1From Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 January 1805 (Adams Papers)
In behalf of the kindest and best of Brothers I thank you my most respected Cousin for your kind attentions at this present time of affliction. I have known sorrow but none has equeall’d this, to be—to be brought to such an humbling situation by one who has always profess’d the most profound friendship is doubly agravating On Monday I thought it was more than human nature could bear,—but he...
2To James Madison from Gabriel Duvall, 23 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
23 January 1805, Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office. “By the 4th section of the Act of the 28th February 1803, it is the duty of the Consuls, vice-consuls &c. of the U. S. from time to time to provide for the Mariners & seamen of the U. S. who may be found destitute within their districts respectively, sufficient subsistence & passages to some port in the U. S. subject to such...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Reuben Lewis, 23 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 4th. Inst. came safe to hand as likewise that of November, the information they contain respecting my Brother, is very flatring & interesting to myself my Mother & his Friends—his success has surpassed my most sanguine expectation & while I rejoice in his success suffer me to express my gratitude for the information— The paccage you inclosed to me with your last contained a letter...
4To Thomas Jefferson from D. L. Morel, 23 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The underwritter begs pardon to your excellency to dare to trouble him in a circumstance where’in his sollicitude for the happiness of the people are chiefly required, however his cares should be always the most precious occupations of his mind: and in the same time, if he is ignorantly missing the usual ceremonies he is unacquainted with. an ever precious rememberance dictates him a steep...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe Reibelt, 23 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Piranesi has been recieved, as also a box of books directed to me as I presume from you altho’ not noted in any of your letters. from these I have selected the following. Correspondence de Rousseau . 3. v. p.f 2. Hist. nat. des Mineraux. Patrin 5. v. p.f. 6. 64 Hist. de Catharine II. par Austera. 3. v. 8vo. 6. 78 Recueil sur les salines par Struve 12mo. . 75 Voyage de Terracine a Naples 12mo....
6From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 23 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Reibelt, bookseller, St. Patricks’s row, Baltimore having sent me a box of books to select such as I should chuse, I observe one which I think would be useful for your office or for our young eleves. tho the French are behind the English in the practice of the Nautical art, they are, from the excellence of their institutions, far before them in the theory. The price of the book is 10 D. 8....