183401To Thomas Jefferson from Jerôme, Comte de Pagowski, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Un Auteur Danois Mr. Matte Brun établi à Paris à eû l’impertinence de calomnier ma Nation dans son Tableau de la Pologne, que Vous avés certainement lu. Ne pouvant endurer ses injures, j’ai cru de mon devoir de les relever, et de faire insèrer ma réponse dans le Journal de l’Empire. Le Redacteur Mr. Geoffroi ami intime de Mr. Matte Brun n’ayant point voulu s’y prétter, je pris le parti d’en...
183402From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Vacancies having happened, during the last recess of the Senate in the following offices, I granted commissions to the persons herein named to them respectively. as these commissions will expire at the end of the present session of the Senate, I now nominate the same persons to the same offices respectively, for appointment. to wit Hart Massey of New York, Collector of the district of Sacket...
183403To Thomas Jefferson from United States Senate, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, a statement, shewing the number of vessels which have departed from the United States with permission between the 22d of Decemr. 1807 and the 30 Septemr. 1808, specifying the names of the vessels and their owners, the size of the vessels, the date of their clearances, the ports or places for...
183404To Thomas Jefferson from United States Senate, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate, copies of all the orders and decrees of the Belligerent powers of Europe, passed since seventeen hundred and ninety one, affecting the commercial rights of the United States. Ordered, That the secretary lay this resolution before the President of the United States. Attest, DLC : Papers of...
183405To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Truman, 14 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
We Destroat Seamen of Philadelphia Petitioners to you Honour Thomas Jeffarison President of the united States We Humble Bag your Honur to Sum weekly allowance Sir at as Hard times pon us Seamen your Honur Nos 50 or 60 Coasting vissels will not Carry 4 or 5000 Seamen Out of this Port Sir we Humble bag your Honur to Grant us destras Seamen Sum relaf for God nos what we will do your Petitioners...
183406From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of the 10th. and will remit you the monies therein desired the first week of next month. you have not mentioned whether the note to mrs Carter is in part of the 113. barrels of corn, or whether it is an additional sum and for what. as soon as Castor recovers so as to be fit to ride, and is in good order I wish you to swap or sell him as well as you can, and...
183407To Thomas Jefferson from William Armistead Burwell, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Dctr William Upshaw of Virginia wishes to obtain the appointment of Hospital or Regimental Surgeon, in the Service of the US; I am well convinced from the concurrent tistimony of his acquaintances, of his capacity, & from my own knowledge of his merits; he maintains in Society, as a Physician & Man, a character which it is desirable to introduce among those employ’d by the Gov’t—for one I...
183408From Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson incloses to mr Dinsmore the acknolegement of the bank of Richmond of a deposit to his credit of four hundred & fifty Dollars. he will make a further deposit in the same place about the last of December or 1st. of January for mr Dinsmore & one for mr Nelson, because at that time he will be entitled to recieve money in Richmond and so will avoid the risk of the post which is worthy...
183409To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Both Mr Madison & myself concur in opinion that considering the temper of the legislature or rather of its members, it would be eligible to point out to them some precise & distinct course. As to what that should be we may not all perfectly agree; and perhaps the knowledge of the various feelings of the members & of the apparent public opinion may on consideration induce a revision of our own....
183410To Thomas Jefferson from James Lewis, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am about to Remove to the State of Tennessee have been wrote to by two particular Friends of mine to try to procure from you a pair or two of your Large Fowls. I believe they are called the Chiniesee Fowls, however they are the largest kind you have, I also wanted to procure a few Roots of a Rose Bush that Stands in the yard on the East Side of the House they are of Various Colours write me...
183411To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Munroe, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In the year 1794, the then Commissioners of this City convey’d to James Greenleaf One thousand Standard Lots on the personal responsibility of himself Robert Morris and John Nicholson, whose Bond was taken for the purchase money, amounting to Eighty thousand dollars. This money not having been paid, a Bill was filed in the Chancery Court of the State of Maryland, before the Jurisdiction of...
183412From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am often placed before the Senate in an awkward situation by errors, which are not my own, but of the gentlemen who give me the names of persons for office. in my message of yesterday I nominated Charles James Jouett Surveyor &c. yesterday’s post brings information that his name is James Charles Jewett wherein besides a misplacing the two first names there is a mispelling of the third. I...
