1To John Adams from Edward Livingston, 14 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
Having last week had the honor of receiving an invitation to dine with the President of the US. I laid the card among my papers under an impression that it was for this day—It was therefore with extreme regret that I found my inattention had led me into a seeming rudeness which I assure you Sir I am incapable of designedly committing— I am very sensible Sir that I have no right to call your...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 11 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The prevalence if not the very existence of republicanism in the U States depends so much on the event of our ensuing Election that I am persuaded Sir you can not be indifferent to our prospects and will excuse the liberty I take of communicating them. It is impossible yet to obtain any certain information from the distant Counties. that which I have receved from the more central parts...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, [before 3 May 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I feel extreme pleasure Sir in having it in my power to remove the impressions you had received unfavorable to our Success. we have completely and triumphantly Succeeded—our member is in by upwards of an hundred—and our Whole ticket for the Assembly by 500. at least——The change is delightful, but yesterday they were arrogant and certain of our defeat—today—there is a most auspicious gloom on...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 9 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
An arrival here from Charleston brings intelligence which perhaps may not reach the Seat of Government before this letter in which case it may not prove unacceptable-A man of Understanding & by no means of a sanguine disposition writes from Columbia on the 25th. that the Legislature had met. the Republicans in high Spirits that no Question was made of an unanimous republican Vote for P. & that...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, [5 February 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed will Shew the use I am making of your Horace. The only good image it contains having been Stolen I only comply with a precept of the civil law in rendering the whole composition to the original proprietor, if he should not find it too much disfigured for his acceptance it will be highly flattering to his Friend & Mo Obd Sev. RC ( DLC ); undated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 5...
6Enclosure: Verses to Daniel McKinnen, 5 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To Daniel McKinnen Esqr MS (same); in Livingston’s hand; above title: “Quem tu Melpomene &c.,” the opening of ode 3, book 4, of Horace’s Odes; an endorsement by TJ, also at head of text, identifies the ode. Daniel Mckinnen was a lawyer in New York State ( Syrett, Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton , New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. 22:266n; Kline, Burr,...
7To James Madison from Edward Livingston, 25 March 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 March 1801, New York. Introduces and commends to JM’s attention his friend Josef Yznardy, who “has some title to the favor & I think claims on the justice of our government.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p.
8To James Madison from Edward Livingston, April 1801 (Madison Papers)
I regret very much that I had not the pleasure of seeing you before I left the Seat of Government. On taking a final leave of that body in which I began my political noviciate with the advantage of your friendship & advice it would have been interesting to review the changes it has undergone since that period with one Whose liesure & observation have enabled him to mark their causes and...
9To James Madison from Edward Livingston, 28 June 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1801, New York. In response to JM’s request of 2 June, encloses list of pending criminal and civil suits in U.S. circuit court for New York. “As to the Causes now pending it is impossible to procure an official return that will perfectly ascertain their number, for many Suits especially those instituted for the recovery of Debts are settled on the return of the Writ but as this...
10To James Madison from Edward Livingston, 22 July 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 July 1801. Recommends Dr. George Davis of the U.S. Navy to be American consul at Algiers. RC ( DLC ). 1 p.