10101To Thomas Jefferson from Joel R. Poinsett, 24 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In an Application I made a few days since to Mr. Livingston for permission to embark with the Embassy, he informed me that he had referred all applications to you. If Sir Mr. Livingston’s suite is not already full, and if it will not commit the dignity of the Embassy, I entreat you will grant me the Permission, as Health and Information the objects of my Pursuit will be more highly gratified...
10102To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The thread enclosed in this Quill was imbued in the vaccine virus on Thursday Evening the 23d of July. At the same time the needle was infected in the same fluid and it is highly probable will communicate the disease if it be thrust under the scarf skin, and drawn slowly & gradually through it. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “The President of the United States Washington”; franked; postmarked Boston;...
10103To Thomas Jefferson from “A. Z.,” 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately read your justly celebrated Notes on the State of Virginia, it occurred to my mind to account for the shells of fishes being on the mountains in Virginia and So. America in the following manner— On the annexed figure, let A.B.C.D. have once been the figure of the Earth—the parts covered with red dots the land, the parts with black lines the water—by the motion of the Earth around...
10104To Thomas Jefferson from Sebastian Bauman, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day Post I have recieved a letter from you, Covering one for London addressed to Edmund Jennings Esquire, the letter is open and has neither wax nor wafer to it; probably you may have omitted to Seal it, or desinged that it Should go open. Please Sir, to let me know your Pleasure by the return of the Post, whether I shall Seal the letter or forwarded in the manner it is. the British...
10105To Thomas Jefferson from William Bingham, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Being about to embark for Europe, (induced to change the Scenes which Surround me, from a recent melancholy Event having rendered them peculiarly distressing) I shall be extremely gratified at having an opportunity of executing any of your Commissions, or in any other Manner of being Serviceable to you during my Residence abroad— Permit me to express my cordial good Wishes for the Success of...
10106To Thomas Jefferson from Theodore Foster, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At the Close of my Letter, by the last Mail, I mentioned the Liberty I should presume to take, in requesting your Opinion of the Adviseableness and Practicability of an annual Publication , intended to give a correct Historical View of the great National Measures, adopted by the Government, illustrative of the Reasons and Motives of the Public Counsels more especially those of the Executive...
10107To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed is the rough draft of a circular to the Collectors & is intended to correct several abuses which have crept in many ports. But it is submitted for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is proper to take this opportunity of communicating the sentiments expressed in the two last paragraphs marked #. In the first it is only intended to let them know that it is expected that they...
10108To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose the within letter, in order to know whether, on account of the suggestions of the Charleston Collector in relation to dangers from Saint Domingo, the President thinks fit to except that cutter from the general arrangements contemplated. If any danger be apprehended from that quarter, the Cutter may be preserved, but disarmed & reduced in...
10109To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the Memo. which you gave me, I have now the pleasure of sending you some of the Liqueurs & Sweetmeats of this place.—They are packed in two Boxes with a card of Direction on each “The President of the US.”—ship’d in the Schooner Betsy of Alexandria , Saml. Gilpin Master, and addressed to the care of Colo. Gilpin of that place, to whom you will have the goodness to order the Amount...
10110To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters found us all together at Edgehill. Maria does not look well but considering all things she seems to be in as good health as can be expected. my own has been uncommonly so, since my return from Monticello. with your request of going over immediately it is utterly impossible to comply; Mrs Bache’s family being with us at present, and to remain, untill the Doctor’s return. Maria...
10111To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Shelby, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to address this letter to you on behalf of Mr. John Smith, who offers himself a candidate for the marshalls office of this state, should you deem it necessary to superscede the man now in office—Mr. Smith is a Gentleman of good character, and respectable family, with sufficent information to enable him to discharge the duties of that office with propriety; If he should be so...
10112To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mi mas venerado Sor. mio: respondo á su mui apreciable dandole infinitas gracias pr. la continuacion del favor qe. me dispensa en su amistad qe. procurare conservar con las atenciones y respectos qe. debo y queda a mi cuidado en proveerle de quanto pueda necesitar de España. Mi delicada enfermedad ha principiado á declinar con la frescura qe. han producido las lluvias y en el interin encuentre...
10113To Thomas Jefferson from “A Boston Merchant,” 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your REPLY to the merchants of the respectable City of New-Haven has just come to hand—Your boasted majority who are they. why Negro’s or what in New England are there cattle as the majority by whom you have been chosen. as you will see dele[…] in a peice in a late centinel of this town?—Let your Vengence of which you intimate as much fall on this spirited town. the first to avenge its...
