11To James Madison from William Clark, 28 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 June 1804, Emden. “Your much respected favor under date of Janry. 4th. together with the several inclosures which accompanied the same came duly to hand. Be pleased to accept my best thanks for the favourable reception of the request I had the honor to address to you in July last from Boston and permit me through you Sir, to offer the humble tribute of my gratitude to the President of the...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Willson Peale, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My son Rembrandt now at Baltemore exhibiting his Skeleton of the Mammoth, writes me as follows. “Saterday there was a young man here, lately (4 weeks) from Pittsburg, who saw Reeder and his Bones. He gave me a very accurate description of them. He has a very fine thigh bone much like mine, an underjaw not so large as mine but a good deal broken, a great number of back bones of different...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I shall this day have the honor of sending to you Warrants for the two young gentlemen recommended by judge Tyler. You will however be pleased to inform him that the Frigates intended for the Medn. have their full Complement of Midshipmen and that the first services to be performed by these young men will probably be on board of Gun Boats— Y.H.S. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received from the...
14To Thomas Jefferson from William Thornton, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Although, by being totally superseded in whatever concern the former Presidents had confided to my Care in this City, I might be considered as too sensibly affected to have the smallest Solicitude for whatever is now doing, I nevertheless cannot abstract my mind wholly from what particularly relates to myself. My plan of the Capitol being approved I thought no Alteration could have been...
15From Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of the 10th. inst. has been duly recieved. amidst the direct falsehoods, the misrepresentations of truth, the calumnies & the insults resorted to by a faction to mislead the public mind, & to overwhelm those intrusted with its interests, our support is to be found in the approving voice of our conscience and country, in the testimony of our fellow citizens that their confidence is...
16Enclosure: Memorial from Providence, Rhode Island, 28 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
We the undersigned Citizens of the United States and inhabitants of the State of Rhode Island—having good cause to beleive that great exertions have been made by certain citizens of this state—actuated by local prejudices or perhaps by more sordid motives—to obtain a removal of the office of commissioner of loans from Providence to Newport—and apprehending it to be a duty which we owe to...