1471To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 27 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmitted to you two days ago, under same cover correspondence in case of E. Randolph, and a letter to the Chairman of the Commee. of Ways & Means in relation to certain appropriations with some papers relative thereto. The last is wanted, and neither has been returned Respectfully Your obt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as...
1472To Thomas Jefferson from John Davis, 28 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I receive your polite Letter , dated Monticello, at the moment I am about to usher into the World a pamphlet of my production, which I beg permission to present you with. I shall be pardoned, I hope, for having taken a slice from a corner of the Massachusetts’ Cheese, when I observe that it has filled my purse, & enabled me to prosecute my studies more uninterruptedly.—Such productions are...
1473To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Dinmore, 28 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Impressed with the profoundest respect, I can but fear, in thus addressing you, the imputation either of impertinence or sycophancy. These considerations would have prevented this reapplication to yourself, had I not been impelled to it, by the actual poverty I experience, and by the certain prospect of want. With this apology for my obtrusion, permit me to state, that when I heard of but few...
1474To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 28 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I regret that my dependent state dooms me to submit almost constantly to the solicitation of favors; but I flatter myself that the more public Utility is attached to my pursuits, the favor is granted with the less irksomeness. When I obtruded upon yourself and some others, a plan for raising the means for setting up the printing business, I fondly hoped to extend it to something great; nor is...
1475To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
You was obligingly disposed to say, that tho’ you did not subscribe, you would receive a copy of the publica. in hand.—The Boy waits on the President with two copies—The price is fifty Cents each. If the President accepts the two, it will be the more obliging; as I have little other means of living but from the avails of the truth I publish to the world. If the President could accommodate me...
1476To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The papers which accompany this contain all the documents & the whole information which I can obtain in this department on the subject of the Barbary powers. The rough draft of the letter to the Secretary of State, & the general sketch marked (AA) exhibit the substance of the whole. As soon as the papers are returned they may be transmitted officially to the Depart. of State, as the letter to...
1477To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Morris, [on or before 29 January 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of seeing you, it escaped my recollection to mention the subject contemplated in the enclosed note; mr Fitzsimons told me the blank therein was occasioned by his having forgot at the time of writing it wether he had ten or twelve chairs. This furniture is elegant and well suited for your appartments, perhaps better than any other in America, and it may be had for less than...
1478To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Vaughan, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Notwithstanding your wish to insulate the continent over which you preside, from the confusions of the other hemisphere, yet while the citizens of America pursue trade & navigation, they must necessarily mix with European nations; & it is seldom safe to remain in troublesome company. Quarrels may even reach the U.S. in their own home; for three of the governments of Europe possess territories...
1479To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 14th. inst, enclosing one of the 25th. ulto. came duly to hand. I was struck with the expediency of establishing a popular criterion as to the precise time of taking the matter, and I entirely coincide with you in opinion that it should be fixed on Eight times twenty four hours , this being the result of my own observation during the last season. I know that it differs...
1480To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Will the President do me the favor to accept the enclosed pamphlet ; and the additional one to inform me of the title of Arthur Young’s performance, alluded to in a late conversation, so particularly as to enable me to procure the book? With deep impressions of esteem and respect, I am thy friend RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 31 Jan. and so recorded in SJL ; also endorsed by TJ: “near...
1481I. From Thomas Worthington, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Feeling no prejudice towards Governor St. Clair as a man but on the other hand viewing him rather with an eye of pity it is not a pleasing task to me to obliged in defence of what I conceive the just and lawfull rights of myself in common with my fellow citizens of the N.W Territory to remonstrate against his conduct—In doing this Sir no circumstance shall be stated which cannot be...
1482To Thomas Jefferson from Delamotte, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai recû avec bien de la reconnoissance ma Commission de Vice-agent commercial dans ce port. C’est à vous, à tous égards, que j’en dois mes remerciements et je vous prier de vouloir bien les recevoir et les agréer avec autant de Complaisance, que je mets de prix au bienfait. Vous avés en même tems nommé m. Dobell, agent; vous avés surement eû de bonnes raisons pour le faire & cela ne m’a pas...
1483To Thomas Jefferson from Denniston & Cheetham, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour is received: but on account of making the use of it which you required, and which You will perhaps recollect, we are not able to mention the date. We are Sorry to give you So much trouble; we are in Some degree Sensible of the arduousness of the high function you fill and of the multiplicity of business You have to attend to. And yet it may be necessary for us sometimes to Commerce...
1484To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have not this Long While Had the pleasure of a Letter from You —Yet I Hope You Have Received the Heartfelt Expressions of my old, Constant friendship, and the Affectionate, patriotic Wishes Which Accompagny You in a Station Where the Welfare of the United States, and the Cause of liberty are So Highly Interested—So Confused Have Been the Ideas of Europe that Never She Could be So Much...
1485To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 30 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Muy Señor mio, y de mi Respecto En 15 del Corriente tuvo el gusto de presentar á V.E mi gratitud como permanente despues de la qual, comunico Aver llegado los Vinos de Xerez á Baltimore, y boy á Mandarcelos desde ally consistiendo en 1 Bota de 10 Años Seco, Igual al que enbarcan para el Mercado de Londres y Media Bota de Calidad distinta Semejante á Madera 1 Bota de Paxarete Seco y media Bota...
