1From Thomas Jefferson to Little Turtle, 21 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is always with pleasure that I receive you here & take you by the hand; and that to the assurances of friendship to your Nation I can add those of my personal respect and esteem for you. Our confidence in your friendship has been the stronger as your enlarged understanding could not fail to see the advantages resulting to your nation as well as to us from a mutual good understanding. we ask...
2II. Jefferson’s Reply, 7 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with great satisfaction the visit you have been so kind as to make us at this place, and I thank the great spirit who has conducted you to us in health and safety. it is well that friends should sometimes meet, open their minds mutually, and renew the chain of affection. made by the same great spirit, and living in the same land with our brothers the red men, we consider ourselves as...
3III. Henry Dearborn’s Reply, 7 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am authorised by your father the President of the United States, to assure you that it gives him great pleasure to see you at the great Council fire of the sixteen States, and to have an opportunity of taking by the hand the great and wise men of so many of the Nations of his red Children. Brothers, Your Father the President is happy to find that the great Spirit who made all the white and...