1From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 16 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 14th: is this moment recieved, & I hasten to answer it by return of post, that no time may be lost. the copy of instructions sent you are only a rough draught for consideration. they will not be signed or dated till your departure. presuming you would procure all the necessary instruments at Philadelphia, which is a principal object of your journey there, the instructions say...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 22 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
My letters since your departure have been of July 11. & 15. Nov. 16. and Jan. 13. yours recieved are of July 8. 15. 22. 25. Sep. 25. 30. & Oct. 3. since the date of the last we have no certain information of your movements. with mine of Nov. 16. I sent you some extracts made by myself from the journal of an agent of the trading company of St. Louis up the Missouri. I now inclose a translation...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 17 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I parted with you in Albemarle in Sep. last I have never had a line from you, nor I believe has the Secretary at War with whom you have much connection through the Indian department. the misfortune which attended the effort to send the Mandane chief home became known to us before you had reached St. Louis, we took no step on the occasion, counting on recieving your advice so soon as you...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 4 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The seeds & other light articles which you entrusted to me for your friends in Albemarle were safely delivered. your mother returned from Georgia in good health a little before I left Monticello. the horns, which I could not take on with me, were packed in one of 25. boxes, barrels &c., which I sent round by water. the vessel was stranded, and every thing lost which water could injure. the...
5Enclosure: Extracts from Accounts of Indians and the Fur Trade along the Missouri River, 16 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Extracts from the Journal of M. Truteau , Agent for the Illinois trading company , residing at the village of Ricara , up the Missouri. This company was confirmed in 1796. with the exclusive right for 10. years to trade with all the nations above the Poncas, as well to the South, & the West, as to the North of the Missouri with a premium of 3000. pes. for the discovery of the South Sea: and a...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 23 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have not been able to hear any thing of you since Mar. 7. till two or three days ago, Lieutt. Wilson told me you would leave Frederic the 18th. inst. & that you had been detained till then at Harper’s ferry, where Capt Murray also told me he had seen you. I have no doubt you have used every possible exertion to get off, and therefore we have only to lament what cannot be helped, as the delay...
7IV. Instructions for Meriwether Lewis, 20 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To Meriwether Lewis esquire, Captain of the 1st Regiment of infantry of the United States of America. Your situation as Secretary of the President of the United States has made you acquainted with the objects of my confidential message of Jan. 18. 1803. to the legislature: you have seen the act they passed, which, tho’ expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 15 July 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I dropped you a line on the 11th. inst. and last night recieved yours of the 8th. last night also we recieved the treaty from Paris ceding Louisiana according to the bounds to which France had a right. price 11¼ millions of Dollars besides paying certain debts of France to our citizens which will be from 1. to 4. millions. I recieved also from Mr. La Cepede at Paris, to whom I had mentioned...
9Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 16 August 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by mr Bradbury , an English botanist, who proposes to take S t Louis in his botanising tour. he came recommended to me by mr Roscoe of Liverpool , so well known by his histories of Lorenzo of Medicis & Leo X. & who is president of the Botanical society of Liverpool
10I. Draft Cipher Table, [April 1803?] (Jefferson Papers)
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