1To James Madison from Levett Harris, 30 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1803, Philadelphia. Received his commission as consul to Rotterdam with documents pertaining to the appointment by the last mail. Replied on 25 Mar. [not found] to JM’s letter of 14 Mar. [not found] requesting him to decide between Rotterdam and St. Petersburg so that when the president returned from Virginia no delay would arise if the president saw fit to change the appointment. “As...
2To James Madison from Levett Harris, 17 April 1803 (Madison Papers)
Being scrupulous of troubling you farther on the subject of my late letters, I requested a friend I had at Washington to enquire of the practicability of the change, in relation to which, I have had the honour to address you: And I learn that some doubts have arisen in the department of State, of a Consul from this Country being received at St. Petersburg. (I have the authority of an...
3To James Madison from Levett Harris, 25 April 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
25 April 1803, Philadelphia. Acknowledges receipt of the commission appointing him consul to St. Petersburg, accompanied by JM’s 9 Apr. circular and the transcript of laws relative to consuls passed at the last session of Congress. Returns the commission first sent to him. “I Shall now prepare myself, with all expedition, to proceed to Russia, and I hope in one month from this, to be on my...
4To James Madison from Levett Harris, 25 October 1803 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to Announce to You my arrival at this place, which, from a Succession of adverse winds encountered on my passage from England here, has been retarded to the 19. inst. During a Short Stay I made in London I had the honor, through the polite attention of his Excellency Mr Monroe, to make the Acquaintance of the Russian Ambassador at that Court. The Ambassador had no doubt...
5To James Madison from Levett Harris, 27 October 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
27 October 1803, St. Petersburg . Refers JM to his letter of 25 Oct. by “this Conveyance, the delay whereof, enables me to acquaint You of the particulars of my last interview with the minister of foreign affairs.” Presented his commission along with a translation. Count Vorontsov “observed it would have been in form for the first minister of State in America to have addressed a letter to him...
6To James Madison from Levett Harris, 17 November 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
17 November 1803, St. Petersburg. Encloses his letter to JM of 27 Oct. , which “reached Cronstadt too late for the occasion by which it was intended to be conveyed.” Not having heard from Count Vorontsov since their last meeting, waited on 16 Nov. on Prince Czartoryski, “who officiates for the prime minister,” and was told that “my Crendentials [ sic ] had been laid before the Emperor, who...
7To James Madison from Levett Harris, 7 February 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 February 1804, St. Petersburg. Last wrote on 17 Nov. via Antwerp. Has instituted “the necessary inquiries” to obtain the information requested in JM’s circular of 9 Apr. 1803 but is unable to furnish it as conclusively as he deems necessary. “I … shall therefore defer transmitting any Statements until I am capable to provide them in a Satisfactory form.” Recently received news of the loss of...
8To James Madison from Levett Harris, 24 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
24 June 1804, St. Petersburg. “My last respects were paid you the 7. Feby ⅌ quadruplicate. Since my arrival here, I have not been honored by any of your communications. “As new regulations are now making for charges in the different ports of the Empire, I shall delay til toward the close of the summer, transmitting you the required statements upon these points. “I have received no advice from...
9To James Madison from Levett Harris, 29 June 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 June 1804, St. Petersburg. “My last respects were paid You the 12/24 instant . I this morning received a note from the Prince de Czartoryski, desiring to see me at one oClock. I accordingly waited on him. The Prince after communicating to me the particulars of the instructions, transmitted by order of the Emperor, to the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, informed me in reply to the...
10To James Madison from Levett Harris, 13 September 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 September 1804, St. Petersburg. “I was honored on the 27th. ulto. by receipt of your dispatch under date of the 26 June, (transmitted by Mr Erving from London) accompanied by a letter from the President to the Emperor, and one for the Grand Chancellor from the honble. Secretary of State; both of which, I presented in person to the Prince de Czartoryski: he mentioned it was usual on such...