1To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 2 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned from Albemarle on saturday & had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 28. ulto. on Monday last. I perceive that the idea which I suggested of a new and decisive effort, to avert the dangers interior & exterior of the present crisis, by a special mission to France & England, has not obtained your approbation. As the idea was suggested without illustration you will permit me to...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 18 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
An idea has occurr’d to me which I will take the liberty to submit to your consideration. I have thought that you might command my services before you retire from office, in a mode which might prove advantageous to our country & equally honorable to you & myself. Our affairs are evidently at a pause, and the next step to be taken without an unexpected change, unless some expedient consistent...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 1 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I omitted in my last letter to state to you that in the publication of our late correspondence, some few verbal alterations had been made in my letter of March 22d. & a short passage omitted. In speaking of special missions it stands in the publication that they were never well received &c. I think I substituted to those terms the word “agreable” in the letter; and towards the conclusion the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 28 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Our correspondence will be printed today in a pamphlet, a copy of which shall be sent to you by the mail if it is completed in time. I have omitted in the publication every passage which had been noted by you, and added to the list of omissions, one passage, in your letter of April 11th. which speaks of the use made of my name for vindictive purposes, the publication of which could only serve...
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 24 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately after you left Albemarle, I was forc’d to go to Loudoun to make some arrangements in the estate with which I am charged there, & having returned by the same route, I did not reach this place till yesterday late at night. I had not therefore the pleasure to receive your kind favors of the 12th. & 13. till to day. The papers noted in your letters to me shall most certainly be omitted...
6To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 27 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just returned from Richmond & send the inclosed for yr. inspection in the hope that you may not have set-out to day for Washington, knowing that you have heretofore frequently staid a day longer than that which you had appointed for your departure to arrange more completely your private affairs. I take the liberty to submit to your perusal a copy of my letters to Mr. Randolph, being the...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 13 September 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on Saturday evening from Kentuckey & shall proceed to Richmond as soon as I recover from the fatigue of the late journey. The object of this is to request your sanction to the publication of our late correspondence on certain important publick topicks. It is interesting & will I doubt not be satisfactory to the publick and to many friends to be made acquainted with that...
8To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 6 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On information of the death of John Page which gained general belief here, I wrote you a letter two days since, which had relation to an object connected with that event. The present accounts contradict that report & as I hope & believe on good ground. I hasten therefore to correct the error into which I had been led. You are I presume by this time return’d to Washington. I hope that you...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 18 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive some days past your favor of the 11th. & that of the 13. to day. Being perfectly satisfied by the explanations & assurances which you had given me in your preceding letters that I had taken an improper idea of yr. disposition towards me, the details contained in your last one were not necessary in that view. I receive them however with great interest, because in...
10To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 22 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 11th. instant the day after I returned from Albemarle. It is very distressing to me to discuss with you the topicks on which it treats, but in the state in which things are it is certainly best to come to a perfect understanding on every point & to repair on both sides any injury which may have been received. To do you an injury or indeed any one...
11To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 27 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
My great anxiety to forward to you the account and receit for the sum which I paid for your mathematical instruments at London, when I should acknowledge your kind letter of the 18th, prevented my answering it sooner. To obtain them I was forced to ransack all my papers, which required much time, & in truth I did not succeed in finding them till this morning. I have now the pleasure to inclose...
12To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 11 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive yours of Octr. 26. and shall not fail to bring with me the articles mentioned in it from Jones the Instrument maker in Holborn. I am much indebted to you that the sum they will cost on an old account so that that matter will rest of course for the present. I am very thankful to you for the information given me respecting the state of my affrs. in Albemarle....
13To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 8 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The admn. likely to change its tone & I to be swept from the stage. On the 25. of April I was resolved to press the business with more earnestness than I had done; to remind Mr. Fox of his engagmts & thro’ him produce some effect in the Cabinet. In that state he found it necessary to secure quiet somewhere & asked me if Mr. M. or Mr K. were coming over. I verily believed that no one was coming...
