27251John Barnes to Thomas Jefferson, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have now the pleasure to inclose you, sett of ex. 1 t 2 d & 3 d — Mess rs Bowie & Kurtz . dated 13 th Ins t a 60 days sight on M r W m
27252Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your letters of Jan. 20. & Sep. 14. 1810. and, with the latter, your Observations on the subject of taxes. they bear the stamps of logic & eloquence which mark every thing coming from you, & place the doctrines of the Economists in their strongest points of view. my present retirement & unmeddling disposition make of this une question oiseuse pour moi . but...
27253Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the note signed, and filled up with the former sum supposing it not best not to change it till the next renewal, by which time mr Harrison’s note for the tob o will be in hand and due. Griffin wrote me on the 5 th that he had then delivered 24. hhds to mr Harrison , and that 6. more were ready & would be opened in a few days, when
27254Thomas Jefferson to François André Michaux, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Aug. 10. and, with it, your beautiful account of the pines & firs of our country, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. I sincerely wish the work may be prosecuted, & that the citizens of the US. may not be wanting in due encouragement to it. nothing should be spared which I could do to befriend it. accept my best wishes that you may enjoy health to...
27255Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Paganel, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved through mr Warden the copy of your valuable work on the French revolution, for which I pray you to accept my thanks. that it’s sale should have been suppressed is no matter of wonder with me. the friend of liberty is too feelingly manifested, not to give umbrage to it’s enemies. we read in it, and weep over, the fatal errors which have lost to nations the present hope of liberty,...
27256Thomas Jefferson to Théodore Pahlen, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th did not arrive here till yesterday, owing to the late rains which have rendered the waters and roads nearly impassable for the mail. I hasten to acknolege it’s reciept, and to express a due sense of the honor of the visit you give me the hope of recieving here, and the value I set on the double gratification it will afford of manifesting to the representative of the...
27257Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th was recieved yesterday. I should be unwilling that any use should be made of my letter which would shew my interference in the case in question, because I know how gladly the dogs of federalism would turn from Duane upon me and tranquility is now become the summum bonum with me. should Duane push his state-partyism against mr Gallatin to an opposition to the President ,...
27258From John Adams to Richard Rush, 14 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Though your Letters give me great Pleasure, I Should regret the Receipt even of your favour of the 8th of this month if I could think it had diverted your Attention a moment from the Duties of your office or even from the practice and profits of your Profession. Your Office, is one of the most necessary and important in Society. A public Accuser is the Guardian of the Morals as well as...
27259To John Jay from Richard Peters, 14 April 1811 (Jay Papers)
Since my Acknowledgment of the Reciept of your Letter I have perused it with Care & great Satisfaction. I see in it the strong Mind & clear Conception of my old & valued Friend, unaffected by any Decline which afflicts our mortal Frame. The Arguments on the Subject, independent of the Proof of the Fact happily known to you, are sufficient to convince candid Men. But alas! these do not compose...
27260Henry Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Domestic affliction will, I hope, be admitted as an apology for my not having written to you for so long a time. I mention an apology, because I feel guilty of a negle c t, whenever I allow several months to pass without giving you some indication of my friendship & gratitude. the recollection of having enjoyed a share of your friendship will I trust never cease to Afford me peculiar...
27261Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The interruption of our intercourse with France , for some time past, has prevented my writing to you. a conveyance now occurs, by mr Barlow or mr Warden , both of them going in a public capacity. it is the first safe opportunity offered of acknoleging your favor of Sep. 23. and the reciept at different times of the III d part of your valuable work , 2 d 3 d 4 th
27262Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel much concern that suggestions stated in your letter of the 5 th inst. should, at this distance of time, be the subject of uneasiness to you, and I regret it the more as they make appeals to memory, a faculty never strong in me, & now too sensibly impaired to be relied on. it retains no trace of the particular conversations alluded to, nor enables me to say that they are, or are not,...
27263David Bailie Warden to Thomas Jefferson, 14 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced, by a sense of duty, to inclose for your perusal, a copy of my defence with regard to the insinuation made against me, before my appointment, by a secret enemy, and to which, I understand, General armstrong has lately referred—as he has not furnished his objections to my consular appointment, I trust that the President will soon allow me to embark. The suspension of my departure...
