1To Thomas Jefferson from Frederic Herlitz, 2 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The first lines which run out of my pen, are pardon of taking the liberty to trouble you with a few lines. I will give you at first a description of my birth and situation, I was born at Newyork in a very respectable family , but my parents being reduced, were obliged to send me to Germany to one of their acquaintance, for my education, where I staid nearly 17 years and as soon as I had...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 2 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have rode to your house yesterday to speak with you on the subject of your note of the preceding day, but that it rendered it doubtful whether you would not be gone to Richmond. The claim of Maryland to the South branch is under the words of her charter which granted to the meridian ‘ primi fontis fluminis de Potomac ,’ the word primus, there meaning principal or most remote source,...
3From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 2 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I now return mr Clarke’s & Shee’s letters inclosed in your’s of yesterday. mr Clarke’s object is to save 6. cents a stock. this is proper for him as an economical manager. but you & I must see of what other aspects it is susceptible. the US. have gun stocks for sale . they are to suspend the sale & lend them to the state of Virginia, that she may return them in kind afterwards with a saving to...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Dinsdale Thompson, 2 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A series of complicated distresses having necessitated me to leave my native country (England) & friends & to repair to Jamaica—which proving injurious to my health & repugnant to every Sentiment of humanity I quited with an intention of passing the remainder of my existence in America. Adversity with insatiate vengeance hath persued me hither—the Gentleman to whom I brought a Letter of...