1From Thomas Jefferson to Gabriel Christie, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 13th. covering mr Appleton’s letter, which informs me he had sent by the William Bingham a box of Maccaroni, & a Parmesan cheese in a leaden box, & that cased in wood, but he mentions neither the weight or cost of the Maccaroni or cheese. I know that those cheeses are pretty regularly made to the weight of about 60. 1b. probably by weighing the box of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the nominations of Gansevoort and Forsyth approved. I send you also a letter from a mr Shaw who asks emploiment, & one from a Lieutt. Sebastian to whom I will ask you to give an answer, if one be proper. your letters of the 11th. 14th. & 16th. were recieved yesterday only, by the missing certainly of more than one mail. with respect to the office of librarian, I have thought it...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. McMahon of Philadelphia writes me that mr Duane having put off his journey, he should the next day (Apr. 14) send forward the larger box by the stage, & the smaller one by the mail. whether the one you got from the stage office is one of these, or a different one I do not know, but I wish them all to be forwarded by the stage. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Some very unusual delay has happened to the post as I recieved yesterday only my letters from Philada as far back as Apr. 9. & Washington Apr. 11. of course your’s of the 13th. & 16th. were then only recieved, & being overwhelmed with such an accumulated mail I must be short, as the post goes out in a few hours. I return you Huston’s, Findlay’s & Govr. Harrison’s letters. J. Smith’s is...
5To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 21 April 1807 (Madison Papers)
Yours of the 13th. came to hand only yesterday & I now return you the letters of Turreau, Yrujo & Woodward, and Mr. Gallatin’s paper on foreign seamen. I retain Monroe & Pinckney’s letters to give them a more deliberate perusal than I can now before the departure of the post. By the next they shall be returned. I should think it best to answer Turreau at once, as he will ascribe delay to a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 21 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 13th. came to hand only yesterday & I now return you the letters of Turreau, Yrujo & Woodward, and mr Gallatin’s paper on foreign seamen. I retain Monroe & Pinckney’s letters to give them a more deliberate perusal than I can now before the departure of the post. by the next they shall be returned. I should think it best to answer Turreau at once, as he will ascribe delay to a...