1To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 5 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recollect before I left Carolina I requested you by letter not to make any arrangements or take any step respecting that State until I had seen you as I had some opinions & information to communicate on that subject— On reflection since, I have been induced to suppose that this request on my part was an improper one, & that I ought not to presume so far as to wish to intrude on you my...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, [12 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
On considering the offer You have been so good as to make me to go to the Court of Spain I have determined to accept it as I can at all times return whenever my friends in Carolina shall advise me that my presence may be useful or required there in support of the republican interest—L As it will be necessary for me to return to my family for a short time before I embark for Europe I will thank...
3To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 16 March 1801 (Madison Papers)
I waited here sometime in expectation of the pleasure of seeing you. It is now nearly fourteen Years since we parted & the changes we have encountered as well in our individual situations as in our political concerns made me particularly anxious to see a friend with whom I had been so intimately acquainted & for whom I have always had the most sincere affection. I am to lament extremely the...
4Memorandum from Charles Pinckney, [ca. 17 March 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
MS ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 3:0377); undated; in Pinckney’s hand, except as noted below; endorsed by TJ: “S. Carolina. Mr. Pinckney’s 2d. memm.” Some of Pinckney’s recommendations on South Carolina appointments were incorporated into Burr’s memorandum of this date printed above. Pinckney probably left this memorandum with the president before he left for Charleston. In letters to Madison and TJ on...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 20 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the road respecting the Chief Judge of this circuit—as I am necessarily detained in visiting my plantations in the country I do not expect to be in Town before the 20th May after which I shall be enabled to write you from Charleston on that subject & to recommend to you some gentleman who will probably accept. I find our citizens in this neighbourhood extremely pleased & am glad...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 6 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance Doctor Blythe who is a gentleman of this state & of great respectability.—he is a member of our Senate & was one of our republican Electors in December last—he is at present on a tour through the northern states with his Lady & I feel much pleasure in having this opportunity of introducing him to your acquaintance as he is a man of letters...
7To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
I wish to mention to you a circumstance & to request your reparation of a Wrong done by Mr: Pickering during his administration to the most valuable republican Paper we ever had in this State. I mean the one called the City Gazette & Daily advertiser & published lately by Messieurs Freneau & Paine in Charleston & now by MacIver & Williams. Sometime in 1799 this Paper first published the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 26 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been longer at my Plantations in settling my affairs than I expected I have not had an opportunity of seeing the Gentlemen I wished to consult to recommend to you a suitable character to fill the place of chief Judge for this circuit in the room of Mr Bee who declines—In my way down I saw & requested Mr John Keith of Georgetown to suffer me to mention him to you as qualified for this...
9To James Madison from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1801 (Madison Papers)
In conformity with your request I now acknowledge the receipt of Your favour & the inclosures. Instructions Commission Letter of Credence, cypher Passports & Letters to Messieurs Willink Staphorst & Hubbard. As I shall take at least two thirds of my Outfit in Europe You will my dear sir oblige me by writing to them soon to answer my Drafts for as much of the Outfit as I choose to draw for on...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 8 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I Will be much obliged to you to do me the favour when you recieve this to write me in answer by any Vessel that may be going directed to me at Madrid to the care of our Minister if he should be arrived or Charge d’affairs at Paris—I am hopeful we shall sail in a fortnight & that the Vessel I go in will land me either in Holland or at Havre as I expect she goes to Hamburgh—it is the only...