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10 June 1811, Washington. Acknowledges receipt of a letter from Robbins. “Its declaration of your principles & sentiments on certain subjects will have the attention which is due to the frankness and explicitness with which it is made.” Does not authorize “any inference from this assurance, that might prejudice any individual whatever in your estimation.” Printed summary ( The Collector , No....
10 June 1811, Washington. Encloses for JM’s “inspection and transmission, a communication to bishop Madison, relating to the longitude of William and Mary College from Greenwich, by computation from the end of the Solar eclipse of June 16th. 1806.” RC ( DLC ). 2 pp. Enclosure not found.
10 June 1811, New York. Observes that it is impossible to comply with his promise to write on everything that interests him. “As you expressed some curiosity to know how the Smiths &c would treat me, I requested Payne, who told me he was about to write, to inform you that I was treated quite civilly by them all, but that their displeasure with the President and yourself was very apparent.”...
Letter not found. 10 June 1811. Acknowledged in Jay to JM, 1 July 1811 . Discusses the smuggling of British goods from Canada into the U.S.
I have duly received your letter of the 3d instant. Its declaration of your principles & sentiments on certain subjects will have the attention which is due to the frankness and explicitness with which it is made. I ought at the same time not to authorize any inference from this assurance, that might prejudice any individual whatever in your estimation. Accept my friendly respects RC (offered...
I have just recieved a letter from mr Short authorising me to sell his lands in our neighborhood, and particularly desiring me to offer them to yourself and D r Bankhead . the I think it an excellent tract and well worth 12. Dollars. the times of paiment will be made entirely easy on paiment of interest. should D r Bankhead fulfill our wishes in providing himself a retreat here, I do not think...
M r Rives gives me reason to hope you meditate a visit to us in a few days, and he thought it might have happened yesterday. as I shall set out for Bedford about the last of the week, and am unwilling to lose the pleasure of your visit, I mention my meditated journey, in the hope it will bring you the sooner. I am the more interested in it as you were so kind as to say you would come over in...
I have been intending for some days to visit Monticello , & have been prevented from doing so by indisposition which has confined me at Home, & which I fear may still prevent me from executing my intention;—If however I am not worse I will be with you on Wednesday— The mourning Bride has not flourished well in our Garden, & I send 2 bulbs which were all that could be safely taken from the only...
I beg you will accept of another Letter of Your old & humble servant (Anthony Gerna formerly a Bookseller in Dublin ) who is sincerely attached to you, and would fain to be Helpful to Your Sacred Land.— I took the liberty about two Years since to write a few lines and handed them to M r Appleton , Consul at Leghorn , promising to forward them to you—I therein mention’d that I had left Dublin &...
The want of having a Consul in this Port of Civitavecchia who possessing the Language of the American Nation, should afford a proper Assistance to the Subjects of the United Estates of America , enboldens me to demand with all umility the appointement to that Office in my Behalf.— The sincere attachment that I have always had, even from my earliest Years towards the United Estates , and for...
I recieved yesterday yours of the 6 th informing me of the sale of part of my flour at my lowest limit of 9.D. you must be so good as to consider that limit as removed. it was originally proposed at a season when I was satisfied the market must come to that notwithstanding momentary depressions. but the season is now arrived when the approach of harvest must necessarily lower the demand &...
In your favour of the 9th of this month, you request a Copy of the first page of your Letter to me, “about a month since.” How time flies? Your Month has been three months. You have been so happy that three months have appeared but one. The Copy you desire is as follows. Cambridge March 12 1811 Dear Sir I here Send for your Perusal The Preface to the Botanist. The Publisher has print off a few...
Your letter of 15. Feby: which was brought by Captain Brown, of the Washington, and which I received on the 23d: of last Month, gave me the first intelligence of those afflicting Events the Death of Mrs: Hellen and Mrs: Norton—I received it early in the morning, and was thereby enabled to communicate it to my wife and her Sister, with as much preparation as the nature of the case would...
