921From Thomas Jefferson to John Ponsonby, 14 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to thank you for the specimens of waterproof cotton and cloth which you were so good as to send me. the former was new to me. I had before recieved as much of the cloth as made me a great coat, which I have so fully tried as to be satisfied it is water proof except at the seams. I shall be glad when such supplies come over as will enable us to get our common clothes of them: & should...
922From Thomas Jefferson to Caleb Strong, 14 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved two days ago your favor of the 6th. inst. on the subject of certain military articles delivered or proposed to be delivered to the US. and immediately referred it to the Secretary at war. from him you will recieve a letter written on the supposition that these articles have never been the subject of a contract between the US. and the state of Massachusets. yet it is possible such a...
923From Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull, 14 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Mar. 10. explaining the motives of the Commissioners for disapproving the conjunction of office which had been proposed in the case of mr Erving. but they needed no explanation. when gentlemen, selected for their integrity, are acting under a public trust, their characters and consciences are sufficient securities that what they do, is done on pure motives. I...
924From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 14 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. of Apr. in answer to mine of Mar. 22. satisfied me perfectly as to Doctr. Barnwell whom therefore I then concluded to appoint to the hospital of N. Orleans, if established. but learning afterwards that Doctr. Bache had determined to remove to the Missisipi, I could have no hesitation to offer the place to him, as eminently qualified for it. I did so, and he has accepted...
925From Thomas Jefferson to John Redman Coxe, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respectful salutations to Doctr. Coxe, and his thanks for the communication of the volume on vaccination. he has deposited it in the Secretary of state’s office as desired, and doubts not it will contribute much to the public satisfaction as to this salutary discovery, and to their information as to the manner of treating it. he prays him to accept his respects &...
926From Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of June 28. and sincerely congratulate you on your safe return to your native country. you will doubtless be sensible of an inconcievable change in manners and opinions since you left it; tho’ less perhaps in Connecticut than some other places. After eleven years absence I imagine you will find it more difficult to return from European to American...
927From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Marie Lequinio de Kerblay, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 20. has been duly recieved and I present you my congratulations on your safe arrival in these states, as well as my thanks for the civilities expressed in your letter. your character and dispositions, as well as your station, will, I trust, make you an efficacious and useful [instrument in] cementing the friendship & interests of our two countries. I should have been happy...
928From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Mentges, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 7th. and have taken care that it shall be communicated to the Secretary at war, within whose province it is to consider of the best means of promoting the public interest within his department, and of the agents whom it is best to employ. the duty is a very painful one, which devolves on the Executive, of naming those on whom the reductions are to fall...
929From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7th. has been duly recieved. I am really mortified at the base ingratitude of Callender. it presents human nature in a hideous form: it gives me concern because I percieve that relief, which was afforded him on mere motives of charity, may be viewed under the aspect of employing him as a writer. When the Political progress of Britain first appeared in this country, it was in...
930From Thomas Jefferson to John Beckley, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his compliments to mr Beckley informs him that he has this day given orders for the books for Congress according to the catalogue approved by the committee , that they will compose about 700. volumes of different sizes, and will probably require 4. presses of 4 feet width & the common height, or what will be equivalent to that if wider or narrower; which is mentioned for his...
931From Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you catalogues of the books which are to be imported for Congress and which you desired to have placed under your procurement . I have written to mr Short at Paris and mr Erving at London to superintend the purchase in order that the books & their prices may be such as they approve, and I have inclosed them copies of the catalogues; so that your correspondent will have to obtain...
932From Thomas Jefferson to William Short and George W. Erving, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract from the letters written to mr Short & mr Erving. ‘mr Duane is employed this year to make the importation, partly from Paris, partly from London, & to execute the details. but as I am anxious to have it established that the public money must be laid out with as rigorous economy as that of an individual, the proceedings of mr Duane’s correspondent are made subject, by my agreement with...
933From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your sister informs me she has lately given you information of the health of the family. it seems her children have escaped the measles tho some of the negroes have had it. the following is an extract from her letter dated July 10. ‘we are entirely free from the measles here now. those of our people who had it have recovered. at Monticello the last time I heard from there three of the nail...
