26881To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I recvd. your letter of the 5th, with pleasure & read it with satisfaction, as I always do, because I understand your politics, and because I see in them one uniform & everlasting principle that does not bend to the fashions & caprices of the day—Foolish people have cried out—“Mr Adams has changed his politics; he is no longer a federalist, but is changed to a republican.” I have as constantly...
26882From James Madison to Thomas Cooper, 8 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
By the return of the Frigate Essex, I have received from Mr. McRae on whom the Consulate at Paris provisionally devolved, an answer to my letter addressed to Mr. Warden on the subject of the Chemical books you wished to procure. I subjoin the requisite extract “A stranger & almost entirely ignorant of the language even of the Country, I have been obliged to avail myself of the aid of Doctr....
26883From James Madison to the Heads of Departments, 8 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison requests the favor of a consultation with the heads of Departments tomorrow (tuesday) at 12 oClock and that they remain to dinner with him. RC ( NHi : Gallatin Papers). Addressed to the secretary of the treasury. In a clerk’s hand. Another copy ( NjP : Crane Collection) is addressed to the attorney general.
26884From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. came duly to hand. You will have noticed in the Nat: Intelligencer that the wicked publication of Mr Smith is not to escape with impunity. It is impossible however that the whole turpitude of his conduct can be understood without disclosures to be made by myself alone, and of course, as he knows, not to be made at all. Without these his infamy is daily fastening itself...
26885To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 8 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of presenting you a copy of an Oration pronounced on the 4th inst. by my Son, as to its merit, I can only say, that I hope the imperfections & defects may be in some measure ballanced by the honest zeal of the author. The two Mrs. Coles were with us at our festival. They set out this morning for the District of Maine. Please to ask Mrs. Madison to accept the tender of my...
26886To James Madison from Jonas Humbert, 8 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 July 1811, New York. Apologizes for writing a long letter, but as one who supported the Jefferson administration, JM’s nomination, and the Embargo, he was “ marked two years ago as a victim , and lately sacrificed to gratify the Clinton faction in this City.” Has been prevented from acting in his job as an inspector of flour and meal, which has deprived him of the means to support his...
26887To James Madison from William Lambert, 8 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 July 1811, Washington. “A letter lately received from bishop Madison, inclosing a statement to him from Mr. Blackburn, professor of mathematics at William and Mary College, relative to a supposed error in the calculation of the longitude of that college, transmitted by you some weeks ago, has made it necessary for me to explain the objectionable part of the computation, by demonstrating to...
26888Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 8 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your letter of Mar. 1. by our yesterday’s post and by the it’s return of to-day I hasten a word of answer in the hope it may reach mr Barlow & mr Warden before they actually sail, which they are to do in the course of the week. it is principally to answer on a single point. you have thought my letters, while in office, rare, short & dry. they certainly were so. but it was purely...
26889Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 8 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your letter of Mar. 12. and learning by our yesterday’s post that mr Barlow & mr Warden will sail in the course of the week, I endeavor by this day’s return of the mail to get an answer into their hands before their departure. I feel very sensibly the reproaches of silence pressed in your letter. a few days before my departure from Washington (in Feb. 1809) I wrote you on...
26890James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d came duly to hand. You will have noticed in the Nat: Intelligencer that the wicked publication of M r Smith is not to escape with impunity. It is impossible however that the whole turpitude of his conduct can be understood without disclosures to be made by myself alone, and of course, as he knows, not to be made at all. Without these his infamy is daily fastening itself...
26891Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 8 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of the 1 st by our yesterday’s post and have hastily written the two inclosed letters to Mess rs La Fayette & Kosciuszko , the in the hope that the return of the post may still find you at Washington . I kept, during the last half dozen years of my residence at Washington a diary of the weather . I h
26892From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
Upon receipt of your kind letter of the 17th. ulto. I was too deeply afflicted by the information it contained even to thank you for it, as I aught to have done. I inferr’d from it that my dear mother had gone to join the departed spirits of her mother, her father and those other friends from whom she had been so long separated by death. It was A day or two pass’d before I was undeceived; so...
26893To James Madison from James Taylor, 7 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed I send you a letter I lately recieved from my friend Judge Coburn. It was intended for my sight alone; but as it explains the cause why he did not attend his Court in Louisiana last Spring, I had a wish that you should see it from under his own hand. This letter contains some expressions which so well comports with my own sentiments & feelings, as to our political & foreign relations,...
26894To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 6 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
Yrs. of June 21st. came safe to hand. I shall reply to it give you the echo of it in a few days. Not knowing to whom it is proper to send the enclosed packet from Lord Bircham, I have taken the liberty to address it to you. It contains (I suppose) a curious, heterogeneous oration by his Lordship delivered before some Americans in Edingh: on the Anniverrsary of General Washington’s birth day.—...
