10181To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, 21 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Did you read the long report in A. M’Clene’s case , which I had sent to you & which you returned? It appears to me that the whole amounts to this—that the Bargemen have repeatedly been employed in levelling the wharf of the Collector—but, that it does not appear, that they were ever so employed to the detriment of the public business—If so, it should seem that there is not sufficient cause of...
10182To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 21 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Our communication will be laid before the assembly to morrow with its doors closed. The objection which I suggested applied to a delegation of any confidence or trust over the subject, from the legislature to our Executive, not to the agency of the federal Executive in the affair. In the latter view I saw no objection to the clause, for what was proposed in that respect was precisely what the...
10183To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 21 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of sending you a Philadelphia Edition of Aikin , with an appendix, containing some important Documents from Letsom &c—I have also sent a short abstract of some leading points in Dr Husson’s work on this subject printed this year at Paris—He was one of the Paris Medical Committee of the Vaccination Hospital—Not knowing whether you have time to look at all the Philada...
10184To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Douglas and Susan Douglas, 22 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit us, with our most respectful Compliments, to invite you to favor us with your company to dinner on Christmas Day—a bed attending your convenience. We are Sir Your most Affectionte. Servants We have hopes of the company of Messrs. Randolph and Giles . RC ( DLC ); in Charles Douglas’s hand; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Dec. and so recorded in SJL . Susan Douglas (b. ca. 1759), daughter...
10185To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 23 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The state of my health deprives me of the pleasure I had promised to myself in seeing you this evening. Tomorrow I shall set out for Virginia and entreat you to have the condescention to take charge of the enclosed paper, until you hear further from me.—Should any letters to me arrive under your address, either by the indescretion of persons with whom I am little acquainted, or by my...
10186From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1801 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison’s respectful compliments to the President It appears that the Secy. of State, the Secy. of the Treasury, & the Attorney General were appd. Commissrs. to settle with Georgia, by their names, but with their official titles annexed. On the resignation of Col. Pickering, Mr. Marshal was appd. in his room , No resignation of his Commission for the Georgia business being referred to or...
10187To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose Mr Gerry’s letter—There was, in my opinion, but one way in which he might have saved his brother , and that was to have at once paid the deficiency for which he is, at all events, ultimately responsible as security. I had seen the attack as to over drawing Heth , & had ascribed it to himself. His vanity is such that he cannot believe that it was his own fault in not making his return...
10188To Thomas Jefferson from George Hadfield, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received a letter from my Sister Cosway wherein she desires me to deliver the enclosed— I have at the same time recieved some papers which I sent for in consequence of hearing from Capt. Tingey, some months ago, that plans of English Dock Yards would be of use in the public works of that nature in this City .—I immedeately wrote to England on the subject, and have in consequence...
10189To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah Hook, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to acknowledge the receipt of my commissions from your Exelency. I feel the weight of obligation which your good opinion has laid on me, and desire you to accept of my most hearty and sincere thanks for the trust and confidence that you have seen fit to place in me— It shall be my greatest study to fulfil the duty of my office with fidelity and correctness, and in such a...
10190To Thomas Jefferson from Kennebec County, Maine, Constitutional Republicans, 24 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
We do not approve of formal addresses to our rulers generally, but we consider that under peculiar circumstances, it may render such an act in the Citizens, justifiable & proper—As a considerable difference of political opinion yet continues in some parts of our Country, & as this State has not publically expressed their full confidence in the present Administration of the general government,...