26421Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 4 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved by yesterday’s post your favor of Oct. 31. and I hasten, by it’s return to say in answer to your enquiry that it is not necessary that you should make any particular tender of services to Col o Monroe , altho you may be assured he knows you too well to ascribe it to any unworthy motive, for I know from himself that he holds you in high respect. My experience in the affairs of the...
26422Thomas Jefferson to William R. Lee, 4 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved information that there came addressed to you, for me, from mr Baker , our Consul at Palma , a cask of wine, a box, of marble, one of olives & one of almonds, which you have been so good as to forward on to Alexandria . the object of this letter is to thank you for your attention & trouble with these articles, and to pray you to forward to me a note of any expences they may...
26423Thomas Jefferson to Charles Simms, 4 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved information that mr Lee , the Collector of Salem has forwarded for me to Alexandria by the sho Schooner Jachin , W m Silver
26424From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 3 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I owe to your Friendship, a Letter of thanks for the interest you take in whatever concerns me or mine. I know your Sympathizing Heart will hasten to pour the balm of consolation into the afflicted Bosom of your Friend, when you learn that my dear and beloved Sister is numberd with the dead. this is an event which my mind was in a measure prepard for, from her long Sickness, but I had not...
26425Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel H. Hooe, 3 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day desired mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit to the bank of Fredericksburg subject to your order 131.D. for the hire of Tom & Edmund the last year, to wit, 74.D. for Tom , and 57.D. for Edmund . his death taking place on the 18 th
26426From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 2 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
Be pleased to accept my cordial congratulations on the felicity of your Family in the arrival of your Son and Daughter from Europe. The Doctor will be the Staff of your Age and you will be the Guide of his youth. The Daughter and her Infants will be the delights of her Mother as well as her Father. For myself, clothed as I am in the Sable, I may without repining, acknowledge the Seventy Sixth...
26427To James Madison from Robert Williams, 2 November 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 November 1811, Washington, Mississippi Territory. Offers to fill a judicial vacancy in the Orleans Territory occasioned by the death of Judge Mathews. States that he is making this application because some of his “most respectable neighbours & acquaintances” are about to relocate in the Opelousas and Attakapas, and they wish that he “should make one of their number, & fill this appointment”;...
26428From John Adams to Munroe & French, 1 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of the 31st of October and regret with you the loss of part of a Page of Manuscript. Upon a careful revision of all the materials I have, I find myself utterly unable to recollect enough to supply the deficiency. As I have no Clerk, Secretary or Amanuensis I am obliged to write all with my own hand, which with my dim eyes and trembling fingers is so painful an...
26429Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 November] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Notes on President’s message sheet page 1. 1. Do the words “considerations drawn from the posture of our foreign affairs” afford a satisfactory reason for the earlier meeting of Congress? 4. The additional proofs of the repeal of French decrees are mentioned only incidentally & not as a distinct subject; and the mention of the Naples cases (subqt. to 2 Nover apparently under those decrees & at...
26430From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I heard last Evening of the melancholy event, and sincerely sympathize with the afflicted family I send you some peices of crape they are rusty, but the best we have. if you attend the funeral, and want a Bonnet, if mine will answer and my crape cloak they are at your service—I intended to have asked You here to day to have past it, with mrs Cushing and Caroline, but a melancholy duty calls...