10571To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 9 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
When I wrote to you last I had not received your letter on the subject of the horse—I have since got your last of the 12th. of July. I have not as yet been able to procure a horse of the description you want. The demand in Richmond and Petersburg for fine horses for the cavalry about the time I received your letter rendered it impossible to procure one at either of those places. I know at...
10572To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 14 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The repeated applications made from a number of sea-ports in relation to the hospital money , induce me to submit to you the propriety of extending the provisions heretofore adopted for the temporary relief of seamen to the following ports: vzt. Portland— Maine Portsmouth— New-Hampshire Salem— Massachusetts Middletown— Connecticut New-Haven— ditto Wilmington— Delaware Camden— North-Carolina...
10573To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Cooper, 19 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
intended to have proceeded from hence to Was[hington] the place ere your departure, but I find I cannot with convenience fulfil my wishes and intentions. In all probability therefore I shall have no opportunity of paying you my personal respects: accept therefore of my sincere good wishes for your health and happiness in your retirement. I send you the inclosed pamphlet drawn up by Mr Dallas,...
10574To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 6 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. the inclosed by the last mail. The writer is Atto for Mr Claiborne’s Goverment and one of the Officers of the City of New Orleans. I have deemed it my duty to transmit it for your perusal. It is with real and high regret that I inform you the federalists have (in all probability) succeeded in New Hampshire in the Congress election. For my part I am also inclined to believe they have...
10575To Thomas Jefferson from Mathias Kin, 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that your well known love of science has induced [my] intention to the publication of a Work embracing some [part] of the History Natural and Botanical of this [exte]nsive country I am emboldened to make it known to you, that in the course of several years travel thro’ various parts of the United States for botanical purposes I have been enabled to form a collection of the...
10576To Thomas Jefferson from Mary Barclay, 21 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming on the Friendship and Esteem you always professed for Mr Barclay, and the many proofs of it I have received Myself, I should have addressed a few lines to You by My Son, that he might have the advantage of being known to you, but My Illness prevented at his departure and till now, informing you of the Business he is gone on, in which I doubted not your aid as far as it could...
10577To Thomas Jefferson from William H. Cabell, 3 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to forward Major Newtons letter of the 31st. of Augt. You will observe what he states with respect to the conduct of some of the Boats of the British Squadron, in frequently coming near the shore, rowing in different directions, as if with intention to land, & sometimes taking soundings of the Coast, and the entrance of Lynhaven River—I have not thought that this conduct,...
10578To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan E. Robinson, 18 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Micah J Lyman the post Master in Bennington was appointed to that office I believe in 1798 under the Administration of John Adams to the Citizens of that town and its Vicinity the Appointment then was extreemely disgusting and that because he was a Man Most Intollerant in his political Sentiments Ever since repeated Efforts have been made by them for his removal but hither to...
10579To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Dearborn, 13 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of proposing for your approbation the following appointments in the additional Military force Viz. Noah Lester to be Captain of Light Dragoons Asa Morgan " 1st. Lieutenant Ditto
10580To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 18 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some days ago the letter which you did me the favor to write me by Chanor. Livingston . I have not written any since those you there acknowlege (except one by Mr Victor Dupont, of the 18th. of Octob.) I have been fearing for some time, as the commissions mentioned in your letter of March 17th., had not been heard of during the summer, that you might perhaps have been considering me...