2611To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 20 October 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
My return home was delayed ’till a few days past. Upon going to the Custom House, I found that your box had been entered by Mr. Patrick Hart of Richmond. The collector informed me that it was the design of Mr. Hart to forward it by the first safe opportunity—consequently I had been deprived of the pleasure of executing your commission—nor should you now be troubled with this scrawl, but to...
2612To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 15 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I am disappointed not receiving a letter to-day—if you shall have had one from Monticellow, I shall thank you to mention any Thing relative to my family, which may have been communicated to you. I shall set out to-morrow, by the Stage for Virginia. Shou’d any letters be directed to your care, I shall be thankful to have them returned to the Richmond Post Office where I shall find them, as I...
2613To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 17 October 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your very kind letter of the 6th. instant.—The appointment I shall accept, if upon a recommendation to the president, he shall so far honor me by his approbation. The duties thereof I shall make it a point to regard, and execute them with the utmost of my abilities. Among the many motives to a faithful acquittal of the trust, there shall be none more urgent...
2614To Thomas Jefferson from David Meade Randolph, 15 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Presque Isle, 15 June 1790 . Encouraged by the friendly sentiments expressed by TJ to his friend T. M. Randolph, in response to his application through him for a post, he ventures to make a suggestion “under the late law appointing Commissioners of Loans.—[Colo. Heth’s situation must have been long since known to be disagreeable—the emoluments of his Office little more than equal to his...
2615To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 11 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing, that the President intended to answer your letter , relative to the shares in the two rivers, I did [not] think it necessary to trouble you with an assurance, that I would remind him of it. He tells me, that he has stated to you fully the arrangements, which he meditates. Mr. Short mentioned to me in his last dispatches, that he had proposed to you some time before your resignation a...
2616Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on the Case of Gideon Henfield, 30 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney general of the United States has the honor of submitting to the Secretary of State the following Opinion on the Case of Gideon Henfield, as represented by the Minister of France . 1. It may well be doubted, how far the Minister of France has a right to interfere. Henfield is a citizen of the United States; and it is unusual at least, that a foreign Power should interfere in a...
2617To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 28 August 1794 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding you have fenced out from the purlieus of Monticello every thing, which assumes a political Shape, you must permit me to bring before you a subject, once extremely near to your heart, often the employement of your pen, and always a deep interest to the United States. The delays, and evasions which you know to have been practised towards our Commissioners at Madrid , have at...
2618To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 2 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
There is, without doubt, a protection due to foreign built vessels, owned by American citizens ; altho’ they cannot claim the privileges, belonging to Vessels of the U.S. For the former are no less neutral property, than the latter. The usual evidence of the neutral ownership of vessels is a certificate from the officers of the customs; who may and in the papers, granted on clearing out,...
2619Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on George Turner, [ca. 17 April 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
To instruct Governor St. Clair 1. To transmit to Judge Turner any authentic intelligence, which he may have received, concerning the complaints of the people against his absence: 2. Or, if no such intelligence be possessed, to represent to Judge Turner, without undertaking to order in any manner, the inconvenience in a judicial view, which the Territory sustains by his absence: and 3. To...
2620To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 25 July 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
We have been at cross purposes about the inclosed letter of July 24. 1793. in answer to Mr. Genets of the 9th. I am much mistaken, if my note intimated a doubt of its propriety. I certainly always approved it. My remarks as to delay were applicable to the answer to the inflammatory memorial ; to which General Knox suggested an addition. Is that some word omitted in the first sentence of the...