1To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 4 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Go to Hell you damn’d Buggur —Go to hell— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 4 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
We have finished two large windows of this house with Venetian blinds in the place of window shutters, and shutting into the jambs as the shutters would. They are beautiful & convenient. the slats move on 2. pivots as mine do, and are made to lie close when shut into the jamb that they may occupy less thickness. I think the following windows in my house may be advantageously finished in this...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here yesterday morning according to expectation. when at Songster’s the overnight, I learnt that Skinner, who lives at the cross roads near Fairfax C.H. had found your dirk. I called on him and asked to see it. both John & myself recognised it. but as he did not express a desire to give it up, I told him I would write to you & if you had lost yours thereabouts (a fact I had not heard...
4To James Madison from William Lee, 4 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you an Invoice and bill of lading of part of the articles you sent for: the Cream of Mint & Jupiter I have not been able to find. At the approaching fair I will procure them. The Nutts it is yet too early to ship. The Brandy not having arrived in time from Cognac to go by this vessel, I have put on board the Washington Capt. Adams, who sails for Newyork in a day or two. I ordered it...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Craven, 4 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The last evening in which I saw you, you asked whether it would not answer my purpose if you let me know some weeks hence whether you would give up your river field in exchange for the privilege of clearing over the Colle road, we taking off 200 cords of the wood, to which I assented. but my principal view in getting that field of you is that I may unite the Meadow part of it with the meadow I...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Dunbaugh, 4 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Although extremely unwilling to intrude upon your precious time, or to call off your attention from the great concerns in which you are engaged, to the afairs of an obscure individual, being only a Sergeant in the Army of the United States; Yet my present dangerous situation, produced by the evidence which my duty compelled me to deliver in the case of Mr. Burr, will justify me in seeking for...
7From James Madison to Albert Gallatin, 4 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have to request that you cause a warrant to be issued, payable out of the appropriations for the intercourse of the United States, with foreign Nations, in favor of Wm. Whann, for one thousand dollars, he being the holder of the enclosed bill, of John McCallen, Consul of the United States for the Island of Java, for that sum. The said John McCallen, to be charged accordingly on the Books of...
8To James Madison from William D. Patterson, 4 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
As Any informations however small may be of service in the present critical position of our country, and without a pretension beyond a sincere wish to be useful to it, I have the honor to mention to you a communication, made me by this day courier from Paris, it is from one of the first banking houses there, and is copy a bulletin or note, which they are in the habit of receiving almost daily...