1801To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Weaver, Jr., 25 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ acquainted only with your publick character, I gratify feelings which appear to be in unison with those of this State, in congratulating you on the happy issue of the momentous struggle of America to continue advantages gaind’d by the price of revolutionary blood, in preserving the right of electing to the highest office in the United States, the man in whom the publick choice centers,...
1802To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson and William Cocke, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In bringing, thus early, to your View, a Subject deeply interesting to the Citizens of Tennessee, we hope we Shall not be considered, as tresspassing upon the rules of propriety—If however it Shou’d be thought, in any degree improper, thus to Obtrude, upon the first Majistrate of the Union, previous to his Official inauguration—we trust that the Consideration of the Short time, the Senate may...
1803To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Bryan, [ca. 26 February 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ personally an entire stranger to you, I am encouraged by a knowledge of your public principles and conduct to address you on the subject of an appointment under the new administration of the Federal Government— Aware that you will be oppressed with the number and length of statements of the pretensions of Candidates for Office, I shall be as brief in the exhibition of mine as the nature...
1804To Thomas Jefferson from Pierce Butler, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I come, said Arius Antonius to the Emperor Nerva, with others, to Congrat[ulate] not Your good fortune, but that of the Roman Empire. — Not in the habit of aiming at a Correspondence with any person in an elevated situation; as You are at present; yet I am prompted by a wish to see Your Administration easy and honorable to Yourself; and still more, by Attachment to the honor and interests of...
1805To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Il m’a fallu attendre l’arrivée de plusieurs caisses de livres qui m’étoient expédiées d’Hambourg avant de pouvoir vous adresser ceux que vous me demandez, par votre lettre du 9. Janvier dernier Je ne dois pas passer sous silence que j’ai reçu aussi un ouvrage entrepris au Commencement de la Revolution & qui vient d’être terminé. Il a pour titre, Encyclopédie des Voyages; contenant l’abregé...
1806To Thomas Jefferson from William Findley, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
While I make free to call your attention to a few Subjects which I conceive to be of importance, I will not detain you with Congratulations, nor those expressions of satisffaction which I feel with greater force than I can utter on the account of the final happy result of the presidential election and the flattering prospect of our affairs, my Joy however is mingled with as Sincere Sympathy. I...
1807To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe de Létombe, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai vu naître les Etats-unis; je Vous suis attaché depuis seize ans; voila mes titres pour Vous offrir mon Compliment sur votre nomination à la Présidence. Aimé et estimé dans ces Etats et dans l’Europe, Vous justifierez le choix de vos concitoyens; Vous gagnerez tous les cœurs; Vous rendrez votre nation l’exemple du monde; la Philosophie Vous placera au rang des Bienfaiteurs de l’humanité et...
1808From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Morris, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Being in want of a Steward or Maitre d’Hotel, a person [by the] name of Tate has been recommended to me, with information that he had [served] you some years in that capacity. as it is highly important to a house that that officer be honest and skilful, I have flattered myself you would be so kind as to give me his character with as much detail as would be interesting to me. I shall consider...
1809To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Sim, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will excuse the maner in which I take the liberty to offer myself to you a Stuard of your Famely it will be needless for me to say more at present then that. I shall be satisfyed with very Moderate Wagers. that my recomendations shall be from the best people—Mrs. Sim who you can soon be satisfyed has been in that line of life which has qualifyed her to mannage a Genteel Famely will...
1810To Thomas Jefferson from John Strode, 26 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Imprest with respectfull Awe and the most profound esteem, I presume to approach your hand; not that I conceive your friendship for an individual however small or remote, in any degree lessen’d; but because the business of your elevated Station, will continually require your attention to matters of transcendantly more importance; I beg leave to introduce to you my friend & Neighbour Robert B...
1811To Thomas Jefferson from John Beckley, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
So inseparable, are the feelings of my mind, from a deep concern, in the welfare and happiness of our common Country, and for the success and honorable reputation, of that administration of its affairs, which you are about to commence, that I cannot permit myself to withhold the present communication. If it may in any degree conduce to aid the purposes of your own mind, Or that view of things...
1812To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’apprends á l’instant d’une maniere á peû prés certaine que vous etes élû président des Etats unis d’Amérique, comme je l’esperois depuis quelques mois. C’est un évenement tel qu’il n’y en a guere qui puisse m’interesser davantage. j’aime á vous voir promû á cette dignité, parceque je Sçais combien vous etes digne d’elle et elle digne de vous. puissiés vous, Monsieur, y trouver, par vos...
1813To Thomas Jefferson from Johann Eckstein, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the occasion of the prospect that a Mausoleum or monument will be erected in commemoration of the illistrous Washington I feel that solicitude which is common with every artist, when an occasion so important presents itself. Sir, I am emboldned to take upon me the honor of adressing You and to solicit Your interest in my behalf, knowing from Your public Character that it gives You delight...
1814To Thomas Jefferson from William Evans, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of the 22d instant came Duly to hand. that part of the contents of which relative to your former Servant James I Immediately communicated to him, he told that he was under an engagement with Mr Peck , a Tavern Keeper, of this place, which he said was out of his power to relinquish for a few days, I requested him to be particular In mentioning the time he could be in readiness to go...
