27101From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of I received by the last mail. I had been in daily expectation of hearing from you, or Seeing you Since the begining of the Month. my own health is better than when I wrote you last and I think I could enjoy my dear Mrs Cushing Society whenever She will favour me with it ; I have not any expectation of leaving home for more than two days which will be in Boston. Since the Short...
27102From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
. . . Judge Dana is removed, and no man seemeth to lay it to heart. If my absent son had been in America the grave would not thus silently have closed over him. A gentleman who had sustained several public offices with reputation, and who for several years had filled that of Chief Justice of the state, which all who knew him acknowledged that he discharged with fidelity, and integrity, ably,...
27103James Lyle to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I was much surprised this day, to find in my desk the enclosed Letter dated March 23 d , which I expected had been long ago forwarded to you, it appears we neglected to send it to the post office, lest you have not had a Copy of it I now enclose it. Yours of the 5 h of April came duely to hand; and I have no doubt of your makeing me as large a payment as you can . I am still very blind, yet I...
27104Thomas Ringgold to Thomas Jefferson, 22 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I Have To Tell you That I am your Frend & hope you Will Send me your Best Respects To Celebrate The Fourth of July 1776 & A Golden Eagle Direct To me & Beleave me & my Bro t her to be your Well Wisher RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 28 June 1811 and so recorded in SJL . Thomas Ringgold (ca. 1778–1818), a resident of Washington County, Maryland , was described by his brother, Maryland...
27105From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 21 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received in September last, your favour of 11. July preceding, which was brought by Mr: Jones, together with the second part of the third Volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy; intended for the Imperial Academy of Sciences in this City; which has been duly presented to that body. Early in the course of the last Winter, I received from their Secretary the Volume last published of...
27106To James Madison from the Merchants of Hartford, 20 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
The Memorial of the subscribers would respectfully represent, that, They are deputed, in behalf of their fellow citizens, who are merchants in trade in the City of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, respectfully to present to the view of the President, the peculiar hardships, and embarrassments of their situation, arising from the severe operation of the “Non Intercourse Law” of March 2....
27107John Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the Honor to receive your note of the 12 th Inst. covering three Letters. The one for Mr Warden was delivered to him this Morning on his return from New York . at this time we have no information of any direct conveyance for St Petersburg ; but I will certainly avail myself of the first which I deem safe, to forward the Letters you have done me the honor to commit to my care unless you...
27108From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 19 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received your favour dated at Baltimore of April 28th, with the Letter inclosed for Mrs Adams, which I had an opportunity of immediatly forwarding by a vessel which saild last week for St Petersburgh I find by Letters from my Son, that those Letters which have gone by way of France have had the most speedy conveyance, and I regret that I have not oftener made use of it, altho they may be...
27109To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 19 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 19 May 1811, Philadelphia. Calendared by Latrobe in a list of “Letters written at Philadelphia May 1811” as forwarding a copy of his “⟨ann⟩iversary oration” (MdHi: Latrobe Letterbooks). Latrobe’s Anniversary Oration, Pronounced before the Society of Artists of the United States,… on the Eighth of May, 1811 (Philadelphia, 1811; Shaw and Shoemaker R. R. Shaw and R. H....
27110Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Two days before I left Washington , I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 14 h of April .—This letter was of two much importance to me to be hastily answered amidsst amidst the hurry of the preparations necessary to my leaving Washington , and I brought it with me hither in hopes that I should find more leisure than at home to say to you all that is upon my mind in relation to the...
27111Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady, 19 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Charge Craven Peyton £19–10 for fire & coal wood accounted for to him by Reuben Grady settled between them May 19. 1811 . MS ( MHi ); entirely in TJ’s hand; written on a small scrap, part of a reused address cover to TJ; endorsed by TJ: “Peyton Craven.” reuben grady paid TJ for the right to cut firewood at Milton and occasionally sold him charcoal ( MB James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton,...
27112William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 rd covering a copy of your letter to Colo. D. arrived at a time when I was absent on an excursion to the superior court of Powhatan from which I have just returned. If the bulwark of vanity which surrounds D. be not impregnable, or the spirit of faction which rules him, as wild and deaf as the winds of winter, I think your letter must touch him—but I much fear that he is...
