26901From James Madison to David Gelston, 16 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 July 1811, Washington. “The smallness of the sum, and the probability that it might be augmented by some further advances, have occasioned a delay in remitting $11.81. due to you, as intimated in your letter of Octobr. 5. last .” Encloses a draft for the sum on the Manhattan Bank. RC ( NNMus ). 1 p. Docketed by Gelston. See PJM-PS Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison:...
26902From James Madison to Lafayette, 15 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 15. by the Essex came safely to hand. I can not disapprove the disposition you have made of a portion of your land on the Mississippi. And it will be extremely grateful to me, if the residue should prove as good a fund as has been estimated by the most sanguine of your friends. I can add nothing on this subject to what I have heretofore said, having received no information...
26903To James Madison from Morgan Lewis, 15 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
I take the Liberty to enclose you an Account of a celebration of the fourth of July, to shew you the Temper which endeavours are making to excite in this quarter. The Toasts, considered in connection with those given by the Baltimore party at Jones’, shew decidedly a concert between the malcontents there and here; and that the present vice president is on the List of those to be abandoned . I...
26904Dolley Madison to Anna Payne Cutts, 15 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
15 July 1811. Discusses the financial difficulties of her brother, John, after his return from Tripoli and announces that he will not accompany Barlow to France. “You ask me if we laughed over the Smith Pamphlet. Mr. M did, but I did not. It was too impertinent to ex[c]ite any other feeling in me, than anger. He will be sick of his attempt when he reads all that will be replyed to it.”...
26905From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I hope my Dear Sister’s Fibres are not so relaxed by the late intense heat of the weather, as not to be able to hold a Pen, & by her communications inform, comfort, & eddify her anxious Sister, & Friends—I was agreeably supprized by receiving two very kind letters from our good Brother Cranch, since my return to Atkinson—They gave me a very gratifying account of our dear Sister’s gradual...
26906To James Madison from John Stark, 13 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 July 1811, Derryfield. Introduces the bearer, Benjamin Franklin Stickney, whom he mentioned last fall. “He is about five feet nine inches high; has blue eyes, light brown hair, and is a little marked with the small pox.” As Stickney has tendered his services to the public, he does not think it proper to engage in any business that may prevent his immediate attention to any directions JM may...
26907Philip Turpin to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r William Harris has inform’d me of his intention of making a tender of his services to his country in the naval line, and has requested a letter of recommendation to you: this request I have cheerfully complied with, as I have known M r Harris from his infancy, and think him a young gentleman of merit and respectability, and doubt not his inclination or ability to deserve well of his...
26908From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Charge of “Change of Politicks” hinted in your Letter of the 8th, deserves no other answer than this, “ The Hyperfederalists are become Jacobins, and The Hyperrepublicans are become Federalists . ” John Adams remains Semper Idem, both Federalist and Republican in every rational and intelligible Sense of both those Words. What shall I say of Mr Dexter? Rara Avis in Terris nigroque Similima...
26909To James Madison from Isaac Cox Barnet, 12 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 July 1811, Paris. “For nearly fourteen years I held the appointment of Consul for the United States in this Country.” Believes his impartiality and integrity in the discharge of his duties are beyond suspicion. Encloses a letter exhibiting the sentiments of those who can judge his conduct. Also appeals to the testimony of “Mr. Monroe and Mr. Bowdoin late Ministers plenipotentiary to France...
26910To James Madison from Charles Livingstone, 12 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 July 1811, Boston. “We deem it a duty, as good subjects, to make such private Communications as may tend to avert the evils which may arise from Mr Smiths late unwarantable attack on your Character.” Much has been said by the two parties at Boston on the measures of government, and “so much will be expected to be said by way of Calumny … that little solid advantage can be derived from any...
26911James T. Austin to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
A citizen who holds in most exalted respect the illustrious character of the late President of the United States begs leave to enclose a pamphlet, written with a view of supporting the laws & constitution of the Country— and seizes this only occassion in his life of expressing the most devoted admiration of RC ( DLC ); dateline beneath signature; at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq r ”;...
26912Thomas Jefferson to Mary Lewis, 12 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mrs Lewis and sends her a few figs some figs, of the few which come forward at this season. if she has cucumbers to spare he will avail himself of her kind offer of them, his own being not yet advanced, and the drought of May & June having left him without lettuce. RC ( ViU : Peter Coolidge Deposit); dateline at foot of text. Not recorded in...
26913John Milledge to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your esteemed favor of the 5 th of last month — I was apprehensive that Monticello , and its nieghbourhood would be too cold for the bene, so as to make it a profitable article of cultivation for Market—If you can raise a sufficiency of seed for your own use, it will be, in my opinion, as much as can be done—accept my warmest thanks, for communicating your different essays at...
