1From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Savage 10 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Hearing that you have removed to New York and still carry on your business there, I take the liberty of applying to you for some print-frames with their glasses of the sizes mentioned below. my reason for troubling you particularly is that you know the style in which I like the frames to be made, having before made some for me by a model I furnished, and which I greatly prefer to those which...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Savage, 1 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just Return’d from Boston and found your Esteem’d favour of Janury 10 the Picture Fraimes Shall be Done as Soone as time will admit of. if you have the Prints, with you and Could have them Rold in a Small Role and then Put into a Small Box which would just Admit of the Role, and Send them to me by Some Person Comming on in the Stage or Some Vessel Bound to this City: I will have them...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Savage, 30 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 1st. instant has been duly recieved. I was not aware of the difficulty of placing the prints on their frames, which you inform me of. the prints being at my house in Virginia, where I could not have a proper case made for them, I believe it will be better on the whole to have the frames made here, as I shall, at the rising of Congress, make a trip of a few days to Monticello, and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Savage, 29 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I Recd your favour of the 30 of March at that time the fraimes ware all made, I Beg your forgiveness for not Answering your Letter Sooner. I put it of from Day to Day Expecting to have an oppertunity of Sending the fraimes at the Same time I wrote. the Schooner Tryal is the first oppertunity that I have meet with: there is a Mr Anderson in the City of Washington who will be a good hand to put...
5To James Madison from Edward Savage, 5 June 1802 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 5 June 1802, New York. Acknowledged in Daniel Brent to Savage, 8 June 1802 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14). Encloses two hundred Mediterranean passports and requests a remittance of $375 to procure the parchment necessary to complete the remainder. Brent had written to Savage on 14 May 1802 (ibid.) asking him to furnish one thousand Mediterranean passports, of which two hundred...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Savage, 9 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been absent during the month of May on a visit to Monticello, your letter of Apr. 29. has remained here unanswered. during my absence also the boxes containing the print frames arrived safe. mr John Barnes of Georgetown, who does business for me, will this day remit to his friend mr Ludlow of New York the sum of 61. D. 75 c. the amount of your bill the frames give perfect satisfaction....
7To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Savage, 7 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my Residence in this City I have added meany Europen Paintings to the collection which you Saw in Philadelphia. Last Spring I Bought the Collection of Natural Curosities known by the Name of the Tammany Museum in this City which I Have added to the Paintings the Collection Now is Large and fills a Large Space I have taken the Liberty to Enclose to you a Discription of an non Descript...
8To James Madison from Edward Savage, 9 February 1803 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 February 1803, New York. Acknowledged in Brent to Savage, 25 Feb. 1803 (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 14), as an inquiry about funds due him for passports he printed for the State Department (see Savage to JM, 5 June 1802 , PJM-SS Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). , 3:279 ).
9From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Savage, 4 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 7. is recieved. you mention having enclosed in it one of your proposals for publishing the print of the Declaration of Independence, but none came. I sent to the door keepers of Congress to know if they could inform me of the terms of subscription , but they could not. I shall be glad to become a subscriber, & will comply with the terms whenever made known to me. Accept my...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Savage, 10 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
your favour of the 4th. is Just Come to hand. the miscarriage of Several Papers appears very Extraordinary, I am very Shure of Enclosing to you a Discription of the mountain Ram , and one of my proposals for Publishing by Subscription a print Representing the Declaration of Independence. I put up at the Same time a packet containing thirty Proposals and twenty three Recipts fill’d up and...