154351To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 5 January 180[1] (Jefferson Papers)
An uncommon alarm has been spread here that congress were to annul the Presidential election. I had sent to the Examiner a piece on that business, when upon the arrival of this news, I was advised to withdraw it, untill I should see if it was true! my answer was: “it is a part of my constitution, it is interwoven with my intellectual existence, that the greater opposition is, I become the more...
154352To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hichborn, 5 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I coud not leave this place without intimating to you a Circumstance, which gives me some little uneasiness—Colo: Burr is in the house with me & Genl: Smith from Baltimore has been here—I am convinced that some of our Friends, as they call themselves are willing to joine the other party in Case they shoud unite in favor of Colo: Burr—I was informed as I passed thro’ Willmington that Mr Bayard...
154353To Thomas Jefferson from John Hoomes, 5 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I saw Mr. Eppes a few days ago who informed me you were in want of an elegant saddle horse, I have one to dispose of, that I purchased for a friend in Philadelphia; my anziety to get that gentleman a very fine horse prevented my making a purchase for him so soon as he wished, & he has supplyed himself there, for which reason this horse is for sale. I think him the finest horse I Know in the...
154354From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 5 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you a power of attorney respecting mr Short’s canal shares to supply the place of the former one supposed to be mislaid. this will authorise you to recieve the money now paiable, and to act for him in every thing respecting his canal interest. the money is immediately to be transferred to this place to mr Barnes who is instructed to make a peculiar investment of it. I happen at...
154355To Thomas Jefferson from James Kyle, Jr., 5 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do Congratuelate you; As Preasedant of the united States in avance; to despotssem; you do fill the chair; of the Brave General Washington, May you be found in virtues; far to Exseed; But at the filling of his Sate I was greatley afraid; that another; would Preside; The united-States, in concord is under your Command; I hope by virtues; conduct you will Rul; in Hieroglyphicks bright; from a...
154356To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 6 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Some strange reports are circulating here of the views of the federal party in the present desperate state of its affrs. It is said they are resolved to prevent the designation by the H. of Reps. of the person to be president, and that they mean to commit the power by a legislative act to John Marshall, Saml. A. Otis or some other person till another election. I cannot believe any such project...
154357From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Harrison Smith, [6 January 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson sends mr Smith Cobbett’s 1st. number of his Porcupine , in which he may find some matters worth publication. his address will convince those, who were duped by him here, what his true character was. there are two important rules of order past by the Senate which must be inserted in the Manual under the head of treaties. Th:J. must therefore borrow the M.S. a little while. MS (...
154358To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed 3, Cks. Amt $243.50 I hope will meet your wishes—I could Value my self on my Correspondt. Mr John Richards—as—I have more than the Above Amt still in his hands— your watch is already—with the Watch Maker—I have sent to you ⅌ the bearer, five dollar, in small change not very readily—to be had. here— I am sir your Obedt. H. svt RC ( ViU : Edgehill-Randolph Papers); at foot of text:...
154359To Thomas Jefferson from Robert R. Livingston, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Van Benthuysens solicited that I should receive your favor of the 12th . by a safe conveyance, & some of his domestic arrangments prevented its reaching me till yesterday, just as I was preparing to answer your former letter which I delayed till I could with certainty offer you my congratulations on the happy effects of the republican exertion, & my wishes for your happiness for such a...
154360From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker, 7 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I took before I left home a note of the amount of your nail-account, which was £33–16–3. but omitted to draw off a copy of it that I might now furnish it to you. this shall be done on my return. in the mean time I inclose you an order on Gibson & Jefferson for 47. D. 30. C. say £14–3–9 making with the above nail account the sum of £48. which I was to pay you for mr Randolph. We have little...
154361To Thomas Jefferson from William Arthur, 8 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Be not offended (though you may be surprised) when you receive this from an individual whom you do not know, & of whom, perhaps, you never would have heard, had he not, after much hesitation, & with almost invincible reluctance, resolved to write to you; An individual, who has no ambition to be regarded in any other view than as a minister of the gospel, & can plead no excuse for his present...
154362To Thomas Jefferson from James Currie, 8 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. your last communication in regard to Mr Ross’s last remarks, in due course of post, & forthwith, communicated to Mr Ross your wish, he closed immediately with it, & requested the papers might be submitted—without farther Observations from him. my having been very much indisposed prevented My—laying the papers—before the gentlemen till the day before yesterday—they are apprised that...