1486To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Ellicott, 31 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately received some valuable astronomical observations, made at several places on the Mississippi, by my ingenious friend Jose Joahin de Ferrer : by these observations I shall be enabled to make some small corrections in the Map sent on some weeks ago by Mr. Duane; and which I presume has been safely delivered.— Owing to a great press of business in the land office, and an uncommon...
1487To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 1 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to send you a specimen of my tours through this agency in my journal down the Tennassee with the map of the river. I have made it a rule to travel with a pocket compass and time piece and have in likemanner noted every journey through this country; several of which, are ploted and the whole will be sent to the War office as soon as I have paper and leisure to copy...
1488To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Wheaton, 1 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
There being an office in your gift connected with the Legislature where I am placed, the compensation to which, aded to the small pittance I receive from the government, would enable me to support my little family in this city, and thereby prevent a painful seperation which necessity enforces. I therefore beg leave to offer myself to your consideration for the appointment of librarian to...
1489To Thomas Jefferson from John Wayles Eppes, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I forwarded to you a few days since a letter from Maria —My Father who is now in Town left her well yesterday. You will find enclosed the journal of the house of Delegates containing the amendments proposed to the Constitution of the U States—They are postponed by the Senate until the next session— Early in the present session of assembly a Resolution was submitted to the House of Delegates...
1490To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I paid Doctor Currie agreeably to your direction 50$:—which however, he returned some days ago, as he said the referees for whom it was intended, refused to receive any compensation: he has lodged with me some papers respecting that business, of which I suppose he has informed you. I paid Mr. Eppes some weeks ago on your account £16.4. with which I imagine he has acquainted you. I am Dear Sir...
1491To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
After the utmost attention which I have been able to pay to the questions , respecting the northwestern territory, which you did me the honor of submitting to my consideration there is a difficulty in giving a decisive answer. I can find no grounds, or principles for a very confident decision in, or out of the ordinance for the establishment of that Government. Nothing can be collected to aid...
1492To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Quarrier, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Excuse this inovation on you by me, as it arises not from any thing voluntary on my part, but in every respect the revers— From your known philantrophy ime induce to request of you, A favour—My situation is truely disagreeable, and unhappy. Without friends, Without pecuniary resources, and without any prospect at present of bettering myselfe—The prospects I had in view, have vanished from the...
1493To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Quarrier, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your kind favour and for it receive my best thankes—Unfortunately I did not state the amount of the sum In the Letter I wrote you this mourning, from that ime forced again to intrude myselfe on you, (indeed) greately against my wishes, or inclination—The application I made to you did not specify the amount of the Loane I requested—in that letter I desired as much as would permit me...
1494To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 2 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct S. Robinson has been highly recommended to me for a Surgs. Mate in the Navy—& I think he would make a good appointment—His services are wanted— I have the honor to be with the greatest respect Sir your Mo: ob: sr: RC ( DLC ); in a clerk’s hand, signed by Smith; at foot of text: “Prest. United States”; endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 2 Feb. and so recorded in SJL...
1495To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 4 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose E. Burroughs’s proposals for two of the Chesapeak light houses. From every information, it is not probable that any other person will offer, and it is very desirable that we should, by availing ourselves of his proposals, secure the work being done next summer. The only objection in the way is want of cession on the part of Virginia , but there is no doubt of its having been, or...
1496To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Morse, 4 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The person who now has the honor of addressing you is the same who was lately the editor of a paper in Connecticut—his name Samuel Morse . One who seeks to be known to you, and presumes on this as a preliminary. To leave the state of Connecticut, where the cant of hypocritical piety forms a principal part of the character of its inhabitants and hostility to free enquiry is constantly...
1497Philippe Jacques Dahler to Jefferson and Congress, 6 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
C’est pour procurer à ma famille des renseignemens sur l’existence oû la mort de nôtre Oncle et depuis longtems vôtre compatriote Jean Daniel Hammerer que j’ose Messieurs m’adresser jusqu’à Vous respectables Président & Membres du Congrès. Depuis 1774 époque de la derniere de ses nouvelles, nous lui avons écrit à reïtérées fois, sans avoir pu recevoir reponse, ni de lui ni des Siens. Comme des...
1498To Thomas Jefferson from James B. Heard, [on or before 6 February 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
The Petition of James Brooke Heard, respectfully sheweth, That he hath been presented by the Grand Jury of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, for retailing Spirituous Liquors without Licence, and upon a submission to the Court of the said District was fined according to Law, but hopes upon a representation of facts to your Excellency, that you will remit the said fine. Your...
1499To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Lillie has called since last post to request I would explain to you a blunder of John Perrie who wrote the letter for him informing you of the purchases of supplies he had made to be met by remittance from you. The pork was bought of Reuben Burnley alone to am’t. of £:35.6.10 which sum Dr. Wardlaw has paid and written to you to request you would replace it in Philada. for him. Perries...
1500To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 6 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
J: Wagner presents his best respects to the President of the U. States and has the honor to enclose a list of the Justices for Washington County. Mr. Moore’s name being inserted on an erasure of the original commission , it is probable, that he was substituted for Mr. Law, and J:W. thinks he remembers that Mr. Stoddert was substituted for Mr. Laird RC ( DNA : RG 59 , LAR , 8:0412). Enclosure...