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,...