wish you may have experienced a passage equally short and agreeable as mine has been. I observe that your Excellency is appointed to the Secretaryship of home and foreign affairs, and, presuming, that in consequence thereof, you will not return to Paris as you intended, I shall take care to have your Service of China delivered to you, wherever you...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 4 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith will be deliver’d to you a Table Sett of China contain’d in Two Boxes, which I had made for you at Canton, agreeably to your Excellency’s desire, when I had the pleasure to see you at the Isle of Wight in the year 89. It is so long ago, that possibly you may have supplied yourself already, or the China may not be executed to your liking, in either case, I beg you would not think it...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 29 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just arrived from Europe, and the letter which your Excellency, did me the honour to write, is now before me. I was under some hesitation whether I ought to have, sent you the China, after having delay’d it so long, and in which time it was natural to suppose you would supply yourself elswhere. But I assure you Sir, your returning it, will not be of the least disadvantage to me; on the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 12 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately applied to you by letter, and proposed myself a candidate for the office of Navy-agent , it is with much regret I find myself impell’d a second time to obtrude myself upon your notice. Captain Samuel Nicholson late commander of the Ship Constitution, has this day (to my astonishment) given me proof to what length the malignant spirit of party, and to what degree of baseness some...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Dowse, 5 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The extraordinary merit of this little treatise, which I now transmit to you, must be my apology, for the liberty I have taken in sending it. As its design (among other objects) is to promote the extension of civilization & Christian knowledge among the Aborigines of North-America, it seem’d to me to have a claim to your attention: at any rate, the Idea, hath struck me, that you will find it...