61From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 24 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Genl. Wilkinson and returns him mr Adams’s letter of Feb. 4. 98. with thanks for the communication. It would doubtless have an effect on the opinions of many if it could be known to the H: of Representatives. perhaps the debates on mr Rowan’s motion may give an opening to a member to read it in his place. it is not within the description of what Th:J....
62From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 24 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Genl. Wilkinson, and in answer to his letters of yesterday observes that during the course of the Burr conspiracy the voluminous communications he recieved were generally read but once, & then committed to the Attorney General, and were never returned to him it is not in his power therefore to say that Genl. Wilkinson did or did not denounce eminent...
63From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of the 16th. and considered the papers it covered. I sincerely regret that you had not given them in before the departure of the Secretary at War, because no other person can decide on them in the first instance but him. the expenditures were for military objects, the services for military purposes, and like all the other military expenditures & services, belong to...
64From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 30 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The absence of General Dearborne & his great distance render it necessary to recommend a measure which should regularly go from him, but will not admit of that delay. the armed resistance to the embargo laws on the Canada line induced us at an early period to determine that the new recruits of the Northern states should be rendezvoused there, and I presume you recieved such instructions from...
65From Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 11 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 1st. inst. are recieved. I am sensible that it is highly improper & dangerous to permit citizens without license, to go into the Indian country in the way that mr Glass has done: & I think the 2d. 3d. & 4th. sections of the Indian intercourse law (extended subsequently to Louisiana) would be applicable to his case. but as this may be doubted, & the penalties are totally...
66Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 10 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 21. has been recieved, and with it the 2 d vol. of your Memoirs, with the Appendices to the 1 st 2 d & 4 th volumes, for which accept my thanks. I shall read them with pleasure. the expression respecting myself, stated in your letter to have been imputed to you by your calumniators, had either never been heard by me, or, if heard, had been unheeded & forgotten. I have been...
67From John Adams to James Wilkinson, 12 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
On Thursday night I received from the Post Office your favour of October the second. Although it arrived at a moment when Wounds, Sickness, and Deaths in my Family, and among my tenderest Connections had excited all my sensibility and that of all my Family I thought it my duty to answer as soon as possible to the Interrogatories you enclosed. My answers are contained in the enclosed Sheet N.2....
68From James Madison to James Wilkinson, 12 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 9th inst: inclosing a statement of a private conversation between Lt. Opie, and Mr. Simmons Acct. of the War Department, made by the former. The considerations out of which the Court Martial in your case grew, would attach particular regret to any circumstance affecting, even in appearance or opinion, the justice and fairness of the proceedings, as they...
69From James Madison to James Wilkinson, [17 November 1813] (Madison Papers)
You are instructed to make known to Sir George P. in answer to his letter of Ocr. 17 & for the information of his Govt. that the Govt. of the U.S. adhering unalterably to the principle & purpose declared in the commun[i]cation of Genl. Dearborn to him on the subject of the 23 Amer. Soldiers prisone[r]s of war sent to England to be tried as Criminals, & the confinement of a like number of B....
70Thomas Jefferson to James Wilkinson, 25 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A life so much em p loyed in public as yours has been , must subject you often to be appealed to for facts by those whom they concern. an occasion occurs to myself of asking t his kind of aid from your memory & documents. the posthumous volume of Wilso n ’s Ornithology, altho’ published some time since, never happened to be seen by me until a few days ago. in the account o f his life, prefixed...