27264From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 13 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
I Sent yesterday to the Post Office one of Mr Hancocks Century Sermons under cover to you and I thought the foregoing Letter written for the Purpos was wrapped in it. By Some inadvertence, of myself or another, it was omitted: and I am not Sorry for it as it now gives me an opportunity to add Somewhat relative to your Ancestor. John Alden, a Magistrate of Plymouth Colony, was one of the first...
27265To James Madison from Caspar Wistar, Jr., 13 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
It is with great reluctance that I intrude upon your valuable time, but the occasion seems to demand it of me. The Patriotism of Mr. B. McClenachan during the revolution is I believe well known to you, & you are probably as well acquainted with his history since that period. He wishes me to state to you my opinion respecting his health, & capability of attention to the office which he solicits...
27266To James Madison from James G. Forbes, 13 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 April 1811, New York. “As the annexation of the hanseatic towns to the French Empire may have given the finishing stroke to the official duties of my Brother John M. Forbes, the Consul at Hamburg during a period of nine fruitless Years of unprecedented interruption to neutral Commerce —may I hope, that the President … will Consider my Brothers Conduct and afford him such continued marks of...
27267Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April [1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to request your name as a Subscriber to a work which will be of essential service to which M r Gallatin , M r Paul Hamilton & others have subscribed & which M r Gallatin has promised to aid by correcting the Statistical account—should you be dissatisfied I will take it— The translator is a very worthy man, whom I esteem, & whom I assist as much as lays in my power for the rising...
27268From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 12 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Some Gentlemen in this Town have lately caused to be printed a Sermon of Mr Hancock the Father of the late President of Congress and Governor of Massachusetts; which although I heard it delivered from the Pulpit and was familiar with it afterwards in print in my Childhood; I had not seen for I know not how great a Number of Years. Knowing your taste for Antiquities and believing that it...
27269From James Madison to John G. Jackson, 12 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
I recd. at the same time your two letters of the 1st. & 5th. It was found that the appt. of a Judge to succeed Mr. Nelson, had taken place a week or two before. Your name had been brought into view under high auspices, but it does not appear that your willingness to accept the office (or the sufficiency perhaps of your health) was counted on. You say nothing on the subject of Merinoes; which...
27270To James Madison from Andrew Ellicott, 12 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
The zenith Sector which I used on the southern boundary of the United States, is principally owned by this commonwealth: the claim of the U. S. amounts to about 25 guineas. On my return home in the year 1800, I had it deposited in one of the public stores, but do not recollect which. Being lately appointed to determine the boundary between the States of Georgia, and N. Carolina, on which the...
27271To James Madison from Simon Snyder, 12 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
12 April 1811, Lancaster. Transmits “an exemplified copy of an Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled, ‘An Act to cede the occupancy and use of certain lands near Presque Isle, to the United States, for the purpose therein mentioned.’” RC ( DNA : RG 26, Early Light House Correspondence, Misc. Letters Received). 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Snyder. The...
27272Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Morris & Dunnington, [ca. 10 April 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Dr Thomas Jefferson Esq r In account with Morris & Dunnington Cr 1811 March 25 th To Balance due M&D £277. 4.6½ 〃 Interest on £263.17 from
27273To James Madison from James Maury, 11 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
With this is a Copy of the letter I had the honour to write to you on the 14th November, since which I have not received any instructions about your Tobacco ⅌ Adeline. No part of it has been sold. It now is more than twelve months since the commencement of the Unparalleled distresses to which the Trading Interest of this Country has been subjected. They still are so great that Government offer...
27274Memorandum on Robert Smith, [ca. 11] April 1811 (Madison Papers)
Having seen in the Aurora of the 5th. inst: & since copied into other Gazettes, an explanation which the Editor says he was authorized to make “of the rupture which has taken place between Mr. Madison, and Mr. R. Smith” I have thought it proper, whilst the circumstances are fresh in remembrance, to preserve them in the following memorandum: On the day of March Mr. S. called on me, as was...
27275Joseph Darmsdatt to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec’d yours of the 4 h Ins t & observt the Contents which will be Sattisfactory & If you Should want any fish this season—you may hav it—as i well Know the payment of farmers & only pay once a year—i Generaly P Charge a Littel more for the articul my fish will arive next mont they are of Good Quallity pleas Infor me how many you want & i can Sent them from time to time flour 9.25 Brisk hemp—...
