1Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with William Duane, [ca. 2 February 1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson Esq r To W m Duane D r 1815 March To Translation of a Work of Destutt Tracy $60.00 1816 May 1 st 〃 1 y r Subscr to Country Aurora due this day— 5.00
2William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you one of 12 copies of another of my humble efforts to give direction to the minds of Congress towards their danger and their Salvation. It behoves every man to employ his whole influence and mind to stimulate Congress in time to provide against the Spring A mighty effort can be accomplished if the members of Congress can but be brought to perceive the danger; and the war may be c t...
3John B. Smyth (for William Duane) to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At head you will be pleased to find your account which I hope will may be found correct—if so would be very much obliged to you for a remittance of the amount; I should not have taken the liberty of sending it on so early but am much in want of money. John B Smyth for William Duane . RC ( DLC ); subjoined to enclosure; dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r Monticello...
4William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 9 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
There is a small sum of 60$ money paid by me for the translating of the continuation of Tracy ’s ideology; the pressure of the present times alone could induce me to trespass upon you, as the young man the Bookseller at George Town to Whom you proposed giving the work to be printed, intimated something like dissatisfaction or disapprobation on your part towards me. As I was wholly ignorant of...
5William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 17 August 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the satisfaction to receive your very kind letter of the 12 instant . It is singular enough that I should have before me at the moment, a history of England in 4to, which I take to be the same which you mention. Several years ago you mentioned the same book to me, and through M r G. Erving then in London I obtained the book before me. Having just completed my Military Dictionary...
6William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
A desire to be preserved in your remembrance has often led me to the verge of writing to you, but knowing with what anxiety you retired from political concerns and the disgust you must naturally have felt at the recollection of the baseness you have seen and the unworthiness which prevails too much in all kinds of affairs, I preferred rather to trust to the ordinary incidents of my situation...
7William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I should not have troubled your retirement upon political subjects had not there been a rumor for some days that you had consented to accept the station of Sec y of State in the present Crisis, and that Mr. Monroe was to assume the War Department ; I must confess I feared it was too good news to be true, but I cannot refrain from expressing a wish that if you could consistently with your...
8William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 17 July 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have answered your obliging letter of the 20 th April , had my mind not been kept in agitation by the pressure which I began to feel heavily in consequence of my opposition to the U. S. Bank , and which although I have in effect surmounted, has left me like a man after a severe disease, with an unusual degree of debility. I had read your admirable work on the batture before I was...
9William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1813 [postscript, 9 March 1813] (Jefferson Papers)
I could not before this day find an opportunity undisturbed to answer yours of the 22 d ult . Never having been much of a pecuniary calculator, it is absolutely out of my power to say how my account with the Review of Montesquieu stands. When pressed hard last year by the combination of one set of old friends and the desertion of the rest, I found in the sacrifice of a considerable number of...
10William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received yours of the 18 th and the copy accompanying it —you will be good enough never to attribute my not writing immediately to want of respect or to indifference—my avocations are so many and the pressure of them so constant, that it requires some dexterity to get thro’ them. I shall now explain the hastiness of the last sheets—you will perceive they are all transcribed by...