1From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am honored by your favor of the 20th. April with a Copy of Gov McKeans letter of 22 August 1813—inclosed. I have no doubt that Mr. McKean sent an express to Delaware to summon Mr. Rodney to Congress—that he arrived at the critical moment with boots and with spurs—went into Congress and made a speech which Mr McKean rehearses and voted for independence thereby deciding the vote of the State...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 12 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 18. has been duly recieved, and in it the copy of Gov r M c kaim’s letter. what he says of your respectable uncle is all true, and I within my own recollection. his memory has failed him in some other particulars of no importance. he has confoundd two distinct votes and blended together the transactions on them as if on one, to wit the vote on the Virga proposn to declare...
3Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 28 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 10. has been recieved. the view therein taken of the impossibility of the fact charged by the Native Virginian is certainly conclusive; but I believe we may leave that calumniator to the judgment of the world. The public papers have announced you r mission to Buenos Ayres , but the silence of your letter on the subject is at least not confirmative of it. I sincerely wish...
4Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 9 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 1 st is recieved, and I note your recommendation of mr Askew , to whom I should be glad to be useful, as well on account of your recommendation as of his merit. but our work has been done entirely by undertakers, bricklayers at 10.D. a thousand, & house carpenters at the Philada prices. so that we have nothing to do with the daily laborers, or any body but the Undertaker. I wish...
5Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 2 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Dec. 19. is recieved. a letter from an antient friend and fellow-laborer in good works is like refreshing showers to a thirsty plant. when the pleasures of prospect are shut up to advanced life, those of retrospect are it’s remaining comfort. and the times into which we fell, and the scenes and trials we have gone thro’ together, afford abundant matter to employ retrospection, and to...
6From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you Sir for your Condolence in my great affliction.— And for the Copies of the two letters from your Uncle to you Father—the first in 65. and the last in 76. Cæsar Rodney your Uncle was in my opinion a judicious and Sagacious Judge of men and things—I knew only three of the Delegates to the Congress of 65.—General Timothy Ruggles was a Man of a strong mind—but devoted to great...
7Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, my dear friend, and long indisposition since my return, must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 8 . I am on the recovery, but not yet able to set up to write but in pain. I can therefore only return you thanks for the communications of your letter, which strengthen my hopes that our Southern brethren may be able to do as we have...
8From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for Permission to publish your former Letter. In that Letter you allude to original Letters from Mr Otis which you have Seen, and which do him honour. I dare not ask for those Original Letters, because If I possessed them myself, I would not part with them. But if you will favour me with Copies you will greatly oblige me. I would hesitate at no Price for them. I can never recollect...
9From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 13 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
You cannot imagine how much You have obliged me by your kind Letter of the 6th. I was intimately acquainted with your Uncle Cesar Rodney who under the constant pressure of ill health, preserved a clear Under Staing and a firmness a stediness, and inflexibility of heart, equal to any Statesman I have known. He was pleased to be very Social and familiar with me; and there was no Topick on which...
10Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 16 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Feb. 19 . has been recieved with very sincere pleasure. it recalls to memory the sociability, the friendship, and harmony of action which united personal happiness with public duties, during the portion of our lives in which we acted together. indeed the affectionate harmony of our Cabinet is among the sweetest of my recollections. I have just recieved a letter of friendship...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of Depts. tomorrow at 12. Oclock. CtY .
12From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 8 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I imagine you will have recieved a reference from the H. of R. which will require your return to this place. several other matters of importance have been waiting for you. I inclose you a presentment of a grand jury here against a worthless gambler of the name of Bailey, who lives in Baltimore, for an assault on mr Coles my Secretary, on account of an act of duty on the part of mr Coles. I...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The bill referred to in the enclosed is not recieved, but I suppose may be expected hourly. how shall I proceed to have it paid so as to keep the account in the same form, that is to say, still in your name? when shall we have the pleasure and advantage of seeing you here? Affectionate salutations. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
14From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 27 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 13th. is recieved. I see no reason against your giving your opinion, in favor of General Allen, to him to be used with the British government. the only doubt I ever entertained on it was that which you mention respecting his bail, and I have not yet seen my way out of that. I inclose you the letter of a M. Mouesay, whose case seems to be as hard a one as I have known. I...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 5 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments at 10. aclock tomorrow. Privately owned.
