391Memorandum on Attendance of the Vice President, [after 29 December 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
It is very well known that, in the earlier part of their sessions, very little business is done in either house of Congress; & particularly that in the Senate there is rarely a bill even brought in during the first 3. or 4. weeks. in the mean while the Senate is employed in recieving the President’s speech, preparing their address, & is divided into Committees who are digesting business. they...
392From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you last on the 31st. of Mar. since which I have recieved G. Jefferson’s of Mar. 22. acknoleging the reciept of the last 470. D. making 1870. D. in all.—Mr. Ross’s Kitt setting out for Charlottesville where he has a cause to be tried with James Ross, and apprehending from him some personal assault, has asked me to interest some person to ensure him the protection of the laws. I have...
393From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Clarke, 21 March 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Being obliged on my return home to advance a considerable sum of money for the purchase of corn for my family I take the liberty of solliciting [payment] of the balance due me in your hands. if you [can send] it to me by mr Coalter or any other person coming to our district court it will be sufficient, or should no opportunity then offer I will send a person for it: in the mean time a line...
394From Thomas Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 1 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Coxe and incloses him an order on mr Barnes (his agent here) for 113. dollars. should it be more agreeable however to mr Coxe Th:J. will himself draw and deliver him the money. did mr Coxe lose a watch-key yesterday? the inclosed was found on the floor here last night, & must have been dropped by some gentleman who had been here. Th:J. will have...
395Enclosure: Queries on Parliamentary Procedure, [7 April 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
When a motion is made to strike out a paragraph, section, or even the whole bill from the word ‘whereas,’ and to insert something else in lieu thereof, it is understood that the friends of the paragraph, motion, or bill have first a right to amend & make it as perfect as they can, before the question is put for striking out. suppose the question is then put on striking out, & that it passes in...
396From Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, 17 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Feb. 14. never was so unfortunate a slip made as mine with respect to my last year’s tobacco. I was offered in May 11. Dollars in Richmond; but believing it would be higher as usual in the fall, & unaware of the effect of the nonintercourse law, I refused it, and after keeping it and bringing it here, have only lately been able to sell it for 7....
397From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 10 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Jan. 7th. and 18th. have both been recieved. on the 12th. of January I made a remittance to mr Jefferson, and directed him to pay out of it 329. dollars to your order as I notified you in my letter of the 13th. which I presume you recieved on the 22d. I am sincerely concerned for the death of Jupiter, which I am persuaded might have been prevented could I have prevailed on him...
398From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 12 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Eppes’s letter of Jan. 17 . had filled me with anxiety for your little one, & that of the 25th. announced what I had feared. how deeply I feel it in all it’s bearings, I shall not say, nor attempt consolation where I know that time & silence are the only medecines. I shall only observe as a source of hope to us all that you are young and will not fail to possess enough of these dear...
399From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 26 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
A neighbor of mine having a right to some military lands , I carried his papers to Philadelphia; but when presented at the War office they could not be passed for want of some formalities a first and second time. I think they now fulfill all the requisitions of the law; and I must ask the favor of you to present them at the war office to the proper clerk & to obtain from him the paper usually...
400Notes on a Conversation with Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
19. W. C. Nicholas tells me that in a conversn with Dexter 3. or 4. days ago, he asked Dexter whether it would not be practicable for the states to agree on some uniform mode of chusing electors of a President. Dexter says ‘I suppose you would prefer an election by districts.’ yes, said N. ‘I think it would be best, but would nevertheless agree to any other consistent with the Constn.’ Dexter...
401From Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, 21 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honored, my dear Madam, with your letter of the 16th. inst. and made happy by the information of your health. it was matter of sincere regret on my arrival here to learn that you had left it but a little before, after passing some time here. I should have been happy to have renewed to you in person the assurances of my affectionate regards, to have again enjoyed a society which brings to...
402From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 30 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with great pleasure your favor of the 11th. inst. by this time I presume the result of your labours is known with you, tho’ not here. whatever it may be, & my experience of the art, industry, & resources of the other party has not permitted me to be prematurely confident, yet I am entirely confident that ultimately the great body of the people are passing over from them. this may...
403Enclosure: Extracts on Relations Between United States and France, 28 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract of a letter from Taleyrand to Pichon, chargé d’affaires of France at the Hague, dated [Paris] Sep. 28. 98. ‘I am thoroughly convinced that should explanations take place with confidence between the two cabinets, irritation would cease, a crowd of misunderstandings would disappear & the ties of friendship would be more strongly united as each party would discover the hand which sought...
404From Thomas Jefferson to James Thomson Callender, 6 October 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
On recieving your favor of Sep. 29. I did believe it would be in my power to answer you satisfactorily on both the points on which you asked information. I knew indeed that I had not made any particular memorandum of the sum which the Ct. de Vergennes supposed a treaty with the Porte would cost; but I expected that I had mentioned it either in my letter on the subject to mr Jay, or in that to...
405From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have never written to you since my arrival here for reasons which were explained. your’s of Dec. 29. Jan. 4. 9. 12. 18. & Feb. 14. have therefore remained unacknoleged. I have at different times inclosed to you such papers as seemed interesting. to-day I forward Bingham’s amendment to the election bill formerly inclosed you, mr Pinkney’s proposed amendmt. to the constn , & the report of the...