934From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Erving, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress have appropriated a sum of money to the procuring books for their use. about one half of it was laid out in London the last year, but at such prices as forbid an application to the same bookseller. mr Duane is employed this year to make the importation, partly from Paris, partly from London, & to execute the details. but, as I am anxious to have it known that the public money must be...
935From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The bills of exchange for mr Short and mr Erving not being come to hand, I take the liberty of leaving under your cover the letters I have written to them, in which I must request you to insert the bills seal the letters & forward them, without losing the time which would be requisite for returning them to me. the season is already so far advanced as to render it doubtful whether they can be...
936From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 16 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Congress have appropriated a sum of money to the procuring books for their use. about one half of it was laid out the last year, but at prices which could not be approved. mr Duane is employed this year to make the importation, partly from Paris, partly from London, and to execute the details. but, as I am anxious to shew that the public money must be laid out with as rigorous economy as that...
937From Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 17 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 17. came duly to hand. it gives me great pleasure to learn that the proceedings of the last session of Congress gives satisfaction in your quarter. it is impossible they should not do it in every quarter where they are not determined not to be satisfied, or kept uninformed of them. the special feasts & rejoicings on the 1st of July , and the toasts of the 4th. of July, as...
938From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 17 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
After writing you on the 15th. I turned to my letter file to see what letters I had written to Callender & found them to have been of the dates of 1798. Oct. 11. & 1799. Sep. 6. & Oct. 6. but on looking for the letters they were not in their places nor to be found. on recollection I believe I sent them to you a year or two ago. if you have them, I shall be glad to recieve them at Monticello...
939Memorandum from Thomas Jefferson, 19 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Henry Warren (of Mass) to be Collector of Marblehead v. Samuel R. Gerry. William Lyman of Massachusetts to be Collector of Newbury port, vice Dudley A. Tyng William R. Lee of Massachus: to be collector of Salem & Beverley vice Joseph Hiller Peter Muhlenburg of Pensylvania to be Collector of vice George Latimer John Page of Virginia to be Collector of Petersburg v. William Heth. Tenche Cox of...
940List of Books for the Library of Congress (Paris), 19 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Paris History. Annales Romaines par Macquer. 12mo Essai historique et Chronologique de l’Abbé Berlié. 2.v. 12mo. Abregé Chronologique de l’histoire ancienne avant Jesus Christ par LaCombe. 12mo. Abregé Chronologique de l’histoire des Juifs. 12mo. Abregé Chronologique de l’histoire des Empereurs Romains par Richer. 2.v. 12mo. Dictionnaire de Moreri. 10.v. fol. Dictionnaire historique et...
941List of Books for the Library of Congress (London), 19 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
London History Bossuet’s universal history. 2.v. 12mo. Newton’s chronology. 4to. Collier’s historical dictionary. 4.v. fol. Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses The American & British Chronicle of war & Politics, 1773–1783. Lond. 1783. by E.I.S. 8vo. Puffendorf’s introduction to the history of the Universe Salmon’s chronological abridgment of the history of England, in English if to be had. otherwise the...
942Memorandum to James Madison, 19 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry Warren, (of Mass), to be Collector of Marblehead v. Samuel R. Gerry. William Lyman of Massachusetts to be Collector of Newbury port. vice Dudley A. Tyng. William R. Lee of Massachuts. to be collector of Salem & Beverly vice Joseph Hiller Peter Muhlenberg of Pensylvania to be Collector of vice George Latimer. John Page of Virginia to be Collector of Petersburg v. William Heth. Tenche Coxe...
943From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 19 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of April 3. came to hand June 13. my last to you was of Apr. 19. when I wrote so fully in answer to your several favors, that I should not have had occasion to write now but by way of supplement as to the particular article of the purchase of stock for you, not then finished. as soon as the peace had produced the whole of it’s effect on our stock by depressing it, and it was percieved...
944From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer comes for the 11. D. small change. I find I have occasion for 30. D. more than I had calculated which therefore I must ask of you by the bearer. bills of any kind will do. Your’s affectionately RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); endorsed by Barnes: “⅌ Dougherty.”
945From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Bouldin, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. came to hand last night, & tomorrow I leave this to pass at Monticello the two bilious months of August & September. I shall not be here again till the 1st. of October. besides the delay this would occasion to your submitting your draughts to my inspection, I ought candidly to mention, that my duties occupying my whole time & calling for more if I had it, I am obliged...