I received a letter a short time since from a Mr. Jacob Ogden Jr., a native of this State, now residing at Havana, informing me that he contemplated establishing himself in business, either at Buenos Ayres or at Monte Video and expressing a wish to be appointed consul at one of those places. With regard to the expediency of such an appointment I have formed no opinion. I have had very little...
I herewith send you a piece of Ore that is supposd to contain Silver, which was lately found near the Mississippi River — this ore was given to me last Month by Major Henry C Gist of Logan County Kentucky , with a request that I would deliver it to you my self, and to know of you whether you cou’d get a Skilful hand to extract the Metal. but my being compelled to be in Winchester the day after...
Your favor of Mar. 22. came to hand on the 28 th of April, and the delay of an answer has proceeded f rom the circumstance of mr & mrs Logwood’s residence in another county. I now inclose you the documents which your letter called for. from an expression in the powers of Attorney, that ‘the monies were to be paid into your hands for my use’ it might be inferred that I was interested in this...
I have been informed you want A private secretery. if so I would be happy to serve you in that capasity; I am driven by reduced circumstances to decline the study of the Law. and now wish to place myself in such a situation as would as would enable me to devot part of my time to s t udy while with the other I would earn it. If you should want a young man of this discription you will do me the...
I Shall now make an experiment, if I can dispell a malignant Spirit of gloom, which hovers about me, without any other incantation besides acknowledging your both Favours of the 4th and the 9th of april with which I was So kindly honoured by you. Indeed—Sir! this intercourse is nearly the only pastime left me in my deep retreat and then mÿ Situation imperiously often forbids me to indulge...
If I have not already, too much trespassed upon your attention, permit me to observe, that the commercial Interests of the United States, are now unrepresented in Portugal. The consulate office, in consequence of the absence of Mr Jarvis, has become vacant. If it comports with your feelings & does not interfer, with the arrangements of Government, I should be happy, through your personal...
12 June 1811. Lists items “Bot. of Joel Barlow,” including seventy-three bottles of burgundy “called Clos de vegiot” at $1.50 per bottle; twenty-one dozen of porter and ale at $2.25 per dozen; eight bottles of “Old Chateaux Margaux this is the same wine as is usually sent to the President from Bordeaux with the difference that this has been in bottle 5 years,” at $1 per bottle; “2 Cases...
Yours of the 24th April came regularly to hand with A check for Twelve dollars for which you have credit—the reciept of it ought to have been acknowledged sooner but we have been so much engaged that it has been neglected— We think mr. Rapine must be mistaken in saying the Acc t was paid in February 1808—We have examined our books very carefully but find no account of it besides it does not...
Act I. Scene I. Mr: Adams’s Study Mr A: Who is there? Dr: R—a friend— A—Walk in.—Ah! Rush is that you? Where have been these two Months—? You seem to have forgotten your old friend Adams. R. Forgotten my Old friend Adams!—No Sir—that is impossible. I owe more to your friendship than I ever owed to any human Being, except to my excellent mother, and to my beloved and faithful Wife. A. What is...
I received a few days since, your kind letter of 11. January, containing the distressful intelligence of the heavy misfortune which had them just befallen you, in the loss of your nearest and dearest friend. Sympathizing with you sincerely in this severe dispensation of Providence, my concern is much aggravated, by the account you give me of your own state of health, and the anticipations...
I yesterday received inclosed in a letter from M r Griffin , S. J: Harrison’s dft on G. & J. at 25 days sight for $:2731. 99 100 , which at maturity will appear at your credit.— No more of your flour has arrived.—I rather suppose if you have time to look over our letters, that you will find you have been advised of the sale of the whole of it. As the amount will lie useless in our hands, we...
I take the liberty of recommending to you M r Veltenair , who wishes to take likenesses from some of your busts, he is an ingenious artist, an excellent musician, and a person who I think merits attention RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 14 June 1811 and so recorded (with notation: “by Veltenair ”) in SJL . Christian veltenair was an itinerant artist, inventor,...