406From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, 4 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
On the receipt of your favor of Jan. 25. I thought it would be best to suffer the tobos. with which I had troubled you to lie, in confidence the nonintercourse law would have been suffered to expire, & that the price would then have sprung up. but the continuance of that law for another year, and the news that our envoys are landed at Lisbon, place the opening of the French market at such a...
407From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 29 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now to ask your assistance in a matter not exactly in the line of ordinary business, and which I am afraid will give you some trouble. In the early part of my life, percieving that the laws of this state which were no longer in force were vanishing fast I set about making a collection of them, & with considerable success, it was fortunately before the revolution which would otherwise have...
408From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Norborne Nicholas, 7 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 2. came to hand Feb. 11. and I put off the acknoleging it, till I could forward to you some pamphlets on a subject very interesting to all the states, and containing views which I am anxious should be generally exhibited. in a former collection of tracts published by mr Cooper were two papers on Political arithmetic. he was printing a 2d edition of the whole, & was prevailed...
409From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 1 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. John Barnes has recieved from Dr. Bache 3333⅓ Dol. say £1000. V.C. for James Key, to be remitted at Key’s request to mr Brydie . the money is deposited for safe custody in the bank of the US. mr Key’s distress for the money is great, & mr Barnes assures me a draught on Richmond is not to be had here. the purport of this is to ask of you, if you should have occasion for a draught on this...
410Statement of William Robinson, 28 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
William Robinson of Clarkesburg in the county of Harrison and state of Virginia subscriber to these presents, declares that he was, in the year 1774. a resident on the West fork of Monongahela river in the county then called West Augusta; & being in his field on the 12th. of July with two other men, they were surprised by a party of eight Indians, who shot down one of the others, & made...
411From Thomas Jefferson to Everard Meade, 8 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Mar. 9. I consider the request it contains, as the form you have chosen for manifesting your friendly dispositions towards me, & that they lead you to wish me an honor to which I have not the presumption to think myself destined, much less have I taken on myself to contemplate the details of it’s duties. we have lately heard of strange...
412To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Knox, 9 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel great pleasure in any circumstance, which may present me to your remembrance.—No person has a higher respect & esteem for your Character, any shades of a difference in political opinions notwithstanding. The mutual and sincere expressions of regret at parting have always afforded me satisfaction.— I remember on a former occasion that You desir’d some information respecting the...
413To Thomas Jefferson from Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 September [1799] (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of receiving a letter from you dated the 25th of March , with a bill from the Treasury of the United States for which I send you my best thanks. By your order came to my hands the first divident of the Pennsylvania Bank. Mr. Barnes has send me likwise two Cases loaded with my things, which are now upon the road to Paris. before I came from America Mr. Clay has been appointed by...
414To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 19 April 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Amidst the dificulties Which Now Attend An American Correspondance, it is Necessary for friends Not to find fault With Each other, and in Spite of Naval Piracies and Various Accidents, (One of Your letters Was Near Six Years old,) Mutually to depend on Sentiments as UnAlterable as they are Ancient—I am Nevertheless in Hopes that Notwithstanding mr Pitt’s Contrivance to declare a Whole...
415To Thomas Jefferson from La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 4 May 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
Je ne veux pas laisser partir [Monsieur de] pusy, Monsieur Sans me rappeller une fois de plus [à votre] Souvenir. M de p—est gendre de M dupont que vous avés [rencontré à Pa]ris, et qui va tres promptement Se rendre luy meme en amerique. [II] a ete Compagnon d’infortune de M de la fayette, et vous trouverés en luy tout ce qui peut Satisfaire le Coeur et lesprit. permettés moy de le recommander...
416To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, 11 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
The prevalence if not the very existence of republicanism in the U States depends so much on the event of our ensuing Election that I am persuaded Sir you can not be indifferent to our prospects and will excuse the liberty I take of communicating them. It is impossible yet to obtain any certain information from the distant Counties. that which I have receved from the more central parts...
417To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Livingston, [before 3 May 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I feel extreme pleasure Sir in having it in my power to remove the impressions you had received unfavorable to our Success. we have completely and triumphantly Succeeded—our member is in by upwards of an hundred—and our Whole ticket for the Assembly by 500. at least——The change is delightful, but yesterday they were arrogant and certain of our defeat—today—there is a most auspicious gloom on...
418To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 28 February 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Smith being just about to depart I have but a moments time to send you the proceedings of the Society for the promotion of Agriculture &c. in this State—In this you will find an important discovery of mine in the fabrication of paper from a very large species of conferva common in Hudsons river—I have proposed the experiment for many years back to the paper makers but could never get them...
419To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Lomax, [before 27] February 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
You will no doubt, be surprised at receiving a Letter from one, whose Name you will scarcely be able to recollect; but who frequently thinks of you, with great Esteem, & Pleasure. I have always thought it wrong to intrude upon the Time of a Person importantly engaged in public-Affairs, by a trifleing private Correspondence; and should not trouble you now, was it not at the paticuler Request of...
420To Thomas Jefferson from Bishop James Madison, 17 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I should certainly have answered your Favour by the succeeding Post, had I received it in Time. Unfortunately it did not come to Hand ’till the next Morning. I am sorry I cannot return such an Answer as could be desired. The Professorship of Chemistry &c has not been actually abolished; but after Dr McClurg left us, two Professorships of Humanity were instituted in it’s Stead.—This Revival of...