4591To Thomas Jefferson from Mathias Kin, 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Having understood that your well known love of science has induced [my] intention to the publication of a Work embracing some [part] of the History Natural and Botanical of this [exte]nsive country I am emboldened to make it known to you, that in the course of several years travel thro’ various parts of the United States for botanical purposes I have been enabled to form a collection of the...
4592To Thomas Jefferson from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great regret that I intrude upon you at a moment when I know you are very much en gaged, I hope you will pardon it. It appears to me, that I have no right to demand the balance that is due upon the enclosed paper unless it is assigned to me. The engagement of Messrs. Pendleton & Lyons, is to you and Mr. Short, which is transferred by you to the U.S. I presume the money will not be...
4593To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the request of Commodore Truxtun I do myself the honor of presenting his Sketch of the late Battle of Trafalgar, and have the Honor to be your Mo. Obedt Servt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4594To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Sumter, Sr., 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Sumter Presents his respects to Mr. Jefferson. Acknowledges the receipt of his note of the 19h. Int—& informs him, that agreably thereto he has had, a Conference With the Gentlemen theren Named—the result of Which is—that in their opinion Paul Hamilton Simn. Teus.—Majr. Warley, or Peter Freeneau, are either of them, Well quallified & fit Persons, to fill the office of the person, about to...
4595To Thomas Jefferson from Residents of Washington, 24 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of the Inhabitants residing in that part of the City of Washington which lies west of 17th. Street west, respectfully sheweth. That Thomas Peter Esqr. and Doctor Cornelius Cuningham, Justices of the Peace, for the County of Washington, were heretofore, and when commissioned, residents of the same portion of the City with your petitioners; that the former of these Gentlemen, has...
4596To Thomas Jefferson from Justus Erich Bollmann, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Reception of Your Excellency’s letter of the 5th Instant and to express my Thanks for the friendly Contents of it. The Experience of so much unmerited Kindness can have no other Tendency than to make me feel the more desirous of finding myself in some official Relation with Your Excellency, particularly as with small Means and few Friends I find it a Task at Once...
4597To Thomas Jefferson from Sylvanus Bourne, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit you herewith a work published by Mr Stipriaan Luscius Professor of Chemistry at Delft on the subject of a new invented Bathometre—or Sonde de mer —with a modell thereof, both of which he sent to me a few days past to be forwarded on to you—On the other page you will find a copy of my reply to him herein. It appears that an Armistice has lately been agreed on...
4598To Thomas Jefferson from William Lee, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The return of Captain Davis from the mouth of the River just gives me time to enclose the President of the United S. a file of the Argus containing the acct of the late decisive battle between the French & Russian armies & the relation of the interview between the Emperor Napoleon & Francis.— With great respect I have the honor to remain the Presidents most humble St. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4599To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The intention of this is to consult you on a point on which my mind is perfectly made up that is of inditing the Four Lawyers that give their opinion to Yrujo in favor of Spain against the United States—This I think I have in my power to do by a summon’s I have received this day to attend the District Court as a Grand Juror—But as you sit higher and see further what is proper or improper to be...
4600To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your precious Time has been intruded upon, by two or three Letters from me, in which I had no other Interest, than the pleasure of writing to a Man, who gained, in an early part of my Life, my sincere Esteem and Friendship; but now I beg you will excuse the solicitations of a Father for a Son, who is anxious to get a Commission in the Army, should we unfortunatly be obliged to raise one. My...
4601To Thomas Jefferson from Hezekiah Sabin, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of addressing your Exelency soliciting public imployment, in the Navy department of the united States, and trust that on examination my reputation for Fidelity, and Ability, will prove such as will meet with your approbation—I was educated in Newhaven Connecticut— At the alarm of the Battle of Lexington, I took a Commision and marched to Cambridge—Was three years Captn...
4602To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The opposition of a party of Kances Indians, to a small detachment destined up the Missouri, for the purpose of returning to their respective Nations, the Riccari & otto Chiefs, sent down last Spring by Captain Lewis, puts it in my Power to introduce the former to You. From observation & the limited Enquiry to which I am confined by an illiterate Interpreter, I think you may be able to derive...
4603To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Williams, 23 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This Legislature will rise [the?] 30th Inst.—I am waiting to know what is likely to be our Situation with Spain, and whether my presence in this quarter will be necessary, if not I shall start immediately after I know, for N. Carolina— It will not be possible to finish the land business before I go—unless I Stay much longer than my own and families happiness, and the interest of my private...
4604To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 22 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
In applying the appropriations of the last Session of Congress, of 110,000$ to the prosecution of the work on the South wing of the Capitol, & of 20,000$ to the service of the other public buildings, I have endeavored so to comply with your directions, as to forward the progress of the works to the utmost extent of the limited resources of this City. The mass of building which has been erected...
4605To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 22 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens d’etre avertis par un Ami de Paris, que la Maison L. S. & C.—à—trouveè une Occasion de se defaire de son fond en Classiques Anglais, qui etoit le but principal de l’etablissement d’ici. C’est sans doute une Manoeuvre des Libraires de Londres, et ce, qu’ils avoient de mieux a faire, pour rester plus longtems en possession exclusive de vendre a çe pays. Devant maintenant—d’apres tout...
