1II. Canons of Etiquette, 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Canons of Etiquette to be observed by the Executive. 1. Foreign ministers arriving at the seat of government pay the first visit to the ministers of the nation, which is returned: and so likewise on subsequent occasions of reassembling after a recess. 2. The families of foreign ministers recieve the 1st. visit from those of the National ministers, as from all other residents and as all...
2IV. Response to the Washington Federalist, 13 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The Washington Federalist of the 1st. inst. has published what he calls the ‘Etiquette of the court of the US.’ in his facts, as usual, truth is set at nought, & in his principles little correct to be found. the Editor having seen a great deal of unfounded stuff on this subject, in that & other papers of a party whose first wish it is to excite misunderstandings with other nations, (even with...
3Notes on a Conversation with Aaron Burr, 26 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 26. Colo Burr the V.P. calls on me in the evening, having previously asked an opportunity of conversing with me. he began by recapitulating summarily that he had come to N.Y. a stranger some years ago, that he found the country in possn of two rich families, (the Livingstons & Clintons) that his pursuits were not political & he meddled not. when the crisis however of 1800. came on, they...
4Enclosure: Benjamin Galloway to Maryland General Assembly, 5 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Benjamin Galloway of Elizabeth Town Washington County and State of Maryland respectfully presents the Underwritten to the Senate and House of Delegates of the State aforesaid in General Assembly convened— That the State of Maryland now is, and of Right has been a free and independant State ever since the fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. That Luther Martin now is,...
5Proclamation Extending Building Regulations in the City of Washington , 28 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
By the President of the United States. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by the first articles of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the seventeenth day of October, 1791, for regulating the Materials and manner of buildings and improvements on the lots in the city of Washington, it is provided that “the outer and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be...
6I. Notes on Diplomatic Etiquette in England, 22 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. King to mr Madison. N.Y. Dec. 22. 1803. 1. all foreign ministers pay the 1st. visit to the ministers of Engld. by going in their carriage & leaving a card without asking for them. this visit is rarely if ever returned. 2. foreign ministers nor their wives never invited to Queen’s balls, concerts, parties. the king gives none. at king’s levee forn. & domest. ministers, dignifd clergy, Ld....
7Continuation of an Examination of the Boundaries of Louisiana, 15 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
P.S. the Northern boundary of Louisiana, Coterminous with the possessions of England. The limits of Louisiana have been spoken of, in the preceding statement , as if those established to the West & North, by the charter of Louis XIV. remained still unaltered. in the West they are so, as already explained. but, in the North, a material change has taken place. with this however it was...
8III. Memorandum on Official Etiquette , 12 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to bring the members of society together in the first instance the custom of the country has established that the residents shall pay the 1st. visit to strangers, & among strangers first comers to later comers, foreign & domestic; When brought together in society all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office. To the 1st. rule there is a...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 19 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your friendly attentions the bearer mr Harvie . he is a young gentleman of the first order of talents, education, standing, and prospect in our country. he is the son of my particular friend , and with a view to prepare him for the public scene on which he will shortly enter, I invited him to become a member of my family for about a twelvemonth, in order that he might...
10From Thomas Jefferson to David Leonard Barnes, 24 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the trouble you have been so good as to take in Ingraham’s case. it has given more than I had meant, as I should have been perfectly satisfied with your opinion alone. I now return the letter which you desired to have again. I have ordered a pardon as to whatsoever appurtains to the US. leaving the interests of the prosecutor untouched. accept my respectful salutations and...
11From Thomas Jefferson to David Leonard Barnes, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of inclosing to you a petition I have recieved from Nathaniel Ingraham of your state, now suffering imprisonment at Bristol in Rhodeisland under judgment of the circuit court there. I also inclose the copy of a letter I wrote to mr Ellery on a former application in the same case. as I understand that the judges who sat in the cause are either dead or distant from the state,...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 6 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
In my note of yesterday I forgot a sum of 41. D 10 c which I had promised to remit to Richmond this week for the use of John Rogers , which I must therefore pray you to enable me to do. Your’s affectionately RC ( ViU ); addressed: “Mr. Barnes”; receipt added to foot of text by Barnes and signed by Joseph Dougherty for $50 received on 6 Mch.; endorsed by Barnes. TJ’s note of yesterday has not...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Some propositions having been made to the public on the subject of a natural bed of Sulphur in Genesee, we wished to obtain information respecting it. Capt Williamson tells me you passed some time in examining it, and I am sure therefore you can give me better information respecting it than any other person, & on which I shall more rely. I pray you therefore to do it without delay, as we are...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Mountjoy Bayly, 5 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The information first recieved as to the bed of Sulphur at Genesee was certainly such as to interest the government and make it our duty to enquire into it. this has been done. the result is that there is at the spring not more than a ton of sulphur formed, and that this is probably the deposit of ages, so that the quantity deposited annually would be no object at all. this information being...
