1To Thomas Jefferson from James O. Morse, 11 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
As by common consent you are regarded as the Patriarch , of the Democratic Republican family; a number of your republican Fellow Citizens in the interiour of the State of New York, feel a strong desire to know whether you consider M r John Quincy Adams as a member of the Republican party in the United States? Your answer would only be shewn to a few of your old Republican Friends unless you...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James O. Morse, 30 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I must beg to be excused from answering the question proposed to me in your favor of the 11 th inst. on the subject of the Candidates named for the next Presidency. I lay it down as a law to myself to take no part in that election. advice on such an occasion, were I even qualified to give it, would incur a fearful responsibility. I shall be perfectly contented with any choice my fellow...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James O. Morse, 5 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your highly esteemed favour of the 30 th of April last came to hand, and after the Presidential election is over I shall put it in a frame and bequeath it to my children.—I have long been anxious to have in my possession some memorial of our republican patri ar ch, and am now happily gratified. as your name is frequently in conversation, and sometimes in the newspapers made use of to advance...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James O. Morse, 30 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
you ask permission to publish my letter to you of Apr. 30. altho I have a great aversion to this generally, yet I consent on the present occasion, because, in fact, I wish it to be known that I do not meddle in the ensuing Presidential election. but as that letter was written carelesly, without an idea of it’s going into the papers, I must ask leave, by some corrections, to make it more proper...