16From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 20 June 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with great reluctance I break in on the tranquility & happiness you are enjoying in the bosom of your family, by suggesting the necessity of your presence here. immediately on the arrival of mr Gallatin, whom we expect every hour, consultations will be to be held on several matters of great importance, in which we shall be happy to have your aid. add to this that some matters of...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 24 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns the inclosed to mr Rodney with thanks for the communication. it is very evident that our embargo, added to the exclusions from the Continent will be most heavily felt in England and Ireland. Liverpool is remonstrating & endeavoring to get the other ports into motion. yet the bill confirming the orders of council is ordered to a 3d. reading, which shews it will pass....
18From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 20 April 1808 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Clark presses me very hard for an answer to his memorial. I hope you will have found leisure to write out an opinion on the case, and that you will be so good as to furnish me with it as an answer. He waits here on no other account. Nothing very material lately from abroad. The proceedings of Congs. reach you thro’ the Newspapers. They expect to end the Session on Monday. I had proposed to...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the heads of departments and Atty Genl to meet to-day at 12. oclock on a consultation. Catalog--Paul C. Richards Autographs.
20From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of the heads of departments and Atty. Genl. to meet to-day at 12. aclock on a consultation. Privately owned.
21From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 17 February 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of a consultation with the heads of departments at mr Madison’s house at 11. aclock this forenoon. Privately owned.
22From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
A consultation is necessary to-day, and as notice could not be given last night, the hour must depend on mr Gallatin’s arrival at his office, he being generally the latest & most uncertain as to his hour. will you be so good as to be within reach at that time? Catalog--Gallery of History.
23From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 31 October 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to submit for your consideration and opinion the following question arising out of an award of the Board of Commissioners appointed under the 7th. Article of the late British Treaty. The Brig Ceres, Hall, Master, belonging equally to William Prestman, William Calhoun, and Ebenezer Thayer of Charleston (S. C.) was laden at that port in the year 1794, the principal Cargo by the...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 28 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Burr, Blannerhasset, S. Swartwout & Martin are here. can & should the two first be arrested & sent to Kentucky for treason, & the two last for Misdemeanors, committed by the one in Orleans, the other in Maryland? be so good as to satisfy yourself on these points, & if affirmatively, on your informing me so, I will call a consultation. affte. salutations. CSmH : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
25From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 23 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the message, and pray you to suggest, on a separate paper, such alterations as you shall think for the better either in the matter or style. I must ask the return of it this evening because mr Coles has to make 4. copies, & will have only two days to do it in. it comes to you thus late, as time was necessary for it to go through the hands of the other gentlemen. Affectte....
26From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 8 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of Sep. 15. & Oct. 1. have been duly recieved & I sincerely congratulate you on the addition to your family announced in the last. the good old book speaking of children says ‘happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them.’ I hope mrs Rodney is doing well, in which case, & whenever her situation will admit your coming on without uneasiness. The approaching convention of...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 18 September 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J. incloses a paper to mr Rodney to do in it what may be necessary, which he presumes will be, according to the decisions of the judge, nothing! he proposes to be in Washington Octob. 3. affectionate salutations. ViU .
28From James Madison to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 2 September 1807 (Madison Papers)
Having communicated the inclosed letter from Judge Davis to the President, he suggests that it be transmitted to you, who will best judge, if the case be meddled with at all, how to prevent a conflict of jurisdictions. I have recd. no communications whatever from London Paris or Madrid, since we parted at Washington. It would seem from sundry scraps put together that something has been doing...
29From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I think I remember that on the question whether the court of one district could have an attachment executed in another to compel the attendance of a witness, you satisfied us it could not. will you have the goodness to give me a formal opinion on that question with as little delay as convenient? I presume it could no more enforce the giving a deposition. an existing case may render necessary a...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 19 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Rodney his thanks for the drawings of Madison’s & Amen’s caves, which he is glad to recieve; for altho within 25. miles, he has never seen the new cave. he knows nothing of Burr’s trial but from the newspapers, which exhibit strange scenes indeed. it is impossible Congress should not take up that subject. he salutes mr Rodney affectionately. NHi .