1To James Madison from Caspar Wistar, Jr., 15 October 1801 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 15 October 1801. Calendared as a three-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2). Wistar, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, was a vice president of the American Philosophical Society at the time.
2To James Madison from Caspar Wistar, 10 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
It is with great regret that I trespass upon your valuable time, but I cannot well avoid it in the present instance. Mr. Jacob Otto, a young gentleman of respectable Connections in this City, has embarked for England, for the purpose of arranging some very important Commercial affairs; his friends wish to procure for him a letter of introduction from you to Mr. Pinkney our Minister at London,...
3To James Madison from Caspar Wistar, 26 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. J. Otto who will have the honour of presenting this, is the Gentleman whom you favoured with an introduction to Mr. Pinckney. Having returned very lately from Europe, I have requested him to Communicate to you the result of his observations & inquiries, & as he will be at the Seat of Government in a few days he will wait upon you for the purpose. Having been engaged in Commercial pursuits,...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, [before 9 April 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer you my most sincere & affectionate congratulations on the recent election, which I hope will contribute to your individual happiness as much as I am certain it will to the benefit of our beloved Country—Sensible of the laborious task which is now imposed upon you, it is with great reluctance that I intrude upon your valuable time, & beg from your good nature an indulgence...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 1 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The fear of intruding upon you at a time when you had not leisure, & the belief that you seldom have leisure now, have prevented me so long from offering you my sincere thanks for your kindness in the appointment of Mr Dobell —I hope & believe that he will merit your confidence, and am certain that he will ever retain a grateful sense of it—Since my last I have been favoured with two notes...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 10 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed my reply to your favour of March 22d. in order to inform myself more fully respecting some of the heads of your inquiry— My acquaintance with Dr Barnwell commenced about a year & a half since, in consequence of a communication he made to the A.P.S., which was ordered to be published, but was lost by the Printer. He has since then sometimes visited me, & conversed respecting...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 8 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel a considerable degree of embarrassment on the present occasion, but trust to your good nature for excusing the liberty I take, & the trouble I give you—My object is to state to you that I have for a long time been acquainted with the character of Mr G. Latimer, * The Collector & have known him personally for some years, & that he has allways appeared to me to be a man of business & of...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 15 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to recommend to you the Bearer, Mr. P. Kuhn Junr., a very amiable & worthy young gentleman who is about establishing a commercial house at Gibralter—He is the Son of a Gentleman of very high character for honour & integrity, who has been long & successfully engaged in the mediterranean trade—as he has been educated in his Father’s Compting House, & has acquired a knowledge of...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 17 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the two french works which accompany this—viz A Plan of Public Education, & a Treatise on the Intellectual Operations, from Mr Livingston the Minister at Paris I am afraid that I have detained them too long & crave therefore that Indulgence you have ever extended to your faithful friend RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “His Excellency The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 18 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to trouble you with the inclosed for Captain Lewis , they do not include many points, because his instructions have really anticipated every thing which occurred to me, & of course admitted of no additions but in detail. I have also avoided several subjects which I expected would be fully detailed by Dr Barton , as being particularly within those departments of Science to which he...