154363To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Pinckney, 8 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you some weeks since informing you that after the finishing some indispensable public Business important to the continuance & increase of the republican interest in this state I should go to Charleston & proceed from thence by Water either to Baltimore or to Washington as passages offered—Since this I am concerned to inform You that in my way down from Columbia stopping at this place I...
154364From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Richardson, 8 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago your letter of Dec. 22. and on the 5th. inst. I wrote to mr Jefferson, and now inclose you an order on him for 550.16 D say £165–1. to be applied as follows . for Henry Duke for { Simon £21–10 Stepney 20–10
154365To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will pardon my having sent you revises, instead of clean Sheets of the thing now printing; a freedom inexcusable in any circumstances but mine. I Cannot get my printer to work, although I am actually paying him ready money , as he goes on. So that the whole Sale of the Season will be lost, by the delay of revising the Sheets ! I mention this, Sir, that You may not think me addicted...
154366From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 9 January 180[1] (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for thinking of me when you got the copies of Rabaut & Meyer , and I now inclose you John Barnes’s check on the bank of the US. for four dollars, the sum noted. should you possess Dumourier’s account of his campaigns, Carnot’s or Madame Roland’s books, I will thank you for them, by the stage, noting their cost which shall be remitted in the same way.—you will render a...
154367From Thomas Jefferson to David Jackson, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised Doctr. Wardlaw to pay you for him in the beginning of this month one hundred and sixty dollars & a half , for which I now inclose you John Barnes’s check on the bank of the US. a line of acknolegement will probably be satisfactory to Dr. Wardlaw. I am with much esteem Dear Sir Your most obedt. servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Doctr David Jackson”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso....
154368To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5th. is but this moment received. I hasten to inform you that it will be perfectly agreeable to me for you to draw in favor of Mr. Lyle, & of Mr. Tazewell, for the 2000$: you mention; indeed I hope you will not have waited for this permission. There certainly can be no delay in the receipt of the money from the James River company. the amount I cannot ascertain to night, but...
154369To Thomas Jefferson from James Monroe, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recd. sometime since a letter from P. Carr intimating a desire to act as yr. private Secry. in case you were elected President, provided you were willing to accept his service, approved it as an eligible measure on his part, and other circumstances suited. I declined writing you on the subject in expectation of seeing him first and dissuading him from it, from a persuasion as he has a family...
154370From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. came to hand yesterday. I suspect that I mistook our post day when I first arrived here, and put the letters you mention into the post office a day too late. I shall be glad if you will mention when that of the 1st. instant gets to you, as well as the present & future letters, that if there be any thing wrong in the post I may get it rectified. the mail for Milton is made...
154371To Thomas Jefferson from Simon Chaudron, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’attendais pour repondre a L’honneur de Votre lettre , qu’une occasion de Vous envoyer Votre Montre se presentat. J’ai manqué d’une heure celle que Vous m’aviez indiquée, et depuis ce tems Mr Letombe consul de france m’en fait esperer une, dont le retard s’accorde mal avec L’impatience que j’ai de Vous servir Je joindrai a la montre un dessein dont Mr Barralet Vous fait Lhommage, et peut être...
154372From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Copland, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
As I have occasion to write soon to mrs Randolph , I would ask the favor of you to take the trouble of informing me by a line what sum you have received from mr Grymes for her, what sum you have remitted, and whether she may expect soon any further & what remittance? which will oblige Sir Your humble servt PrC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Mr Charles Copeland”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso....
154373To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to learn from the person, who left you on the 31st. instant that you were then well. The Situation of our post office is a great evil. It has occasioned me to be very guarded in my correspondence for some time. I have missed two letters, one of which related to private business of very great consequence to myself, and others. The republican interest of the United States have...
154374To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to day received of the Treasurer of the James River company £160–15—as at foot, & which I have applied to the credit of Mr. Barnes. I will by next post forward your account to the end of the year & am Dear Sir Your Very humble servt. Reimbursement of two fourths of the principal lent the company—(a further proportion of one fourth having been determined to be reimbursed since my last...
154375To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, [10 January 1801?] (Jefferson Papers)
I Have Not, this Long While, Had the Satisfaction of a Line from You—it Was on My Emerging from Captivity that I Received Your Last Letter , dated Six Years Before, when You Heard of My Leaving the Mountains of Auvergne for the Command of an Army—You were foretelling the Successes which the European Revolution, the Institution of The National Guards, and My personal Situation Seemed to Have...
