1To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 21 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of introducing to you Capt. McKinley who states that he wishes to make to you some communications on a subject beleived to be of considerable moment to many people in some of the western Counties of this State. It is with very great pleasure that I declare to you my perfect conviction produced by an acquaintance of several years with Capt. McKinley that any statement he may...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 27 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I enjoy the highest gratification, in communicating to you the enclosed Resolutions, in obedience to an order of the Meeting by which they were adopted. Permit me to add, that although men of all parties attended the meeting, it afforded me the heart-felt pleasure to observe, that party-spirit seemed on that momentous occasion to sleep: All appeared zealously to vie who should be foremost, in...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 29 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In very great haste I this morning enclosed you (by Colo. Duane) a copy of the Resolutions adopted at a meeting of sundry Citizens at the Capitol on Saturday last. Upon examination this evening I find that the copy sent was in some parts misprinted—I therefore now do myself the honor of enclosing to you a correct copy of those proceedings.— With the highest respect and esteem I am Dear Sir Yr....
4To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that in times such as the present are, my letter to my Brother (written in great haste) and his answer to it, while they contain no information of importance in relation to any particular character, point nevertheless to topics worthy your consideration, I use the freedom of enclosing them for your inspection. I should have sent you copies of these letters, instead of the Originals;...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander McRae, 14 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I should sooner have acknowledged the receipt of your favor of the 8th. Inst. but that when I received it, and from that moment to the present, I have been unceasingly occupied in attending to Business which admitted of no delay. The unreserved manner in which you have been pleased to communicate your sentiments on topics of the highest moment, which essentially involve the prosperity honor...
6To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 22 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor of forwarding to you a letter which my friend Mr. Wirt was so obliging as to hand me, at the time of his departure from the City. It is probable that Major Clarke & I in pursuit of the object referred to by Mr. Wirt, may be prepared to leave Richmond about the 3rd. or 4th. of August on our way to Philadelphia or New-York, from one of which places we propose to embark for...
7Alexander McRae to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Wirt was so obliging before his departure from the City, as to leave with me the letter I have now the honor of forwarding to you, by which you will perceive, that my friend & I intended to have commenced our voyage about this period; but the previous arrangements necessary to the success of our plan, required more time than we had anticipated: It is now probable, that we shall not be...
8Alexander McRae to Thomas Jefferson, 10 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor this morning to receive your favor of the 5 th Inst , and for the Letters it contained, introducing Maj r Clarke and myself to our Ministers in France & in England , I beg your acceptance of my grateful acknowledgments. I am particularly gratified, in perceiving that you concur with us in opinion, that the object which carries us abroad may be of great advantage to our Country,...
9To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 11 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
On the 22nd. Ult. I enclosed to Mr. Jefferson a letter from Mr. Wirt, communicating in substance the information contained in Mr. Wirt’s letter to you, (which I had the honor of forwarding about the same period) concerning the object which carries Majr. Clarke & myself to Europe. I have received from Mr. Jefferson a very friendly answer, containing letters of introduction which place Majr....
10Alexander McRae to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
IT IS but a poor return I make for the friendship you have shewn to me, when I put you on your guard against a scoundrel. If your leisure had permitted, it was my intention this day, in the course of conversation, to have communicated the information I shall now give you, and I would yet prefer a verbal communication, because it might be more full and satisfactory, than it can now be, writing...
11To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 8 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
Major Clarke and I had the honor some time ago to receive thro’ our friend Mr. Wirt, letters from you, addressed to the American Ministers at London and at Paris. These letters (which I now have with me) were delivered to me sealed, and I am consequently ignorant of their contents; but recollecting as I do the purport of Mr. Wirt’s letter addressed to you in our behalf, I presume we were both...
12To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 8 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
Al: McRae returns his respects to Mr. Madison. As it will be known on Al: McRae’s arrival in Europe, that he passed thro’ Washington about this period, he cannot help thinking that letters bearing this date, will be more to his advantage, than letters in the very same words but bearing a much earlier date could be. He therefore avails himself of the permission granted by Mr. Madison, to return...
13To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 26 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
As an American citizen I think it my duty to inform you of the extraordinary and (as I thought) most unwarrantable treatment, which I this day received from his Britannic Majesty’s Consul Phineas Bond esqr., at his residence in this place. Before I left Washington, (on my way to Europe) desiring such a protection as the Government of my Country might be pleased to afford me while abroad; I...
14To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 7 January 1810 (Madison Papers)
I fear that the frequency of my communications, on topics principally interesting to myself, may have some tendency to render them irksome to you; but it was my impression, that the Public had, and would properly feel, some concern (’tho I am a private citizen) in the treatment I received at Philadelphia, from Phineas Bond esqr. and I therefore performed what I beleived to be a duty, when I...
15To James Madison from Alexander McRae, 26 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
The change which it was General Armstrong’s pleasure before he left France to make in the American Consulate at Paris, gave me the honor to receive your communication of Judge Cooper’s patriotic wishes, to obtain the publications &c. indicated by the copy of his Letter which was enclosed to Mr. Warden. A Stranger, & almost entirely ignorant of the language even of the Country, I have been...
16Alexander McRae to James Monroe, 6 August 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have a very special favor to ask of you; it is, that you recommend to the patronage of the President Doctor Wm. P. Jones, whom General Porterfield has appointed Hospital-Surgeon near this place. Doctor Jones is a Youth of unquestionable Merit. His general deportment is modest & unassuming, and in all respects most amiable. Should the appointment with which he has been honored by General...