27113From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The late french Ambassador at this Court, the Duke de Vicence, has taken leave, and his succesor Count Lauriston has been received—He takes his departure this Evening or to-morrow for Paris, and I avail myself of the opportunity to enclose a line for you, under cover to Mr Russell our Chargé d’Affaires at that place—I have already sent several letters for you and for my brother to him to be...
27114To James Madison from Samuel Overton, 18 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Shall I be permited to correspond with you as a man fair removed from my one native Country. What was the reson that the Minister from the Spanish Dominions in South America could not be duly received and accredited at the City of Washington. I do not now wright to you for an Office not being authorised to do so—th⟨o:⟩ as a ⟨former?⟩ Nieghbour you will not think me presuming & suffice it to...
27115William F. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day forward to you ⅌ stage, a small Box , which M r Milligan of George Town sent to my care.— With best wishes for its safe arrival RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Th. Jefferson Esqr.”; endorsed by TJ as received 22 May 1811 and so recorded in SJL . The box from bookseller Joseph Milligan
27116From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams, 17 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I rode up to your house this morning to inquire how the Children were and heard that they were both well. dexter Slept there last night. I will Send George in with the chaise tomorrow, if mr Adams returns. George may come out in the Stage. If there Should be any Salmon to be had tomorrow and mr Foster would get me part of one, I will be much obliged to him—I should not like to give more than a...
27117To James Madison from William Bentley, 17 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have the great pleasure of assuring the President of the United States of America, that, in a great struggle, the friends of President Madison, & of their Country, in Salem have done their duty. With the greatest respect, your devoted Servant, RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. In the elections held on 17 May 1811 for the Massachusetts General Court, Republicans won twelve of the fourteen seats...
27118To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 17 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
The Acts for adjusting claims to lands in the Territories of Orleans and Louisiana have, where the parties had not obtained complete titles, recognised only three species of claims as valid vizt. 1t. Orders of survey. 2d. permission to settle. 3d. possession for Ten consecutive years, prior to the 20th Decr. 1803. 1: Orders of survey must have been dated prior to the 1st. day of October 1800....
27119To James Madison from James Monroe, 17 [May 1811] (Madison Papers)
Mr Madison will be so kind as to inform me whether he went yesterday to the Fair, & if he did not, whether he intends to go this evening, as in that event he will go with him—and meet him at such time as he will appoint, at the door. If he went yesterday, he will inform him, whether it was attended with any charge. RC ( NN : Monroe Papers [microfilm ed.], Misc. Papers and Undated Letters, reel...
27120Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 17 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been absent from home these last three weeks, and at my return I found your favour of the 24 ult. unanswered I much regret this circonstance which deprived me to express to you Sooner how anxious I always will be to execute any order which you will have the kindness to give me. I will forward by the first opportunity for Richmond a quart r cask containing a few pounds of fine folling...
27121Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 17 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of April 11 . was recieved in due time; but as you expressed a wish that your lands should be offered to mr Bankhead & he was gone on a visit to his father & family at Portroyal , I awaited his return. I knew indeed that he had just made a purchase for himself, of the land which was Col o N. Lewis’s , extending from Charlottesville to Monticello
27122From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
Not one word have I heard from you my dear Friend since your kind letter, saying that you was but just leaving the chamber, after a long confinement. I hope & pray that you soon regained your usual health though that at best is delicate. Various circumstances have prevented my being with you ere this. Three weeks since I was called to Plymouth, to sympathize with my beloved Mrs Hammatt for the...
27123To James Madison from Thomas A. Patteson, 16 May 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
16 May 1811, Fort Hampton, North Carolina. Informs JM of certain facts “relative to the situation of this place, and the consequent situation of its Commanding Officer.” The fort is located on an island “within five hundred feet of the Sea shore” and is a popular resort, particularly during summer and early autumn. These facts “preclude the possibility of preserving the Dignity of ordinary...
27124John Dortic to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 11 th ins t I had the favour of advising you of the invoice made to m r MaMahon M c Mahon according Your direction I am about to sail again for France ; should you have any command to trust me with You may rely upon my Exactness as much as on the pleasure I would have to Execute them.
27125George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 16 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We have received since my last 6 Hhds of your Tobacco.—although it arrived last week, there has been such a quantity coming in, that I was not able to get it inspected until to day.—I am very sorry to inform you that it is so indifferent, I could not get an offer for it at all, the whole of the principal purchasers saying it would not suit them at any price.—one declared it not to be worth...
