9001To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 10 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Jai Reçu Monsieur, peu de tems après La lettre que vous m’avés fait L’honneur de m’ecrire La belle caisse quelle m’annoncoit. je n’ai pas seulement joui du plaisir de la Reconnoissance envers un homme qu’il est si flatteur pour moi d’interesser, mais de mon admiration pour cette bonté qui s’est conservee si parfaite et si pure, qu’elle est encore capable de descendre avec complaisance aux...
9002To Thomas Jefferson from James Reed Dermott, 7 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The knowledge which I have acquired by experience in the location, rise and progress of this city, from the year 1792, in the most difficult and trying times of the laying off of the same, and in which many deviations were made from the original design, all of which I opposed except those for the publick good, and the causes of which are known to very few others except myself, emboldens me, at...
9003To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
For these ten days I have been on a journey on our frontier, and am just informed that Mr Clay refuses to accept the appointment of Circuit Judge. I avail myself of a transient opportunity and a coarse piece of paper to execute my promise of giving you all the information in my power in such contingences. I know you are fully [under] the impression of the ill consequences of multiplying the...
9004To Thomas Jefferson from John Devereux DeLacy, 23 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The petition of John Devereux DeLacy Humbly sheweth That your petitioner prays as he heretofore has prayed that you sir would take cognizance of his case personally and make therein such order as to you Sir shall appear Just and expedient. That your petitioner having been Atty in fact for William Blount late of Tennessee Decd who was Executor to and a surviving partner of David Allison Decd....
9005To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 29 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended when I wrote my letter yesterday, to write no more untill my return, unless somthing new, and requiring immediate communication should occur. But my memory continues to recal circumstances which, I deem it proper to make known to you. It came to my knowledge a good while ago, that $100,000 had been disbursed at Orleans, for the purpose of rewarding the friends to good govt. in this...
9006To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 25 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
There can, I think, be but little difficulty in determining on the theory and general principles applicable to the subject matter of your communication , which I had the honor of receiving the last evening. “Taking a part in a war against a nation in amity with us’ or any way to interfere, and favor one party more than the other, must be agreed to be inconsistent with a fair construction of...
9007To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 9 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
As the Governor of Massachussetts has in a letter to the Secretary at War renewed his application respecting the Cannon and other Stores Obtained from that State in the year 1798, I consider it proper to send to you the enclosed Copies of letters, which will give you a view of the part of the Case for which this Department has been responsible. The Books and papers of this Department have been...
9008To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 31 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been here for some time, 10 days, & shall remain untill every thing which requires my presence is compleatly disposed of, which will be the case I hope about the middle of next week. I will now endeavor to give you full information of all the circumstances attending the present state of the public buildings. 1. The Capitol.— The exterior walls are caried up perfectly as high as the tops...
9009To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 November 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Observations Wm. Kettletas sd. to be an inmate of Gen. Wilkinson & appd. atty. General by him. This last particular is a mistake Mr. Emmert was removed for delinquency in the spring 1805; and as soon as his accts were adjusted no suit was instituted at Detroit by the Comptroller; but before the suit had been issued there, (or probably on his hearing of its being in the hands of the territorial...
9010To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas Fitzhugh, 27 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I was yesterday honored with your favor of the 25th. Instant & agreable to your desire, endeavoured to collect information respecting a way from Songster’s to the Red-house avoiding Centreville. I am pleased to find that the rout is not only practicable but there will be a saving of distance to the amount of 7 miles as you will discover from the enclosed Memorandum. The road through...
9011To Thomas Jefferson from Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, 21 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Le General la Fayette me mande qu’il a bien voulu vous faire hommage de ma part, d’un ouvrage qui traite de la formation de nos idées ; mais qu’il ne vous est pas parvenu. je regrette que la Seconde edition que l’on prepare ne Soit pas encor faite, par ce qu’elle contiendra quelques additions importantes. en attendant j’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer de nouveau la premiere; et j’y joins une...
9012To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I received this morning your letter of the 9th instt. on the subject of Morocco & the Barbary powers. The arrangement of the mail between this & Monticello is not favorable, since this answer to your’s of the 9th cannot leave Washington before to morrow evening 17th. This I regret, as time on such occasion is precious. I will write, on the supposition that you have received the account of the...
9013To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Elliot, 29 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Perhaps the President of the U States may deem my unsolicited addresses as rather obtrusive, but I confidently hope he will do me the justice to be assured, that they originate in an exalted opinion of his character & administration, and in the purest Patriotism. It has been suggested to me that some opponents of myself and my brothers, not able to influence the Post master Genl against me,...
9014To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Minifie, 9 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your having condescended to pay my former communications an attention far beyond my expectation gives me a hope that you’ll not take as offence my troubling You this once more on the score of my Claim on the Government in order to acquaint You with what has been done as well as to shew the point & situation the business has arrived at and is now found in. Some time after I was honor’d with...
9015To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Tucker, 20 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will excuse in me the liberty I take in writing you on a subject so long past; should their be any foible I am confident your wisdom will pass it by; in the year of 1787 I attended Benjamin Walker Esqr commissioner for the naval department & residing in new York; who settled my public accounts up to august the fifth 1780; and I was held in public service afterwards until 1784 if no...
