1To James Madison from Richard B. Mitchell, [ca. 3 July 1815] (Madison Papers)
The petition of Richard Bennett Mitchel respectfully sheweth—That your petitioner was indicted in the June term of the year 1814 before the circuit court of the United States for the district of Columbia & county of Washington for an assault committed on Oliver Pollock, that his sole motive in committing said assault was to preserve the peace & quiet of the family, your petitioner’s mother in...
2To James Madison from John Hamilton Robinson, 3 July 1815 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed I have the honor to transmit you the Constitution of the Mexican Republic, together with an address from the Representatives of the different Provinces to their Fellow Citizens and also a decree prescribing the manner in which the Constitution shall be solemnized and promulgated, the perusal of which, from the Spirit of humility Candour and patriotism which it breathes, I am confident...
3Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, 3 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
It is so long since I have heard from you that this letter seems almost as if written to the dead: and you have the like grounds for recieving it as from the same region. in truth the eternal wars which our age has witnessed prove it to be literally the iron age , and have suspended all the intercourses of friendship and commerce. scarcely was the temple of Janus closed in our hemisphere by...
4Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the Cost of French Merchandise, [ca. 3 July 1815] (Jefferson Papers)
idea of the produce of 200.D. at old prices, by way of memm. D Costs on 200. D worth about 1/16 or 6. p. cent. 12 50. ℔ Maccaroni @ .20 p r ℔. 10 42. bottles of wh. hermitage @ 4₶–½ = 190.₶ (*excha. 5.₶35 = 1.D) 36 217. d o Nice @ 1₶¾ (or .32½) = 380₶
5Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have so long delay’d a reply to your very friendly & polite letter had circumstancies allowed me to mention the time when I could probably have the pleasure of seing you at Monticello . I have Just returned from a visit to my Children in the District of Maine , and I hope Mr s Dearborn & myself shall have the pleasure of seing you in Septem r probably near the end of the month.—...
6Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 3 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recently recieved your letter (without date) requesting me to have the remittance of your annual interest promptly made, adding to it the principal also, as soon as our peace with England should be ratified, and ‘provided you should not lose much by that.’ your distresses from the difficulty and irregularity of remittance, have been anxiously felt here, and I am confident mr Barnes...
7Thomas Jefferson to Madame de Staël Holstein, 3 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I considered your letter of Nov. 10. 12. as an evidence of the interest you were so kind as to take in the welfare of the United states, and I was even flattered by your exhortations to avoid taking any part in the war then raging in Europe , because they were a confirmation of the policy I had my self pursued, and which I thought and still think should be the governing canon of our republic....