10101To Thomas Jefferson from William Dunbar, 17 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of enclosing you an explanation with examples of the new method of finding the Longitude by a single observer, without any knowledge of the precise time: I have delayed longer than I intended forwarding this paper, in order to give me time to consider this new object in every point of view, so as to render the calculations as commodious as its nature will admit; at first...
10102To 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...
10103To Thomas Jefferson from Étienne Lemaire, 6 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Je prend la liberté de vous adresser la presente pour avoir Lhonneur de vous Saluer, je soite de tou mon cœur que monsieur Jouisse une parfaite Sentez de même que vôttre repectable famille mes Sivilités Sil vous plai, monsieur je vous prie Engrâce de vouloir Bien Macorder une petit apsence de trois Semainnes, pour me reffaire la Sentez. Je vien encorre de faire une maladit qu’il m’aprise le...
10104To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 14 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The weather having detained me here to day, I have employed it in making some rough sketches relative to our financial situation, which I have the honor to enclose. Independent of the uncertainty arising from the fluctuation in the amount of duties on imports, which vary so much, as to have been two millions of dollars more in 1800 than the preceding year, I had neither time nor documents...
10105To Thomas Jefferson from Gabriel Phillips, 18 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Influenced by the Voice of Public Opinion so conspicuously evinced in the change of Political Sentiment I have taken the liberty to address you on a Subject connected with the most uncontrovertable Facts tho’ some have contested & Even Denied their Existence Some of the Disapointed & Clamorous Polititions of our Country have come forward with the utmost Virulence with Determined Opposition to...
10106To Thomas Jefferson from Andrew Jackson, 14 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 20th. ultimo, I wrote you, enclosing a statement made by William Meadows relative to the depredations lately committed by the indians on our frontier—and a large party of the Creeks apparently hostile, who occupied the South bank of the Tennessee—I then Stated the Substance of my orders to the several Brigadeer Generals, Issued on that occasion, and my Special order to Genl. Johnston...
10107To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to transmit herewith two copies of the second census (except for the State of Tennessee, which is not yet received) and to notice the following deviations from the law under which it was taken, affecting the uniformity of some of the returns. The return for the counties of Dutchess, Ulster & Orange in the District of New York was not recd. at this office until the 21st. of...
10108To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, [19 October 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the applications for the office of collector of customs at Wilmington. The office is worth at least 2000 dollars nett. Colo. Read the former collector, recommended by Macon, Tatom & Robt. Williams, cannot be appointed. He was not removed on account of his politics, but dismissed for remissness in official duties upon an official report of the Secy. of the Treasury. He was removed in...
10109To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 26 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
It was with a high degree of satisfaction, I observed in a letter I lately received from my friend Dr. Saml L. Mitchill of New York, the following paragraph:—”In consequence of a suggestion of the President of the United States, I had previously written to Mr. L’Hommedieu an account of the Project of attempting to mature a National Agricultural Society. I hope these communications will have...
10110To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas King, 15 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Being requested by Mr Briggs to assist him in running a true Meridian line , which should pass through the center of the Presidents house; and to perpetuate the same, as also the point of intersection by a due West line drawn from the center of the Capitol, by fixing permanent marks thereon; and as the pressure of other Official engagements prevented his attention to more than ascertaining the...
10111To Thomas Jefferson from William J. Lewis, 7 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope no apology is necessary for sending to you as President of the Philosophic society some articles which are either curious in themselves, maner of discovery, or as tending to elucidate phenomena perhaps hitherto veiled in obscurity. Wraping No. 1. contains a bone found in sinking a shaft for Water, about seventy five feet below the surface of the ground, growing in a specious of quortose...
10112To Thomas Jefferson from Louis-Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 5 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Lorsqu’il s’agit de la tranquillité et de la Prosperité des E.u. je ne Crains point de vous importuner. Quoique simple Passager dans le vaisseau Je crois devoir mettre la main a la manlorsque La Tempête Exige toute L attention du Capitaine et les Efforts plus qu’ordinaires de L Equipâge. Je pense que la Direction de L’opinion publique , ici et en Angleterre, par de bons Ecrits sera peut Etre...
10113To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel D’Oyley, 24 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed discourse which I request you to do me the honour of accepting was delivered on the last anniversary of the glorious declaration of Independence—as it affords a corroborating testimony of the goodness of Mr. Furman’s heart I am well pleased for from the belief with which he was of late impressed he conscientiously opposed the advancement of the Republican party dreading I suppose...
10114To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel R. Demaree, 6 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Reflecting on the happy situation of America—that her Rulers are not inaccessable tyrants nor bloody despots; but patriots, friends of mankind, and of the unfortunate; examples to the world & patrons of science, I am emboldened to communicate a few of my wishes even to our chief Magistrate, which however defective in form and matter, I hope you will not attribute to any unworthy motive. For...
10115To Thomas Jefferson from Madame de Tessé, 17 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
J’aprends, Monsieur, que mr. Livingston est au moment de partir pour L’amerique, sans avoir eté prevenue de son dessein de nous quitter. mr. de La fayette est en auvergne; ma famille eparpilleé, je vis tres solitaire, et quoique tres pres de Paris les nouvelles m’arrivent tard, et m’echapent assés souvent. je serois bien affligée de manquer une occasion si favorable de vous exprimer mes...
