1Thomas Jefferson to Isham Lewis, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with real concern that I learn the disagreeable situation in which you are for want of emploiment, & the more so as I do not see any way in which I can propose to you any certain relief. as to offices under the government, they are few, are always full, & twenty applicants for one vacancy when it happens. they are miserable also, giving a bare subsistence without the least chance of...
2From James Madison to John Drayton, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Thanks Governor Drayton for sending a copy of his View of South Carolina and would like to see a similar work from each state. “Examples such as yours cannot be without effect in promoting the desireable result” (extract from Parke-Bernet Catalogue No. 2235 [1963], which offered letter for sale).
3To John Adams from William Lyman, 1 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour at this time to address you for the purpose of requesting your acceptance of the Report of the Examination before the House of Commons into the Conduct of the Duke of York late Commander in chief, which is herewith transmitted by the Messenger of the United States Reed, in the Pacific via New York. I trust it will not prove uninteresting, and that you will pardon the liberty...
4From James Madison to Lafayette, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
It is a real mortification to me that another favorable opportunity has occurred without my being able to add a word to what you know on the state of your land affairs in the hands of Mr. Duplantier. I have not recd. a line from him, since He stated the difficulty which had presented itself in the completion of a part of his locations, and the advice of Mr. Gallatin relating to it was...
5To James Madison from Catherine Johnson, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Sir , having Received the enclosed Letter from New Orleans, from the best of Sons, with a Request that I shou’d Present it to you Sir, I am induced, Perhaps beyond the bounds of Strict Propriety, in assuming A liberty, which can only be forgiven, by the Philantrophy and benevolence of your own heart, to the humanity which marks your Private Character, do I Sir make My Appeal, Conscious that...
6Baltimore Tammany Society to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The retirement of a citizen from Public life, who has possessed as long as you have, the voluntary & unlimited confidence of a free & enlightened people, excites reflections the most gratifying to the friends of humanity & the advocates of Republican Government. In beholding the cheerful and spontaneous, abdication of the first office of State, by one neither iritated by disappointment,...
7To James Madison from the Republican Meeting of Accomack County, Virginia, [1 May] 1809 (Madison Papers)
At a numerous meeting of the freeholders and other citizens of the county of Accomack convened on monday the first day of May 1809. at the Court-house of said county for the purpose of expressing their opinions upon the subject of the late negotiations at Washington between the Honorable David Montague Erskine, his Britannic Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the...
8From James Madison to Philip Freneau, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Acknowledged in Freneau to JM, 12 May 1809 . Subscribes for ten copies of Freneau’s Poems Written and Published during the American Revolutionary War and suggests “the insertion of a piece or two in prose.”
9Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 21 st & 24 th are recieved. the amount of my crop of tob o is much less than I expected. Griffin is a good overseer, but has the fault of never writing to me ; so that I never learn the amount of my crop of tob o till it gets to your hands. he had informed me that the frost had been very fatal to his tob o & as I supposed from his expression, had killed about one third. I now find...
10To James Madison from James Wilkinson, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
The extraordinary nature of the Communication I am about to make, and the Interests of the Person committed to my discretion, will I hope excuse my deviation, from the Ordinary course of my Correspondence, by addressing you directly. I yesterday had a most particular conversation with Governor Folch, & found his Mind decisively made up, as to the course he will pursue should European Spain be...
11William Lyman to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honour to address you on the 21 st of December last by Lieut. Gibbon in the Union, which I doubt not you will have duly received as we have information of the safe arrival of that vessel in the United States . At this time, urgency of business and the opportunity allow me only to add that I have taken the liberty to send you a Report of the Examination before the House of Commons...
12To John Adams from Henry Guest, 1 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of 29 January Last Came duly to For which be pleased to Except my moste respectful thanks Particularly as it Contained a few strokes of your pollitical oppinion in these Turbulent Times. I find Sir, My Last Letter to you, wants Explenation—As to what I observed of your Son I Wanted Him in the Senate one Season more That He Might have had an opportunity of Displaying His Superior...
13From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I am just favored with yours of the 27th. Young Gelston is here preparing to take his passage for France as bearer and expositor of dispatches, in the Syren sloop of war which is waiting for him at Baltimore. He leaves this tomorrow morning. Mr. Gallatin has had a conversation with Turreau at his residence near Baltimore. He professes to be confident that his Govt. will consider England as...
14To James Madison from John G. Jackson, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you that my calculations as to the vote of Brooke County have been more than realized the Vote in it was Jackson 206—Lindsley 37 making an aggregate majority of 454 votes which is 100 more than at any antecedent election. If the accommodation with England had preceded the election—an accommodation as honorable to the Executive as gratifying to the nation: the...
15To James Madison from William McKinley, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing Some addresses &c in order that you may be able to form a corect Idea of your friends & enemies in this part of the U. S. Enclosure A. is a statement of our election. B. Federal resolutions & Address C. Republican Address D. a reply & remarks upon said Address, so far as they relat⟨e⟩ to me personally they are false, I had determined to have Sued the...
16William C. C. Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me the honor to introduce to your acquaintance, M r Poidrass , the Delegate from Orleans to the Congress of the United States . M r Poidrass possesses a great share of the esteem and confidence of his fellow Citizens, and has uniformly used his influence in support of the measures of the General Government. As relates to this Territory, there is no one more interested in its welfare...
17James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just favored with yours of the 27 th . Young Gelston is here preparing to take his passage for France as bearer and expositor of dispatches, in the Syren sloop of war which is waiting for him at Baltimore . He leaves this tomorrow morning. M r Gallatin has had a conversation with
18To James Madison from David Bailie Warden, 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor of lately writing to you to congratulate You on your elevation to the Presidency of the United States. I now take the liberty of addressing you concerning my situation as Consul, and of praying you to continue me in my present office. My knowledge of some of the most useful modern languages, particularly of French, and the acquaintance I have already made with the authorities...
19From James Madison to Aaron H. Palmer, ca. 1 May 1809 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 May 1809. Acknowledged in Palmer to JM, 9 May 1809 (DLC). Conveys thanks for the pamphlet enclosed in Palmer to JM, 20 Apr. 1809 .