1To John Adams from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 17 August 1791 (Adams Papers)
I beg leave to ask your acceptance of the inclosed packet, for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It contains two Volumes, both of which are curious. The one a Welch Dictionary , sent me from Pembroke-Shire, by my friend Dr. Harries, some time ago, and containing the Ancient Language of Britain. Its Use, as a Book of reference for Philologists and Antiquaries, will probably be more...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 23 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my forwardness in troubling you with any thing relative to executive business. But understanding that the Consulate at Algiers had become vacant, and that Dr. George Davis sollicited an appointment to that place, I have consented to state to you merely what I know concerning the character and fitness of this candidate. He has passed reputably thro the Course of education...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 12 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer you the inclosed Letter which I received by yesterday’s Mail from Albany. I suspect from what Mr. L’Hommedieu has written to me, that the Conversation about an Association of Agricultural Societies which I heard from you, some time ago , has given rise to that Communication. In the absence of the President of the New York Society Mr. Livingston in France, the functions of...
4To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 10 January 1803 (Madison Papers)
The subject of Mr. Briggs’s letter and of your note of yesterday is doubtless an interesting one; inasmuch as it is a National or Central Society of Agriculture. Some steps towards such an institution were taken during the last session of Congress. The first one I believe was by your correspondent. He talked to me of such a project; and I learned that he had conversed with the President. I...
5To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 15 January 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 January 1803. “The writer of the inclosed letter is a Native of Lausanne in Switzerland and now a respectable Merchant in New York, under the firm of Rossier & Roulet. He is indeed a most excellent & amiable Man,… tho I know nothing of Mr. Currey whom he recommends for a Consul at Fayal.” RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p. Enclosure is John S. Roulet’s 11 Jan. letter to Mitchill (2 pp.; in...
6To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 28 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
This is the third day of our Election; and the polls must be all closed this Evening. The opposition have made a very strong effort against us. They have spared no pains to ensure success to their Cause. Their hopes were grounded originally less on their own Numbers, than on a division which they beleived to exist among the republicans. Unfortunately, from causes which you well know, there was...
7To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 20 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
The House of Representatives having made an Order that the part of the President’s Message which relates “to the regulations to be observed by foreign vessels within the jurisdiction of the U. S., to the restraining of our citizens from entering into the service of any of the belligerent powers of Europe; and to the exacting from all nations the observance towards our Vessels and citizens of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 4 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to offer to the President, for his amusement, the inclosed Speculations on a Geographical name for the country which enjoys so much political happiness under his administration. The project has been noticed in a number of the Newspapers of the States. The Song was written for a Company of Militia, who have assumed the name of “Fredonian” volunteers . Now that Louisiana is about to...
9To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 3 May 1804 (Madison Papers)
Our Election is at length over, and as far as we can learn, all our principal candidates are chosen. In the City of New york, the Republican Ticket for Members of Assembly has succeeded by a greater majority than for the last year. The Representatives for Congress for the District composed of the City & County of New york and for the Counties of Kings & Richmond, are elected by a majority of...
10To James Madison from Samuel Latham Mitchill, 5 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
I write you at the suggestion of a member of the Board of Health in New york. It appears to us in this City that the Secretary of State might probably find it proper to add to his ordinary Circular addresses to our Consuls abroad, a paragraph concerning the endemic distempers in the Cities or Countries where they reside. Under this persuasion, I have been induced to request that you will take...