26914To James Madison from James T. Austin, 11 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 July 1811, Boston. Asks if JM can spare the time to read the enclosed pamphlet, written by “a zealous admirer of his administration.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Austin very likely enclosed a copy of his pamphlet, written under the pseudonym of “Leolin” and published on 30 June 1811, Resistance to the Laws of the United States; Considered in Four Letters to the Honorable Harrison Gray Otis (Boston,...
26915To James Madison from Richard Brent, 11 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 July 1811. “Mr Alexander Scott of George Town has by letter informed me that he is an applicant to Government for a Consulate to Tunis.” Scott has asked him to give JM his opinion on the application, and he willingly complies. Scott is a “steadfast Republican” and is not only fit “for a Consulate to Tunis but perfectly qualefied to discharge the duties of a much higher diplomatic Station.”...
26916To James Madison from James Jay, 11 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
11 July 1811, New York. Expresses his disappointment at receiving JM’s letter of 5 July . Explains his circumstances and background for the benefit of the secretary of the navy, who “may probably be ignorant of my history.” Gives an account of his life, beginning with the collection he made in Great Britain for Columbia College before the Revolution and his decision to support the cause in...
26917Benjamin Galloway to Thomas Jefferson, 11 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of troubling you with the inclosed Papers . I shall continue to animadvert on a Steady Patriot , from time to time. his grand object is to influence the approaching choice of Electors of the Senate of Maryland . our Citizens in Washington County are true to the principles of July 4 th 76 —but, an attempt is now making to debauch them. I have placed myself in their...
26918From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
We are in the midst of the bustle of a removal—I wrote you some time since that we were in the predicament of having the house in which we live sold over our heads—afterwards I told you, as I was told by my land l ord that the bargain was broken off, and we should remain in the house—About ten days ago my Landlord came and informed me that it was sold, and that if I could go out on the first...
26919From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 10 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
Not having Wholy dissolved by the intense heat of the last week, I am enabled from a change of the weather to take my pen, in lieu of my fan, and to ask you how much of you is left? when I Saw how much you sufferd the Saturday I left you in Boston from the heat, I was not a little anxious for you the last week: when it was 20 degrees hotter. I know not whether for four days together, I ever...
26920Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 10 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of the day before yesterday I have recieved by post the inclosed copy of the Review of Montesquieu which I hasten to forward thro’ you to M. Tray Tracy . had I another it should have been devoted to you. it is even doubtful whether this may reach Washington in time to find mr Warden still there. I am not without hopes he will have been able to get a copy & carry it with...
26921Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 10 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his friendly salutations to mr Warden and having recieved a single copy of the Review of Montesquieu he is anxious to have the benefit of the safe conveyance by mr Warden & the Essex to get it to France . he again therefore takes the chance of a letter still finding him at Washington & of asking his care of it with a repetition of his wishes for a happy voiage. RC ( ViU...
26922To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 9 July 1811 (Madison Papers)
Without one feeling, left of the character of a partizan, but still living to friendship, a man, whose hand is known to Mr. Madison, asks him, whether he recollects, or ever heard, that after Colo. Hamilton, had been severely pressed for a supposed misappropriation of the money, devoted by law to special purposes, he, Colo H, produced a letter, authorizing it, signed by President Washington,...
26923To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 9 July 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 July 1811, London. Offers JM some “political remarks—emanating from some interesting communications with several distinguished characters” on both the ministerial and opposition sides of the policy questions agitating Great Britain. Makes some comparisons of “National Greatness”; finds that in Great Britain it is measured by “Wealth and power” and in the U.S. by “ National equality of Rights...
26924Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 9 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, the day before yesterday, your favor of Feb. 15 . it is the only one I have recieved from you since that of Oct. 28. 1808. so long a silence had excited apprehensions which this letter removes. I shall take the best measures I can for the sale of your house & lot in Richmond . it is in a part of the town where property sells low. for it is a curious fact, that...
26925Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 9 July 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The possibility that another post may still find you at Washington induces me to risk another letter’s getting in time to have the benefit of your care. mr Mazzei , of Pisa , to whom it is addressed, is the intimate friend of mr Febroni , probably known to you as a man of letters, lately appointed by the Emperor a Maitre de requetes , charged with the care of roads and bridges South of the Alps
26926To 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...
26927From 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....
26928From 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.
26929From 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...
26930To 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...
26931To 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...
26932To 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...
26933Thomas 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...
26934Thomas 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...
26935James 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...
26936Thomas 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
26937From 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...
26938To 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,...
26939To 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.—...
26940John 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
26941From 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...
26942To 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,...
26943From 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.
26944William 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...
26945To 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...
26946To 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...
26947To 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...
26948Pierre 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...
26949George 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.
26950To 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...