1To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Clark, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few Weeks since a Case containing the Indian Busts concerning which I had the pleasure of hearing from you last Year, and have waited some time in hope of having an Opportunity of sending it direct to Alexandria as a Port convenient to your place of residence, but being disappointed in my expectations I have shipped the Case on board the Brig Sophia Capt. Tibbett for Philadelphia...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I must not look back to the date of our last Correspondence it would alarm & discourage me from taking the pen up this Moment. Your kindness to me has been of all times, & your friendship & mine took its date from its beggining: Circumstances, not your will I am sure have deprived me of the pleasure I used to value so much of receiving your letters. Many Many times my thoughts […] towards you,...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Haswell, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 10th. of May last, I thought it my duty to address you in a few lines on the subject of my personal concerns as a printer, and the situation of political affairs in this quarter, as far as the printing business was concerned:—Sensible that from a concatenation of trifles great events are produced, I feel constrained once more to intrude on your politeness, in relation to the same...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am ashamed to be so troublesome as I am compelled to be to those whom I have taken the liberty to suppose are friendly to me; but I believe there are few men, who in their youth do not contract obligations that make them ashamed before they are thirty. Had I not a family to protect and support, misfortune would be little to me,—I could bear it, or fly from it, as I am I must suffer or...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Richardson, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Its with great pleasure, I have it In my power, to write you, from this, by Capt. Thomas Calvert whome I came passainger with to this place nothing strange has ocured since my arrival hear only that of seeing a number of our vessels Brought In hear, and some of them for mere nothing, I think I have counted seaven or Eight, which lay hear to undergo a trial, this place being vearey sicly, I...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Instead of proceeding to Washington immediately and of returning, as suggested by you, in the Course of a few days for the purpose of adjusting my private affairs, I have determined to postpone my removal until Saturday next. The state of the health of one of my sons irresistiby demands my immediate attention. Under the advice of the Physicians I will tomorrow take him and Mrs. Smith to a...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Pitcairn the Consul at Hamburg is a Merchant of Considerable Credit & well supported in New York. the Merchants who do Business with him from this City Speak highly of him, as a Man of Understanding & one who has their entire Confidence,—and in this point of View he is Considerd by those who do not know his Transactions at Paris & a part of his Commercial Conduct, known to few—I do not...