27126Théodore Pahlen’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [between 15 April and 15 May 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Depuis peu je suis revenu d’une tournée en Virginie & quoique ce voyage n’ait rien de commun avec les affaires, j’ai cependant cru que Votre Excellence ne serait pas fachée d’en apprendre la relation, ne l’ayant entrepris que pour présenter mes respects à M r Jefferson . La campagne qu’il habite se trouve en Virginie à peu près à 200. werstes au Sud de Washington . Après être parvenu à...
27127From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 15 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The instructions of congress to Mr Jay, as minister to the king of Spain, were never communicated to me. At least, I have no recollection, and can find no copy or memorandum of them. One link in the chain will therefore be wanting. But to furnish all in my power, and to shew to the attentive inquirer, the refinements and double refinements of the Comte de Vergennes’ policy, the following...
27128From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed Letter I received a few days Since to forward by the first opportunity. my last Letter was addrest to Mrs Adams, and went by a vessel direct for St Petersburgh belonging to Loring & Curtis, which Saild in April. This will inform you that your sons are both well. your Father and myself as well as old Age can expect to be. neither of us Deaf dumb or blind as yet, trembling and...
27129From James Madison to John Langdon, 15 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Edward Coles, of my family, with an Elder brother proposing to visit Portsmouth, in a Northern ramble, I take the liberty of asking in their behalf, the kind reception which you are always ready to give to those who are as worthy of it, as I know these young gentlemen to be. I cannot lose this occasion of expressing the pleasure I have felt in learning that your country continues to be...
27130To James Madison from Hobohoilthle, 15 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have received your talk laid it before the Chiefs of my Nation and now give your their Answer. It is harmless. Your speach was delivered to Colo. Hawkins and he to us, he is like an old Chief, and when things are rong he is to look into for both sides. You ask for a path and I say no, when the President sees my talk, he will Know I have Answered in full, I have examined it myself, my Chiefs...
27131Joel Barlow to Thomas Jefferson, 15 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just rec d your letter of the 11 th covering one containing a remittance to Gen. Kosciusko , to which I shall attend very particularly. And I thank you for the hint respecting a mode of remittance to this country. You do not mention having rec d a letter from me in reply to yours of the 16 April . There was nothing in mine that required an answer, & my fear of its miscarriage is...
27132To James Madison from Harry Toulmin, 14 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
The reports which I some time since communicated to you relative to the dispositions towards the government of the United States existing in a part of the country lately taken possession of, adjacent to the Mississippi, render it proper that I should state to you the impressions which have resulted from personal observation. I have lately been attending at Baton Rouge as a witness in the case...
27133From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 13 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Austrian Minister, Count H. Julian, some time since, jokingly asked me if I had received any very late advices of the year before last from home—When I turn to the last letter that I have received from you, and find it dated 7. May 1810. the Count’s wit seems to have lost all its exaggeration. The longer we remain absent from our Country and our friends the more uneasy we feel under the...
27134From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 13 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
There was one of the small English Poets, I think it was Dodsley, who on the reformation of the Calendar in England published a Poem upon the Tears of Old May-Day—As this is the only Country of Europe where Old May-Day is yet held in honour, it would not be expected that here too is precisely the spot where she sheds the most tears—If she sheds none upon the present visit which she is making...
27135To James Madison from Morgan Lewis, 12 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
The most singular election we have ever had in this State is closed; and the result, though unknown, is, I fear, favorable to the views of Mr. Clinton; notwithstanding the large and unprecedented majority against him in the district where he resides. This latter circumstance, though insufficient to prevent the attainment of his present Object, I consider as affording an assurance of future...
27136Thomas Jefferson to John Graham, 12 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Graham with friendship & respect and prays him to give the benefit of the cover of his office to the inclosed letters to S t Petersburg , by the first conveyance he shall deem safe. not knowing where mr Warden is at present he has taken the liberty of inclosing a letter for him & of praying mr Graham to superscribe the proper post-office, & commit it to that line, for...
27137Thomas Jefferson to Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 12 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you a long letter by mr Barlow , & in that inclosed you one from mr Barnes covering a bill of exchange for £200. sterling. referring to that for all other things, the object of the present is merely to inclose the second of the same bill of exchange, and to get it put under cover of the Secretary of State’s dispatches. I shall seek a third opportunity of sending the third, or...
