182671To Thomas Jefferson from Jonathan Williams, 18 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to lay before you a proof Impression of the Diploma of the Society under your Patronage, which I hope will be considered as a favourable test for the estimation of American skill in the fine arts. The one belonging to you as a Member will be forwarded when the signatures of the proper Officers, who are at a distance from each other, can be obtained I have the honor to be with the...
182672From Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson leaves with mr Barnes a check on the bank US. D bearing date Aug. 5. 1808. for 1467.67 which he prays him to recieve on that day & dispose of thus. D for himself, to the credit of Th:J. 250. remit to Messrs. Jones & Howell of Philadelphia 282.67 remit to Th:J. by the Milton post of Aug. 5 . 935.
182673From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Dougherty, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum for Joseph Dougherty. July 19. 08. a check on the bank US. is given of this date for 42.74 to be paid to Cooper 18. Henry Ingle 15. Doctr. Patterson 9.74 42.74 Aug. 7. a check of this date is given for 112.50 to be paid to
182674From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a letter from an applicant for the Reciever’s Office at Steubenville, who says that Biggs has resigned. this fact is not otherwise known to me. if true, who ought to be appointed, and may the appointment be deferred till we meet again. I send you also information of the habitual breaches of the embargo laws on the Canada line. an extract of my letter to Charles Pinckney is...
182675From Thomas Jefferson to David Longworth, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Longworth. he has recieved mr Jennings’s book forwarded to him, and he asks the favor of mr Longworth to return his thanks to the author, & at the same time to accept them himself. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
182676From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I drop this line merely to inform you that it is still doubtful whether I shall be ready to set off tomorrow or not till the next day. but indeed should the weather be as warm as it has been for some days I doubt whether I should venture on the road as I believe it impossible the horses should stand it or even ourselves. this day however is moderate, and if it continues so I shall have the...
182677To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Smith, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16h. I have had the honor of receiving. I had the satisfaction of seeing Mr Gallatin but for a moment. From New York he is to inform me of the several points at which gun Boats will be necessary. On my part every attention will be given to those calls, but I fear my limited means will not enable me to go far. An order has already been issued to Decatur to look well to the...
182678From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have heard nothing of any books from M. Lasteyrie for the Philosophical society. Lieutt. Lewis sent me from him a treatise on the Cotton plant, and another on the Sugar cane, marked by the author as for myself, and so explained in a letter from him, wherein he says nothing of having sent any for the society. but as your letter did not pass through me, probably the books were sent through the...
182679From James Wilkinson to Henry Dearborn, 19 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed papers will explain to you the motives of this address—I deemed it improper to say any thing of my Accounts, while the opinion of the Court of Enquiry was unknown—This was not published before the 4th July, since which I have, with exception of three or four Days, been confined to my Room, and thus it happened I could not see you before your departure The first day I was able to...
182680To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bringhurst, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending thee an Address to the “Society of Friends,” respecting their political conduct. It is supposed by a member of the Society, & if my conjecture be correct, as to the author, he is a very active & substantial Friend of Chester County Pennsylvania—Such an address proceeding from a real Quaker must be grateful to thyself & the other members of the Administration—The...
182681To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "A Native American", 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former Letter I gave an Opinion Relative to the Situation of our Commerce and Recommended Arming in a Certain Way— alow me Sir to give Some further Opinion on that Subject as it is of the utmost Importance to our Country arming of our Merchant Ships in the Manner Recommended will not only supply the place of an Actual Navy but will Restore the Revinue which is of the first Consideration...
182682To Thomas Jefferson from William Pelham, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your desire I enclose a copy of Austin’s Essay on the Human Character of Jesus Christ. The price is 75 cents. From the smallness of the sum, its transmission by post may probably be more troublesome to you than it is worth, and it would be a real gratification to me to offer the book to your acceptance, as an original American work. I am Sir most respectfully Yr. humble Serv. MHi...
182683To Thomas Jefferson from James Riddle, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
often have I wrote you and allways witheld my Name. but from no Impropr Motives In all my Life hav I wrote you one Line—Livng as do in the Hotbed of Arastrecy and being an Independent. Crafts Man ( a Shoemaker ) have an apertunety of hearing and seeing Freinds and Enemys of our Present Provdencial Administration I Cannot but give you a hint of greivances we Lay under at Present—the Inclosed...
182684From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have put off writing to you to the last moment, and must therefore be short as I am just setting out for Monticello. yours of the 15th. is recieved. we fix your departure by the next vessel we send which will be in about 6. weeks. it will not be necessary for you to visit this place as mr Madison leaves it on Saturday. we highly approve the idea of calling your secretary our messenger & your...
182685To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 20 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Being informed that Mr Skipwith is about to return to the United States, and presuming that if war should not break out between them and France, some person will be appointed to occupy the same functions, I take the liberty of requesting you to name me his Successor. Tho’ I have not the honor of being personally known to you, General Armstrong, and my friends who have visited you at...
