1To Alexander Hamilton from James Thomson Callender, [10 July 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I have seen your letter of the 6th inst. in Mr. Fenno’s Gazette. An answer seems requisite. It shall be as concise as possible. With regard to the anecdote of the Minerva, you affirm it to be Wholly False . Information, which I sincerely credit, states it as being strictly true. There the story may rest. As for what you say of the papers signed by Messrs. Muhlenberg, Venable, and Munroe, I...
2To Alexander Hamilton from James T. Callender, [29 October 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
I have perused your observations on the history of 1796. As the facts which you there bring forward, and the conclusions which you attempt to draw from them, do not appear Satisfactory to me, I intend introducing a reply to them in a volume upon your administration, that I am now engaged in writing. My object in this letter is, to request that you will give an order to a friend of mine and...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my having sent you revises, instead of clean Sheets of the thing now printing; a freedom inexcusable in any circumstances but mine. I Cannot get my printer to work, although I am actually paying him ready money , as he goes on. So that the whole Sale of the Season will be lost, by the delay of revising the Sheets ! I mention this, Sir, that You may not think me addicted...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 15 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not, untill this day, know that Your Examiner has not been forwarded to Philadelphia. It Shall be done in future. The Prospect goes off very well to many parts of the Country. About 500 are sent off and many more bespoke, but not yet Sent. A parcel will come to Philadelphia, as soon as the River Opens. Chancellor Wythe is the law officer referred to in the inclosed, as Speaking of The...
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 11 October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
For some time past, I have regularly sent you, as far as they were printed, the Sheets of the 2d volume of The Prospect , because I flattered myself that, although neither the Stile nor matter could be exactly conformable to your ideas, or taste, yet that upon the whole, they would not be disagreeable. Whether I was right or wrong, or whether indeed You received my letters, I do not know....
6To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 26 October 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Sensible that this freedom needs an [appology]. I wrote You a letter In last month and if nothing can be done, or ought to be done, in one quarter, it is time that I Should be making application, in another, if I can say that I can have another; for I have not only motives of one kind, but others quite different, for not wishing to revisit that sink of destruction Philadelphia; for whose...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 10 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose for you a number of the Republican , along with the last number of the Examiner, Containing a Copy of the Letter from You. Some errata ! The Second Part of The Prospect will be continued in the Republican , and reprinted at Staunton , and all, or part of it, in the national Magazine. I had once entertained the romantic hope of being able to overtake the federal Government, in its...
8To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 14 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will inclose a few pages of the second part of The Prospect. They contain nothing but what I fancy that You have seen already, as I sent You regularly the Petersburg paper , wherein they were printed. But next week, I Shall send some Sheets, that You have not seen before. A half volume will be ready, price half a dollar, in about a fortnight. I have by me as much manuscript as...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 21 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose two newspapers. I mean to go to Petersburg in 8 or 10 days to begin printing Part 2d of Prospect. We shall have a long article in The Republican on Thursday next. I hope you will excuse this freedom, and I am Sir Your humble sevt P.S. I thought it but justice to send Mr. Adams, under a blank cover, a copy of my address to the Public RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 26 Apr. but...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 19 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I never write a letter, when I can avoid it. I much less desire to trouble my Superiors. But I received, some days ago, your favour of October 11th. The nature of its contents supersedes the necessity of Saying that it was welcome. I have only to add that some parts of it seem to need an explanation on my part of what brought me here. When You are quite at leisure, what follows will explain...
11To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 14 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope You will excuse the freedom I took last week of Sending you some Examiners, and a number of the Republican. I now inclose a Continuation. Some errata! This is to be printed again in Staunton , and perhaps in the national magazine and the friend of the people , which will soon go on again, having been only interrupted by that Idle thing the press. And so I am firing through five port...
12To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, [ca. 20] October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am afraid of being troublesome. I wrote you last week with some pages of The Prospect, and now inclose a few more. I expect to have two pieces in tomorrow’s Argus, and a defence of Mr. Coxe in the Examiner. Mr Larkin Stannard of Spotsylvania was here this minute, and says that some of my Subscribers that he got me, were shy of taking the books after they heard of my being imprisoned. It...
13To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 18 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I understood by Colonel Quarrier that You were on Sunday to set out for Philadelphia. I therefore venture to inclose the yesterday’s Examiner, lest it Should be sent on to Monticello, as it Contains some articles of mine , that I wish you to see. On friday I Shall take the freedom of sending to you 50 or 60 additional pages of the Prospect. Sir I hope that You will pardon this freedom, (I do...
14To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 29 September 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Along with this letter You will receive another, which has lain by me a fortnight, the Contents being So unimportant, (some printed papers) that I had a doubt of sending them at all. In the Examiner which comes with this post , you will see a specimen of our troops here, and an abominable defence of all the worst measures of government. The latter piece was foisted in without my knowledge; I...
15To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 29 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not been able to get any more of the Prospect; but next week I shall be able to Send either the whole, or nearly so. I beg leave to inclose the Copy of a letter to W. Duane on the negro business. It contains some trifles, which may amuse. Governor Monroe has, last night, lost his only Son. It has come out that the fire in Richmond, within these two years, was the work of negroes. I have...
