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