183413From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12th. is recieved. the circumstance which has guided us in fixing on the subjects of study for my grandson has been the exclusive possession of Philadelphia of your Museum, the Anatomical dissections & mr Hamilton’s garden. add the Surgical operations at the hospital. I thought these would fill up his whole time; but as it is thought they will leave him time to attend the...
183414Memo on Letter to Charles Willson Peale, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
wrote to C. W. Peale on the following subjects. T. Jefferson Randolph to attend the chemical lectures. the hospital to send me a polygraph to use while he should repair mine. I sent the copy as a specimen of it’s imperfections. congratulns on the return of his son. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183415From Thomas Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday yours of the 11th. & rejoice to hear that all are well with you. I inclose a letter from Dr. Wistar the perusal of which will be agreeable to your Papa & Mama as it respects Jefferson; & to your Papa what relates to the Mammoth, return it to me. I am glad to hear that the sweet scented grass got safe, altho’ the pot did not. the sooner you put it into a larger box the...
183416From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
1. Can we do better as to Nantucket than to send Coffin’s letter to Govr. Lincoln? he is better qualified than we are to judge of their wants & their real views. their proposition to give a carte blanche to all their coasters, besides being suspicious, might be an invidious distinction to which I do not know whether their general character entitles them. if you can suggest any thing better I...
183417From Thomas Jefferson to John McAllister, 16 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am extremely satisfied with Dr. Franklin’s method of fixing the spectacles, by composing each glass of two half glasses of different magnifying powers, and those you made for me answer perfectly except that the frames being circular, the glasses are always twisting round & bringing the seam between the two halfglasses in the way of the eye. to prevent this the frame should be oval. I send...
183418To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Williams, 16 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have So frequently addressed you touching the attempts of a Certain party here to embarrass this administration, and to work the distinction of the individual who is charged with it, that I feel a degree of diffidence in addressing you again on that Subject.—Neither Should I Now do So, but an attack has been lately Made of a Nature too Serious in its insinuations Not to be Noticed if Not for...
183419To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Bacon, 17 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 15th. I have received. The note to Mrs. Carter is for 63 barrils corn baught of Nicholas Jinneany who is one of Mrs. Carters tenants. (I have baught of another man, by name of John Pace due in Febuary 20 barrils more at 9/6 the barril (I am offerd 100 barrils more at the same price Provided I would give a draft to Mrs. Carter on you for the money payable the 10th. January. (if...
183420From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 17 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am really at a loss what to do in the inclosed case. the President as trustee for the city by it’s constitution, is nominally the plaintiff. but the US. as creditors to more than the whole amount of the proceeds of the sale, being really the Castui que trust, I believe it will be more correct for the trustee to abandon the management of the case to the creditor. if so, it will fall under...
183421To Thomas Jefferson from Willis Alston, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith you are presented with 2 petitions or recommendations in favour of the appointment of Jordan Shepherd as collector at Washington (NC) in place of Keais decd. I feel no interest in the appointment whatever I shall be satisfied at which may succeed I am your most Obt St DNA : RG 59—LAR—Letters of Application and Recommendation. The death of Mr. William Keais the late collector of the...
183422To Thomas Jefferson from John Benson, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Will Mr Jefferson Accept, of a haunch of venison, and the good wishes of his old friend MHi : Coolidge Collection.
183423From Thomas Jefferson to George Blake, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose you the petition of Paul H. Shippey in the state prison of Massachusets under sentence for forgery, with the papers forwarded to me in support of it; and I ask the favor of your opinion and that of the judges who sat on his trial, whether in consideration of the portion of the punishment already suffered, of his conduct since the sentence, of the dispositions he manifests, or of any...
183424To Thomas Jefferson from James Carver, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding through the medium of the public prints, from Washington, as well as through private and respectable information, from characters well versed in Military Tactics, that a probable change in the military System of this County, is about to take place, I take the liberty of tendering an offer of my Services, as a master in the Art of Military Equitation,—a branch of Science in which...
