1To James Madison from Josiah Blakeley, 9 August 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 9 August 1804. Mentioned in Blakeley to JM, 7 Nov. 1804 (DNA: RG 76, Preliminary Inventory 177, entry 143, France, Unbound Records Relating to Spoliation Claims, ca. 1885, box 6, folder “Claimant: Josiah Blakeley”), as acccompanying his account with the U.S. “ & an order for the same”—probably a bill of exchange drawn on JM for the relief of distressed seamen (see JM to...
2To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 9 August 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 August 1804, New Orleans. “In the District of Atakapas where party feuds and much general disquietude prevailed on our taking possession of this Province, I have the pleasure to inform you that the most perfect good order now exists, this favorable change is attributed in some degree to the conduct of a very young but I believe a very deserving young officer of the name of Hopkins, who...
3To James Madison from John Gavino, 9 August 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 August 1804, Gibraltar. No. 157. “I had the honor of adressing you the 7t: Inst: No: 156 , and yesterday arrived the British Ship of Warr Ajancourt of 74 Gunns & a Sloop of Warr with a Convoy for this Place & England by them I received a Packet for you which I had only time to deliver Capn: Lee of the Brig Joseph of Boston as was geting under way, but the Wind coming about is returnd & will...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 9 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose a Letter which I have recd from Mr: Bates : also One from a Mr: Morgan addressed to you through my care, the object of which I know not; also one from Mr: Bishop. I have conversed fully with Mr: Bishop in relation to the Suspicion of his being the Author of Aristides , and for myself am fully persuaded that the suspicion is unfounded and that he was not, directly...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Dominick A. Hall, 9 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter expressing a desire to appoint me District Judge of the territory of Orleans. Should you be pleased to make the appointment I will accept it and immediately prepare to proceed to the territory. Permit me Sir, to avail my self of the occasion to offer you my warmest thanks for the confidence with which you have honored me, and to assure you that I am...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Turpin, 9 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John H. Smith, a Grandson of my sister Harris (whom perhaps you may remember ) has earnestly requested me to employ the Interest which he supposes me to possess with you, in his behalf. Mr. Smith is a respectable young Man; has had a tolerably good education, and is, I have reason to think, capable of due application to business. Sometime since, he wrote a Twelve-month under Mr. Price...