154376To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The important election has been so far favorable for the Republicans; you & Mr; Burr have 73 votes each, and the House of Representatives must, on the second Wednesday in the next month, chuse one of you two for President. As it appears from the explicit & honorable conduct of Mr; Burr there will be no competition on his part, it is reasonably to be expected that there can be no difficulty in...
154377To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs Browne having been detained at Fredg for some time, I did not receive your favor of the 19th. in time to be conveniently acknowledged by the last mail. The succeeding one of the 26th. came to hand on the 7th. instant only, a delay that fixes blame on the post office either in Washington or Fredg. In all the letters & most of the newspapers which I have lately recd. thro’ the post office,...
154378From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised to procure for the Chevalier de Freire , minister of Portugal an account of our manner of cultivating tobacco so detailed as that a person might, by it’s instruction, pursue the culture with exactness. I always intended to have got two or three judicious planters to state to me their methods, which I should have noted down, and out of the whole have made out one. I now see that it...
154379To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
We are all well except Martha: she has frequent slight indispositions which she attributes to incipient pregnancy and yet has not resolution to wean Cornelia alltho’ she is so robust as to have got her mouth set with teeth without our notice. Martha will yield to our persuasions and separate her shortly I am satisfied. I have nothing to say on your affairs unless that Lillie is likely to make...
154380To Thomas Jefferson from Dr. John Vaughan, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The friendly manner in which you received my late communication induces me to resume the privilege of addressing you, to mention a few incidents respecting the unfortunate dilemma in which we are placed. Mr. Bayard, our representative, has lately written to a friend here, that “the Federalists in Congress talk of supporting Mr. Burr, & that it is in his power to give the casting vote”: &...
154381From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 10 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should sooner have acknoleged your favor of Dec. 8. but for a growing and pressing correspondence which I can scarcely manage. I was particularly happy to recieve the diary of Quebec, as about the same time I happened to recieve one from the Natchez , so as to be able to make a comparison of them. the result was a wonder that any human being should remain in a cold country who could find...
154382From Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Burling, 11 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should with great delight deliver myself up to the investigation of the subject proposed in your letter of Dec. 28. had I a right to my own time. but that belongs to the public and is fully engaged in objects far less agreeable to me than those I am obliged to abandon. you seem however so well acquainted with the object on which you are engaged that I dare say you will attain it without...
154383From Thomas Jefferson to Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 11 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of Dec. 28. and shall forward it to mr Littlepage’s brother, for the satisfaction of the family. it is I believe a twelvemonth since I have had a letter from Genl. Kosciuzko. but I had an opportunity of hearing some particulars of him from General Davie, one of our envoys lately returned from Paris. he says the General is in tolerable health, is considered as the head...
154384From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Moss White, 11 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few only of mr Morse’s papers from Danbury, not more I believe than 2. or 3. and do not recollect to have seen the pieces signed the Enquirer to which you allude in your letter of the 1st. inst. I shall with pleasure read the pamphlet you send me, and I pray you to accept my thanks for it. if I can be instrumental in extinguishing the feuds which some late occurrences have excited...
154385From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Anthony, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised that on my return home I would examine & see what paiment I had made to mr Trumbull for the double pair of prints for which I paid you a moiety of the price. I found that on the 17th. Apr. 1790. I gave him an order on Leroy & Bayard, (we were then in New York) for six guineas which was paid & the order returned to me with his reciept & now in my possession. I presume therefore that...
154386From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your favor by Doctr. Carey together with the American Monitor , for which be pleased to accept my thanks. I have no doubt of it’s utility as a school-book as soon as the pupil is so far advanced as to reflect on what he reads, and that I believe is in an earlier stage than is generally imagined. I concur with you in the importance of inculcating into the minds of young...
154387To Thomas Jefferson from Claudine Cenas, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Lyons, France, 12 Jan. 1801 . TJ’s great reputation prompts her to write in regard to the estate of Gaspard Cenas, who died in Philadelphia about two and a half years ago. Gaspard’s father François Cenas, who lives in a home for elderly people in Lyons, is unable to pursue inquiries with regard to the estate. The writer, the Widow Durand, is François Cenas’s daughter and has taken up the...
154388From Thomas Jefferson to William Dunbar, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 14. with the papers accompanying it came safely to hand about the last of October. that containing remarks on the line of demarcation I perused according to your permission, and with great satisfaction, and then inclosed to a friend in Philadelphia to be forwarded to it’s address. the papers addressed to me, I took the liberty of communicating to the Philosophical society....