1815To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you inclosed herein Mr. Leiper’s two letters. I am glad to find that the Tobacco has turned out to be sound, and not to have been wet—as J. & W. cannot possibly now have any legal, or just claim on you. As to their demand of a deduction on account of the quality of the Tobo., I think I may venture to affirm that a more unreasonable expectation was never entertained by Man. In order to...
1816To Thomas Jefferson from George Logan, 27 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter will be delivered to you by Mr: P: C: Lane of Virginia; but who has for several years resided in Pennsylvania, he is a Representative in our Legislature from the County of Fayette. I beg leave to refer you to him for information respecting the situation of parties in this State. he is well acquainted with the Governor, and in some degree with his opinions respecting public affairs...
1817From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 28 February 1801 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. instant was to have been acknowledged a week ago, but the irregularity of the post occasioned by high waters has delayed it to the present opportunity. I have now to acknowledge your two subsequent ones of the 12th. & 19th. In compliance with the last, I had proposed to leave home in a few days, so as to be with you shortly after the 4th. of March. A melancholy...
1818To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hardy, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is publickly asserted here, as an event highly probable, that the Office of Surveyor of this port will become vacant the 4h, next month—In which case, having been a Candidate for the same previous to the present nomination, I would take the liberty of renewing my application that may be found on the files of the President under date of the 7h, March last. This was accompanied with a number...
1819To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe de Létombe, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Rien n’a pu retarder mon empressement de répondré à la confiance dont vous m’honorez. Aussitot après avoir reçu votre lettre, je me suis mis à la recherche de ce que vous desirez et je viens de trouver précisément ce qui vous convient. Ç’est un homme de 42 ans; probe; sédentaire; d’une humeur toujours égale; parlant le francais et l’anglais; uniquement attaché à ses devoirs; s’occupant sans...
1820To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1st. instant was to have been acknowledged a week ago, but the irregularity of the post occasioned by high waters has delayed it to the present opportunity. I have now to acknowledge your two subsequent ones of the 12th. & 19th . In compliance with the last, I had proposed to leave home in a few days, so as to be with you shortly after the 4th. of March. A melancholy...
1821From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To give the usual opportunity of appointing a President pro tempore , I now propose to retire from the chair of the Senate: and as the time is near at hand, when the relations will cease, which have for some time subsisted between this honorable house & myself, I beg leave before I withdraw, to return them my grateful thanks for all the instances of attention & respect with which they have...
1822To Thomas Jefferson from John Vanmetre, 28 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your friendly letter Addressed to me dated monticello September the 4th 1800, and Also to Apoligise for its publication—The fact was that though it was particularly gratifying to me as An Individual yet I could not deny myself the pleasure Of Communicating its Contents to some of my friends Whom I also conceived to be the friends (in common) of the great...
1823To Thomas Jefferson from Burgess Allison, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the Pleasure which evry improvement in the Arts and Sciences afford you, and especially those mechanical Arts which promise to become useful to Society; I have taken the liberty of communicating to you one, made by Mr. Hawkins upon Saddles, which appears to answer the purpose design’d exceedingly well. It is the application of spiral brass wire Springs to the Seat and Stirrups of...
1824To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I do not feel myself Authorisd to interfere, in the Smallest degree, with any thing, that may in the least appertain to your Administration,—Yet feeling Very much interested, in the welfare of the Family of Mr. John Hall—Marshall of Pennsylvania,—I hope you will pardon my presumeing to request, that he may be Continued in his present office—I have had, a Very early and long...
1825To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Boardman, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In the course of the last year it was found that some desining men in New England had conceived and were attempting to bring forth a new machine of terror for the more effectually to subjugate and govern the people of the United States—namely that Religion and State policy Should be connected and by that coalition, together with the encreased power and patronage of the President would enable...
1826To Thomas Jefferson from William Duane, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers accompanying were given me for communication to you, they originated in the following manner. Prior to my setting out for Lancaster in the month of October last, Mr. Lee , the person whom they concern, called on me and stated that he had been dismissed from his situation for discovering the removal of papers from the Department of State by means of a false key, and wished me to...
1827To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I now send you My dear Sir, the seperate communication promised you; It would have been sent somewhat sooner, but I have moved from the Lower to the upper creeks, to be more in the center of the nation, and to have a more commanding influence among them; and of course to be in a situation where my exertions will have the best effect in carrying the benevolent views of our government into...
1828To Thomas Jefferson from John Garland Jefferson, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feby. 1st. has come safe to hand, and I acknoledge myself highly gratified with the receipt, since it has enabled me to explain your vote for Johnson in a satisfactory manner to most who have heard your reasons. The news of your election to the presidential chair, has been the source of great, and general joy. The people have now the satisfaction of seing the man of their choice...
1829To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Being sensible that Jabez Fitch Marshal of Vermont has no title to the good opinion of any honest man I cannot suppose he will be sufferd to remain one day in office to disgrace the Administration of the Man he has so often Cursed and defamed— Three Candidates have applied to me to be recomended to that appointment either of whom are Qualified to perform the duties of the Office, I think it...
1830To Thomas Jefferson from Rembrandt Peale, 1 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To your flattering Communication , an immediate answer was unavoidably prevented. I shall feel happy in being able to furnish you with an accurate Copy of your Portrait, at my usual price 30 Dollars—which shall be immediately begun and finished as soon as possible. It has met with general approbation, but from the difficulty of the front face, I am afraid the marks of Copy may not be so much...