The Tammany Society, Or Columbian Order of Wigwam No. 1, whence the other four branches in the state of Ohio have originated, Unanimously requests leave to address you, at the present momentous Crisis of our public affairs. They have not been indifferent spectators of the trying and difficult scenes, which you have had to pass through, as Executive of the National Government. The unjust and...
14 June 1811, London. Asks that JM consider this letter “with mingled feelings of justice and friendship”; however, if his official conduct has been weighed and found unworthy, asks that JM “treat this essay with silent contempt.” The reasons for his departure were known to few, but “the interruptions of commerce” have disappointed his hopes, and he is now engaged in enterprises requiring...
I have received your letter dated the sixth of February last, and was very much delighted to see it so well written; because I know that it was written by yourself.—I have marked it down, number one, and put it upon my file—When your next letter comes, and I hope that will be soon, I shall compare the hand-writing with that of number one, and shall see what progress you make in writing. I...
15 June 1811. “The Grand Jury state to the Court that they have received representations on the oaths of credible persons that Nancy Gerry a free mulatto girl about Eight years old, was during the month of May last Sold as a slave by Samuel Askum, to Oliphant of Georgia, to which state she is presumed to have been carried, said Oliphant being an Inhabitant of Georgia. The Jury request the...
I would take the liberty to recommend to your attention & friendliness the bearer of this note M r Cephus Shekell —He resided for Eight or ten years immediately in my neighbourhood & one of my f nearest neighbours, and there never lived a more industrious, good manager—or a more worthy, honest character— I hope you are well and enjoying all the pleasures of an a happy and honorable retirement—...
If I mistake not I have already acknowledged your favor of May 29. which brought the first information of the republican ascendancy in your Legislature. It was little to have been supposed that at this date I should be obliged to repeat that we remain without authentic information of a decisive character from both F. & G. B. This is the fact nevertheless; and it is very questionable whether...
I have lately recieved a letter from Mons r Beauvois of Paris , a literary friend & acquaintance of mine, who passed several years in the US. of which letter I give an extract on the next leaf. I am anxious to serve him in the case there stated, but find it necessary first to obtain correct information of the facts and transactions which have taken place in the case in this country, and the...
As my object is to deposit as much about information concerning an interesting period of our history, as remains in my possession, and that they may not be scattered like the season’s leaves and like my friend Samuel Adams’ papers, I think it proper to send you some other copies which happen to be in my power.— To B Franklin, Esq. Paris, 5th June, 1782. Sir—Mr. Laurens, while under confinement...
Letter not found. Ca. 18 June 1811. Mentioned in Dolley Madison to Anna Payne Cutts, 20 June 1811 (MHi): “This Morng. Mr. M has a short letter from John at Drummond Town near the Capes of Virga. He has been unwell there, but promises to ‘be with us in a few days, when he will explain the causes of his sudden return &. &.’”
I am without any of your favors since that of the 4 th April — Answered the 15 th — on the 25 th I had the Honor of inclosing to you M rs Beckleys letter to me , respecting her Brothers unfortunate
We yesterday got up the wooden frame of our Pier-head compleat, and this morning mr Salmonds begins the stone-work. he will get to the spring of the arch this evening, or tomorrow morning before you can reach this from mr Madison’s . I must pray you therefore to be with us tomorrow forenoon, the earlier the better. on arriving at the Pier head you will find your attendants on the spot, the...
I have taken the liberty of informing You of our safe arrival in this country on the 22d of May—it being past the season for making a crop an object I thought it best to hire out our negroes and rent a House in this place which I have succeaded in beyond my utmost expectation, in consequence of this arrangement I have had an opportunity of seeing many parts of this state also the County of...
19 June 1811, Philadelphia. Wrote to Barlow some weeks ago soliciting through him “the appointment to a Consular Office, Agency, or some similar object in England.” Has been informed by Barlow that JM expressed himself “in terms which command the utmost respect and gratitude which I can feel.” Hesitates to trouble JM again, but is on the eve of departing for abroad. “It was my intention at the...