946From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 12th . did not get to hand till last night. the ornaments for the frize of the chamber left this on the 10th. and are probably at Richmond by this time. but I shall be at home on Sunday, as early as they will arrive. from what you mention of the rotting of the sleepers of the Bow part of the Parlour, & the ends of the other, I presume that wall was close & that they have dry...
947From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your’s of the 17th. and tomorrow I set out for Monticello, so must be brief. Commissions were yesterday directed to be made out with blank dates as follows. Lee Collector Salem Lyman do. Newbury port Warren do. Marblehead. Muhlenberg do. Philadelphia. Page do. Petersburg. Coxe Supervisor Pensva on desiring mr Madison this morning to have them dated Aug. 1. and kept here...
948Authorization for Tench Coxe, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Should the Secretary of the Treasury find it adviseable The Supervisor of the district of Pensylvania is hereby authorised to act as Collector of the internal revenues for the city and county of Pensylvania . Given under my hand at Washington this 20th. day of July 1802. MS ( DLC ); in TJ’s hand; with Gallatin’s instructions to the commissioner of the revenue written below TJ’s signature and...
949From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved lately a letter from Genl. Lawson solliciting a charity which he desired me to send through your hands. I had yielded last year to an application of the same nature from him and although I think his habits & conduct render him less entitled to it than many others on whom it might be bestowed, yet ( pour la derniere fois ) I inclose for him 30. Dollars which I must ask you to apply...
950From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph, 20 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I will catch you in bed on Sunday or Monday morning. Your’s affectionately PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Miss Eleonor Randolph”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso.
951From Thomas Jefferson to John Isaac Hawkins, 26 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of the 16th. just as I was leaving Washington, & could not therefore answer it until my arrival here. I am obliged to you for your description of the Claviol, and shall certainly prefer ceding to you my piano forte, and taking in exchange at the proper difference in [price], a Claviol as soon as you can furnish one, which you think will be a year first. I suppose it...
952From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 26 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 21st inst mr Barnes was to remit you 200. D. to be placed to my credit [the funds?] I hope came safely to hand. yours of the [21st] [. . .] probable mr Barnes will [. . .] the 198. D. mr Barnes [. . .] me for an equal sum in Washington. [this] [. . .] (formerly [a friend] to you) [. . .] from Philadelphia [. . .] I hope is arrived and on it’s way with the other things. [. . .] I...
953From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 28 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of state, in a letter of the 22d. instant proposes to me, that as the General Greene will sail about the 10th. of next month with some articles for the Emperor of Marocco, and provisions for our vessels in the Mediterranean, and the period for another annual remittance to Algiers is approaching, we should send another 30,000. D. as an experimental measure for avoiding the...
954To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1802 (Madison Papers)
Your’s of July 22. came to hand on the 25th. the day of my arrival here. I think the proposition to tender another 30,000. D. to Algiers a very judicious one, and have therefore written to mr. Gallatin to take measures in conjunction with yourself to make the remittance by the General Greene. I have not yet written to the emperor of Morocco; because when one has nothing to write about it is...
955From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 30 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Smith has sent under cover to me the inclosed post-note for three hundred & sixty dollars, Genl. Kosciusko’s dividend, which, as I have no account opened with him, I inclose you. mr Jefferson writes me he has received Canal dividend for mr Short 198. D. which he credits you for. should you want it you will of course draw for it, otherwise it is not improbable I may have occasion for some...
956From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of July 22. came to hand on the 25th. the day of my arrival here. I think the proposition to tender another 30,000. D. to Algiers a very judicious one, and have therefore written to mr Gallatin to take measures in conjunction with yourself to make the remittance by the General Greene. I have not yet written to the emperor of Marocco; because when one has nothing to write about it is...
957From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Brent, 1 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns the inclosed commission, with his signature, to the Secretary of state’s office. he presumes it is to be delivered to mr Gallatin. a commission is wanting for John Selman of the North Western territory, as Commissioner on the subject of Symmes’s lands in the room of Goforth resigned.—he begs leave to observe too that mr Scott’s commission as Marshal of Virginia, signed...
958From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 1 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 29th. came to hand yesterday, and I now return the papers it inclosed. I am in hopes the measures you have taken will enable Govr. Harrison to satisfy the Indians. I believe there is nothing new in the present circulation of lies among them. I have always understood that they are peculiarly inundated with lies at all times. that vice is practised pretty freely by themselves;...
