1From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 29 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21. was recieved here the last night. I have not with me a copy of my letter of the 21st. which you quote as of the 17th. but the object of that was to inform you that Doctr. Franklin when he left Paris, did not leave with me a single scrip of paper, or of the pen, of any nature whatever, or any article of any kind whatsoever; and this on an explanation between ourselves,...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 21 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of July 17. Doctr. Franklin left nothing with me when he left Paris, not even a scrip of a paper; because we concurred in opinion that as he left nothing unfinished, the office of foreign affairs here was the proper deposit for his papers. I heard nothing of his having any other deposits. certainly he left none of any kind with me. had a deposit of silver been...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 14 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Dallas & thanks him for his note on the subject of the Prohibition. the observation that it does not remove the cause, and consequently cannot come within the description of ‘writs necessary for the exercise of their jurisdiction’ had not occurred to him & is weighty. but it suggests to him (and a 30. years abstraction from legal studies makes him...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander J. Dallas, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was applied to some time the last year to give a pardon to the persons (the Lowries) who are the subjects of the inclosed letter & petition. but the facts then stated, & the short imprisonment they had then suffered did not justify it in my judgment. in consequence however of further information, & of the longer term of their confinement, I now think it my duty to pardon them. a copy of the...