121To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Magaw, 19 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
A stated meeting of the American Philosophical Society, is to be held, this evening, at the usual hour—six o’clock—in their hall; where Your presence is respectfully requested. It is matter of sincerest pleasure to every Well-wisher of Science, that One deep in its researches, & distinguished for its diffusion, is to honour its Chair again in this City; invited thereto by an unanimous...
122To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 19 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the Rect. of your Letter , which was long in coming to hand, I have seen two most abusive Attacks upon you by Luther Martin. What he seems so positively to deny, viz. the Authenticity of Logan’s Speech & Story I have no doubt may upon proper Enquiry be verified. I have endeavoured, but in vain, to recollect the Source from whence we derived the Information, but I well remember that it...
123From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1798 (Madison Papers)
When your favor of the 3d. instant arrived I was on a journey to the neighbourhood of Richmond, from which I did not return till the 18th. The mail on the day following brought me the packet of Newspapers under your cover. Col. Bell has written me, that the nails ordered as stated in my last to you, are all ready for me. I had not requested them to be prepared in parcells as I shall use them,...
124To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 21 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
When your favor of the 3d. instant arrived I was on a journey to the neighbourhood of Richmond, from which I did not return till the 18th. The mail on the day following brought me the packet of newspapers under your cover. Col. Bell has written me, that the nails ordered as stated in my last to you, are all ready for me. I had not requested them to be prepared in parcells as I shall use them,...
125To Thomas Jefferson from John Page, 22 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
My long Absence from hence, occasioned by Sickness which prevented my return, & the Post-master’s officious good intentioned Effort to convey your letters to me at Rosewell, where he supposed I should remain during the present Session of Assembly, put it out of my Power to acknowledge the Receipt of them ’till now. I thank you for your Letter , & for Fauchet’s Pamphlet. At present I can not...
126To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 22 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Jupiter had given us so terrible an account of your sufferings from the ice on the patowmac that we began to be seriously alarmed about you, before the arrival of your letters , which came both to gether; it was with infinite pleasure than that we learned you had got the better of your cold and were at least comfortably if not agreably fixed for the winter. it is much more than we can boast...
127I. Delamotte to Jefferson, 23 January [1798] (Jefferson Papers)
Je n’ai point eû l’honneur de vous ecrire depuis votre promotion à la presidence du Senat; Je vous prie pourtant de Croire que j’y ai pris tout l’Interet que j’y devois prendre & que je prendrai toujours á tout ce qui vous Arrivera d’important. La Situation Actuelle des Affaires d’Europe m’engage á vous adresser la presente, pour vous mettre, Autant qu’il dépend de moi, au Cours de nos...
128To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 23 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson. Jan. 23.—an abridgt. of that of Dec. 27. (see above)—except such parts are marked thus ( ).—The present sent by dup.—contains one for my brother—shall continue writing from time to time—(send on the 1st.—the letter of Mr. P[…] &)— FC ( DLC : Short Papers); entirely in Short’s hand; part of an epistolary record of his letters to TJ and others from 26 Dec. 1797 to 9 Oct. 1798;...
129To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson & Company, 25 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 14th. instant enclosing a note of Mr. Barnes’s for $500. to be taken up by Mr. Hopkins, came to hand by last post. Mr. H. is out of Town, and the note is therefore not accepted; but that will make no difference, as it will be paid in the same manner as if it had. The draught you mention shall be duly attended to. We have heard nothing yet of the Anvil Vice & beak Iron,...
130To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 27 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I came here abt. 6. days past to use my endeavors to raise money to pay the expences upon importation of my furniture. I have drawn on Mr. Barnes for 250. dolrs. wh. I hope he will pay. I think the time is expired when you intimated the sum plac’d in his hands wod. become due. I hope to get thro this heavy business without any very serious loss. Our assembly adjourned two days since. Of a...
131To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
We had no mail last week from Richmond or Fredericksburg which lost us our weekly joy of reading your letter or knowing you are well. I rec’d. your present of Fauchet’s pamphlet which I read eagerly myself and communicated to our friends: I have not yet learnt the character it bears: I believe it myself to be just in all its statements & views, and I admire greatly the moderation with which it...
132To Thomas Jefferson from John Wise, 28 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
It having been communicated to me by a friend, that he had understood you had, some short time since, in a public company, at Francis’s Hotel, in the city of Philadelphia, used expressions to my injury and discredit, I have thought proper to address you, with intent as well to ascertain the truth of the report, as to be informed, if it be true what motive induced the observation and what Idea...
133To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Pendleton, 29 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as I shall have communed with Mr. Lyons on the propriety of selling our stock, you shall be informed when payment shall be made of Royal’s decree vs. Robinson’s Admors; the place I suppose will be Richmond. The rise or fall of that market price, probably depends on events rather likely to produce the latter, & may dictate a present sale, but the scarcity of Cash, it is said, will...
134To Thomas Jefferson from La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 30 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Je n’ai pas oublié Monsieur, l’engagement que j’ay Contracté de vous ecrire d’europe mais j’aurois mieux aimé datter ma lettre de france, et je n’y suis pas encor. Vous aprendrés par les papiers publics que buonaparte est a paris, et que la Sagesse de Sa Conduite est egale au brillant de ses exploits & a la grandeur de Ses talents. on avoit annoncé son arrivée Comme l’epoque d’une Nouvelle...
