27391Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 21 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 12 th is recieved and also the Nautical Almanacs for 1811. 12. for which accept my thanks as well as for the artificial horizon proposed to be forwarded. as it would be liable to be broken, it would come best by some of the vessels sailing daily from Philadelphia to Richmond addressed to me to the care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson merchants at Richmond , adding ‘ to be...
27392From James Madison to James Monroe, 20 March 1811 (Madison Papers)
I may perhaps consult too much my own wishes public & personal, and too little a proper estimate of yours, in intimating the near approach of a vacancy in the Department of State, which will present to your comparison, as far as lies with me, that sphere for your patriotic services, with the one in which they are now rendered. Should such a transfer of them be inadmissible or ineligible, on...
27393To James Madison from Napoleon, 20 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Napoleon. 20 March 1811, Paris. Announces the birth of his son, the King of Rome. RC ( DNA : RG 59, Communications from Heads of Foreign States, France). 1 p.; in French. In a clerk’s hand, signed by Napoleon.
27394John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My being uncertain whether you had returned from Bedford prevented my writing before I left washington — The rancour of party was revived with all its bitterness during the last Session of Congress —United by no fixed principles or objects & destitute of every thing like American feeling, so detestable a minority never existed in any country—Their whole political creed is contained in a single...
27395Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you three letters from mr Fitz , improperly sent to me, but as they may contain something worthy your notice, I forward them to you. I believe I have before informed you that he is as purely honest & inoffensive a man as lives, and well qualified as a Surveyor. he lived with me a year or two. his letter of latest date must have been extorted from his good nature. M rs Jones has...
27396Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Magruder, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just now made up the Exhibits to be used in the suit of mr Livingston on the subject of the batture , and finding a printed copy of the petition of the Mayor E t c of N.O. to Congress sufficient for our purpose, I return you the original one which you were so kind as to send me from your office, with my thanks & assurances of great esteem & respect PoC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “M r
27397Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just now made up my packet of documents to be sent to Mess rs Hay & Wirt , my counsel in the case of the Batture , I think it my duty to furnish you with a particular list of those sent me from your office, which list you will accordingly find on the next page. those marked as now returned, you will find in the packet which accompanies this letter. the rest are sowed together that they...
27398Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s List of Batture-Related State Department Documents, [ca. 20 March 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
Papers recieved from the Secretary of State’s office and now returned Derbigny’s Opinion on the case of the Batture MS. his Memoire. printed copy Livingston’s
27399From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
In proportion as the time lengthens since the receipt of your last Letter, which is also the last that I have received from any of my friends at Quincy, I find not only my anxiety to hear directly from you increasing with it, but also my desire and determination if possible to relieve you and my other friends with you from a similar anxiety respecting us, which you would feel in the case of so...
27400To James Madison from Robert Lewis Madison, 19 March 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 19 March 1811. Described as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2). Robert Lewis Madison (1794–1828) was JM’s nephew, William Madison’s son. JM may have been contributing money toward his education at this time ( WMQ William and Mary Quarterly. , 1st ser., 6 [1897–98]: 116; statement of the Reverend James Laurie, 29 Apr. 1846...