1To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 25 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your kind letter by Mr. Dawson, and be assured no man in America rejoices more sincerely than I do at the change of political measures & the happy reconciliation of parties of which it speaks. I do not congratulate you, but my country, on the event of your election. I now indulge myself in the hope that we are not to lose the fruits of former labors, but that we may be wise...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 4 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some time ago by Mr. Dawson and mentioned my intention of returning to America early in the spring. I still adhere to this intention, and am happy to learn by every letter from that country that the violence of party spirit is abated & that all honest men seem cordially united in support of your administration. I am persuaded that your election was the only means of uniting them...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 26 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Fulton’s letter giving an account of his experiments in submarine navigation is to accompany this. In the present state of the naval system of Europe every project for establishing the liberty of the seas on a permanent basis seems to be attended with so many difficulties that I am sometimes inclined to think the one he proposes may be found the most simple as well as the most effectual...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 11 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed letters from Mr Laharpe to Mr Stone and from Mr Stone to me are in my opinion of sufficient consequence to be communicated to you. this Laharpe is a Swiss Republican of An excellent character and an enlightened mind. he was the tutor of Alexander the present Emperor of Russia; having returned to his own country on the Accession of Paul he became one of the Directors of the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 26 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented you by your countryman Doctor Upshaw, a young man of superior talents & acquirements, a good republican & perfectly attached to the principles of your administration. He has been two years in Europe to perfect himself in the study of medicine & has lately taken his degree at Montpellier. He is perfectly disposed & I think will be capable of doing much good in our country...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 20 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Emmet the Bearer of this was an eminent Counceller in Dublin where he has been grievously persecuted by the English government for his political opinions & his attachment to those principles of liberty which ought to govern all societies. he is now moving to America in search of a second country, a movement which, if our fathers had not made it for us, you & I might have been making at...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 19 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe I took the liberty of mentioning to you in a letter last summer, before I left Paris, that the ill state of my wife’s health was the sole cause of my not embarking for America that season, and that we were coming to England for medical advice, with the intention of passing the winter here, & embark this spring if possible. This is what we expect to accomplish. Her health now promises...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 4 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to announce to you my arrival in this country & my intention of visiting your part of it very soon. We propose to pass the winter at or near Washington, & look out for a place to pitch our tent for the residue of life. If you are not now at Washington I would be much obliged to you if you will drop me a line to the care of Peter Talman merchant in this place, to let me know...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 2 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your kind & friendly letter of the 14th. & should have set forward on my journey before recieving it, but learning from Mr. Gallatin that I should not find you nor scarcely any one else at Washington, I had already relinquished that project, or rather postponed the execution of it till October. And finding that my friend Baldwin is now in Connecticut, I am now going on to make up...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 17 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Can you find a half an hour in the course of the day to read over the enclosed Prospectus & permit me to call on you in the evening to recieve your ideas. I am told that the Memorial now before Congress has excited a disposition to do something, perhaps to grant a charter. if so, why not set the thing on its broad basis at first, & let it grow up with the means that may afterwards be applied?...