14To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 8 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 4th. was presented to me on the 24th. ulto. by Mr Pinkney. That of March 16th. has not yet reached me. You are so good as to offer me either of the governments of Louisiana & to intimate that they shall be kept open sometime for my answer. I should be very sorry if any injurious delay proceeded from that cause; I hasten therefore to prevent it. At one time I was inclined to...
15To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 30 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
It is painful to touch on other topicks but I shod. feel myself deficient in candor if I did not observe that at no period of my life was I ever subjected to more inquietude than I have suffered since my return from Spain. I have found myself plac’d in a situation thro’ the whole of this interval altogether unexpected & in consideration of the parties to it equally novel. It was my wish to...
16To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 20 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The opportunity by Mr. Bankhead is too favorable not to be taken advantage of to write you, altho I may be able to add but little to what you find in my official dispatches. The business here has been suspended since the late appointment was known & will remain so till Mr. Pinkney arrives. It was impossible for me to move in it after that event, either with propriety or effect. besides it...
17To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 15 June 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
If I was not personally your friend and did not wish success to your administration, from the interest I take in your welfare, as in that of my country, I should not write you with the freedom I propose to do in this letter. It is my intention to enter fully into some topicks which are of very high importance to your reputation as to the best interests of the UStates, & I do it in confidence...
18To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 1 November 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of june 15th. was recd. on my arrival here. Mr. Gamble has not been here that I can learn. Shod. he come while I am here I shall most certainly pay him the attention you desire. I have conferr’d with Mr. Carey respecting the documents concerning the war in our southern states which you committed to him for publication, & send his apology in a letter to me for not having answered yr....
19To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 6 October 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you lately by Col: Mercer, by whom I intended to have forwarded Carey’s letter respecting the documents which you had committed to him relative to the war in our southern states. By accident it was left behind, but is now forwarded. I hope the same which he states to be necessary to redeem the papers will be made up & furnished him. In that case the person to whom it is entrusted here...
20To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 26 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ it is not yet decided whether I shall sail this fall or not to the UStates, as I most earnestly wish to do, yet I cannot neglect the opportunity by Col: Mercer, to add something to you which it is possible may not be in any other letters. It was my intention as I intimated by Captn. Dulton, to sail immediately after my arrival here, & nothing wod. have prevented it but the seizure of...
21To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 21 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so far on my way to Madrid and on the point of recommencing my journey this morning. my letters to Mr. Madison have been so full that it is unnecessary to enter into the same topicks here even had I time, tho’ I have not as I set out in an hour. It is possible that yr. attention may be directed to the fortification of our ports, since the establishment of certain fortifications on the...
22To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 25 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters to Mr. Madison are so full on what concerns us, as to leave me little to add to you. I never experienc’d more difficulty in any case, than in deciding whether to hasten the negotiation with this govt. to a conclusion, & set out immediately in pursuit of the other object, or to let it take its natural course and consume a couple of months more, and pursue that object afterwards. The...
23To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 15 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have yours of Jany. 8. by Mr. Baring who arrived lately in the packet. From the view I am able to take of the subject I am of opinion that my appointment to Louisiana will be incompatable with the duties I am to perform in this quarter. To conclude a treaty with this govt., or to make such an experiment as wod. authorise me to say that one cannot be had, to regulate on just principles the...
24To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 28 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Halsey a respectable citizen of R Island who has been some years in Europe, will have the pleasure to present you this. He has been introduc’d to me as a young man of merit, of the best connections at home, and expressing a desire of being known to you, I take the liberty of giving him this letter stating his pretentions in the light, they have appear’d to me, and to add that what I have...
25To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 20 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you by Mr. Law a book from a Mr. Williams of this place who was presented to me by Mr. Barlow, as an old friend of Dr. Franklin. He appears to be a well enformed worthy man. If you chuse to answer it I will present the answer. He stood ill with his govt. some years since, but is on tolerable footing with it now. Your answer if you send one will certainly be spoken of, tho’ I presume not...
26To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 18 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In my communications to Mr. Madison publick & private which you would see, I have been so full, that it seemed as if I shod. only trouble you by a repetition of the same ideas in writing you. I most earnestly hope that what is done here, and may be done in Spain, will not only prove an ample vindication of the measures of yr. administration during the last Session of Congress, when contrasted...
