1From John Adams to Gabriel Duvall, 13 October 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honor to write me on the Seventeenth of September; and in Answer to it I beg leave to inform you, that the account of the fourteen thousand dollars granted on the Second of March 1797 for the further Accommodation of the Household of the President of the United States was Settled before I left Washington, as appears by the enclosed Copy of a Letter to...
2To James Madison from Henry W. and Lewis Phillips, 13 October 1808 (Madison Papers)
We were duly favoured with the Letter of Mr. D Brent in answer to ours on the subject of the Ship Jersey and cargo seized at Leghorn by the French Govt. Not having received any information as to her fate by the St. Michaels, owing we presume to our friends not having known in time that the St. Michaels would return by way of France, we take the liberty of inquiring wether any information has...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yours of the 11th. which Coverd 360 Dollers. We finised the mill dam on 11th. we put a bundance of rock on it which I hope will prevent its mooving againe. (I had concludeed to cleane up our field and set my plows to work before we went in the Garden. the land would produce much better by plowing the land this fall. the winters frost would be a very Graite advantage to the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The facts as here stated I believe to be true. The restriction not being made by Law could only be given in the shape of a recommendation or rather in a negative form, by saying that where the cargo did not exceed 1/6 th I did not perceive any danger. Mr M’Culloch has gone beyond it & Mr Symmes has not DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a letter addressed to you, respecting the internal duties. If you approve the arrangement, it will only be necessary to sign your approbation at bottom & return the letter: & I will carry the same into effect. Whilst at New Haven, Judge Edwards made a formal complaint of the total incapacity of the dist. atty. Huntington. As this was however general, I concluded not to lay the...
6From Thomas Jefferson to John George Jackson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. was recieved the evening before the last. the story of the declaration imputed to mr Smith is one of the poor efforts frequently tried by the federalists to sow tares among the members of the administration, of which we are so well aware as never to suffer ourselves to be drawn into any inquiry about them. what I now write therefore is meant for your personal...
7From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of yesterday it has occurred to me that the stile in which, in my letters to you, I have spoken of the mass of falsehood & calumny afloat in our country, & the impossibility of believing what is beyond the evidence of our own senses, is too strong to be published. such a fellow as Cobbet, abusing us as a nation, will quote this as testimony of it given by ourselves. the...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by my grandson Th: Jefferson Randolph, who goes to Philadelphia to attend a course in Natural history, Botany, & anatomy. mr Peale’s museum, mr Hamilton’s garden & the anatomical preparations & dissections give to Philadelphia advantages in those branches of science which are to be had no where else in America. other branches being well taught in Williamsburg he will go...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore. call on mr P. Williamson Market street No. 72. and pay him for a dozen steel pen points sent me. call on mr Rigden, watchmaker and pay him for repairing my repeating watch, & pray him to send it by some person coming here who will undertake to bring it in his pocket. Philadelphia. deliver my alarm watch to mr Voigt and pay him what the repair will amount to. perhaps I may owe him...
10From Thomas Jefferson to James Ronaldson, 13 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the spring of 1806. you sent me many patterns of a variety of manufactures then carried on in Philadelphia. these proved that the arts had already taken good root there. occurrences since that have made it the duty of every one to improve every opportunity in his power of promoting these. I happen by accident to have obtained the Iceland or Shetland race of sheep of many horns. it is from...