27138Thomas Jefferson to Craven Peyton, [12 May 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
The demand of Frances Hornsby for her portion of the lands of her father conveyed to you by James L. Henderson is now become so serious as to require us to proceed immediately against James L . and in the mean time to aim at some compromise with mr Hornsby . I yesterday conversed with Cap t Meriwether , attorney for Hornsby
27139Thomas Jefferson to Jean Potocki, 12 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letter of Aug. 19. & with it the volume of Chronology you were so kind as to send me, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. it presents a happy combination of spar sparse and unconnected facts, which brought together & fitted to each other, forms a whole of symmetry, as well as of system. it is as a gleam of light flashed over the dark abyss of times past. nothing...
27140Thomas Jefferson to David Bailie Warden, 12 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson salutes mr Warden with esteem & respect and prays him to take charge of the inclosed for Gen. Kosciusko . it covers the 2 d of a bill of exchange, the 1 st of which is remitted him through mr Barlow , to multiply the chances of one of them getting safe to him through the accidents impending by sea & land. he repeats his wishes for a pleasant voyage to mr Warden. PoC ( DLC );...
27141From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 11 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter of the Sixth of this Month is this day received with great Pleasure. I thank you, Sir for the Facts relative to your Ancestors, and Shall be obliged to you for any others that you may please to communicate to me. I may possibly furnish you hereafter with Some Information concerning your Uncle Joseph Miller: but this is mere conjecture at present. I escorted to the Tomb in the...
27142Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the packet with which I troubled you on the 16 th of April , I have recieved the inclosed letter from for Gen l Kosciuszko ; it is from mr Barnes , his agent here, covering a remittance of £200. sterling to the General on account of interest arising on his money in our funds & banks. I cannot avoid solliciting your care of it, knowing it’s importance to the comfort of the General . it...
27143John Dortic to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your instruction respecting the Garden Seed box I forwarded it to day to Philadelphia through the Swift Sure Stage with the direction to M r Bernard M c Mahon . The entry of that box was made with many other things and the Value was estimated so low that the duties duty can not be calculated. As for th e freight, it is over paid by the pleasure I had to be agreeable to you, Sir, I...
27144Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Richards, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Apr. 23. M r Shoemaker’s lease of the Shadwell mills does not expire till this day twelvemonth. in the mean time however he has sold the residue of it, after the present month to a mr M c Kenny of Culpeper . no renewal of the lease will probably take place till towards the close of the present term. I am Sir PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M
27145Thomas Jefferson to Dudley Richardson, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 4. is at hand. I have recieved no letter from your son Richard since my last communication to you , altho I have no doubt the letters I forwarded to him went safely to him, as I got the Secretary of state to inclose them in his own dispatches to the Agent of the US. in Jamaica . the difficulty of getting letters from thence by private conveyances, and the numbers which...
27146Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Smith, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Mar. 28. with the copy of the oration it covered. accept my thanks for this communication, and still more for the favorable sentiments expressed in it as well as in your letter. the approbation of those who are faithful to the interests of their country, and especially to it’s self-government & independance, is highly acceptable to me, and nothing more soothing...
27147Thomas Jefferson to Johann Severin Vater, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 4. 09. did not get to my hands till a twelvemonth after it’s date. be pleased to accept my thanks for the publication you were pleased to send me. that for D r Barton I forwarded to him. his researches into the Indian languages of our continent being continued, I hope it will be in his power to make to you communications useful to the object you are pursuing. this will...
27148Thomas Jefferson to Robert Wash, 11 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Mar. 1. with the map it covered, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. every information of that country is acceptable as we know much less of it than either our duties or interests require. mr Crofts , mentioned in your letter, probably passed on some other way, as I had not the pleasure of seeing him. not being a subscriber for the Louisiana gazette, it is...
27149From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received only two or three days ago your letter dated the 24th: of September of the last year; and although it had been written so many months before it came to me, it gave me and your Mama very great pleasure, and I take the first opportunity to write you this in reply to it. I was glad to see that the greatest part of your letter was written with your own hand; and I hope very soon to...
27150To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 10 May 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed you will perceive embraces delicate subjects. In the present posture of our affairs, it may be a question of some importance to decide whether, if indictments should be found, they should be prosecuted. The motives of those concerned in pressing them, are no doubt pure & laudable, but they may be too zealous. Any answer I can give, will be gratuitous & informal, as there exists no...