27To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 7 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. yours of the 25. ulto. with one to Mr. de Cepede , this morning, when I also recd. my instructions from the department of State , with all the other documents connected with my mission to France & Spn. The ship, Richmond , of abt. 400. tons burden whose cabbin I have taken, cleared at the custom house on saturday , my baggage was put on board, in expectation of sailing yesterday as Mr....
28To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 9 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have acknowledged the rect. of your favor containing a copy of yr. message to the congress before this had I not expected to have done it in person. It was my intention after remaining here as long, from the expiration of my late office, as was sufficient to make it known unequivocally to the publick that I was sincere in returning to the bar, to pass thro’ the federal city on my way...
29To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 17 December 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. Scott having intimated to me his intention to visit the federal city, I take the liberty to introduce him to yr. acquaintance as a very deserving and respectable citizen of this State. Tho’ not at present a member of the legislature, yet having been here several days he will be able to communicate to you such incidents of this place as merit attention. The reelection of General Mason...
30To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 November (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was lately sent me by Col: Newton to be forwarded to you. Since my last R. Evers Lee has been here and a suitable occasion presenting itself, I confered with him on the subject of the comr of bankruptcy at Norfolk, in which he informed me that William Bennett a merchant the brother of the person mentioned in my last was the most suitable of the two. He lamented that there was no...
31To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have endeavour’d to find suitable persons out of whom you might select one to fill the vacancy in the comn. of bankruptcy at Norfolk, but so little am I acquainted there that it is really a difficult task. Mr. Tazewell could give a name, but I did not wish to write him on the subject. Of those whom I have heard spoken of, Jas. Bennett mercht. and Jas. Nimmo an attorney are the fitest among...
32To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 21 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
There are two persons in this place who according to the information I have recd., have respectable claims to the office in question. The first of these is Jacob I. Cohen , a Jew but sound in his principles, of fair character & much employed in the business of the corporation. the other is Tarlton W. Pleasants , a brother of the clerk of the h. of Delegates , of equally fair character, and...
33To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 1 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Jas. Monroe’s best respects to Mr. Jefferson. If he has a moment of leisure, he will thank him for a few words on the subject of a note he left at Monticello yesterday, in addition to wh. he begs to trouble him with the inclosed. If the accommodation wh. it proposes can be given, it will essentially forward the arming of the militia of the State. He will be happy to bear Mr. Jefferson’s...
34To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 31 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Jas. Monroe’s best respects to Mr. Jefferson. as he sits out to Richmond to morrow or next day, & will probably not see him before his departure, he will thank Mr Jefferson for information on the following subjects. The state of Maryld. has set up a claim to the territory lying within this State no. the so. Branch of Potowk., on the principle that the so. branch is her true boundary. She...
35To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 10 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Jas. Monroe’s best respects to Mr. Jefferson. He has the pleasure to send him a letter from Mr. Short with two pamphlets. He is very sorry he has it not in his power to call on him at present. An injury which he recd. in his leg a few days before he left Richmd., wh. is much increased by inflamation in coming up , confines him to his room. He hopes however that a few days repose will relieve...
36To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 26 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return lately from Albemarle I found yr. favors of the 15. 17. & 20th. wh. were unopened according to orders I had left in such cases. An attack from Callendar is a harmless thing unsupported by any document from yrself. From such letters as you wrote him I do not think any thing is to be hoped to him or the federalists. If the printers wod. say nothing in reply to the attacks of that...
37To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 7 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you some columns of a paper here edited by Mr. Callendar. It was whispered sometime since that the federalists knew he was possessed of some letters from you , and were endeavouring to bring them before the publick. In several of his preceding papers he glancd at the subject , but at length enters more directly on it. Perhaps it will be best that nothing shod. be said in reply by any...
