811To John Jay from William Wilberforce, 1 August 1809 (Jay Papers)
Though so many Years have passed since We saw or heard from each other, I hope I do not deceive myself when, I presume that we continue to retain each other in friendly Remembrance, not without taking a real Interest in each other’s Well-being— Such at least, I can truly declare, are my own Sentiments & feelings in relation to you; and embracing every Opportunity of inquiring after you, I...
812John Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, an individual to approach you Sir, in your retreat from those toils and labours in which you have been for some time past so arduously engaged: and which have promoted the happiness, secured the freedom, and increased the prosperity of your country. Difficult and dangerous were the times of your Administration; but your mind perceived and your wisdom avoided the dangers. It was for...
813Jonathan Shoemaker to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Supposing from what the said when I Saw the at Monticelo it would be an accomadation I Send inclosed a Check on the Bank of Pensylvanie for 350$ and in bank notes 140$ with respect to higenbotoms draught on me I can’t at Present Conveniently pay before the 1 t Octo as the funds of the General Post Office are so low they Can’t pay a Dollar in advance, & with dificulty their bills when due, the...
814From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 3 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
ON the 12th of September, 1780, wrote to Mr. Dana, at Paris. “This will be delivered you by Mr. Samuel Hartley, who is recommended to me by Mr. Diggs and Mr. David Hartley. I should be obliged to you for any civilities you may show him. Mr. Diggs recommends him as an open friend to the American cause. There is no news here but what you will see in the Leyden Gazette, which is my vehicle for...
815From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
Herewith you will receive a packet, which being wrapt up in a large one for me, from the Dept. of State, was taken out of the mail of yesterday, and not observed before the rider had set out. I find myself under the mortifying necessity of setting out tomorrow morning for Washington. The intricate state of our affairs with England produced by the mixture of fraud & folly in her late conduct,...
816To James Madison from John Graham, 3 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 August 1809, Willtown, South Carolina. Written by “a Sittezan of South Carolina … placed in a State of common Mediocraty,” who has invented a bridge which “may be distroyed whilest an Ennemy is passing, and the opperator … may be at the Distance of from one to four miles from the scene of action,” at a cost that “would not Exceed $50.” The bridge can be erected “in Ten or 20 minuets, and if...
817To James Madison from George Joy, 3 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
3 August 1809, London. Encloses draft of a memorial to the king of Denmark and Norway protesting Danish depredations on U.S. shipping. These attacks on “no less than fifty four ships” are the latest object of Joy’s attention and diverted him from taking up his post as American consul in Holland. The American minister in London has advised him “to deviate from his intended Voyage [to Holland]...
818Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26 th ult. came to hand by the last post. that of June 23. had been recieved in due time, & I had not adverted to the copy of the order it inclosed respecting Gen l K’s Pensylvania bank stock. I now inclose you an order to recieve it. I am very happy at being released from the bank in a way to incommode nobody. I am distressed by old mr Shoemaker your neighbor, who has rented...
819James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith you will receive a packet, which being wrapt up in a large one for me, from the Dep t of State , was taken out of the mail of yesterday, and not observed before the rider had set out. I find myself under the mortifying necessity of setting out tomorrow morning for Washington . The intricate state of our affairs with England produced by the mixture of fraud & folly in her late conduct,...
820Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter came to hand yesterday by mail after your departure. presuming it could not find you at the President’s , I have thought it best to return it to you at Washington where you will probably find it on your return. I hope mrs Smith & yourself will have performed your journey in good health & without accident, and shall be very happy if you shall have found the same pleasure in...
821Josef Yznardy to Thomas Jefferson, 3 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Muy S or mio, y de todo mi Respecto; Aunque V.E. ha sesado de ser Presidente de los Estados Unidos , no lo han mis obligaciones de tener presente las distinciones de amistad que siempre usò conmigo, y menos las obligaciones en que me considero de haserlas vinculos perpetuos para que le suplique lo entìenda asi para mandarme en quanto guste. El dador de la presente serà el Cavallero secretario...
822From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 4 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
ON the 20th of September, 1780, wrote to his excellency Joseph Reed, Esq. President, and the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, in answer to a letter recommending Mr. Searle and his mission, that he might depend upon every civility and assistance in my power, consistent with the duties of the place I was in. Mr. Searle was sent by them to Europe, to borrow money. Such was the distress...
823To James Madison from Tristram Dalton, 4 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 August 1809, Alexandria. The former Massachusetts senator recommends Edmund Jennings Lee for the vacant District of Columbia judgeship. “I am not capable of forming a correct opinion of his Legal Abilities,” but is certain satisfactory recommendations will be forthcoming “from Gentlemen who are Judges.” Hopes JM “will pardon this freedom.” RC ( DNA : RG 59, Letters of Application, 1809–17). 1 p.
824C. & A. Conrad & Company to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
As we have just finished an edition of Shakspeares Plays for which your name appears on our list as a Subscriber we have used the freedom to address You requesting that when convenient you would send to the store of Daniel Rapine Esq r of this place for your copy, or point out the manner in which it may be sent to you. We have also taken the liberty to hand you a bill for the Artillerists...
825To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
“salus, honor et bonus Appetitus.” to use the Words of Molière— from Dear sir ever / Yrs MHi : Adams Papers.
