26501Melatiah Nash to Thomas Jefferson, 24 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
having frequently observed the small degree of knowledge which prevails amongst mankind in general respecting the solar system and the Stars, and believing a general dissemination of astronomical knowledge would be of great utility, I am preparing for the press a small work, which, it is presumed, will lay a foundation for general improvement in that important science. But before its...
26502Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, 3 June 1809–23 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
1809. June 3. a beef purchased Apr. 15. weighing the 4. quarters 637 ℔ and another supposed to weigh about have lasted to this day, to wit 7. weeks. this is about 20.℔ of beef a day. Aug. 27. the two Canteens of brandy from Leitch . Aug. 29. 25.℔ brown sugar rec d from Leitch
26503From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 22 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I wrote to you upon fryday, but I do not now recollect what I have written. I know that my heart was full and my mind wrought up, to a pitch, beyond what it would bear. The Solemn Scene which presented to me, two Dear Relatives Sleeping in Death at the same moment, can never be effaced from my mind. upon Saturday I followed their remains to our own Tombs and Saw them dposited Side by Side,...
26504From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your kind letter of 17th. instant, informing me of the death of my dear and venerable father, and of the hopeless state of health of my dear Mother. I rejoice and am thankful that my father was not left to linger out a painful and solitary existence deprived of the dear partner of all his comforts. which It seems like a special interposition of the all–merciful hand. My...
26505To James Madison from Oliver Whipple, 22 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
22 October 1811, Georgetown. Has been unable to call on JM in person and, fearing that his prospects for either a consular appointment at Glasgow or an Indian agency are vanishing, seeks the position of sergeant at arms in the U.S. Senate, recently vacated by the death of Mr. Mathers. “Your Excellency has it in your Power, to do me essential Service, thro’ the medium & Friendship of the...
26506From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
The original of the enclosed did not go, as I had expected by the Cordelia; for she sailed on the very day that it was written, and before I could send it down to Cronstadt. But it was dispatched by the Hector, Captain Hetherington, which sailed, only three days later, for Providence—All the vessels which had arrived here during the regular season, are now gone—The last, or last but one that...
26507From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual Striking, affecting Providence have you been called to witness,—such as my Eyes never beheld—Very pleasant, & lovely through a long series of years, & in Death we may say, they were not divided—Together freed, their Gentle Spirits flew, to Scenes of immortal Bliss, we humbly trust—Thought can pursue...
26508To James Madison from Christopher Ellery, 21 October 1811 (Madison Papers)
Believing it proper to make a communication to the President of the United States, in its nature partaking of importance, I have adopted the mode best calculated, as it seemed to me, for the purpose, by inclosing the copy of a letter which I have written to several members of the United States’ Senate, of the republican party. The views inducing me to this act will be readily conceived from...
26509To James Madison from the Tammany Society of Brookhaven, Long Island, 21 October 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 October 1811. The society’s members have deemed it expedient to address JM “at the present very critical time & posture” of public affairs and to express their confidence in his talents and patriotism. “We are not unmindful of [the] enviableness of our condition.… Nor have we been idle Spectators of those events w⟨hich⟩ threaten our peace & hazzard our rights as an independent nation.” They...
26510Edmund M. Blunt to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me respectfully to beg your acceptance of Nautical Almanac for 1813— If consistent with rule of propriety may I beg your influence with Secretary of the Navy for his order for my Edition, to be used by the Officers— M r Garnetts Edition for 1813, contains no less than 45 errors, all of may I have pointed out. RC ( DLC ); between dateline and salutation: “Hon Tho s Jefferson”; endorsed...