158971From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 24 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for your attentions to Capt Lewis while at Philadelphia and the useful counsels he recieved from you. he will set out in about 4. or 5. days, and expects to leave Kaskaskias about the 1st. of September. he will have two travelling months which will probably carry him 7. or 800. miles up the river for his winter quarters, from whence he will communicate to us, in the course...
158972To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 24 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To depart from Washington without taking leave of you was extreemly unpleasant to me; but I found it impossible to separate the real motive of such a visit, from the apprehension of an imputed one, which, to those not well acquainted with me, would but illy accord with a decision of character, and the events of the day had placed me in a very delicate position. Being now out of the way of any...
158973To Thomas Jefferson from Rensselaer Havens, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Under date of the 28th April last I receivd a Letter from my friend Mr. Frederick Jenkins at Havre de Grace , stating that the commercial Agency for the United States at that place was then exercised by deputation and that he was desirous of obtaining the appointment—to promote his wishes I have procured such Letters of recommendation as I am pursuaded will receive attention—and if the office...
158974Report from John Lenthall, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Rough Stone work done to the South Wing of the Capitol June 20th to 25th 1803 All the walls of the three fronts and the inside piers and backings of the Arches raised to the commencement of the free Stone work, making together, about 102 Perches MS ( DLC ); in Lenthall’s hand and signed by him; endorsed by TJ: “Capitol report of work. June 20–25. 1803.”
158975To Thomas Jefferson from David A. Ogden, on or before 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
You are a Clever Fellow. If you send an answer direct it to David A. Ogden No. 33 Broad Street New York RC ( DLC : TJ Papers, 141:24486–7); undated; addressed: “Sir Tom Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as an anonymous letter “signed D. A. O.” received 25 June 1803 and “nothing” and so recorded in SJL . David A. Ogden (1770–1829), a native of New Jersey, became active in New York government as a...
158976To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Priestley, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
As you were pleased to think favourably of my pamphlet intitled Socrates and Jesus compared , I take the liberty to send you a defence of it. My principal object, you will perceive, was to lay hold of the opportunity, given me by Mr. Blair Linn , to excite some attention to doctrines which I consider as of peculiar importance in the christian system, and which I do not find to have been...
158977To Thomas Jefferson from John Sergeant of New Stockbridge, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Parish Subagent for Indian affairs of the six nations informes me that Mr Irvine the Superintendant having had no instructions from the war office to pay over to me the proportion of the Annuity coming to the Stockbridge Indians, he therefore don’t feel himself authorised to do it untill further orders. By looking at Col: Pickerings Treaty with the six nations, your Excellency will find the...
158978To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 25 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you a letter from the Dutch Commercial Resident Heinekin—The Commn. alluded to is a letter of 21. Oct. 1802 to the Socy. accompanying three Numbers of the Flora Batava , (we have now 6) executing by the order of the Batavn. Govt.—also by a list of which I have the pleasure of Enclosing a Copy, of plants, the Bat. Govt. desire to be procured under the direction of our Socy.—as those...
158979To Thomas Jefferson from John Strode, 26 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
There are many and many Thousands as well as myself, (Good & Worthy Man) who Needeth not any Vindication of the Measures of the present administration, the Rectitude of its principles, purity of its motives & Energey of intellectual faculties form and complete a character whose fair resplendant fame will Reflect everlasting Lustre on the present Age; nor can malignancey however deep and...
158980To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 27 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Je joins ici une lettre que j’avais donneè pour Votre Excellence au Général Bernadotte, et qu’il vient de me renvoyer depuis que la Négociation terminée sans lui, et la Guerre qui peut rendre utiles ses talens militaires, l’ont engagé, non sans regret, à renoncer à son Ambassade auprès de vous. Celui qui lui suceede, Mr. de Laussat, a êté mon Collegue au Conseil des Anciens , quoiqu’il fut...