826From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I would not come to Town to day because I knew I should only add to yours, and my own agony, my Heart is with you, my prayers and blessing attend you, the dear Children you have left, will be dearer to me for the absence of their parents, and my care whilst, Providence continues to me my faculties, and my Life. If your Father and I Should be removed, they cannot fail of finding Friends and...
827Thomas Jefferson to John Armstrong, 5 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers hereof, mr Alexander M c Rae & Major John Clarke proposing to visit France on their private concerns, I take the liberty of presenting them to your notice & patronage. mr M c Rae has been a member of the council of state of Virginia , & Lieut t Governor, highly esteemed for his talents & correctness of principle, moral & political. Maj r
828Thomas Jefferson to Alexander McRae, 5 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely wish you success in the object of the visit which yourself & Maj r Clarke propose to make to Europe . to your country it promises advantage, & I hope it will yield it to yourselves also. as you seem sensible of the danger to which it will expose you, under the laws of those countries, I need say nothing on that head but that the secrecy enjoined on me shall be observed. the letters...
829Thomas Jefferson to William Pinkney, 5 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearers hereof, mr Alexander M c Rae , & Major John Cla rke proposing to go to Great Britain on their private concerns, I take the liberty of presenting them to your notice & patronage. mr M c Rae , a lawyer of distinction, has been a member of the council of state of Virginia & Lieut t Governor, highly esteemed for his talents & correctness of princip le moral & political.
830Craven Peyton to Thomas Jefferson, 6 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have waited this length of time under An expectation of M r John Akers comeing to purchase a part of my Land togethar with yours, you wished me to sell. If he did not come by the last of July I was not to expect him, himself & Lons had fifty Thousand Dollars to lay Out in land, If it is entirely agreeable to you, & it can be done without throwing Any obsticle in the way of Obtaining those...
831Thomas Jefferson to William C. Rives, 6 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Under the constant hope of an early departure for Bedford , I have been hitherto detained by the prevalence of a disease in our neighborhood, and particularly among my own people. altho’ abated, it still has not left us, and the importance of attention to it, still detains me here and for a time which cannot be ascertained. the expectation that every case might be the last, has prevented my...
832Thomas Jefferson to Louis Marie Turreau, 6 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to General Turreau, and incloses a letter which came to him under cover from M. de. la Cepede . he is happy in the occasion it furnishes him of assuring General Turreau of his great esteem & respect, and his regret that the distance and infrequency of the posts from this place, will have produced several days delay in the reciept of this. PoC (...
About 9. O’Clock this Morning we spoke a fishing Schooner from the Grand Bank, belonging and bound to Plymouth—We were in the midst of a thick fog, as we have indeed been most of the time since you left us, and still are. The Schooner was within g speaking distance when we first spied her, and our Captain had barely time to ask them on their arrival to give notice of their having seen us. So I...
834From John Adams to Elihu Phinney, 7 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I received two days ago your favour of July 24th inclosing a of the Otsego Herald and several other printed papers in Prose and verse. I thank you Sir for the amusement you have given me in these Compositions. There is a good deal of Wit and diverting humour in those in Verse. A great mathematical Controversy that once in a Century invariably puzzles Mankind like a Riddle is completely decided...
835From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of July 26 and its Enclosures. You have frequently, in a most friendly manner advised me to write my own Life.—I Shall never have Resolution or Time to accomplish Such a Work: but having been called before the Publick most undesignedly and unexpectedly, and excessively reproached with one of the wisest most virtuous most successfull and most important Actions of my...
836From James Madison to Dolley Madison, 7 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
We reached the end of our journey yesterday at one o’clock; without interruption of any sort on the road. Mr. Coles had been here sometime, one, if not two of the expected dispatch vessels of England, had just arrived, and Mr. Gilston after a short passage from France, entered Washington about the moment I did. You may guess therefore the volumes of papers before us. I am but just dipping into...
837To James Madison from Philip Freneau, 7 August 1809 (Madison Papers)
The two Volumes of Poems that in April last I engaged to have published, are finished, and will be ready for delivery in two or three days. The ten Setts You subscribed for I am rather at a loss how to have safely transmitted to You at Your residence in Virginia, where, I find by the Newspapers, You mean to continue until the end of September. Will You, on receipt of this, send me a line or...
838To James Madison from David Holmes, 7 August 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
7 August 1809, Washington, Mississippi Territory. Governor Holmes reports his arrival at Natchez on 30 June. The territorial legislature met 3 July to nominate candidates for the legislative council. Holmes became ill and hence was unable to write JM earlier regarding the nominees. The legislators are loyal Republicans so “the business was conducted with great harmony.” Holmes makes four...
839William Dawson to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a suit at Law now depending in the Superiour Court of Loudoun County which Commences on the first monday in September next and my Attorneys informs me it will be tryed at that term, I will thank you to please to advise M r George Jefferson to pay me my fee for the declarations for the Insureing your Mills, and Millers Houses, I left my account with you RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as...
840George Gilpin to Thomas Jefferson, 7 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
A Sense of duty and respect has for a long time urged me to write to & to thank you for a favor which you conferred on me as an individual and also for that Obligation which I lay under with the rest of my fellow Citizens for the great and eminent Services rendered to our country as President of the United States for during the whole time it did appear to me that your desire and constant Aim...