121I. To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The circumstances under which we find ourselves at this place rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practised, of making, by personal Address, the first communications, between the legislative and Executive branches, I have adopted that by Message, as used on all subsequent occasions through the session. in doing this, I have had principal regard to the convenience of the legislature, to...