1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 16 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I have just been favored with, from you, is like all the treatment I have experienced at your hands—which has been uniformly kind and benevolent. To my very soul I am mortified at giving you so much trouble; and may eternal curses crush me, if I prove unprincipled & ungrateful. Indeed Mr. Jefferson my views of other characters become jaundiced—after seeing so much of that liberality...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
No ruin hanging over me could make me again trouble you with a communication, if I alone was to feel the ruin. But my growing family will more keenly suffer; and it is this Good Sir urging me on to solicit the protection of a president—too just to sanction the undeserved disgrace of the lowest officer & too benevolent to withold his kind 2 from the man he had raised—’in the moments of...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I see with real concern the situation in which you are placed, and fear you do not form a true judgment of it yourself. you are charged by certain persons with improper acts. the Secretary of the Navy is in duty bound to have the charge investigated. you decline attending that investigation. the consequence will be that innocent things may be made appear otherwise, merely for want of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 9 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Doctor Ewell offers his respects to the President: Having lately purchased a most valuable work of the Surgeon, of whose writings Mr. Jefferson has expressed favorable sentiments—he takes the liberty to send it for inspection. He does this the more readily, as the work is not only admitted to be the best of its kind, but contains (particularly the 2d. vol.) important doctrines—an acquaintance...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 19 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg good Sir, that you would not be displeased at my troubling you again—as my excuse is, nearly my all is at stake—and my hope is, I shall trouble you no more. Since the conversation with which you last favored me—I have been informed that without fail Doctr. Bullus, is to leave Washington in a short while. It is scarcely necessary to remind yr. Excellency, that the office the Doctor now...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 6 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
since I had the honor to converse with you, I have received intelligence of the intention of Doctr. Bullus to resign his appointment at the Navy Yard. No doubt you recollect the kindness with which last summer you determined that I should succeed to this office, on the Doctor’s resignation. In consequence of repeated assurances received from the Hon. Rt smith—that I should have the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 27 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson subscribed for 1 copy of Discourses on Chemistry $ 3: $ 3:
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 9 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Were I not sensible that great men, like the authors of their existence, derive pleasure from befriending, relieving & raising the young to respectability and to usefulness,—it would have been with the strongist aversion, that I should ever have troubled you. But having obtruded myself upon your notice, and now feeling conscious, that I owe more to you, than I owe to any other man in...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Beale Ewell, 28 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
My opinion of your goodness towards everyone, is such, that I cannot give way to the fear that you may be offended at my addressing you so frequently.—Indeed it is with unaffected diffidence I now offer for your consideration, the first pages of that work, of the plan of which you were pleased to approve. My feelings are common to those who engage in hazardous enterprises, on which they are to...
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Beale Ewell, 15 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th. is recieved. in the paper which your partiality for me proposes to prefix to your work I have ventured to make an alteration in the first paragraph because it contained an unnecessary & perhaps injurious reflection on foreign characters. Certainly it must be to every man the greatest of gratifications to enjoy the good opinion of his fellow citizens, & especially of the...