16To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 16 November 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I Gave Mr. Jefferson, Some days ago, from p. 9 to p. 48 inclusive of The Prospect, to be Sent to you. Having the opportunity of a private hand, I now Send forward 16 additional pages. There is much bad print in it. I inclose the Copy of a plan which has ocurred here to Mr. James Lyon, and which if conducted with taste and perseverance, bids fairer than any other which I have yet seen, to shed...
17To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 8 September [1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I had expected to have the honour this day of inclosing for your perusal 24 additional pages; but upon looking among my papers, I find only 8; and cannot get any more before the post goes off. The farther that I go, the more am I lost in amazement at the precipitation and absurdity which marked the acceptance of the federal constitution. I had more manuscript before I Came here, than would...
18To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 10 August 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope You will excuse my freedom in writing this letter. You have no doubt seen our Examiner. It has by no means been conducted as I Could exactly wish it to be, since I came down, for though Mr. Jones is a good writer, and a good man, yet as he is not himself a printer, and is only beginning his office, matters do not go on with all the rapidity that one could some times wish. We are daily...
19To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 13 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is talked of here but the recent conspiracy of the negroes . One Thomas Prosser, a young man, who had fallen heir, some time ago, to a plantation within six miles of the city, had behaved with great barbarity to his slaves. One of them, named Gabriel , a fellow of courage and intellect above his rank in life, laid a plan of revenge. Immense numbers immediately entered into it, and it...
20To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 21 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your interference with respect to my getting payment in a certain quarter has not had even the smallest effect. Before, or at the time of going there, I had a claim on a Gentleman for 34 dolls. and ½. I have got, at length 19.—dols.—So want 15 & ⅝. besides my gratuitous attendance now in the 4th, &, as I believe, in the last week. For I will, if I Can only get the balance due , to answer some...
21To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 17 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose some newspapers, and Shall probably use the freedom of sending you by this same post A part of the second part of the 2d volume of The Prospect. The whole is written excepting the first Chapter. I Could not have gone to press, but for the assistance of a Subscriber, who sent me 14 days since his 50 dollars, as mentd in my last , as I want a great deal of money here, I cannot get. I...
22To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to get out of this place in ten days, upon my having paid a fine of two hundred dollars. The money is ready; but if I am to pay it, I shall be so much reduced in my finances, as hardly to be able to go up to Philadelphia. Mr. Jones has advised me to state the matter to you, with reference to a remission. I thought it my duty to do so; and under the supposition of that, I shall wait here...
23To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 27 October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Along with this comes another letter, covering some newspaper pieces. I beg leave to inclose the last half Sheet but one of the pamphlet, being from 136 page to 144; and an uncorrected imperfect half Sheet of the conclusion; wanting the first page, which closed my hints for the conduct of the Assembly in my case. A half Sheet from p 120, to 128, I have never yet been able to get from the...
24To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 5 January 180[1] (Jefferson Papers)
An uncommon alarm has been spread here that congress were to annul the Presidential election. I had sent to the Examiner a piece on that business, when upon the arrival of this news, I was advised to withdraw it, untill I should see if it was true! my answer was: “it is a part of my constitution, it is interwoven with my intellectual existence, that the greater opposition is, I become the more...
25To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 28 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I expect that your remaining numbers of the History of 1796 have come duly to hand. The other copy will be ready for you on your return to town. I would not have intruded on you at this time about that; but am to request your indulgence for a few moments. I have begun another volume on American History; and it will be ready for the press in about a month. Having been in bad health, for a time,...
26To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 1 November 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I had, some days ago, a visit from Mr. Jefferson of this place. I have just now got the pamphlets stitched, and have sent him 3 copies for you; but under the same parcel, I used the freedom, I almost fear I was in the wrong, of inclosing 9 for Mr. Madison , who is a Subscriber, or was to the first part, for 15 copies, so that I hazard nothing with him in sending him 9. I did not know his...
27To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 22 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I request Your indulgence for a few lines. I Shall be as concise as possible. A few days after I had the honour of Seeing You last, a very particular reason made it proper for me to quit the City next day. I consulted on this emergency, M Leiper, and General Mason. The former offered to take charge of my children, the latter to give me, or find me lodgings, if I came to Virginia. Accordingly,...
28To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 7 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
With reference to mine of last week, I now, with Submission, inclose 8 additional pages. I had 8 intermediate ones laid by for you, but they have been some how picked up, and it is too late at night to get others. Mr. Lyon is at last come, and The magazine will be sent out in two days. Hoping your pardon for this freedom I am Sir Your very obliged Servant RC ( DLC ); date of TJ’s endorsement...
29To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 28 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed I send a list of the new elections for the assembly, so far as they have Come to hand. Mr Jones assures me that not less than twenty of the aristocracy have been turned out in this list. It is but moderate to guess that at least twenty more will be dismissed, so that in whole they will be reduced to 40 less, and the Republicans will be augmented by an equal number. This amounts almost...