1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas T. Davis, [28 August 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I have been informed that Mr W. Claiborn does not accept his appointment as Govenor of the Mississippi Territory: Should this be the case I would be pleased with the appointment. A Residence of thirteen years among the Western people & a frequent intercourse with every part of the Western Country enables me to form Just notions of them & their policy. Whether my character as a man authorise me...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Christopher Ellery, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Conscious of a want of the talents which should grace the station to which I am appointed I shall endeavor to supply the deficiency by fidelity in discharging the duties imposed on me by my acceptance of the important trust—During your administration Sir I well know that honesty will be esteemed above brilliancy—and on this ground I hope to merit your approbation and that of my...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Matlack, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The knowledge of political characters is at all times of importance to the Chief Magistrate of the Union, and at no time was it more so than at the present moment. In Pennsylvania it is peculiarly so from the extreme Violence of those who have taken a lead among the Federalists; and [in] no part of the state has this violence been so outragious & insulting as in this borough and county. The...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment taken your letter of the 14th. inst. from the Post-office, and have step’d into the first house to write a line, and pray you to excuse me untill I return home before I can answer it properly. I congratulate you, Sir, in having produced the true disease, of which I have little or indeed no doubt . I hope Dr. Wardlow will inoculate from the part affected as soon as he finds a...