4606To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 21 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The law itself is defective and inconsistent. Congress omitted to extend the powers of the Survr. General to Louisiana: this will be remedied this session. In the mean while the appointment of a Surveyor General by either Governor was altogether incorrect & improper. We wanted no land surveyed there except under the immediate authority of the United States; and we did not want Soulard. The...
4607To Thomas Jefferson from Miles H. Hughes, 21 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to take the liberty I now do under a conviction that tho so highly and justly elevated yet that it has not operated so as to change your disposition since I had the Honor of being introduced to you by your particular friend Doctor William Foushee sometime previous to your present elevated Rank and I humbly hope this opinion may in some measure plead my excuse for, at so critical a...
4608To Thomas Jefferson from James Walker, 21 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much disappointed in my expectations of gettin money from you by the last post, as I have promised the payment of some about that time for beef bought some weeks ago. if it is convenient please send by the next post two hundred dollars for the purpose of buying Pork as I have not procured any as yet for want of money—the probability is that unless I can purchase shortly none can be had, I...
4609To Thomas Jefferson from Chauncy Hall, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My Immagination haveing run through many Difficult and Perplexing Seens to find the Cause of Motion in its Various Directions and affects upon Creation And I find that there is but two Powers that Causes Motion Either Animal or Natural and that those Powers are Equil But I am of no Mechanical Profession and not able to obtain Mechanical Assistance to Satisfy my mind upon the Withinclosed Plan...
4610To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Mifflin, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of 9th November, & 12th Decembr, the Latter enclosing a check for One hundred & four Dollars 27/100, being the amount of my bill for Sheet Iron, forwarded to Richmond, some time ago, for your acct.— I have given directions to the manager of the works, if possible, to prepare the Iron you have ordered, but I am certain, that it can be...
4611To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Mills, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of waiting upon Mr. Jefferson last, and delivering a letter, which was put into my hands by a Gentleman of Newcastle Del., it was my earnest wish to make some observations relative to the subject of that letter, but a consciousness of something of presumption seem’d to take away the ability from my tongue—I would now beg leave to communicate them, tho’ yet impressed with...
4612To Thomas Jefferson from John Taggert, 20 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Honored with your favor of the 12th. Inst. a Draft on the Bank Pennsylvania enclosed for $171.97 is in full of my Acct. against you— I am with the Highest Respect Sir, Your Obt. Servt. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
4613To Thomas Jefferson from DeWitt Clinton, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Observing in your late message to Congress that you have turned your attention to the malignant fever which lately afflicted this City, I take the liberty of transmitting to you the Health Laws of the State & two other publications respecting the public Health, in the full persuasion that such ideas in them as are beneficial, will be cherished & improved by you. You will not think it obtrusive...
4614To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 4th Septer. 1804, I transmitted to you certain affidavits respecting the recapture of the Eugenia. That vessel is now in Halifax & the Secy. of State has written to the owner that I would send him copies of those documents. If you have got them here, I will thank you to return them. With respectful attachment Your obedt. Svt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
4615To Thomas Jefferson from John Mason, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On my Return last night from an absence of two or three Days at Alexandria (which circumstance will be my apology for not having sooner replied) I found your esteemed Letter of the 17h enclosing your note for 1000$—I have with great Pleasure given it my Endorsement & put it into Bank this morning it will be discounted to day—, and the money will be ready at one o’clock—, at which time I shall...
4616To Thomas Jefferson from Lot Merkel, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Amid the pressure of public business, so peculiarly interresting at the present moment, as the Subject of the inclosure appears, in some respects, to come shortly before Congress; With a wish to throw light upon various points, relative to this subject, which, I apprehend, are very little understood, I trust Your Goodness will readily excuse any deviation from accustomed forms; in laying...
4617To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh O’Connors, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the Liberty of addressing you on the 14th. Inst. to which I hoped you would order me an answer. I have nothing farther to Say more than What I have already Stated, than to observe to your Excellency that if you are pleased to appoint me to some place or Station that I will faithfully Discharge any trust reposed in me. and that you could not do amore Charitable Act for Under Heaven if I...
4618To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Purviance, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a Receipt of Beal Clements Master of the Sloop Olive Branch, for Two Tierces, one Box and a Pair Horns, that were deliver’d me a few days ago, by Mr. William Taylor Merchant of this City, that had been brought from New [Orleans] in one of his Ships, Mr. Taylor was so polite, as to make no charge for the Freight I have the Honor to be with great respect, Sir, Your...
4619To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Je viens de finir la lecture des principaux nouv. Ouvrages francais & Allemans, qui traitent des Merinos, particul. de leur introduction &c en Espagne, et de la dans d’autres differentes parties de l’Europe. Les Gouvernemens eclairés en fait d’Economie politique, non Seulement au Sud, mais même au Nord—p. E. l’autriche, la Gr. Bretagne, la Prusse, la hollande, la Suede, le Danemarc, la Saxe,...
4620To Thomas Jefferson from John Whitehill, 19 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
With a view of serving Mr. Samuel Bryan, as far as in our power, we beg leave to recommend him as a meritorious character—Mr. Bryan has been, many Years Register General, and some three or four Years past Comptroler for the State of Pennsylvania, The duties of the several offices which he filled have been performed with fidelity, and in a manner completely satisfactory to the Public— To Mr...