1From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 9 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended to have asked a conference with mr Crowninshield & mr Gilman who are nautical men & of the seaports on the subject of the bill for the naval militia, but have not yet had an opportunity: and as you think it would be better to put that & the land-militia bill into one, I now inclose it with my friendly salutations & assurances of great esteem & respect. FMU .
2From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 7 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers now communicated to your house for perusal being to be read in the other house also, and, as originals, to be returned to me, mr Coles, my Secretary, will attend to recieve them, after they shall have been read to the satisfaction of your house; and, having handed them to the other house for the same purpose, he will return them to me. I ask the favor of your aid in having this...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 26 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the letters you were so kind as to communicate to me; on the appointment of Dr. Waterhouse to the care of the marine hospital when he was decided on (Nov. 26.) no other candidate had been named to me as desiring the place. the respectable recommendations I had recieved, and his station as Professor of Medicine in a college of high reputation, sufficiently warranted his abilities...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 26 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Speaker and sends him the inclosed to be used in any way he thinks proper either for making known the grounds of Dr. Waterhouse’s appointment, or for exonerating all others from any participation in it. he salutes him with great esteem. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
5From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 27 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a copy of Armstrong’s letter covering the papers sent to Congress. the date was blank as in the copy. the letter was so immaterial that I had really forgotten it altogether when I spoke with you last night. I feel myself much indebted to you for having given me this private opportunity of shewing that I have kept back nothing material. that the Federalists & a few others should...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve in the inclosed petitions a request that I will lay them before Congress. this I cannot do consistently with my own opinion of propriety, because where the petitioners have a right to petition their immediate representatives in Congress directly, I have deemed it neither necessary nor proper for them to pass their petition through the intermediate channel of the Executive....
7From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 26 December 1808 (Adams Papers)
I receive very kindly your obliging letter of the 15th. of this month. Ever since my return from Europe, where I had resided ten years and could not be fully informed of the state of affairs in my own Country, I have been constantly anxious and alarmed at the intemperance of party spirit and the unbounded license of our presses. In the same view I could not but lament some things, which have...
8From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 9 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
The following comments were written, within a few days after the appearance in public of this Text “The Proclamation of the King of Great Britain requiring the return of his Subjects, the Seamen especially, from foreign Countries, to aid, in this hour of peculiar danger, in defence of their own. But it being an acknowledged Principle that every Nation has a right to the Service of its Subjects...
9From James Madison to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 2 February 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith a Report, made in compliance with a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th. Ultimo, and am with great respect & consideration, Sir, Your most obedt. Servt. The Secretary of State, in compliance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 9th: Ultimo, directing him "to lay before the House a statement of the whole number of...