27841Peter Minor to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M r J. Randolph has just shewn me an extract of a letter from Col Monroe to yourself respecting an anonymous communication which has been sent to the Editor of the Enquirer &c &c. I am very certain that neither of the Directors or myself had any agency or knowledge of this transaction. On the contrary I have the best reasons to believe the communication was furnished by no other person than...
27842Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In making a general arrangement of my papers, I have found the enclosed important documents, w ch you were good enough some time since to lend me. I have now the pleasure of returning them. M rs Smith joins me, in the request to be respectfully and affectionately presented to your family— RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 3 Jan. 1811 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures not identified.
27843From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
I ought to have written ere this to you, my valluable Friend, to have expressed the heart felt gratification I have derived from reading your sympathetic letters. They have proved a balm to my wounded bosom. But many calls & duties devoled up-on me of late unknown before, & I have hetherto written only on business. Your claims are first on the list of friendship, yes my Friend every tribute...
27844From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 29 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of december 15th. and the pleasure of congratulating you, upon the safe arrival and safety of your son; Who I hope enjoys good health, pray tender him my regards, and assure him of my sincere wishes for his prosperity! and success in buisness. You have a double joy also in the return of Mrs Pope to your city. I hope she has not sufferd any...
27845Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 22 d Ult o with its inclosure was duly received—My professional engagements since its receipt, have prevented my examining the inclosure with that attention I wished, until within a few days past, and have caused me therefore to detain it much longer than I expected. I now return this document to you however, and offer you my thanks for the information you have afforded me, upon...
27846To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 28 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I write to you at the request of your nephew to acknowledge for him the receipt of your letter sent under cover of mine. He is upon the Whole better, but as yet not in a condition to employ his pen. There has been a second discharge of a fluid from his breast induced by a spontaneous opening of the puncture made by Dr Physick. He has been releived by it. We are using remedies to prevent a...
27847From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 28 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 December 1810. Communicates a report from the secretary of state in compliance with the House resolution of 21 Dec. 1810. RC and enclosure ( DNA : RG 233, President’s Messages, 11A-D1). RC 1 p. In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. Enclosure (21 pp.) is a 28 Dec. report with three sections, marked A, B, and C, on the duties imposed by France on imports carried in American vessels (printed in ASP...
27848From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
It was but yesterday that I was able to obtain the inclosed Review of Works of Mr Ames, which you or rather your Son wished to See. You and I, are So much better employed that I presume Political Pamphlets are Beneath your Notice as well as mine. You are employed in healing the sick and extending the Empire of Science and Humanity. I, in reading Romances in which I take incredible Delight. I...
27849From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 27 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
I Sent my Wife to the Post Office this morning with a Letter to you inclosing a Review of Fisher Ames, and as she brought me back yours of the 21, you will receive this by the Same mail. I am well and my good Madam is well at the present Hour but She is a Weather Glass. I am afraid your Prejudices are too fixed to be removed by any Arguments: but I do not find that you make many Proselytes. In...
27850William Chamberlayne to Thomas Jefferson, 27 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I rec d y rs of the 11 th ins t yesterday, y rs of the 17 th of Aug t I have not rec d . I think the claim for the Doctors
27851To James Madison from the Right Reverend James Madison, 26 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
To the Multitude of Addresses, which you will, no Doubt, receive in Consequence of the Death of Judge Griffin, I feel great Reluctance in making an Addition; but, persuaded as I am that your Selection of a Successor will be guided by no other Consideration, than the relative Fitness of the different Characters, which may pass in Review before you, I take the Liberty of mentioning, that Judge...
27852To James Madison from Robert Gardner, 26 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1810, Boston. Assuming that trade with France will be renewed, he offers himself as a candidate for any consular vacancy in that country. “I am a native American—educated to Mercantile Business, & have been much employed in its most intricate parts.” Refers JM to his friend Mr. Cutts, who will present this application. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Gardner”). 1 p....
27853To James Madison from John Mullowny, 26 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
26 December 1810, Philadelphia. Sends JM a pitcher made at the Washington Pottery in Philadelphia, a business he opened on 4 Mar. with an Englishman, James Charleton. The pottery has about $15,000 in capital and makes about $150 per week. It will be extended when workmen and boys who can be “taught the art of manufacturing as in England” are obtained. Solicits JM’s support for the enterprise....
27854To John Adams from Joseph Wheaton, 25 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
I am honord with your 2d. letter of the 15th. instt. covering a letter from Messr. Wilson Marsh & Son in Answer to my Letter Addressed to their factory—for which Sir Please to accept my thanks—While I feel diffident on this Subject; the riseing State of this City, and the increased and increasing business done here I flatter Myself by taking this early advantage of introducing the Articles of...
27855To James Madison from William Madison, 25 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I return you the inclosed. We have recd letters from Doctr Buckner, who is Alfred’s room mate & constant attendant, which continue to cherish hopes of his recovery: the Doct informs us that the wound was nearly healed—& the cough nearly left him. As soon as I was advised of the Operation on Alfred—I came home with a view of visitg him. He had previously written for his brother Robert—but...
