1John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the letter you did me the honor to write to me by M. Coles , whom I found to be everything that you had said of him,—well informed & confidential & therefore an excellent supplement to my letters both public and private. In discharge of this new obligation, I employed myself in writing to you a long letter, filled with facts, conjectures and forebodings. On looking over it, I found...
2John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 2 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, by the last Mail from the south, the pamphlet which you were so obliging as to address to me and percieving, by the note to page 24, that the only copy of Crozat’s charter you had met with, was that inserted by Joutel in his narrative of Le Salle’s last voyage, I take the liberty of sending to you one, which I obtained directly and in person from the depot of laws in Paris , but...
3John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have brought with me for you the double-plough of M r Parker & wish to know how it may be best conveyed to Montecello ? or with whom in this City I may leave it for the winter? a letter addressed to M r Gelston on these points, will be most likely to accomplish your instructions and my wishes. I set out on Monday next for Washington where at least I am sure of hearing of you. Your very kind...
4John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 19 September 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The glimpse of Sun-shine that we had when the Mentor Sailed, has passed away already, and without producing anything Useful—On the north side of the channel also, our prospects are becoming more clouded. M. Auriol , who left London a few days ago, tells me, that he counted in the Downs , upwards of twenty of our ships which had been brought in by British cruisers, because destined to ports...