10114To Thomas Jefferson from Calvin Jones, 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The importance of the Militia I trust will be duly appreciated by an administration that is unfriendly to a Standing military force. I have for 3 years laboured to improve their discipline and with some little success—but not in a degree proportionate to the importance of the object. The Laws have been in many respects defective and though lately revised, come far short of perfection. I had...
10115To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Davidson, 27 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your friendly assurances of examining into the merits of my claim, respecting certain alterations in the Plans of the City, from the first location thereof; I have in the accompanying Memorial endeavoured to state the same, with the corroborating facts I sensibly feel your polite, and ready attention to the subject, and doubt not but I shall receive every redress which the...
10116Albert Gallatin’s Report on Collection of Internal Revenues, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, respectfully submits to the President the following Facts and Observations on the subject of the Laws, providing for the Collection of internal Revenues .— By the existing Regulations, the United States are, for the purpose of collecting internal Revenues, divided into sixteen Districts, each State forming one District, with the Exception of the District of Ohio,...
10117To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Lewis, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of waiting upon you this morning Mr. Madison has Inform’d Mr Erving on my behalf that he had left a blank Commission, & that if I chose it might be fill’d up with the Consulate of Morlaix or Calais, either of which he suppos’d I might hold without any prejudice to the hope of my Establishment In the Isle of france, & In the expectation even very soon of a removal to some...
10118To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By yours of the 12th mentioning a former letter which I have since had the honor of receiving, I was put into a state of some anxiety. The one of the 11th from some circumstance or another did not come to hand untill several days after the one of a later date. It is said by the Worcester post-Office tht. it went on to Boston & afterwards came back. On its reception, not suspecting it had been...
10119To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Stutson, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The unwarrantable Freedom which I now take, in the very singular, (and prehaps unprecedented) method of addressing You, tho’ in the most exalted station, which a Grateful and magnanimous people can place you—I humbly desire you to forgive,—nor can I doubt of the generous readiness, with which your complyance, will honour the urgent request, and especially when the cause of this application,...
10120To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Butler, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing from various Information, that a Change in the office of the Collector of this Port is a Measure decided on by you; upon that Conviction alone, I beg leave to lay before you my application for that office and to solicit your favorable Decision thereon. I must confess that it is with Hesitation & great Deference I approach you on this Business—knowing & feeling as I do, the painful...
10121To Thomas Jefferson from William Caruthers, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not been in the habit of Troubling You or any Other person who has better and more important business to attend to than my Nonsence perhaps it may with propriety be Called Yet in this instance I have taken that liberty—The object of this letter is to comminicate to You an Oppinion I have for some time entertained though Never Communicated to any person before in Order to be...
10122To Thomas Jefferson from George Clinton, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs: Tudor intending to pass through the City of Washington on her way to the Springs in Berkeley County Virginia permit me to recommend her to your Friendly Notice and Attention—She is the Wife of Judge Tudor of Boston a Gentleman of much respectabillity and steady adherent to the virtuous Principles of our Revolution & his good Lady possesses the same Sentiment in an immenent Degree—She will...
10123To Thomas Jefferson from John Drayton, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th: June, accompanied with sundry papers from the Naval department; And, whenever any French Consul or Commercial Agent repairs to this place, I shall request him to hasten the discharge of the French prisoners here: unless, you should otherwise direct. I am also favored with your dispatches of the 15th: July ; and feel myself...
10124To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a statement of the monies collected on account of the marine hospitals from when the law began to operate to the 31st of March 1801, showing also the disbursements made for the relief of sick seamen during the same period by the Agents appointed for that purpose, & the unexpended balances remaining on the last mentioned day in hands of said Agents or of the...
10125To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the hospital money statement which ought to have accompanied my letter of this morning, and add a letter, on the subject of repairs of Gosport hospital, received from the Collector of Norfolk who acts as Agent. I really do not know out of what fund the repairs can be paid. I forgot to mention that a blank commission will be wanted for Inspector of the internal revenues for the Survey...
10126To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed was delivered to me open this evening by Colo. Burr. It encloses an open letter for Mr Madison ; but the whole in fact is designed for you. I had not heard that Mr Lewis the new Marshal had offered to resign. If it is thought proper that he should & he has not offered to do it, I will, if you approve of it, write to Doctor Vaughan, on the grounds of public utility, advising that...