959From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Scott, 1 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I learn with great surprise by a letter of the 26th of July from the Governor, that your commission as Marshal of Virginia was not recieved at that date. it was signed by me on the 8th. of July, is recorded in the Secretary of state’s office, and I presume was forwarded immediately. the members of the administration did not yield to the opinion that your powers in the Eastern district were...
960From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 3 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of July 24. from New York was recieved on the 31st. this will probably find you at Washington. I immediately wrote to the Secretary of state’s office for a commission for Selman vice Goforth in Symmes’s case, and shall be ready to sign those for Massac, Marblehead & Pensylvania, as also for a successor to Foster, when presented. I suppose, all circumstances considered, that Wheelan’s...
961From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 5 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of July. 31. came to hand yesterday. I have no hesitation in approving of the purchase recommended by Genl. Sumpter, but I retain the papers a post longer to make myself acquainted with them. indeed the volume of my mail is such that subjects which require any consideration cannot be dispatched during the single evening & morning of the post’s stay. hence I shall generally on...
962From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 5 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday arrived our packages sent up by the boats. I find that during my stay here we shall want another supply of a couple of [hogsh.] more of syrup of punch, which therefore it will be as well to get at [once and] forward when practicible as the boat-navigation is precarious. By yesterday’s post [I learnt] that mr Short arrived on the 28th. at Norfolk, & is to proceed via Baltimore to...
963From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Story, 5 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 28 acknoleging the reciept of a commission under the bankrupt law. you mention in that your wish to remove to Boston, and I hardly suppose the commission above mentioned sufficient to prevent that. I indulge this supposition [the rather as you] will learn, with the less dissatisfaction that the name of your son Joseph is that which was desired to be...
964From Thomas Jefferson to Mawlay Sulayman, Sultan of Morocco, [5 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
It became known to us, not long since, that it would be agreeable to you that the US. should procure to be made for you one hundred gun carriages at your expence. we have lost no time since this intimation in preparing and sending them to you by a ship of our own; and we feel it more conformable with our dispositions towards your majesty to ask your acceptance of them as a mark of the esteem...
965To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1802 (Madison Papers)
I now return you the letters of mr. Pichon, and of Jones; also those of Van Polanen & Thos. Sumter. The letter to be written to Van Polanen should be so friendly as to remove all doubt from the Batavian government that our suppression of that mission proceeds from any other motive than of domestic arrangement & e[c]onomy. I inclose you a draught of a letter to the emperor of Morocco, which...
966From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of July 30. and Aug. 3. came to hand yesterday, and on the same day arrived here our boxes, casks &c. shipped from Washington before my departure; all in good order except the tea box containing coffee, sugar &c. which had burst open and lost some of it’s coffee; also my Indian busts , which by rough tumbling about, had got broken into many pieces. I learnt by yesterday’s post mr...
967From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Carroll Brent, 6 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. came to hand yesterday. whether it be best to insert the bars of the jail windows into an iron frame, or directly & separately into the stone [work], you can, on consultation with so many good judges on [the subject] form a much better judgment than I can, that I must forbear giving any opinion on it. that good white oak is better for every part of the roof than either...
968From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 6 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On further view and consideration of the papers from Genl. Sumpter, and Colo. Senf I continue of opinion that we ought to purchase the lands spoken of by them, about 4, or 500. acres, and further would approve of a purchase of any quantity within the limits of the act of assembly (2000 acres) considering that they must [be moderate in their] price as yet and that much will be wanting for...
969From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return you the letters of mr Pichon, and of Jones; also those of Van Polanen & Thos. Sumter . the letter to be written to Van Polanen should be so friendly as to remove all doubt from the Batavian government that our suppression of that mission proceeds from any other motive than of domestic arrangement & economy. —I inclose you a draught of a letter to the emperor of Marocco, which make...
970From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 8 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter to mr Mason, & that from mr Stoddert will explain themselves. be so good as to peruse & deliver them to mr Mason, and consult with him on their contents. whatever he and you think may be lawfully done, which may be an indulgence to mr Stoddert and not injure the public, I would wish you to do without delaying to consult me. Accept my best wishes & respects. PrC ( DLC ); at...