1To James Madison from Thomas Auldjo, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas Auldjo. 24 January 1806, Cowes. “I have the honor of your letters of 1st & 12th of July accompanied by the Laws passed at the last Sessions of Congress. “The Several matters recommended in said letters shall be duly attended to & as that which relates to the renewal of my bond for my official situation I shall be ready to come into the execution of it when furnished to me &...
§ From William C. C. Claiborne. 24 January 1806, New Orleans. “I have the honor to enclose you a Copy of a statement made me on Oath, by Stephen a free black man; I do not credit it in whole; I however, have no doubt, but that the free people of Color have been tampered with, and that some of them are devoted to the spanish Interest. “Mr. Morales is yet in this City, and should I not an [ sic...
3To James Madison from George Davis, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Davis. 24 January 1806, Washington. “In a letter which I had the honor to address you on the 21st: I stated all the information I posessed respecting certain Items in Mr Eaton’s accounts, excepting, that the Drogerman declares also to have been present at the Settling of them with the Minister; when a denial was made of having recd. the ten thousand dollars, which he had...
4To James Madison from Horatio Gates, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Horatio Gates. 24 January 1806, New York. “Inclosed is a Letter I recived from General Moreau [not found], sent to me by the Marquis Lafayette; Mr. Temple Bowdoin intended to have calld for it, but leaving Town in bad Wether he neglected to do it, it was to have accompanied my Letter to you by that Gentleman. War in Disguise makes much Stir here! I never will beleive Armstrong is...
5To James Madison from William Hull, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From William Hull. 24 January 1806, Washington. “I have the honor to enclose you, an estimate, of the expences which have been necessarily incurred the last year in the Territory of Michigan, for which no appropriation has been made. “The books of Records, which I purchased are of the best kind, and will not be filled for a number of years. I thought them indispensably necessary, in order to...
6To James Madison from Robert Patton, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Robert Patton. 24 January 1806, Philadelphia. “I this day received your favour of the 21st, enclosing a draft on the Bank United states, for three hundred & fifty dollars, being the sum to be paid, in exchange for a pair Horses. Enclosed you have the receipt & warrantee. I sincerely hope they may answer your expectations. “I beg you to believe me, when I assure you, that, it will always...
7To James Madison from Anthony Terry, 24 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Anthony Terry. 24 January 1806, Cádiz. “Permit me to address you on a Subject most painfull to my feelings, as it attacks in a base manner the reputation and Character of Mr. Joseph Yznardy Consul for the United States of America at this Place. “A Publication against him has appeared in One of the Philadelphia Papers dated Cádiz 15th. August 1805. whereof I inclose you an exact Copy....
8From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Anderson, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Anderson & his thanks for the communication of the within letter of mr Walker which he now returns. he recieves great satisfaction from every new evidence that the Society of friends are becoming sensible that the prejudices concieved against the principles of his administration were without foundation. he is particularly sensible of the kind...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Leander Cathcart, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
James Leander Cathcart prests his respts to Mr. Jefferson and begs leave to inform him that he waited upon the Tunisian Ambassador this morning who inform’d him that the letter wrote in Arabic is in the dialect of Egypt some expressions of which he does not perfectly understand: he therefore requested me to leave it with him until the morning & he would endeavor to have it explaind by one of...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Micajah Harris, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
We whose names are under Signed having heard of certain reports of the unpopularity of Governor Wilkinson and we have also heard papers for the contradiction of Sd. reports have been handed through several parts of the Territory of Louisiana; and we the undersigned in the neighbourhood of the Little Prairia from our remote Situation from the rest of the Territory, and not having it in our...
11To Thomas Jefferson from United States House of Representatives, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this House, any information which may be in the possession of the Executive Department, relative to the state and condition of the fortifications, which may have been erected at the several ports and harbours within the United States, and the territories thereof.; and also, the amount of money which has...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Munroe, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Munroe, and asks the favor of him to turn to the letter of Th:J. of April 3d. 1805 from Monticello, where he will find that mr Lenthall’s allowance Was to be 4. D. a day from the beginning of his employment. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
13From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Peale, & acknoleging the reciept of his favor of the 21st. on the subject of mr De Peyster, informs him that on the 23d. of December mr John Lyle had been nominated to the Senate, approved & commissioned as Consul for the island of Curaçoa. PPAmP : Sol Feinstone Collection.
14From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
According to the request of your Resolution of yesterday I again communicate the letter of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the US. at London to the Secretary of that government for foreign affairs dated Oct. 18. 1805. with a postscript of Oct. 25. but still in confidence that the matter of it shall not be made public. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
A Convention has been entered into between the United States and the Cherokee nation for the extinguishment of the rights of the latter & of some unsettled claims in the country North of the river Tennessee therein described. this Convention is now laid before the Senate for their advice & consent as to it’s ratification. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
16From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, from it’s good intentions, merits a suitable reply from me, but not being a judge of the importance of the drawings, & of course of the expressions of thankfulness, they will justify, I must ask the favor of you to have them considered, & let me know whether they offer any thing new & valuable for our gun boats. the gun carriage on the non-recoil principle is new to me—do...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Story, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Story & his thanks for the books sent him. one of them will be kept as a mark of his esteem, that kind of reading being out of the line of his present occupations: the other will be read with pleasure in moments of leisure. he prays him to accept the assurances of his esteem & respect MHi : Coolidge Collection.
18To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Terry, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Extracts of Paragraphs from the Publication of Memorial to the Merchants of the U.S. trading to the Mediterranean dated Cadiz 15th. August 1805. Printed in the Philadelpa. Paper. Explanatory Remarks to the Extracts of said Publication. 1st. And whereas it appears there is no Consul or Agent for the United States, nor has there been for Several Years past at Algeciras, except a Spaniard...