154389To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive your account inclosed, made up to the end of the year; from which you will observe there was then an apparent balance in your favor of £1147–19–3. from this deduct £813–19–9 not due from M. & F. until the 1st. of April next, and the real balance which was then in our hands will be found to have been £333–19–6. I have heard of a small draught of yours in favor of James Lyon ,...
154390To Thomas Jefferson from George Jefferson, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
You will observe from your acct which I forward herewith, that you are not charged with the 50$: which I some time ago paid for you; this I omitted because I did not like there should be any appearance of mystery in pecuniary matters betwixt us. The order therefore I return inclosed. If you do not choose it should remain until I have the pleasure of seeing you—it will not now be inconvenient...
154391To Thomas Jefferson from John Jouett, Jr., 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am an old inhabitant of this Country and have been the Greater part of 17 years employd in the publick service and I flatter myself I have Dischard my Duty to the satisfaction of my Country and With Credit to myself & I niver did Ask or Except any off[ice] to which any pecuniary emolument has been annexed. I do [now] sir solicit the appointment of Marshall for the Kintucky District having...
154392To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Sayre, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I address you this Letter, upon a presumption, that you must, in a short time, become our chief Majestrate. I cannot believe the faction, who wish to disappoint the nation, are hardy enough, to make the attempt. It is on a subject, which must, I concieve, appear important to you, because, it is, highly so, to our country—therefore, I trust, you will not deem it premature, to offer it, thus...
154393To Thomas Jefferson from John Breckinridge, 13 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Indulge me in congratulating you, and felicitating my country, in your election to the presidential chair. Few events, if any, have given this remote, but republican portion of Amea., such real & universal pleasure. To myself, who am now consigned by my country to a six years Service in an office, many of the important duties of which are so intimately connected with this high and important...
154394From Thomas Jefferson to James Lyle, 13 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. inst. is at hand. that also of Aug. 18 was recieved in September. I deferred answering it in expectation of recieving & remitting the paiment of the year, but the instalments for my tobacco were not paid up till I came here, at which time a new circumstance was coming on the preparatory expences of which obliged me to throw the paiment which should have been made to you...
154395To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Brent, 14 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
some days since I received a letter from Mr Wm. Brent, a young Gentleman resident in the City of Washington who is a much esteemed and near relation of mine requesting that my solicitations might be added to those of his other friends in order to obtain for him the honor of being appointed your private Secretary in the event of your succeeding to the Presidency of the Union (of which every...
154396To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Brown, 14 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is expected by a great majority of the Citizens of Kentucky that Mr Samuel McDowell, who is Marshall for this District will not continue to hold that important & lucrative Office. Whether the Marshall himself has been guilty of improper conduct, as an Officer or not, remains doubtful; but it is most unquestionable that his Brothers, who were his Deputies, have repeatedly exacted large sums...
154397To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Lewis, Sr., 14 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Was I not well convinced of the goodness of your heart, and the commisseration you feel for the distressed, in every Situation of life; but more especially when importuned from such dreary mansions, I would not have presumed to intrude upon your time, to read the Story of misfortune, or dwell upon my unfortunate lot; not mine alone; but with it is involved the miseries (constantly poured out,...
154398To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 15 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have already by this Eveng Mail remitted Messs: G & J. $384.43, and Credited Mr Shorts a/c 535.83 is $920.26. to your debit, which presume will meet your wishes.—On the 12th. Inst: I, remitted said Gent: $148.48½ Mrs Keys 5th. and last installmt:— with great Esteem—I am sir your Obedt: H st: RC ( ViU ); written on a scrap of paper bearing faint impressions of other text, probably in...
154399To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 15 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By Judge Lincoln, my dear Sir, I embrace a favorable opportunity of acknowledging your very friendly letter of the 26th of Janry. 1799; but permit me previously to give you some information in regard to this gentleman. Mr. Lincoln is an eminent lawyer in this State, & his professional talents, are accompanied with a humane & benevolent disposition, pure integrity, great liberality, & unsullied...
154400From Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, 15 [January] 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6th. came to hand this day, and I am much obliged to you for thinking of me on the occasion. you mention that in [91.] you purchased a share of one of the Hendersons as valued by mr Watson & Snelson and that two others have offered you their shares on the same terms. I will very gladly be the purchaser if you will be so good as to negociate it for me, but in your own name. I...