183425To Thomas Jefferson from James Dinsmore, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favours of the 7th & 15th inst with their respective inclosures have come safe to hand for which I return you my best thanks. I have examined everey place I could think likely for them to be and could not find the thumb levers for the Bells; I also find only two Bells except you count the large Dinner Bell as one of them. the two that I have seen are on the book shelves as you enter the...
183426To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
No vessel with a cargo can be permitted to touch at Havannah, as such cargo would undoubtedly be landed or taken by the Spanish Government. To any vessel going in ballast with Anderson there can be no objection. I do not understand how the U.S. have any immediate interest in the sale of the city lots any more than in that of any other city property. The city owes to the U.S.; & all the lots...
183427To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The several appropriations made at the last session of Congress for the progress of the work on the Public Buildings, have, during the late recess of the Legislature been applied to their specific objects in the manner which I now beg leave to report to You. 1. South Wing of the Capitol In this wing all the wood work & the covering of the Roof have been painted,—the Iron railing of the...
183428To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
From a beleif that Dr Upshaw’s professional talents eminently qualify him for Hospital or Regimental Surgeon, and from a persuation, I might add confidence, that he will ably perform the duties appertaining to that station.—I take the liberty of recommending him for that appointment. I cannot forbear to mention a nother highly valuable qualification in favor of Dr Upshaw—He is a sound,...
183429To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I gave the keys of the wine cellar in to Dinsmore’s hands who promissed to superintend the botling of the wine. if the bottles and corks hold out would you wish them to begin upon any other cask? and which should have the prefference? Your letter to Ann was forwarded by the same post. she left us the monday before only, in a state of such extreme dejection at the sepparation from her family...
183430From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 18 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
You will percieve in the inclosed petitions a request that I will lay them before Congress. this I cannot do consistently with my own opinion of propriety, because where the petitioners have a right to petition their immediate representatives in Congress directly, I have deemed it neither necessary nor proper for them to pass their petition through the intermediate channel of the Executive....
183431To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 19 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The situation of the United States has become very uncomfortable, and presents disagreeable prospects as to revenue, internal order & harmony, foreign trade, supplies and the maintenance of peace. It is a time for every honest latitude in the freedom of discussion. When public authority is present and entirely respected , the faithful and well disposed citizen may disclose his hopes &...
183432To Thomas Jefferson from Wade Hampton, 19 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty to introduce Capt. Ingram to you. He is a respectable merchant of this City, and a man that with firm American Principles unites an active and enlightened mind. I have the honor to be Sir, Yr. most obt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183433To Thomas Jefferson from Pseudonym: "The Old Traveler", 19 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellence will pardon and old Traveler, that is a Native of Germany, never learnt English at a School, taking the Liberty to lay before the great Father of the United States; the enclosed Observations made on Yourney. I would have given this mite to the News papers circulation; but the illiterate Style and Simple Term of Writing, feared and Sceared me. The confidence have in the great...
183434To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 20 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a sketch of my report on the public buildings. I will wait upon you on Tuesday in hopes of receiving your instructions on this subject With the highest respect I am Yrs. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183435To Thomas Jefferson from John Wrenshall, 20 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
As you are about, voluntarily to resign the important helm of the union, and from your elevated, though critical situation descend with honours, to the dignity of a private citizen—we thought it a duty incumbent on us, to express the high opinion we entertain, of the valuable services you have renderd to your country. We were told by your enemies, on the commencement of your Precidential...
183436To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Ball, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency will please recive, this second Edition of my feeble efforts in the field of literature—through this medium.— The honorable testimony of approbation to my first, manifested in your Excellencys Note of the 3d. April Ult—acted as a stimulus to my exertions to present this second, acceptable to the various classes of respectable patrons.— If I have in any degree contributed to...
183437To Thomas Jefferson from William Armistead Burwell, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
From letters I have seen from Richmond, It is reported that some friend of yours, wrote a letter which was shewn, intimating, that the Embargo would be taken off. in consequence of this intelligence Tobo rose to eight Dollars. that your crop was sold under this delusion, to the ruin of the purchaser. You are not for a moment to suppose I credit the report. on the contrary I know it false, &...
183438From Thomas Jefferson to Va. Baptist Associations of Chesterfield, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the General meeting of correspondence of the six Baptist associations represented at Chesterfield in Virginia. I thank you, fellow citizens for your affectionate address, & receive with satisfaction your approbation of my motives for retirement. In reviewing the history of the times through which we have past, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction, on reflection, than that which...
