26301Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu par M r Barlow , et avec bien de la reconnaissance, votre Lettre du 15 avril . Un Homme comme vous peut être retiré des Places, jamais des affaires. Vous êtes un Magistrat du Genre-humain. Tant mieux Si l’établissement des Manufactures dans votre Pays ne vous oblige pas de changer le Systême de vos Finances aussi promptement que l’on paraissait avoir lieu de le craindre. Mais le cas...
26302From Grand Master of Ceremonies of the Russian Court to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Le Département des Cérémonies a l’honneur d’annoncer à Madam Adams qu’Elle est invitée, ainsi que Mademoiselle Johnson, sa soeur, au Bal de Sa Majesté l’Impératrice Mère, le 12. de ce mois, à huit heures du soir. MHi : Adams Papers.
26303To James Madison from Washington Johnston, 11 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 December 1811, Vincennes. Encloses a memorial from both branches of the Indiana territorial legislature “upon the subject of the Army lately under the Command of Governor Harrison.” RC and enclosure ( DLC ). RC 1 p. Signed by Johnston as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Docketed by JM. For enclosure, see n. 1. Johnston enclosed a five-page memorial, dated December 1811, to the U.S....
26304Richard Barry to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now under the necessity of calling on you for the ballance of my account if convenient I would not trouble you now but I am building a House in front of F and 12 th Street three Story which I find that it will exhaust my little resources Indeed, Sir if I thought it was putting you to an inconvenience I would not trouble RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”; endorsed by...
26305From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I feel Some Compunction, when I recollect the long time that has passed Since I wrote you a Line. Indeed I Could take no pleasure in Writing, nor you in reading continual Narrations of Wounds Bruises, Sicknesses Amputations and Deaths, among those you Love, as I did with the most ardent and well merited Affection. I could only recommend Epictetus’ Antoninus, and St Paul, all of whom you know...
26306From James Madison to Willie Blount, 10 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of Novr. 23. covering an address from the Legislature of the State of Tennessee. The patriotic sentiments which it expresses are an honorable sample of those which animate the great body of our fellow Citizens. The wrongs which have been so long borne by our Country, in the hope that a sense of justice and the true policy inseparable from it would have put an end to...
26307To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 10 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
As a Citizen of the United states, I feel it my duty to give you the following information. I trust that the nature of the communication I am about to make, will equally remove the idea of delation or mischief towards the individual; but if such were the impressions it is to produce, as my only object is to serve the Country and yourself, my personal respect for you shall outweigh this...
26308To James Madison from the Inhabitants of the Michigan Territory, 10 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 December 1811. “Dissatisfactions with the aboriginal inhabitants of these countries, [which] have been for some time engendering,” have “been kindled into an open flame, and their blood with that of the American citizen has stained the plains of the Wabash; the first which has been spilt in the north western territory, under public authority, since the pacification of Greeneville” on 3 Aug....
26309David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of informing you, that I forwarded, to their address, the letters which you were pleased to confide to my care. That, for Mr. Mazzei , was forwarded to him by Mr. Cathalan , of Marseilles — I inclose a letter , from Mr Walsh , in reply to that you sent by me. General La Fayette says, that he will write to you by the frigate—
26310To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 9 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
You have touched me in a sore place in your letter of the 4th instant. My Son Richard has accepted of the Office of Comptroller General, and is about to remove with his family to Washington in the Course of this month. Both his parents, all his brothers and Sisters—his Uncles Rush & Richd Stockton, and all his professional and personal friends remonstrated against it. I painted to him in as...