11Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d your Letter of the 7 Ins t in due Course. I fear your Ideas as to the Intention of the Blockading Squadron will not be Realized—my opinion is that, it is intended, & will be permenant; except as to Bread Stuffs—and even as to that, unless they Should be necessitated abroad—which we have no right to believe will Shortly be the Case, as Various accounts from the Peninsula State the...
12Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I find there is to be a “physician” general of the arm. of the U. States —I have the vanity to think, that I am not entirely unqualified for that important place, by my age, my experience in practise, & my long experience as a teacher of a “practical” branch of medicine. Perhaps, I have some claim upon the government, as a steady supporter, so far as I can go, of the measures of the executive....
13Thomas Lehré to Thomas Jefferson, 23 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming upon your goodness I have taken the liberty to mention to you the nature of an application I lately made to the President . owing to the great sacrifices I have made for a number of years past to support the Republican cause in this State —The great increase of my family, and the pressure of the times, I have been induced, with the advice of my friends here, to offer my Services to...
14Thomas Paine McMahon to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of addressing you on a request which I hope you will be kind enough to comply with. I am the son of Bernard M c Mahon of this city and Wish to get an appointment in the Navy or Army of the United States . K Knowing that you were good enough to corresspond With my father , I thought you would be so good as to give me a few lines of reccommendation to the secratary of the...
15Samuel J. Harrison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Before the Rec t of your Letter of the 10 Ins t I had on the 19, Enclosed you a Dft on Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson for $1000. Supposed to be about as much as the Crop would amount to—But if the demand for the $250. at poplar Forest Should be pressing— you are at Liberty to direct m r
16Robert Patterson to Thomas Jefferson, 25 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your time-piece has been packed up, ready for shipment, in the manner you directed, for a considerable time. But as soon as our river was had been rendered navigable, by the breaking up of the ice, it was again stoped & still continues to be so, by a British fleet. I am therefore, Sir, about to set it up at my own house, as it will be better to keep it going than standing; & shall wait your...
17William Caruthers to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Kind Offer of a pair of Lambs I Will accept With many thanks I Will contrive Some Some Way to Get them Over & from your Discription of that Breed of Sheep I have Written to M r Randof to Save me all the Ewe Lambes he Will Spare, (for which I Will pay him his price) I Wish to commence a flock this Summer and We have paid no attention to improveing our Breed of Sheep in this country if I...
18John B. Colvin to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept the accompanying volume of “ Historical Letters .” I confess I am ashamed of the typographical execution of the work, the badness of which is chiefly to be attributed to its being published to the South of the Potomac . It is a reproach to that part of the United States that so useful an art as that of printing, should be there so much neglected, in point of embellishment,...
19Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Votre Equité, votre humanité, votre ançienne bienveillançe a mon Egard vous porteront sans doute a Excuser L’importunité a laquelle me forcent des circonstances impérieuses. … celle qui se présente aujourdhui et a laquelle vous m’avés recommandé vous même de Veiller, je veux dire LEnvoi d’un nouveau ministre en france justifiera je l’Espére la liberté que je prens de vous rapeller la promesse...
20Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 th ins t opened to my mind such a train of interesting ideas, that I could not resist writing you this, & enclosing you one of our Boston newspapers, containing a peice under the signature of an “ Independent Whig .” It will tend to confirm your opinion of our pretended fautores of science. More than a dozen numbers have preceeded this, some of them calculated to expose...