1To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 11 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The prevalence if not the very existence of republicanism in the U States depends so much on the event of our ensuing Election that I am persuaded Sir you can not be indifferent to our prospects and will excuse the liberty I take of communicating them. It is impossible yet to obtain any certain information from the distant Counties. that which I have receved from the more central parts...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, [before 3 May 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I feel extreme pleasure Sir in having it in my power to remove the impressions you had received unfavorable to our Success. we have completely and triumphantly Succeeded—our member is in by upwards of an hundred—and our Whole ticket for the Assembly by 500. at least——The change is delightful, but yesterday they were arrogant and certain of our defeat—today—there is a most auspicious gloom on...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 9 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
An arrival here from Charleston brings intelligence which perhaps may not reach the Seat of Government before this letter in which case it may not prove unacceptable-A man of Understanding & by no means of a sanguine disposition writes from Columbia on the 25th. that the Legislature had met. the Republicans in high Spirits that no Question was made of an unanimous republican Vote for P. & that...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, [5 February 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed will Shew the use I am making of your Horace. The only good image it contains having been Stolen I only comply with a precept of the civil law in rendering the whole composition to the original proprietor, if he should not find it too much disfigured for his acceptance it will be highly flattering to his Friend & Mo Obd Sev. RC ( DLC ); undated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 5...
5Enclosure: Verses to Daniel McKinnen, 5 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To Daniel McKinnen Esqr MS (same); in Livingston’s hand; above title: “Quem tu Melpomene &c.,” the opening of ode 3, book 4, of Horace’s Odes; an endorsement by TJ, also at head of text, identifies the ode. Daniel Mckinnen was a lawyer in New York State ( Syrett, Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton , New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. 22:266n; Kline, Burr,...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 11 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Immediately after the receipt of your letter I sent for the Gentlemen you mention and Stated to them the grounds of the proceeding alluded to; as being the result of some conversation with you on the Subject and now communicated to them at your request. I hope in this mode of answering their enquiries to have avoided the difficulty attending a direct communication on the Subject— They had on...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 2 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed paper is I believe the only one printed here which contains the proceedings of the House of Commons on the provisional removal of the countervailing duties and the late arrangement respecting the sixth article— I have thought it might be agreeable to you Sir to receive the earliest intelligence on these interesting subjects and have therefore taken the liberty to send you the...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 19 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing for your perusal the outline of a plan lately formed in this city for promoting the cultivation of the fine arts. having seen and admired the master pieces they have produced abroad I am sure it will be gratifying to your love of country that an attempt should be made to improve them at home. under this impression no apology I believe is necessary for asking...
9Enclosure: Edward Livingston’s Bill of Complaint against Thomas Jefferson, [ca. July 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
United States Court fifth Circuit and District of Virginia to wit Edward Livingston a Citizen of the State of New York complains of Thomas Jefferson a citizen of Virginia in custody & c For that the said Thomas on the 25 th day of January 1808 at the City of New Orleans in the District of
10To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 25 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
If you should have the patience to peruse the enclosed observations, you will find among them an allusion to one of your Messages on the Subject of internal improvement with a construction which I believe, (although I am not sure) to be the true one I am too well aware of the great indiscretion, There would be in requesting any explanation on this point to entertain the most remote expectation...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 29 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You will herewith receive the first of four codes, which forms a system of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana. The manuscript copy, and draft of the whole work, having been destroyed by fire, I have, with unceasing labour, retored this part, while the subject was fresh in my recollection; but the haste with which it was done, renders a compliance with the request I am about to make...
12To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 9 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I was very sensible of the kind feeling which dictated your answer to my letter of the last year, yet I did not think it discreet to intrude upon your retirement with any reply which might seem to ask a further exercise of your Compliance I am induced to depart from this resolution now and I hope may be excused in doing so on a subject which I believe will be interesting to you...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 5 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Livingston having been informed on his arrival this Evening that the President intended very short to quit the Seat of Government, begs leave most respectfully to solicit that he may be informed whether it will be convenient for the President to grant him a short audience previous to his Departure; it is on a Subject extremely interesting to Mr. L. and which formed the sole motive for his...