1To James Madison from Anonymous, 14 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
From the best information that I can collect, I am of opinion that Spencer & several of the Clinton party obtained the appointment of Electors, by professing themselves friends of the Washington Nomination, and that they will vote for it, unless they are convinsed that there are mal contents enough to unite with the federalists &c &c to carry the old Man. We consider the Clinton family opposed...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Blount, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I act in conformity to my Sense of Duty in presenting to you the enclosed Paper, which was received yesterday as the Subscribers thereto are Inhabitants of the District which I have the honor to represent, although not of the Town, or of a place connected with the Town, in which the is alluded to is held— I am, very respectfully yr. mo. Obt. DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and...
3To James Madison from Hugh Chisholm, 14 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
As I am Longer making the bricks than I Calculated on I think proper to mention The reason to you. The weather has been so very Damp, that they did not drye as fast as I could wish to handle them, to go it with them. I finished making Last tuesday, and if it had been drying weather by this day, I woud have had them burnt. I have got six or eight thousand drying by fireing of them in the tracks...
4To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 14 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. Ultimo (covering copies of the orders of the Secretary’s of War & of the Navy relative to the deserters which had been forcibly taken from the District of Baton Rouge) has been received; & in reply to a late letter from Governor Grand Pré, in which he expressed a Solicitude, to learn the orders of the President, relative to that transaction , I did on the 11th....
5To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
La classe a reçu avec la plus vive reconnoissance le beau présent que vous lui avez fait; elle l’a déposé, conformément à vos intentions, au Museum d’histoire naturelle, où le public pourra observer chaque jour ces précieux monumens des revolutions du globe. Depuis longtems, Monsieur, vos talens et vos vertus font le bonheur d’une partie considérable du nouveau monde. L’ancien s’instruit par...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Derbigny, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As an inhabitant of a country which had received from you a signalized protection in an occurrence of general concern, I should have been deficient in gratitude, had I not hastened to give to your measures against Mr. Livingston all my support, feeble as it may be. I have therefore written an answer to Mr. Duponceau’s memorial as soon as it was published here; and would have the honor to...
7To James Madison from William Duane, 14 November 1808 (Madison Papers)
The agents of the sometime Spanish ambassador Yrujo for what end I cannot penetrate, have Suddenly displayed an unusual eagerness to push two prosecutions against me in Yrujo’s name. One on account of the discourse which he held with Melimeli , and which Dr. Davis who is now in Barbary repo rted and resented. The other on account of Yrujo’s connexion with Burr . It was only yesterday I had...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As we have no complete return from the collectors of the vessels which sailed under permission, I have written this day a circular asking for one, & cannot until answers shall have been received, comply with the Senate’s resolution. No alteration seems necessary in the answer to Armstrong the indian chief, unless some be suggested by the expressions used in the provision making the reservation...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
You are acquainted with the result of our State election. Let me congratulate you on that result. It speaks the sentiments of this Commonwealth, on the Measures of the General Government. A Stranger from reading our antirepublican newspapers, might have anticipated a different issue, but we are sound to the core. We believe the General Government has, by its measures, consulted our true...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Stanley Griswold, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I was truly happy in the opportunity, a few days since, of presenting to you personally my respects. I had indulged a hope, that circumstances might have permitted a short conversation on my own affairs, and those of the Territory in which I have lately resided. I have remained several days seeking an opportunity for the enjoyment of that honor, but have not been fortunate enough to find that...