26895John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your esteemed fav r 29 th Ult o inclosed Order on Bank of Pensyl a —as well 3 d Bill of Ex— on Acco t of Gen l Kosciusko —respecting the latter— on paying my respects on the Memorable 4 th
26896From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
The K. of modern Babilon, mentioned in your Letter of the 2d, who was become as a Beast, and whose Kingdom was taken from him, because of the hardness of his heart: is not so beautiful an Animal as the Taureau blanc of Voltaire and it is to be feared will never be restored from his Brutality to his Humanity like him. The Layman I think cannot disguise himself from me, unless he Studies hard to...
26897To James Madison from Bossange & Masson, 5 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
5 July 1811, Paris. Acknowledges JM’s letter of 7 Jan. 1811 mentioning receipt of their edition of Homer’s Iliad . “The favourable admission you have given it by granting a place in your Library cause us to beg the same honour for the Second work of the Illustrious translator, La Jerusalem Délivrée.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Jérusalem délivrée; poëme traduit de l’italien , trans. C. F. Le Brun (Paris,...
26898From James Madison to James Jay, 5 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 5 July 1811. Mentioned in Jay to JM, 11 July 1811 . States that it would be agreeable to him if Jay’s request for permission to travel to Europe in a U.S. vessel could be granted but the secretary of the navy has made arrangements that will not allow private passengers.
26899William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
By the Mail of this day, I forward you a single copy of the Review of Montesquieu , I hope you will find it executed in a style of neatness not discreditable to the work nor to the American press. By printing it on a larger type and a smaller page, it might have been made a large volume, but I believe it will be considered as preferable in its present form by those who prefer a book for its...
26900To James Madison from Daniel Buck, 4 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1811, Chelsea. Presumes on JM’s “known goodness” to make “a few quiries, and suggestions.” Asks if there is reason to suppose that any nation endowed with superior resources and imbued with the rights of man can remain in colonial subordination “and suffer her resources to be drawn from her by a remote power.” Is it possible that Spain’s American provinces might return to a dependency...
26901To James Madison from James Chamberlain, 4 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1811, Mount Locust, Jefferson County, Mississippi Territory. “This strange app⟨licatio⟩n will I have no doubt surprize you—but dire necessity compels me to it.” Relies on JM’s “known philanthropy” to save him and his three children. Explains that he was ruined by the Embargo, although he approved of the measure. Shortly before it went into effect, he purchased property to be paid for by...
26902To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 4 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 July 1811, Paris. Sends two manuscripts that will prove his attachment to the country which has become that of his children and where he hopes to finish his days. One manuscript is a much corrected edition of his work on American finance that was sent to Jefferson last year. The other manuscript is the second, equally corrected, edition of his plan for American national education. Cannot...
26903Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
voici le dernier Volume des Œuvres de M r Turgot . vous y verrez parce quil écrivait au docteur Price et au Sage Franklin combien il aimait votre Patrie. Je fais passer à Monsieur le Président une copie corrigée de mon Mémoire sur les Finances des Etats-unis dont je vous ai envoyé la minute l’année derniere. Et aussi une copie corrigée de l’ouvrage que vous m’aviez demandé sur l’éducation...
26904George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I only yesterday received your favor of the 24 th ultimo .—the note however was in time, but had one hour only to spare.— I suppose that your letters must have been too late for the mail, for the dft to M r Lyles dft Lyle has not yet appeared.— the one to M r Higginbotham did, in due time.
26905To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have seen with very great concern the late Address of mr. Smith to the public. He has been very ill advised both personally and publicly. As far as I can judge from what I hear, the impression made is entirely unfavorable to him. Every man’s own understanding readily answers all the facts and insinuations, one only excepted, and for that they look for explanations without any doubt that they...
26906Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have seen with very great concern the late Address of mr Smith to the public. he has been very ill advised both personally and publicly. as far as I can judge from what I hear, the impression made is entirely unfavorable to him. every man’s own understanding readily answers all the facts and insinuations , one only excepted, and for that they look for explanations without any doubt that they...
26907Robert Rives to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Under cover you have Invoice of Books which my Son inform’d me you wishd me to order for you from London —I am inform’d they are ¼ tos instead of Octavo’s as order’d—and should they not please on that account it will be not the least inconvenience to me to keep them myself RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 20 July 1811. Robert Rives (1764–1845), merchant and planter, was a native of...
26908Horatio Turpin to Thomas Jefferson, 2 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by M r W m Harris the Grandson of your Old Acquaintance Col o John Harris of the Mankin town who wishes to go on board of the Navy and if you could by a letter to the President be instrumental in Obtaining a birth for him he would be thankful to you to do so, he is a young Gentleman of good morals addicted to none of the prevalent vices & I think I can with Safety...
26909To James Madison from Jacob Barker, 1 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
The duties imposed on Cotton imported into England from the United States in American Vessels were so much greater than on Cotton imported in English Vessels that when our ports were open to English Vessels it was very difficult to procure freights at low rates for American Ships while English Ships came here and procured good freights without delay, and it is now understood that the British...
26910To James Madison from James Jay, 1 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
The many failures that have happened in this City, have produced much distress among its inhabitants. I have not escaped unhurt. An anxiety to assist two persons who are dear to me, but who ultimately proved unfortunate, hath occasioned me to lose many thousand dollars more than I can afford. When friendship and affection have long held possession of a warm breast, prudential considerations...