27856To James Madison from Enoch Parsons, 25 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
As it is contemplated to attempt bringing before you for decision an occurrance between the creek and cherokee Nation of Indians which transpired in the spring of 1809 Candour impels me to communicate an attempt of the injured Party for redress through me as their agent to Col Benjamin Hawkins principal agent of Indian affairs South of Ohio. Sir the vouchers which will be submitted to you will...
27857John Lynch to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
at the request of one of our Woman Friends Anne Miflin , resideing in the City of Phillidelphia , who was on a religious Visit in this State and haveing a Concern that bore on her Mind respecting the Black Colonisation of the Black people on the Coast of Africa and that some plan Might be adopted for that purpose and for relief of this State, from so heavey a Burthen, (a like Concern lay on...
27858William C. C. Claiborne to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
You will no doubt have seen the Proclamation by the President , which made it my duty to take possession of the Country extending from the Mississipi to the Perdido , in the name & in behalf of the United States .—In the discharge of that duty I now occupy the Fort of Baton Rouge , its dependencies & the Several adjoining Districts.—On my arrival at Baton Rouge, I had reason to apprehend...
27859James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, 24 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here last night indisposed and must return in the stage to morrow or should have the pleasure to call on you. It was necessary that I should be present at the transfer of my property from one overseer to another, for which purpose I obtained leave of absence for a few days. M r Ritchie informed M r Coles that an anonymous communication had been sent him, stating that you had had a...
27860From le Commandeur de Maisonneuve to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 23 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
Le Commandeur de Maisonneuve a l’honneur d’annoncer à Madame Adams qu’Elle est invitée ainsi que Mademoiselle Johnson sa soeur, au bal qui aura lieu, Demain Lundi 12. chéz Sa Majesté L’Impératrice Mère, à sept heures et demi du soir. MHi : Adams Papers.
27861To James Madison from Erick Bollman, 23 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of sending Your Excellency a Copy of a trifling Production which may perhaps derive some Interest from the Circumstances of the Moment. If You will receive it with Indulgence and on Perusal should think well of it I shall be highly gratified. I have the Honour to be with great Respect Your Excellency’s most obedient St. RC ( DLC ). Bollmann probably enclosed a copy of his...
27862Robert Bakewell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In taking the liberty of requesting Your acceptance of my Book upon Wool I can with much sincerity assure you that my principal motive has been to acknowledge the high esteem & respect I feel for your public character and to express my gratitude for the pleasure I have experienced in contrasting the humane and enlightened policy of your late Government with the destructive and infatuated...
27863Enclosure: Thomas Law to Jacob Wagner, [ca. 5–22 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed paragraph entitled “an authentic anecdote” implies that the communicator recieved it from the parties in Great Britain . I have therefore considered whether I ever wrote to my Brother as mentioned & though I do not remember particulars it is probable that I did so; for I have uniformly expressed what I sincerely believed that the President had not any bias in his mind hostile to...
27864Enclosure: Jacob Wagner to Mr. Barry, [ca. 5–22 December 1810] (Jefferson Papers)
M r Law’s paper came duly to hand. He was to have been answered by one of the editors who is now indisposed . All we can say is that M r L the only fact within his own knowledge viz t writing the letter. The remarks made by M
27865To James Madison from José Miguel Pey, ca. 22 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 22 December 1810, Santa Fe de Bogotá. The political changes occurring in “the Capital of this New Kingdom and its Provinces since the 20th July of this year” have made it possible to open communications with JM, “now that we are free from the odious restrictions, which kept us as it were insulated in the middle of the world. From this time forward we may extend our views, and offer our...
27866Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 22 December 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Having been shewn a Paragraph in the Federal republican—Headed An authentic anecdote I thought it incumbent upon me, to write the enclosed to M r Wagner , as and to desire him to insert it in his paper— as he did not reply, I sent another Copy to M r Barry , hoping that M r Wagner would have more pleasure in inserting the antedote than the bane, I also desired
27867To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 21 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
We read of Hurricane Months in the West Indies. Men of business are exposed to them no less than the West India islands. I am now in the height of Mine. For a few minutes only, I have torn my eyes from the tumultuous Scenes that surround me & turned them towards Woolaston in Massachusets. I see you in your Arm Chair—surrounded by your family. How do you do? And you! good madam—the faithful...
27868To James Madison from Dayton Leonard, 21 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
21 December 1810, Tompkins, Delaware County, New York. “I have been sick these twenty one years Just so much strength as to be able to keep a bout and ride a bout but unable to do any labour and always very uncomfortable.” Describes his plan for a perpetual motion machine conceived of in 1800. “I do now request you sir to use your influence to obtain some money of congress and for the world’s...
27869To James Madison from John Mitchell Mason, 20 December 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of the two notes which you were so condescending as to write me relative to a constitution for the United States drawn up by the late Gen. Hamilton. I much regret that your kindness should have occasioned you so much trouble. Had I suspected it, I should have forborn a request the granting of which was to confer a favour upon me at the expence of...
27870To James Madison from Joseph Coppinger, 20 December 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 December 1810, No. 6 Cheapside Street, New York. Anticipates arguments that might have been made in opposition to his letter of 15 [16] Dec. advocating the establishment of a national brewery in Washington. Believes Washington is the best place for this establishment; the production of “good Malt liquor of every Kind there … would necessarily induce a spirit of emulation as well as...