182686To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 21 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had several lettrs from my friends in the Town of Washington in this State respecting the Continental turnpike road from Cumberland to the Ohio—The information I have received that you have agreed that the Route shall go by Brownsville and it is about being agreed that the route from thence to Wheeling leaving the Town Washington some Four or Five Miles to the North—By this route the...
182687To Thomas Jefferson from James Sullivan, 21 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
When I received your letter of the 6th of may, in regard to granting certificates for flour &c, my state of health and other circumstances; urged me to decline a concern so laborious and responsible; but on communications with the friends of your administration I became assured, that as you was then in virginia, before any other person could receive authority from you, a scarcity would become...
182688To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Chisholm, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
it is my wish to inform you, how we are coming on with our work at this place we have burnt the bricks, and a fi[reier] kiln I never burnt in my Life, it contains seventy five Thousand we made the bricks for the Basis of the colloms and casts as I thought it would make a better Job than to Have them of wood we are at this time runing the staways, as for the Diging what I showed you at...
182689To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "My Name tis Virtue", 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson I am you Friend and therefore warn you of an unexpected event which will Tarnish your character to posterity. Therefore be on you guard and dont think little of this advertisement. A.B. is near unto thee— Remember James the first DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
182690To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Samuel B. Archer a young gentleman Of worth and a good republican, in passing by your Seat, feels a strong desire of paying his respects to you. He has intimated to me his wish—It is with pleasure I comply with it. Permit me to introduce him to you. Yrs with sentiments Of the highest respects & esteem DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
182691To Thomas Jefferson from James Pemberton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Solicitous to contribute my mite towards the further satisfaction of the President, I am again induced to furnish him with a second Report of the Committee of the African Institution lately established in London which has come to hand since my last communication on the same subject which, I perceive yielded thee gratification. with sincere wishes that Superior wisdom may continue to direct the...
182692To Thomas Jefferson from William Plumer, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
By the last mail I received your respectful note of the 3d instant, with a volume of documents respecting our foreign relations. For these interesting communications be pleased to accept my grateful acknowledgement. I have commenced the compilation of my history of this country. I have thought it necessary that the introduction should contain a concise view of the state of the world,...
182693To Thomas Jefferson from William Thornton, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed was written by the Chinese Mandarin in my presence, and the Translation I wrote as he delivered it me,—though not precisely in the same words, but as nearly as the Idiom would allow.—Your name he wrote himself, both in the Roman & Chinese Characters, with a Camel’s-hair pencil & Indian Ink. I am Sir with the greatest respect & highest Consideration yr. &c ViW .
182694To Thomas Jefferson from Punqua Winchong, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
This Letter to the great King, wishing Health, from his humble Servant the Chinese Mandarin I have seen your Portrait, and I admire the benevolence of your Countenance. I should have been glad to see the original and to have laid myself under an obligation for his permission to depart. Your Servant would not only thank the King but his God that he might leave this Country, and returning to his...
182695To Thomas Jefferson from David Bailie Warden, 22 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of acknowledging the receipt of your letter, of the 1st of May last, and of enclosing Regnier’s description of his Dynomometer . The plough was sent to Mr. Patterson of Nantes, who says he forwarded it in the Ship Ocean, in which Mr. John Mitchell went passenger. The letters, for your Correspondents, with the distribution of which I was charged, have all been forwarded, or...
182696From William C. C. Claiborne to Anonymous, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty to address to your Care, one Hogshead, three Boxes & two Cases directed “to the President of the United States,” and which were this day put on Board the Ship Comet, (Captain McNeil) bound for Baltimore.—The Hogshead & Boxes contain Curiosities which were collected by Captain Lewis in his Voyage up the Missourie; In one Cage , is a living animal, cal’ld the Wild Dog of...
182697To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu avec reconnaissance votre Lettre du 2 may qui s’est croisée avec celle que j’ai eu l’honneur de vous écrire le 25 du même mois. Cette derniere indiquait à votre Excellence ce que je crois indispensable pour la sureté politique de votre Pays. La nécessité d’une Artillerie nombreuse et mobile; La nécessité d’exploiter pour elle vos mines de cuivre et de Fer doux; La nécessité d’un...
182698To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Quince Hoskins, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received a letter from the Hon Mr. Granger, who requests that I should send to your Excellency, a copy of the Judgment issued by the Circuit Federal Court against me; and which Mr. Granger thinks, It is expectable that a pardon in my favour will immediately be issued; Annexed is a copy of my sentence, as delivered to the Keeper of the State Prison. I am Sir, with Respect,...
182699To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As the time of my departure is delayed as mentioned in your favor of the 20th. I should not so immediately have troubled you again, if it were not that I wish thus early to say, before any arrangement be made as to the vessel, how sollicitous I am that it should be a commodious & safe one, & therefore as large as the nature of the case will admit of. My marine indisposition is a thing...
182700To Thomas Jefferson from James Sullivan, 23 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with the greatest reluctance that I impose upon you a letter on our national concerns; I derive great relief from the consideration that the President is under no necessity, to read it, and, that merely breaking the seal and glancing on the superscription, will take but a moment’s time. You have been long in possession of my idea, that a strong party in the northern States are determined...