9016To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Lyon, 12 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In this remote Situation I can have but a very imperfect view of the affairs of the great part of the United States, yet I read enough to give me infinite pleasure to see your popularity increases even beyond my very sanguine expectations. In this Country you have always stood without a Rival; those that I have seen on my way from the Seat of Goverment to this place who formerly adheared to Mr...
9017To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 18 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Pickering presents his respects to the President, and returns the copy of Crozat’s grant from Louis XIV. with his thanks. The grant is not what Mr. P. supposed, of the province of Louisiana, but a monopoly of its commerce , for 15 years; with some specific property therein, the value of which, and its tenure, were to depend on his labour and expence in cultivation and improvement. But in...
9018To 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...
9019To Thomas Jefferson from William Keteltas, 4 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been a practice to Address the President of the United States upon his Coming into office and for his Measures While in office particularly by the Advocates of the late fallen Administration—There are but few instances of the Kind Since Your Election, A Circumstance No doubt highly Gratifying to You Who Can so Clearly penetrate the Views and designs of Men—It Cannot be Owing to A want...
9020To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth House Trist, 18 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Evan Jones the Bearer of this is Uncle to the Husband of my Daughter. he is an old and respectable inhabitant of this country and I have a great desire that he shou’d be personally known to you, his politicks I believe do not accord with ours but he is much of a Gentleman and I shall be much flatterd by any mark of attention you shew him. a melancholy circumstance takes him to the States...
9021To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Deveze, 16 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
il vient de me parvenir un extrait du discours que Votre exellence a prononcé au Congres Le 6. xbre dernier. je ne puis voir Sans un extreme Satisfaction, par ce que vous dites de La fievre jaune, que vous avez adopté ma doctrine Sur cette maladie, telle que je L’ai enseignée et publiée il y a 13 ans dans votre pais, dans un ouvrage intitulé “an enquiry into, and observations upon the causes...
9022To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 16 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9h. I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday. The disposition manifested by the Emperor of Morocco is evidently hostile and evinces a determination to go to War with us unless we abanden the expedition against Tripoli. And the unhappy affair of Capt McNeill with the squadron of Tunis cannot but have involved us with that power. This state of things demanding immediate...
9023To Thomas Jefferson from John McKee, 30 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Memoranda Mobille 45 Miles below Fort Stoddert by land—the road lies thro a pine forest uninhabited except about 8 miles below Fort Stoddart and almost uninhabitable the distance by water is little more—the western bank of the River presents a few houses scattered along it—These with a few cowpens form all the Settlements near Mobille—the soil except on the river will not admit of any...
9024To Thomas Jefferson from John Richman, with Jefferson’s Note, 21 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To permit me to State to your Honour That last Jany, I wrote to the Honble the Secretary Of the Treasury for A patent, for An Invention To the Bedstead line; which Instead of the present Mode of Chords Attached to Studs & Flat holes In the Sacking bottom; my Plan is with Rolers And Cogg wheels Under the Sacking with A Clock And Spring; which has mett with the approbation Of Gentlemen; and...
9025To Thomas Jefferson from John Agnew, 15 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the only country upon earth where man enjoys his birthright the inalienable gift heaven: a right to think and act as a moral agent, it becomes solemnly his duty to watch with unremitting jealousy the conduct of those to whose safeguard he entrusts this high prerogative: and to approve or condemn as they merit his approbation or his censure. But this all-important duty he ought to exercise...
9026To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 6 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last , which inclosed a letter to Major Lewis, I have been informed that Monsieur Pieroux, while Commandant near the mouth of the Missouri, had sent a party of Indians up the river on a voyage of discovery, & that they returned after an absence of two years—this was communicated to me by Col: OHara of Pittsburgh who saw Pieroux at Kaskaskias during the Revolution War—I believe that...
9027To Thomas Jefferson from Jesse Morris, 21 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
At a Meeting of sixty Democratic Republican Delegates, from twenty one Townships of Washington County convened by public notice, at the house of Mr. Thomas Officer on Tuesday the 21st. day of February 1809. James Kerr Esqr. was called to the chair and Jesse Morris appointed Secretary.—When the following preamble, resolutions, and address, were laid before the meeting and unanimously adopted.—...
9028To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 21 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot refrain from an apology for obtruding upon you so tedious a visitor yesterday morning; but confident that you bear with the foibles of those whose pride or interest lead them to visit you with patience and condescention, I doubt not but you will readily pardon my temerity, when I assure you that Dr. Shaw possesses an extensive knowledge of the people of Vermont,—of their interests and...
9029To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
George C. Maxwell the Attorney of the United States, for the district of New-Jersey, with difficulty has been prevailed upon, not to resign, untill Willm. S. Pennington , representative in Council for Essex, could be Spared from the Legislature of this State. This time having arrived, Mr. Maxwell by the Mail that takes this letter, Sends his resignation. The Republican Members of the...
9030To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 20 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recd. yours of the 16th. with the accompanying papers. The communications &c. recd. since my last are enclosed. The letters from Paris are important, but I do not see in them the Wish of the F. Govt. to retract the bargain with our Ministers, so much as an anxiety to secure its execution agst. the intrusions of G.B. and to feel thro’ their pulse, whether we were or were likely to be in...