27276Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We received yesterday your favors of the 1 st and 4 th Ins t and have made the several remittances and payments directed as p r Mem m annex’d amounting to $1240.26— we have also paid M r D a Warwick on account of
27277Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 11 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with real reluctance I trouble you with small commissions, which I know ought not to be done. I do it therefore only in cases of urgency, & for articles not to be had here. we are in immediate want of 29 32. yards of Cotton diaper or Cotton damask (I know not which it is called) of about 9 or 10. quarters wide for tablecloths, which I am told is to be had at Richmond . will you be so...
27278From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday Mr Pope of The House of Boardman and Pope, No. 37. India Wharf, was so obliging as to call upon Us to let Us know that they had a Ship to depart for St Petersbourg on Fryday next the 12th. The Ship Cordelia Captain Boit: and that they were desirous of taking any Letters from Us. Since then I have heard that Mr. Jordan is going in her, but he has not been so complaisant as to Let us...
27279From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
You observe in your letter of 24 September last, that my Son George was losing much of his french conversation idiom, that is, precisely one of the things upon which I had most earnestly set my heart, in his education. Walter Shandy Esqr was of opinion that there was a great, and mysterious virtue in the name given to a child—He intended to call his son Trismegistus, and the name which above...
27280To James Madison from William Clark, 10 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 April 1811, St. Louis. Has frequently been asked by “small parties of Showonees resideing within this Territory” about assigning them a permanent tract of land where they might avoid disputes with their neighbors and “where the white people will not be permited to Sell them Spiritious Liquors.” His efforts to prevent liquor sales have been “without complete effect … in a Country like this,...
27281To James Madison from Albert Gallatin, 10 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 April 1811. “Mr Gallatin will do himself the honor to dine with Mr Madison on Tuesday next [16 Apr. 1811].” RC ( NN : Gallatin Papers). 1 p.
27282To James Madison from Pasquale Navarro, 10 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 April 1811, Naples. Has produced a mathematical work that will astonish the geometers, as it deals with the resolution of the problem of the trisection of the angle, which has occupied the most renowned talents in the world for nearly twenty centuries. Sends JM a copy of his work so that it might be made public in the U.S., where science, letters, and the fine arts are cultivated. RC ( NHi...
27283William Coghlan to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
You will perhaps be somewhat surprized at being addressed by a person entirely unknown to your Excel cy , At such a distance, & on such a subject as you will not perhaps, expect I need not say (such a subject) as fame errs or you have been often addressed on the same subject & much to the satisfaction of the applicants. But that I may not intrude on your Excellencys time & patience I shall...
27284William Wirt to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have your favors by the last mail and will attend to them with much pleasure. If any thing could be done for Colo. D. here, it would be by shewing the copy of your letter to him. I shall retain it for another mail that I may recieve your directions as to making use of it or not. You may rely upon it that D.’s name has no magic in it here: he is considered as the foe of M r Madison . And the...
27285From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 9 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
I am much obliged by your favour of 28th March. Is it a proof that Manilius has not been read by any of the learned Men in Europe for thirty Odd years, when We See that the discovery of the Prophecy, or prophetic History of the Progress of human Reason, was reserved for 1811 and the retired Philosopher of Olden barneveldt? How many Questions and Reflections are excited by the Lines you Send...
27286From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 9 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
The former leaf you may insert in your Silva if you please. If you do not, please to return it to me and it shall be published some other Way. Take care that my Name be not hinted at unless any dispute should arise, in that case call upon me. If Manilius’s “Ratio” had not been confined to physical Subjects, We might have seen it as adroitly applied to religious, moral and political...
27287To James Madison from Jonathan Bull and Others, 9 April 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 April 1811, Hartford, Connecticut. “The friends of the government have for some time past, contemplated with deep regret, the unhappy situation of the federal courts in this district”; they believe that some gentlemen, not friendly to the district attorney, have attempted a remedy by seeking his removal. Such a step would cause pain to the friends of Mr. Huntington, especially at a time when...
27288To James Madison from William Madison, 9 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
When you were in Virga last you strongly recommended to me to purchase Mr Waugh’s Land. I believe the old gentleman has not been able to make up his mind on the subject. However there is an adjoing tract now for sale which is supposed to be superior in quality & contains upwards of 500 acres, say one half cleared, between 40 & 50 acres Low grounds on the Robinson river & great Run a part of...