10116To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 2 October 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Je ne dois ajouter que peu de chose à la Lettre que je vous écrivais il y a trois mois, et dont je joins ici le duplicata . Les raisons qui me rappellent auprès de vous deviennent chaque jour plus puissantes. L’Europe ne convient plus du tout à la Philosophie. Pour un tems plus ou moins long, mais qui vraisemblablement durera plus que je ne puis faire, elle est en proie aux Princes, aux...
10117To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 25 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed I have both the Honor and Pleasure to transmit the Address of a Number of Gentlemen. It originated not merely from fashion, but from those high transports of Joy produced by the preservation of Our happy Constitution, the probable restoration of social harmony, and the guaranty of personal Liberty—It speaks in plain language the just confidence and feelings of it’s Authors— It it with...
10118To Thomas Jefferson from Ahmad Qaramanli, 5 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Contava ora mai anni undici del sotto il paso sorte aversa gemevo, ma par nulla dimeno la sorte non mi a ancora tolto quel tanto che le combinazioni attuali pri di giá mi an reso. Ritrovavami nel Cairo allora quando giu ia Alesandria il Brio comandato dal Capo. hal in unione del Generale S tt ori, i quali direttisi al Sigr. Briax Console di S.M. Brit annia , li domandaro dove mai mi avessi...
10119To Thomas Jefferson from Littleton W. Tazewell, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since a letter was received by the Mayor of this Borough, from the Commodore of the British Squadron here, a copy of which I presume has been transmitted to you, or has been seen by you in the publick gazettes printed in this place. To this letter a reply was written, which I suppose must also have reached you, through one or the other of those channels. At the request of the...
10120To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Quarrier, 10 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope my unfortunate situation will pardon, & excuse my intrud on you the contents of this letter, after the reception my last one meet with—from that transaction you must think me void of delicacy, of feeling, for to importune on A like subject, or extreemly implicated in distress. The latter sory am I to say is but too much the case—Distress I now feele which experience never yet taught...
10121To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, 10 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
If I had as much confidence in your friends, and their attachment towards you, as they make claim to, I should not address you this letter; but I have not; and the subject is too important to be pretermitted. The dangers I fear, may be trivial or distant; but as on the other hand, they may be near and momentous, and in such case, your being early apprised of them; highly important; it is a...
10122To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "Shiloh", 11 September 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My original design was that the following & inclosed papers should have met you in the form of Newspaper Publications or printed handbills—but such is your boasted liberty of the Press, that even the federal printers would not dare to publish the truth for me without disguise—they are afraid of persecution for a libel & tell me that the truth of a publication is no justification of the...
10123To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Legaux, 4 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Le moment de La naissance des Arts, de La régénération de La Liberté en Amérique et de L’Encouragement que son Agriculture sollicite depuis Longtemps est Enfin arrivé aujourdhuy; je m’en félicite infiniment ainsi que Ces Contrées qui L’attendoient avec la derniere impatience. La Crainte de Blesser une des moindres qualités du phylosophe qui doit opérer ces heureux pronostics; sa modestie...
10124To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 19 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In the postcript of my Last Feb. 22nd. I inform’d you, my best friend Mr Jefferson, that all the English Vessels at Naples had, from the order of the English Consul, withdrawn out into the Road—& most of the English were Shiping their property, which, tho’ not then known here, was in consequence of the advancing of the French, who, having been met by commissioners from his Silician Majesty...
10125To Thomas Jefferson from William Dunbar, 22 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have delayed untill the present moment acknowledging the honor of your letter of the 12th Jan. last, from a conviction of the impropriety of all trivial intrusion upon your time, always precious, but now dedicated to duties of the highest importance. However anxious I may be to express a due sense of your condescension, I shall ever guard myself against so impardonable an error. I shall...
10126To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 15 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I transmit you a duplicate of my last, in which you will perceive my ignorance of the Arrangement, you had made for the Territory of Louisiana; and also of the violent & uncharitable attacks, made on my Character & Conduct, in the publick prints & even on the floor of Congress.— Sunk by the severest domestic Calamity into a State of apathy & despondance, my Mind had fastened upon the “Luxury...
10127To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Blackburn, 11 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As I cannot enjoy the pleasure of seeing you at Monticello I take the liberty of laying before you the papers accompanying this—I have no doubt they will interest your exellency as they relate to a Mission which has already obtained your patronage— I have now 80 of the Cherokee children under my care and well attended in their Nation whose progress in literature and advances in civilization...
10128To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 25 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will probably be presented to you by Mr. Tubuffe .—He is the son of a gentleman of that name, who, some years ago, came from France to the United states, with a view of establishing himself in some parts of the western country, but in making the attempt, was unfortunately murdered by the Indians .—It is represented to me, that after the death of the father, and during the minority...
10129To Thomas Jefferson from William Mathers, 22 August 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I shrink from the task of addressing you when I think of my own littleness, and your native greatness; independent of your exalted station and when I think that every moment of your life, is emphatically precious, I feel guilty for thus intruding on your leisure. But from a firm conviction, that the artless tale of a suffering Patriot, will find access to you, I ask the liberty in my plain way...
10130To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 9 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to inclose a Letter which I have recd from Mr: Bates : also One from a Mr: Morgan addressed to you through my care, the object of which I know not; also one from Mr: Bishop. I have conversed fully with Mr: Bishop in relation to the Suspicion of his being the Author of Aristides , and for myself am fully persuaded that the suspicion is unfounded and that he was not, directly...