1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 16th. Instt. I had the pleasure of addressing Mr Jefferson, Via Bourdeaux, to care of Mr Lee, communicating the agreeable intelligance of the destruction of the Frigate Philada. in the Port of Tripoli; of which Mr Jefferson will have recd. the particulars from Commodore Preble.—I have now the Satisfaction, previous to my departure for Naples in my route for Sicily, of Explaining the...
2To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 25 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 March 1804, New Orleans. “In a conversation some days ago, with Major Stephen Minor,” was told “that some men in the Mississippi Territory who had heretofore been most clamorous against the Land Speculation, had now become conspicuous Speculators, and that an officer of the Government , had, (to his own knowledge) been guilty of what he conceived a fraudulent transaction.” Asked Minor to...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, [25 March 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
Presuming on the acquaintance, from which I derived so much pleasure during your stay in this Country, I am going to take a very great liberty. It concerns a near relation of mine, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, now a prisoner of war on parol, at Paris. His brother, from whom I have just received a letter informs me, that being upon a visit to the Continent as a Traveller, he was overtaken by the war...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Taylor, Jr., 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The pipe of Madeira and box of Champagne have been duly recieved. the latter has been tried and is approved and I shall be glad to take eight cases more, say 480. bottles of it, to be forwarded to this place at any time before the 1st. of May till which time I shall not be returned from Monticello. only be so good as, on reciept of this, to inform me by post if I may rely on that quantity,...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Fitzhugh, 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose to set out on Thursday or Friday for Monticello, and being afraid to touch the great market roads at this season, I propose to go through Ravensworth . I think you told me there was a better way through that tract than the one I went. will you be so good as to drop me a line of direction how to find it? I am determined also to find some road from Songster’s to the Redhouse without...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Louis André Pichon, 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Pichon presents his respects to the President of the United States & regrets exceedingly that notwithstanding his anxious Sollicitations to the Consul at Baltimore on the Subject of the wine—he has not yet been able to learn whether and how much wine he was to expect. Therefore, Mr. Pichon recommends to the President to order from Norfolk the quantity he chuses without reference to the...
7To Alexander Hamilton from Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, [25 March 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
[ March 25, 1804. The calendar description of this letter reads: “presenting a pair of horses.” Letter not found. ] Philip Hamilton’s calendar of letters “taken by my brother Alexr Hamilton from the House of my sister E[liza] H Holly immediately after her death without any colour of right or authority,” December 30, 1859 ( AD , Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress). Van Rensselaer, a resident...