I have the Honor to Enclose herewith a packet delivered to me at Cagliary by the professor Director General of His Sardinian Majesty’s Cabinet of Natural History , at Said place, which accompanies a Box Containing Natural Petre productions of the mentioned Island — which will be forwarded to you sir, by William R Lee Esq e Collector at Salem — who will at the same time Send on One quarter Cask...
The letters by Mr. Ewing have arrived—And among them I have to acknowledge the receipt of your numbers 1. 2. and 3. of the new series, dated 20. 22. and 31. Jany. together with your account to the close of last year—I have already acknowledged the receipt of your number 4/13 and I have within a very few days recd: your 5/14 dated 3. March. In one of my late letters I sent you an exact list of...
I have not been unmindful of you my Dear Friend, nor of each member of your worthy family since leaving your hospitable Mansion, where christian graces adorn the possessors. My delay in writing in hopes of sending the promised Receipt has been in vain, for it has been to no purpose that I have repeatedly searched for it. However I do not regret it so much as I otherwise should do as the Root...
I have recieved yours of the 10 June for which both my father and myself render you our gratefull acknowledgements. he thanks you sincerely for the information you have given him of Mr: Shorts intention to sell his land & to be remember,d by you will ever impose a debt of gratitude upon me, a debt which my heart most liberally repays. I should have answe rd you before this, but for the...
I inclose an acc t of the sales of 547 bbls of your flour, together with your acc t current to this day, the last shewing a balance against you of $:2671. ⁴⁰⁄₁₀₀ .— Deducting this sum from the 5800$ obtained from the bank, (which is partly to be paid off with Harrisons dft, and the balance to be continued) leaves $:3128. ⁶⁰⁄₁₀₀ for which you are to draw.—You can likewise if you think proper...
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Peter Minor and sends him a bottle of oil of the last expression, in the wooden press placed under the beam of the cyder press. it’s colour shews it preferable to the Iron press; and the ease with which this press is made is a further encoragement to the culture of the Benni. Th:J. will not make seed this year, owing to his having sowed it with a...
Your letter of the 11 th may reached me by the last mail: from which I learn with considerable regret, that M r Crafts changed the resolution he had formed, of passing by Monticello on his return to New york . That Gentleman’s politeness & intelligence would have been an excuse for the haste & apparent negligence with which I had ventured to address you. From your letter, I am led further to...
As Charité commens par soi même, or as We more elegantly express it, as Charity begins at home, I shall first resent the domestic part of your dramatic Dialogue, of the 13th. The prosperous and promising Circumstances of every Branch of your Family gives me unfeigned Pleasure. The only exception is to be deplored, but not in despair. Richard is my Friend by a Sort of Inheritance. He cannot...
I write to you by every opportunity altho I hope you will have left St Petersburgh before this can reach you, but as there admits of a possibility that you may be Still, there, I know it will be a great gratification to you to learn that your parents are Still living, and in health. your children too are well, and Good Children which is of more concequence than mere animal enjoyment. I have...
I thank you for your polite communication of the Speech to your Legislature. The solid & seasonable truths so emphatically inculcated in it, can not fail to do much good. The noise & anger which it is exciting, prove that the faction is deeply stung by the exposure of its guilt, and will increase the public indignation, by rousing a more diffusive attention to the subject. The delay of Mr....
We your brothers and children Send this letter by our grandson and relation, having first talked with him and one of our White brothers, and now desire that you would listen, and accept the good wishes of myself and My chiefs, and of all your children at Green Town. Father & brothers You have often Wished me and my Chiefs to come and See you, as I have been told by my White brothers; We have...
The Inhabitants of New Bedford, legally convened in Town Meeting, Respectfully represent: That an active Commerce is highly conducive to individual prosperity, and the most productive source of national wealth and improvement. The well founded expectation, that a prosperous commerce would be a primary object of the political cares of the national administration, to whatever hands it might be...