135To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 30 January 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
You will be alarmed at a report Richardson will make of an occurrence at Monticello which I have had notice of only since my indisposition & have not been able to go over & learn the truth of the matter & the magnitude of the Mischief, if any has been done. Jupiter came over to me yesterday evening—he says there has never been the smallest mark about the Door or lock, of the room having been...
136II. Letter from a Well Informed Merchant in France, 1 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Translation of a letter from a well informed merchant in France to his friend in this city, dated Feb. 1st. ’98. The present situation of Europe induces me to address you, in order to inform you, as much as I can, of our political affairs which become those of all Europe and even of the New-World; and which are so quick in their progress, that it becomes interesting for you to be informed as...
137To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Jefferson Eppes, 1 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
May I thank you my Dear Papa for your last letter , The advice with which it is fill’d , I feel the importance of, & the solicitude it expresses for my happiness makes me sensible how gratefully I will endeavour to follow it. I hope I shall never do otherwise for I feel more & more every day how much the, happiness of my life depends on deserving your approbation. you will have heard I suppose...
138To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Charles Varlé, 1 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Susquehanna Canal, 1 Feb. 1798 . Having observed the ravages of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793 he developed a plan for countering the disease, which was favorably received by the people to whom he communicated it. Their attention to the subject lessened with the decline of the epidemic, but the return of the fever last year shows that the malady has not been eradicated. As this is a...
139To Thomas Jefferson from Arthur Campbell, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very friendly letter of September last aroused my watchfulness, and induced a recurrence to first principles and first practices I have now more than a suspicion that a Counter revolution is aimed at.—A judicious person lately said “that a certain Foreign Minister had a more regular intelligence by means of the post-offices than the President or Vice-President of the United States.”—I...
140To Thomas Jefferson from John Gibson, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I shoud have wrote you sooner, but have Been waiting to Obtain some Information from Colo. Zanes of Ohio County, respecting the Transaction of Cresap and Party in the Spring of 1774, as soon as I Obtain it shall transmit to you or Bring it Myself as I Entend Being in Philada. next Month and unless you wish to have it sooner, shall have then the Oppurtunity of Communicating what further I know...
141To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
At Boston, from which I am now returning on my way to New York, a gentleman of much Information expressed a wish to me that some of the southern Members would, before the arming bill passes or without Delay, introduce a Bill for a Law in perfect conformity to the British Navigation Act. Such a Bill if opposed by the Eastern Brito-Americans would as he conceives effectually turn New England...
142Enclosure: Memorandum on Exports of North Carolina, 2 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Some Accot of the Exports of No: Carolina. Tar Pitch Turpentine annually @ 120,000 Brls. Tobacco 10,000 Hhds { Indian Corn 20 @ 50,000 [Brls?] Peas 5,000 Bushels Herring 3 &
143To Thomas Jefferson from Luther Martin, 3 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Unaccustomed, Sir, to ask favors even from my friends, yet I feel myself under the necessity of soliciting your forgiveness for my apparent neglect, in suffering such a length of time to elapse since I last addressed myself to you; be assured, Sir, it is to be attributed to the pressure of my official and professional engagements, together with certain intervening duties, which I have been...
144To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I visited Monticello yesterday and entered your room with great anxiety but was soon much comforted by finding little change in the position of the different things which are exposed to the eye: I had got the general order of the room very much in my mind from the many visits I had paid and am satisfied from its being so little broken that no great mischief has been done. Indeed the villain...
145To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Sitgreaves, 6 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you that, if it shall be convenient and agreeable to the Senate, the Managers for the House of Representatives will, tomorrow at 12 o’Clock, exhibit Articles in Maintenance of their Impeachment against William Blount for High Crimes and Misdemeanors— As the Managers are desirous to conform to any Ceremonial which the Senate may deem it proper to prescribe in this...
146To Thomas Jefferson from William Linn, 8 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel honored & obliged by your communication of the 5th instant. I have lately formed a table of the Indians within the territory of the United States, in which I have followed yours as to the arrangement, spelling, & lists of the numbers of the warriors. I have added an anonymous list published 1797, & a column marking their languages. I have inserted the Weeas & Eelriver, finding them...
147From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1798 (Madison Papers)
The last mail brought neither letters nor papers from Philada. By the preceding one I recd. your favor of Jany. 24. and a bundle of the Gazettes down to the 25th. inclusive, with an omission only of that of the 23d. which it may be proper for you to supply in order to keep your Sett entire. Your account of the probable posture of the negociation at Paris, is less decisively unfavorable than...
148To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 12 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
The last mail brought neither letters nor papers from Philada. By the preceding one I recd your favor of Jany. 24. and a bundle of the Gazettes down to the 25th. inclusive, with an omission only of that of the 23d. which it may be proper for you to supply in order to keep your Sett entire. Your account of the probable fortune of the negociation at Paris, is less decisively unfavorable than the...
149To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Fauchetts pamphlet was the last communication from you. Mine by Mr. Giles you doubtless have before this. We are here so barren of incident that we have nothing worthy yr. notice. We look to the admn. for the coloring we are to have of European or rather our affrs. with France, and we know enough of the admn. to know that it will be black or white according to circumstances. If for example...
150To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, 13 February 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I wrote to you I have been so fortunate as to obtain such Proofs of the general Authenticity of your Publication in the Notes on Virginia, as will fully justify what you have said respecting Cresop’s Murder, & Logan’s Speech, & must entirely confute Mr. Martins impudent unfounded Assertions. I enclose them for your Satisfaction. You will no doubt wish to know who this Mr. Anderson is,...