15From Thomas Jefferson to the Portsmouth, Virginia, Baptist Society, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is some time since I recieved a letter from you of which it has not been in my power sooner to make the acknolegements justly due for it. The satisfaction which you express, on behalf of the Baptist society of the town of Portsmouth, with the course of the present administration in general, and particularly with the substitution of economy for taxation, & the progress and prospect exhibited...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Bishop, 15 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of mr Abraham Bishop to dine with him on Saturday the 17th . inst. at half after three. Dec. 15. 03. The favour of an answer is asked. RC ( CtNhHi : New Haven Custom House Papers); printed form, with blanks filled by TJ reproduced in italics; addressed by TJ: “Mr. Abraham Bishop”; endorsed by Bishop. saturday the 17th : the next day, 18 Dec., Bishop attended a...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Bloodworth, 29 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the seed of the fly trap. it is the first I have ever been able to obtain, and shall take great care of it. I am well-pleased to hear of the progress of republicanism with you. to do without a land tax, excise, stamp tax & the other internal taxes, to supply their place by economies, so as still to support the government properly & to apply 7,300,000 D. a year steadily to the...
18From Thomas Jefferson to John Bradford, 24 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Bradford and returns him thanks for the specimen of rock-salt from the Missouri which he has been so kind as to send him, and which came safely to hand. PrC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. specimen of rock-salt : see Bradford to TJ, 29 Nov.
19From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Bradley, Jr., 6 February 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson will thank mr Bradley to inform him of the days & hours of departure & arrival of the mail between Washington and Milton, according to the establishment reverted to since Jan. 31. RC (Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Catalogue No. 48, 1970, Item 131); addressed: “Mr. Bradley Post office.” Not recorded in SJL . departure & arrival of the mail : Bradley was the assistant postmaster...
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 25 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Insert in some part of the paper of yesterday ‘Slaves shall be admitted into the territory of Orleans from such of the United States or of their territories as prohibit their importation from abroad, but from no other state, territory or country.’ salutations. RC ( DLC : Breckinridge Family Papers); addressed: “The honble Mr. Breckenridge.” Not recorded in SJL . Preceding four words interlined.
21From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 22 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract of a letter from a judicious & well informed American who has for some time been at the settlement of Natchitoches. ‘What kind of government would at first be most suitable & proper god only knows. it would be farcical to see a lawyer in a court of justice addressing a jury of them at present. with a few exceptions they have no other idea of any kind of government than a Commandant...
22From Thomas Jefferson to John Breckinridge, 24 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I thought I percieved in you the other day a dread of the job of preparing a constitution for the new acquisition. with more boldness than wisdom I therefore determined to prepare a canvass, give it a few daubs of outline, and send it to you to fill up. I yesterday morning took up the subject, & scribbled off the inclosed. in communicating it to you I must do it in confidence that you will...
23From Thomas Jefferson to William Brent, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The departure of mr Harvie for Europe within a day or two, will leave the office of my private secretary again vacant. a continuance of the same sentiments with respect to yourself, induces a repetition of the offer , under the possibility that the reasons on your part for declining it may not continue. I shall willingly admit every accomodation which may reconcile the few duties it will...
24From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Brown, [before 23 November 1803] [document added in digital edition] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of The Hon.ble Genl. Brown to dine with him on Wednesday the 23rd . inst at half after three, or at whatever later hour the house may rise. The favour of an answer is asked. RC (Nate D. Sanders Auctions, Los Angeles, May 2013, Lot 593); printed form, with blanks filled by Lewis Harvie reproduced in italics; partially dated; addressed by Harvie: “The Hon.ble...
25From Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, 15 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his respects to the Vicepresident and is sorry that an error of his Secretary mentioning Thursday the 17th. instead of Tuesday the 17th. in his note of invitation should have occasioned a miscomprehension of the day. mr Harvie wrote a note correcting his error, to the V. President; but lest it should not have been delivered Th:J. asks leave to expect the pleasure of his...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Louis Alexis Hocquet de Caritat, 20 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 16th. instant, with the Prospectus for the publication of General Collot’s travels through Louisiana & his account of that country. I willingly subscribe for a copy of it, and now return you the Prospectus which I presume will be published in the gazettes. although every thing respecting that country is interesting to the US. yet I suspect that the...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Mr. Butler, a Senator of the US. from South Carolina having a desire to get some White Hermitage wine, I take the liberty of addressing him to you and of mentioning at the same time that I recieved from your friend at Cette what you were so kind as to order for me. there were two qualities, the one of the crop of de Loche which made up nearly the whole of what was sent, which is not...
28From Thomas Jefferson to DeWitt Clinton, 2 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 26th. ult. has been recieved. mr Van Wyck’s appointment as Commr. of bankruptcy only awaits mr Sandford’s resignation. the papers in the case of Lt. Wolstencroft shall be recommended to the enquiries & attentions of the Secretary at War. I should think it indeed a serious misfortune should a change in the administration of your government be hazarded before it’s present...
29From Thomas Jefferson to George Clinton, 31 December 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 22d. written on the occasion of the libellous pamphlet lately published with you. I began to read it, but the dulness of the first pages made me give up the reading for a dip into here & there a passage, till I came to what respected myself. the falshood of that gave me a test for the rest of the work, & considering it always useless to read lies, I...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Moses Coates, 10 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 3d. and am glad that a workman has been with you to enable himself to build a sawmill for me on the model of yours. he is employed by a person who is to rent the mill of me. I have no doubt of the excellence of the plan. I have not yet seen your paring machine but will call at the patent office for that purpose. should I like it, where nearest could I...