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Permit me to enclose to you a letter from my neighbour Mr Mottram Vesey and to add my Testimony to the truth of his representations. His situation is the best in town and his qualifications too. Indeed I beleive he has no competitors. I have known him from his cradle, and his father and Grandfathers from mine. His appointment will oblige his connections who are numerous and respectable and I...
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the Postmaster genl. to let no papers be sent from his office to him at this place after the post which shall leave Washington on Friday next, the 5th. of April. he presents him his salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
I promised to inform you of the result of the Virginia elections. one only has issued differently from what I expected; that is the Eastern shore district. the 2. Eastern shore counties were almost in the entire mass a body of tories during the revolutionary war, among whom we were obliged to station a regiment or two to keep them in order. they have never lost that spirit. they have now given...
Your two favors of Sep. 27. and Oct. 4. have been duly recieved. the substance of the latter I immediately communicated to my friend at Lynchburg , where the information will be recieved with joy. the former was a week before it got here. about the 25 th of Sep. writing to two members of the cabinet on other business, and having just heard of Cushing’s death, I had reminded them of our friend...
I have often been extremely mortified at the abuse of my right of transmission by mail, committed by booksellers and sometimes by foreigners in sending packages of books, which I have always forbidden when apprised in time. a recent instance is so gross it is as to require my special mention of it to you. a mr Low of New York , publisher of an Encyclopedia has sent on 3. quarto volumes by...
As far as can be judged from the maps, the road from Fort Stoddert ought to bear down South Westwardly, to get into the Spanish road leading from Mobille to Baton Rouge, before it crosses Pascagoule river. then follow that road (which is nearly due West) till it crosses Pearl river. then quit it & go nearly due South to the neck between Lakes Borgne & Pontchartrain opposite to Chef Menteur....
In your letter of the 19th. you ask my advice as to the measures to be taken to carry into effect the law for the transmission of a mail to New Orleans by the lower route. I do not see that in the present state of our information any correct decision can be formed. whenever we hear from Abrams his report with mr Wheatly’s will inform us of the difficulties thro’ the whole route, & we may then...
Since my letter of this day sennight , the question as to the public offices has taken a turn different from what was then expected. neither of the two then named is to be vacant, but instead thereof the Postmaster general’s place. this being of equal grade, emolument, and importance, I propose it to your acceptance with the same satisfaction as either of the others. perhaps you will consider...
I am just returned from a place I possess in Bedford county near Lynchburg , and where I pass certain portions of the year. it is the most valuable of my possessions, and will become the residence of the greater part of my family. as yet I am personally a stranger among the neighbors there, and have never had the opportunity of making myself personally acceptable to them by any particular...
Your favors of the 25th. & 26th. inst. came to hand last night. I feel with great sensibility the domestic obstacles which embarras your mind on the subject of a removal to this place. but nobody knows better, because no one has encountered more steadfastly, the formidable phalanx opposed to the republican features of our constitution. to bear up against this, the talents & virtue of our...