Being apprehensive that you may be uneasy at not hearing from me my beloved friend I write from your Mother’s where we have been the last fortnight and where I think we seem likely to remain sometime longer although I at present expect to go into Boston tomorrow Louisa has been very sick and Sister T. B. is confin’d with a bad Breast her Baby grows finely and is one of the prettiest creatures...
2To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 15 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I hope the extraordinary time will afford an excuse for offering to you the inclosed notes. They require no answer and are not expected to receive one. The language of impartial native federal Merchants on the day before the French decree was recd. was, "that we ought to consider as a favor all the trade we had, for England had the power to cut off the whole, and power was right all the world...
3To James Madison from Thomas Truxtun, 15 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I am Sure you will excuse the liberty I take in writing You this letter, because I know you can Appreciate My Motives in doing it. Being a Considerable holder of Insurance Stocks, I have pretty accurate Means of Ascertaining the State of our commercial concerns, tho in No other way Concerned in adventures beyond the Sea. Sometime Subsequent to Berkeleys Outrageous order and the Consequent...
4To James Madison from John Armstrong, Jr., 15 February 1807 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of receiving your letters of the 10th. of november and 10th. and 23d. of december 1806. The late movements of the Spanish troops in Louisiana afford a sufficient motive for renewing my application to this Government on the subject of our controversy with Spain, but the application itself was necessarily Suspended till the 5th. instant. I did not wish it to find the Emperor...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Bartlett, 15 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the liberty in the course of the last Winter to intrude a Letter to your attention, soliciting your Excellency’s consideration to the statement of my Case, which I then made out to you. Lest it should from the Multiplicity of more Weighty concerns be banished from your recollection, suffer me to remind you, that in the Service of my Country under General Wayne in the Year 1794 I was...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Minor, 15 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter addressed to L. W. Dangerfield I Receved and in a Day or two aftr put it into the hands of one of the Sherifs of this County who promised to deliver it himself, and has, I doubt not, done so before this time. The most Convenient Post Office to Mr Dangerfield is the one at this place—but I intreat you not to let the fear of giving me trouble, deprive me of the satisfaction I derive...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Rhea, 15 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last mail from Tennessee I received a letter dated 29th Januay from a friend, in which is a paragraph in the words following “I inclose Your reflection and as a natural curiosity, to be shewn to your freinds and acquaintance, a piece of wood in the form of a Worm—this is a metamorphosis, or rather a descent from animal to vegetable matter, to account for which physically, I will submit...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Phanuel Bishop, 15 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I Received your kind invitation to Dine on tuesday Next, for which I thank your Excellency. I senseblely fele the honour Dun me, and wold attend agreable to invitation if my health wold permit. But I am Very much out of health, and hope your Excellency will Excuse me— Sir. Permit me at this time, to take my Leave, and farewel of your Excellency, hoping your Life and health may be presarvid for...