1To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 16 January 1800 (Madison Papers)
If any information it may be in my power to furnish you or any services I can render you here, should be deemed by you a sufficient equivalent, I shall be happy in future in being numbered among your correspondents. The present moment however affords nothing interesting. The fate of Mr Nicholas’s motion for disbanding the additional army, you will have seen in the newspapers. As also the...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 23 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been some time absent from home your favor of the 11th Ulto did not reach me ‘till last week. I have this day drawn according to your direction on your Correspondent in Richmond. By the last post I received from an acquaintance the inclosed letter with a request to forward it to you. why it was not sent directly to you I can not divine. I have frequently mentioned your wish to rent out...
3To John Adams from Stevens Thomson Mason, 7 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your card of invitation for thursday next. The last Session I declined a similar invitation in terms which tho’ guarded against giving offence, would I thought have saved me the unpleasant necessity of being more explicit. I am now constrained to say that it is, and will in future be, out of my power to accept such civilities from you. Having read your answer to an address...
4Stevens Thomson Mason’s Copy of Logan’s Speech, 20 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Logan’s Speech deliver’d at the Treaty after the Battle in which Colo. Lewis was killed in 1774 I appeal to any white Man to say that he ever entered Logan’s Cabin but I gave him meat; that he ever came naked but I clothed him. In the Course of the last War Logan remained in his Cabin an Advocate for Peace. I had such an affection for the white People that I was pointed at by my own Nation: I...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 17 October 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
You will probably have heard the issue of the Maryland Elections before this reaches you the aristocrats have sustained a great defeat. the numbers are 46 Reps, 34 Arists, at least. this Statement results from authentic returns that have been received. 5 Counties we have not heard from. we have some, but no great hopes , from them. should they however only give two Republicans, there will be a...
6To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 2 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
I inclose you the Bill concerning the Presendential [ sic ] elections, as it has finally passed the Senate. Some of its early friends protested against it, after the 7th Section was stricken out, enough to have rejected it. Yet they either evaded the vote or voted for it declaring their abhorrence of it but expressing a hope that the House of Reps would make it better. Livermore was the only...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 29 June 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your prediction was speedily verified, the same day you left us, Fenno’s paper contained an address to you. pressing you not to go. and honoring You with some of their common-place abuse. we have no late intelligence from Europe. a number of Refugees , (Royalists & Negroes) from Port au Prince. have on the evacuation of that place by the British been sent here with a letter of introduction to...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 4 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I subjoin an extract of a letter which I informed you I had received from Colo Normand Bruce of Frederick County Maryland and am With great regard Your Obt Sert “I am just informed that Mr Jefferson has requested Capt Perry Fitzhugh to procure information of Michael Cresap’s conduct relating to the murder of the Indians in spring 1774. I have no doubt but that Capt Fitzhugh (who is a most...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 5 September 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd yours of the 10th Ulto with the Enclosure . I some time ago sent you some Peruvian winter-grass by post; it was certainly as justifiable that you should receive it under your privelege of franking as that Connecticut shirts and leather breeches should be sent home to wash under the same privilege. The contest in Maryland is very warm. I think they will get a republican House of...
10To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 7 March 1800 (Madison Papers)
Your letter like mine was a long time reaching its destination, owing I presume to the state of the roads. The newspapers will have announced to you from time to time the progress of business here. The Bankrupt Bill after every out of doors effort past the H of Reps by the casting vote of the Speaker only. On the question for its second reading in the Senate it would have been rejected, but...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 6 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last we have heard nothing from France, except that the Toulon fleet (including the Venetian Ships) had joined that of Brest . the capture of the British Jamaica fleet of 28 Sail is given as a report by Fenno last evening Lloyds Bill was reported by the committee in substance as at first introduced exceptg what related to treason which was entirely stricken out. and the 4th. of July...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Stevens Thomson Mason, 11 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
We have lately felt great anxiety at the report of your death, which was first circulated in a manner that gave us reason to fear its truth, and has for the two last posts deter’d me from writing to you. I hope that the report has originated with your political enemies and has not arisen from any indisposition that you have experienced. I was a few weeks ago called into Maryland by the illness...
13To James Madison from Stevens Thomson Mason, 23 April 1800 (Madison Papers)
The presedential election bill of the Senate labours in the house of Reps. A motion to postpone it till next Session was on Friday last lost 52 to 48 many who voted agt the postponement declare themselves opposed to the bill and that they will not vote for it in any thing like its present form. It is now in the hands of a select committee and a new project is I am told agreed on. I have not...