41To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Parker, 10 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have heard of your Election to the Presidency of the United States. I sincerely congratulate you & my Country on that event.—Among the many reasons that make your appointment to that office particularly agreeable to the friends of that Country, is the pacific & conciliatory disposition that you so eminently possess; this is to them a consoling...
42Enclosure: Proposal by Daniel Parker for Packets, 20 November 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mémoire Les Paquet Boat , établi par le Gouvernement pour le Transport des Lettres de France à l’Amérique et de retour, ayant été suprimés vû leur grande depenses, et le Commerce entre les deux Nations, ce trouvant presque detruit faute d’une Communication réguliere le Soussigné, Américain, qui à l’honneur d’être connu de Son Excellence M. Jefferson du Marquis de La Fayette, et de M. Le...
43To James Madison from Daniel Parker, 29 October 1814 (Madison Papers)
I came to this city near four years since at the particular request of Mr. Eustis & without application on my part to be Chief Clerk in the War Dept. I then left the practice of law in which I had been several years established with good reputation & declined delivering any letters of introduction which my friends had pressed on me or sent to this place for that purpose—determining to have no...