27289Thomas Jefferson to Littleton W. Tazewell, George Hay, and William Wirt, 9 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In a former letter I promised a list of the books quoted & possessed by me, & of those quoted but not possessed, that these last might be sought for in time, as far as necessary.that list is now inclosed with explanatory notes. such of them as it will be necessary for me to send, shall be sent to Richmond whenever desired. the communications by water between Richmond & Norfolk are so frequent,...
27290Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, [ca. 9 April 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Books quoted & possessed by me. Books quoted but not possessed by me. Civil law. Ferriere Valin Pothier Guyot . Repertoire Universelle Denizart Renusson Julien Prevot de la Janné Partidas Curia Philippica
27291To John Adams from Richard Rush, 8 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
A day or two before I had the pleasure to receive your last valued favor of the 3rd of February, the governor of this state was pleased to honor me with the commission of Attorney general. It so happened that, at that moment our criminal courts here were upon the eve of sitting, which suddenly threw upon me a good deal of publick business. This is the chief cause to which I owe the loss, until...
27292From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of december No 6—/17 came Safe to hand yesterday, the last No was 8. So that two others must be upon their way. I thank you for your punctuality in writing, and have only to regret, that from july, untill october: I did not write, as there were not any vessels up for the North of Europe, and the impediments were so multiplied as to discourage me, but from that time to the present,...
27293From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Public Mind Seems decided that Gerry and Gray are elected, and a Majority of Senators their Friends. Our Friend P. will not then be So Successful as he was when he brought G. in and turned you out. You are destined to be a Judge, and I am glad of it because it affords me a Chance of enjoying a Portion of your Society at least once a Month or two. And because it takes you out of The...
27294To James Madison from Morgan Lewis, 8 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
Accident has recently put me in possession of some facts which may possibly be interesting to you, and which I shall therefore in confidence communicate. A plan is formed, of which the outlines are, that at the ensuing Election George Clinton is to be your Opponent for the presidency and General Armstrong the Candidate for the vice presidency. An Appointment under the general government is to...
27295Thomas Jefferson to Bernard McMahon, 8 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been long wishing for an opportunity, by someone going to Philadelphia in the stage, to take charge of a packet of seeds for you. it is too large to trespass on the post-mail. I recieved them from my old friend Thouin , director of the National garden of France . but the advance of the season obliges me to confide them to a gentleman going no further than Washington , there to look out...
27296From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
The departure of the Ship Horace, the same in which you sailed, for St Petersburg, was as sudden as her actual destination was unexpected to me. She has gone again to Russia, within a few days, and I was in the belief that she was bound to France. Mr Gray wrote by her, but I do not know of any other letters for you on board. I had written a short letter to you, but a little time since and I...
27297To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favors of Mar. 18. and Apr. 1. have been duly recieved. The extract from Armstrong’s letter of July 28. 08. which you desire is in these words. ‘My poor friend Warden writes to you, & asks from you the appointment of Consul for this place. I could not promise to do more than send his letter. He is an honest and amiable man, with as much Greek & Latin, & chemistry & theology, as would do...
27298Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I left Monticello , I have spoken to two of the gentlemen, counted on, to aid us in Duane’s affair. M r Divers says he is averse to it on principle, and Bramham seems entirely unwilling to indorse for us at Bank. Indeed, he evaded the promise even to give any thing. These things are disheartening; and I begin to fear we may fall through, especially as I shall not have an opportunity, of...
27299Thomas Jefferson to Kemp Catlett, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
When you mentioned that your supplies of butter might stand in discharge of my order for bran, & that tho’ it had hitherto been your resource for groceries, you would make some other shift, it did not strike me at the time: but after you were gone it occurred to me that the diverting the usual resource for your groceries might deprive the family of them. if this be the case, be so good as to...
27300Gibson & Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 7 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We hand you annex’d your Acco t Current balanced by $6264.72 in our favor—We also inclose you a note for your signature to renew the one in bank due the 3 d May —we leave the amount blank to be fill’d up as you may direct— We received a few days since fifty six barrels of your flour all Sfine, sales were made on Monday at 9½ $, but in consequence of a large quantity coming down at once the...