1To Thomas Jefferson from Gabriel Christie, 25 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I received from the Comptroller a few days ago your Commission to act as Collector of this Port; permitt me Sir to tender you my thanks for this mark of your Confidence, be assured that my best endeavours shall be used to prevent your trust from being discredited, and I can also with truth inform you that the appointment, does meet a respectable approbation, and it will be my fault if that...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I this moment receive your note. Finding myself worse yesterday I had concluded to nurse my cold to day & did not go to the office: and now Mrs. G. is gone with the carriage, & I have no means of going. I do not know the news of last mail, the fortunate arrival of Capn. Lewis at S. Louis excepted. If you select him for Governor, ought not provision to be made for the contingency of his leaving...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Patterson, 25 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed is subjoined, by way of appendix to the 1st vol of an American edition of Adams’s Philosophy, the proof sheets of which I examined, making a few occasional notes & corrections. As the Author frequently alludes to the principles of modern chemistry, but without sufficiently explaining them, this outline , it was presumed, would not be unacceptable to the reader. My aim has been to...