10127To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel H. Smith, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Samuel H. Smith presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and sends, accompanying this note, the Bee sent to S.H.S. from the Post office thro’ mistake, and the French Calender which ought to have been returned long since. The only apology S.H.S. can offer for this conflict is the having sent it on the very day on which Mr. Jefferson last left the city for Monticello, and its being...
10128To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Groves, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
the unfortunate person who Does himself the honor to adress Your excellencey, solicits if Agreeable to your honor, some little office in the government service. such as a weigher and gauger, or any thing better which your excellencey wou’d be pleasd to bestow, or recommend to the Collector of this port. what gives me Confidence to make this application arises from the following Circumstances...
10129To Thomas Jefferson from George Helmbold, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming the press of business would render it inconvenient for you to grant me a personal interview, I take this method of soliciting your attention—Men of information have frequently advanced it as their opinion, that so respectable a portion of the population of the United States as the Germans consist of, ought to have more attention paid them by government, on the score of diffusing...
10130To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, [30 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
richiede, e che non è possibile di ottenere qualora si voglion dire delle verità. Dalle correzioni fattevi colla penna. Ella concepirà, che, a motivo del necessario segreto, non potei averne le prove per correggerle. Il Capn. Ramsdell partì finalmente da Napoli, dopo subìti altri cattivi trattamenti, conforme faranno sentire (credo io) al Governo i Proprietari del carico spedito qua da...
10131To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Peyton, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you will recieve an estimate of the taxes formerly imposed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, on that part of the District of Columbia included within the county of Alexandria . the statement is procured from the Clerk of our Court who I supposed possessed the best information on the subject, I must beg your permission to return half the money sent me for the horse nettings as I shall...
10132To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
If the subject of this Letter should be deemed improper that impropriety would be increased by giving you the trouble of reading an Apologie. It is probable that a young gentleman in Boston, Mr Charles Bulfinch has the honour of being known by you for I think I heard him say that he had been at your house in Paris on his return from Italy. Mr Bulfinch is the only son of Dr. Bulfinch of Boston...
10133To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 31 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Adam Gordon Esqr, a gentleman I have been intimately acquainted with ever Since my return from London. he expects to establish himself at the Natches, in the Messisipi Terretory, and would be hapy in rendering the government any Services in his power, he has been informed that there are appointments shortly to be made in that Territory, for which I have no doubt he...
10134To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 31 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Peter Tinsley, the brother of the officer , concerning a demand against whom i took the liberty to write a letter to thee not long since, apprehends, that the letter may make some impression thy mind unfavourable to the officer, and may produce a suspicion in others of some unjustifiable conduct in captain Tinsley. this i write for the purpose of declaring that i know of no such conduct; and...
10135To Thomas Jefferson from “Nicholas Geffroy,” 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Encouraged, great & good Sir, by the character you sustain of being accesible to all of your fellow Citizens, I take the liberty of obtruding myself upon your precious time, to offer you my homage, & to assure you of the sentiments of veneration & respect with which I have been inspired by your wise, virtuous, & popular administration. The People of America would have gained but little by...
10136To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe de Létombe, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu la lettre dont Vous avez bien voulu m’honorer le 15 du mois dernier, en réponse à la mienne du 11 précédent. Monsieur Bingham devant partir incessamment, Le Maire est venu me dire, avant hier, à mon arrivée de New york, qu’il acçepte l’honneur de Vous servir à trente dollars par mois, son voyage d’ici à Washington à vos frais. il pourra se rendre, dans quinze Jours ou trois Semaines,...
10137To Thomas Jefferson from Peyton Short, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to return my thanks for the Letter you were so good as to forward me from my Brother, some short time ago— I am sorry you shd. have thought it necessary to give me any explanation respecting the Seal— Even had I not conceived of you far more highly than of the best of Characters, I shd., not have thought of ascribing the Circumstance to any other than the Cause assigned by you—and...
10138To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Vaccine matter on the tooth-pick taken July 31.st. in the evening. The thread taken at the same time.—The two plates of glass, which he have covered with lead is just come to hand from Dr. Jenner being taken May 19th. in London. Two other plates containing some of the virus taken at the same time has been proved to be perfectly active. It adheres to the glass like gum. water, warm steam, or a...