183439From Thomas Jefferson to Jabez Fitch, Jr., 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved with great pleasure the address of the republicans of the state of Connecticut, & am particularly sensible of the kindness with which they have viewed my conduct in the direction of their affairs. having myself highly approved the example of an illustrious predecessor in voluntarily retiring from a trust, which, if too long continued in the same hands, might become a subject of...
183440From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am quite at a loss what to propose in the case of Astor, and also of Nantucket. the difficulty in the last case is that of getting ourselves entangled with selectmen. I would be glad to confer with you on these subjects when it may be convenient to yourself having been confined myself for some days by a swelled face & indisposition connected with it Affectte. salutns NHi : Papers of Albert...
183441To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Latrobe intended to have waited on the President this evening, but as he has returned the report, with his approbation, he will immediately cause two copies to be made of it, & then wait upon the President with them.— The Weather has for two days prevented the Gates being put into the Walls. If fair tomorrow the breach will be made & the Gates fixed.— DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183442To Thomas Jefferson from Hezekiah Rogers, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have it in charge from the President of the United States Military Philosophical Society to present you a diploma of membership. The execution of this honorable service is peculiarly gratifying, as it affords me an opportunity of assuring you of the high consideration and respect with which I have the honor to be Sir Your most Obt Servant ViW : Jefferson Papers, Tucker-Coleman Collection.
183443To Thomas Jefferson from John Paul Schott, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having from September 6th. 1776, bore a Commission as Captain in the Army of the United States—and being sent by order of Congress to General Washington at New-York I was annexed to Colonel Knox’s Regiment of Artilery where I remained ’till January 31st. 1777, when I recieved orders from General Washington to raise an Independant Corps which I commanded untill Apriel 1782—when all Independant...
183444From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 17th. is recieved. you may proceed to the purchase of the other 100. barrels of corn @ 9/6 drawing on me for the amount paiable to mrs Carter on the 10th. of January. if I understand your contracts correctly they will then stand thus. mr Meriwether 12. Dec. 10. mrs Carter for Giannini for corn 105.
183445To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Lewis Bankhead, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel considerable diffidence my dear sir, in complying with your request so friendly & so flattering to me. But “mauvais honte” can have little weight when combated by gratitude, by affection & by all the warmer feelings of my nature. In addressing you I therefore submit myself exclusively to those impulses of feeling which encroach upon no sphere purely intellectual, because they are alike...
183446From Thomas Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friendly intimations to me as to matters respecting myself, never need an apology. I know them always to proceed from the kindest motives, & am thankful for them. I have had too many proofs of the interest you take in what concerns me to have a doubt of this. but the story from Richmond is one of those unfounded falsehoods which assail me regularly in whatever direction I move. mr...
183447To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose sundry letters which will I hope be sufficiently intelligible. Indisposition prevents my writing more at large. I wish to have the Nantucket letter, signed I believe by Coffin, which stated the vessels that might be trusted. You did not return it; and it would assist me in checking special applications. Respectfully Your obedt. Sevt. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
183448To Thomas Jefferson from William Keteltas, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Consulate at Tunis, being Vacant as informed by a friend, solicituous to serve, and Releive Me from the Embarrasments Love of Country And A Devotion to Your Administration has plunged Me in—An appointment to that Trust, would Give bread to My family, Gratify My wounded feelings, under the prosecution of the Clinton Administration in this State, and be Remembered With Gratitude.—If the...
183449From Thomas Jefferson to James Lewis, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 15th. and by this post desire mr Bacon to let you take roots from the rose bush you mention as also to have you furnished with one pair of the East India fowls. our stock will not afford more & we have constant applications from other quarters. I wish you a pleasant journey and prosperous establishment in your new residence & salute you with esteem & respect....
183450To Thomas Jefferson from James Pemberton, 22 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope thou duly received my letter of 22d 7 mon. last covering a Copy of the Second Report to the African Institution in London which was forwd. ⅌ Post. This is intended to convey to thee one Copy of Clarkson’s History of the Slaves Trade &ca. agreeably to thy directions which I esteem an interesting Compilation and expect it will meet the Presidents approbation when leisure will permit his...