38To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing is more difficult than to give you a suitable nomination for comrs. of bankry. at Norfolk. I relied on a gentn. who lately went there for information on that subject, and he declined writing me, preferring to communicate his ideas in person on his return, wh. was not till within a few days. Littleton W. Tazewell lives in Norfolk, but as he has taken a commn. of notary publick of the...
39To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 11 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I find by your letter of the 3d., that you think Sierra Leone on the Coast of Affrica a suitable place for the establishment of our insurgent slaves, that it may also become so for those who are or may hereafter be emancipated, and that you are disposed to obtain the assent of the company to such a measure through our minister in London, while your attention will be directed in the interim to...
40To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
From some distant allusion it was inferr’d that Mr. Hay wod. not act as a comr. of bankruptcy. The proposition was not directly made, so that he did not refuse; it was only inferr’d that it was not an office which he was desirous of. I have not yet been able to form a list for Norfolk, but expect soon to do it, which shall be transmitted without delay. In the interim there is no reason why you...
41To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 30 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I annex a note of persons qualified for the office of comrs. under the bankrupt law, for the places to wh. they are affixed. It is thought it will be better to appoint comrs. at Petersbg. separately from those at this place. Of Norfolk I can say nothing as yet, but expect to be able to do it in a few days. I was requested by Colo. Lambert sometime since to give him a letter to you wh. I did to...
42To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 30 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Colo. David Lambert of this city has requested me to communicate to you his desire to be employ’d as a comr. of banruptcy, with which I readily comply. He is a respectable citizen who has held several offices of credit, among wh. is the command of the rgt. of the city which he lately voluntarily resigned; he was comr. under the act for choosing Electors of P. & V. Presidt., & has been a comr....
43To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 17 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not receive yours of the 9th. till the day before yesterday (15). I am sorry it will not be in my power to see you while at home. many considerations of a publick nature keep me here for the present, the most urgent of wh. is, the trials which are in train in several parts of the state of slaves on the charge of conspiracy & insurrection, and the applications growing out of them for...
44To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 25 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I returned on friday from Albemarle without having accomplished the object of my trip by the sale of my land above Charlottesville. In my absence an alarm took place at Norfolk relative to the negroes, wh. was felt here, but which seems to have little foundation for it. Such is the state of things that it is hasardous for me, in regard to the publick opinion, to be absent from this place at...
45To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I find among the papers in the council chamber an acct. adjusted by you between Houdon and the Commonwealth. Perhaps you have a copy of it at Monticello, which may be the document to which you wish to recur before you decide on his claim. If this paper is material it shall be sent to you, tho’ to me it appears as if it cod. not be, as the sole or principal question is, what the depreciation...
46To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 21 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
When lately in Albemarle I found the complition of a chmney in my house delayd by the want of abt. 350. bricks, which were not to be had in the neighbourhood. As the number is too small to burn a kiln on purpose to obtain them and as it may possibly be in my power to replace them sometime hereafter when you may have occasion, if convenient, I will thank you for as many. sincerely I am your...
47To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 14 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I found your favor of the 28th. ulto. communicating an extract of a letter from Dupont De Nemours relative to the claim of the artist Houdon to be paid the sum which he lost by the depreciation of the assignats in the last instalment which he recd. for the statue of Genl. Washington. I postponed an answer untill I had taken the advice of council by which I am authorised to inform you that...
48To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 13 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you some resolutions of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, passed at its last session explanatory of a resolution of the preceding session authorizing a correspondence with you relative to the purchase of lands without the limits of the state, to which persons obnoxious to its laws or dangerous to the peace of society might be removed. You will recollect that as the precise...
49To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 12 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been requested by Colo. Goodall who is an honest republican character, I presume well known to you, to add his name to the list of candidates for the post office in this city. You will get correct information of every one not known to you from our members in Congress. In a late letter to Mr. Madison I gave the details of some federal intrigues here during the Session of our assembly. He...
50To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 21 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Our communication will be laid before the assembly to morrow with its doors closed. The objection which I suggested applied to a delegation of any confidence or trust over the subject, from the legislature to our Executive, not to the agency of the federal Executive in the affair. In the latter view I saw no objection to the clause, for what was proposed in that respect was precisely what the...