10139To Thomas Jefferson from George Douglas, 2 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time ago I took the liberty of sending you a copy of our last year’s Register —It was put under the care of a young Gentleman, who promised to have it delivered at the Presidential house as he passed thro’ Washington— Two reasons made me hesitate in writing to you along with the Book —I was apprehensive lest you should think that I wished to force myself upon your notice—and, I was...
10140To Thomas Jefferson from Lyon Lehman, 2 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to adress a few lines to you, to inform you my unhappy situation, and my suffrings, and no doubt my worthy President can not help to feel for me. I am a Native of Amsterdam emigrated to France, till we marched to Holland again were I received several wounds when we Batavians entered into Holland, as I had a little property of my own as merchant made severel voyages to...
10141To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
—free from the pressing Cares of Government I hope you may enjoy at last sir […] [the sweets] of Domestic happiness—without [allay]. —The master of the sloop with whom I intrusted your packages of groceries, and 5 lbs. plaister of Paris—from hence to Alexandria intended for the Sloop Abigal & Rebecca from there to Richmond as the latter had left Alexandria the Evening before—was so obliging as...
10142To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose a letter this day received from St. Th. Mason in relation to South Carolina politics. My impression had been, on that subject, altogether different from yours, as I thought I had understood it from Mr Pinckney that immediate changes were necessary, whilst you conceived them improper for near two years. I concluded that I had been mistaken; but this letter again revives my suspicion...
10143To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Heyward, Jr., 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter is intended to be handed to you by Mr. John Huger a friend of mine & a respectable Inhabitant of this State. he is gone from hence to Rhode-Island on Account of his Health & proposes returning by Land to Carolina, taking the City of Washington in his Way—He has requested that I would remind you of our Acquaintance in the years 1776, 77, & 78, when we attended Congress—I do it with...
10144To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 2d of June, I took the liberty of writeing you by Post, some account of the conversation that I had with Mr Boudinot, and others, at the mint, in consequence of the letter you favoured me with, among other things I informed you, that Mr Voight said, that each Dollar had to go through thirty two proceses before it was ready to receive the impression from the Die, and that it took thirty...
10145To Thomas Jefferson from Lewis Littlepage, 3 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In continuation of the letter which I took the liberty to write to you from Altona of, I think, the 17th. of January last, I have now to inform you that my will deposited in the hands of Messrs. Coutts & Co. remains unaltered, and should any accident happen to me between this and America, I entreat you, as my sole Executor in America, to demand from Mr. Bonnet, Notary Public in this City,...
10146To Thomas Jefferson from William C. C. Claiborne, 4 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly Letter of the 13th. of last Month, I had the honor to receive, on the 1st. Instant, accompanied with a Letter from the Secretary of State, enclosing me a Commission, as Governor of the Mississippi Territory.—I acknowledge with Gratitude, my Obligations to you, for this high proof of Confidence and Esteem, and, I trust, that every Act of my public Life, will evince my great...
10147To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous envoye par Mr. Duane, la morale de Jesus-Christ & des Apôtres , édition de Didot ; cet ouvrage manquoit à votre Collection des Moralistes anciens, pour qu’elle fut complete, lorsque j’eus l’honneur de vous voir à Philadelphie. S’il vous convient vous le Garderez, sinon Mr. Duane me fera l’amitié de me le rapporter; le prix en est de 250 Cts. J’attends par les premiers bâtimens qui...
10148To Thomas Jefferson from John W. Maddux, 4 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
you may think it strange when you Receive these lines pardon me Sir if it be offince you must constrew it to the ancity I have for you wellfare fo we the people of Washington county feel our Selves So happy under your administration that the name of Jefferson Echoes through the state we are ready to say that god has blest us with another Washington we Ever pray that God may bless all your...
10149To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 4 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Yznardi, the Elder is thus far on his Way to Washington to pay you his Respects, his State of Health will not permit him to go further—I shewed him your letter he will Accept with pleasure the Consulate &c its Duties untill there shall be a general Peace, again which time he expects he Can settle all American Claims for French Capt[ures] now under his Management—He no longer supports his...
10150To Thomas Jefferson from Sarah Franklin Bache, 5 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing as I do the worth of the Person that will deliver you this, I cannot resist the impulse I feel in writing to you by him— Mr Clay has been intimately known to this Family from an Infant and has invariably sustain’d the best Character. his intimacy with my Son Benjamin who had the highest opinion of his Integrity and who knew him thoroughly, taught us his Value—the knowledge of his being...