1To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 30 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been honoured with your note enclosing a letter to the Mayor of N. York , I can only observe, that as far as I am capable of Judging, every idea is convey’d in the letter which the nature of the subject requires. Yours, RC ( DLC ); undated; at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the War Department on 30 Jan. and “Defence N. York” and so...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Abiel Holmes, 30 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel greatly obliged by the attention you were pleased to bestow on the subject, on which I used the freedom to address you. In the republic of Letters mere hints of information or advice are often of inestimable value. All the books, mentioned in your Letter , I have access to, excepting Memoires de l’Amerique, and The American and British Chronicle. For the former of these I have made much...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 30 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Ayant rencontré parmi mes Gravures particuliéres deux d’un Genre, que je pense de Votre Gout—j’ose Vous les presenter çijoint. Daignez les accepter—comme une humble Offrande d’un homme, dont les principes republicains invariables jusqu’ici—commencoient a le former theoretiquement aux Universités de l’autre Cotè de l’Océan, lorsque Vous de çe Coté ci travailliez practiquement a l’etablissement...