28141John H. Cocke to Thomas Jefferson, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been inform’d by my Friends M r Coles , & M r Cary , that I was so fortunate as to obtain a place on your list of Subscribers, for two Ewes, to your Merino Ram. They are accordingly sent herewith.— There are also Six sent in conformity to the understanding existing between Yourself & Col o Fontaine . A Letter from Col o Fontaine to Col
28142Thomas Jefferson to John S. Cogdell, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Cogdell , and his thanks for the copy of mr Cheves’s oration which he was so kind as to send him, and which he has read with pleasure. it is a very satisfactory specimen of sentiments & of talents worthy of being employed on the national theatre, and promising there a more general usefulness. he prays mr Cogdell’s acceptance of his acknolegements,...
28143Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor with the prospectus of your dictionary, and shall gladly become a subscriber to it. altho the number only but not the size of the volumes is stated, I presume from the price they must be 8 vos altho’ from the matter one might have expected Grand formats. the 3 d vol. especially will be valuable to have always at one’s elbow, and your former work is a pledge of...
28144Thomas Jefferson to Henry Wheaton, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments & his thanks to mr Wheaton for the pamphlet he was so kind as to send him, & which he has read with pleasure. he rejoices over every publication wherein such sentiments are expressed. while these prevail, all is safe, and he believes they will prevail through many & many ages. he is particularly thankful for the obliging expressions in mr Wheaton’s...
28145To John Adams from William Bentley, 28 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have the great pleasure of sending you a portion of the Pears, collected from the Endicott Tree. It is an additional pleasure, that among the increasing demands, Capt E. assures me, that this is the only portion spared from the family, & that I have the direction of it. In Gratitude only are our exclusive faverers rich to us, & this gift I intend as the testimony of my grateful recollection...
28146To James Madison from Robert Smith, 28 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
In my last letter I took the liberty of intimating to you that I would by the next Mail forward for your consideration a sketch of a proclamation to be issued upon the revocation of the Fr. Decrees. This was my first idea, formed, indeed, without having considered the subject and under the impression that the same Course would be pursued as was taken in the case of Erskine’s arrangement. Upon...
28147To James Madison from Moses Hoyt, 28 September 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
28 September 1810, New York. Begs JM’s assistance in obtaining his release from imprisonment for debt. RC ( DLC ). 2 pp. Docketed by JM.
28148George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 28 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I forwarded your two boxes of window glass by one of M r Craven’s boats on the 26 th As I did not know the man; I was unwilling to trust him with the small packages. I have heard nothing yet of M r Shoemaker . RC (Mrs. T. Wilber Chelf, Mrs. Virginius Dabney, and Mrs. Alexander W. Parker, Richmond, 1944; photocopy in ViU : TJP ); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson esq r
28149To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 27 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed were received by the mail of this day. They contain very ample testimony of Col. Munroe’s principles & qualifications. If the fact stated by Mr. Clay, be correct, of which I have not the least doubt, it would furnish a sufficient excuse for selecting a character from Kentucky. The late Governor Sullivan would have been a suitable person to have succeeded judge Cushing. So is the...
28150Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 27 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 10 th came safely to hand and laid me under new obligations for the valuable observations it contained. the error of 12 f. instead of 7. for the rise of the batture really sautoit aux yeux , and how I could have committed it at first or passed it over afterwards without discovery & having copied Pelletier’s plan myself, is unaccountable. I have adopted also most of your other...
28151Gideon Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 27 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
When your letter reached me last winter I was extremely low in health, and my mind desponding. I had just removed my family to this place: neither my wife , nor myself had health Sufficient to enter into Society. I felt for my family and for myself: indeed it appeared to me that my complaint must shortly take me out of Life, and my family be left amongst Strangers. Happily I am restored to my...
28152Littleton W. Tazewell to Thomas Jefferson, 27 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 18 th Ult o was duly received—Since its receipt, I have occupied myself during every interval of leisure, in examining the narrative which it inclosed—And in returning this document to you again (conformably to your request), I have to offer you my thanks, for the pleasure as well as information which the perusal of it has given me. There is but one doubt which has presented...
28153From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 26 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
July, 1792. It appeared to me of some importance that my countrymen should be informed of the constitution of the bank of Amsterdam, and to this end I made all the enquiries in my power, in times that could be spared from other more important occupations, and prepared for congress the following sketch, which with the notes upon it, contained, as I was informed, a correct account of it. A...
28154To James Madison from the Chiefs of the Northwestern Indians, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
To our great Father of the seventeen fires Open your ears and listen to your children. Father. We have lighted up our co[u]ncil fire at this place, and we are happy to inform you, that no smoke has arisen, to obstruct the light. Father— That you may know what we have done, we enclose copies of speechs, which we have sent, to our Shawonee Brethren, resideing near the Wabash, and to the several...
28155To James Madison from John Graham, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
J Graham has the Honor, by direction of the Secretary of State, to forward to the President the inclosed Letter from General Armstrong and to inform him that it is the same which he lately sent to this Department unopened. RC ( DLC ). Graham probably forwarded the original of Armstrong’s 5 May 1810 dispatch to Robert Smith ( DNA : RG 59, DD , France). A duplicate had reached Washington in...
28156To James Madison from Lafayette, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
I Have Had Lately the pleasure to Write By Gnl. Armstrong, But Cannot let the Homer depart Without Repeating a tender of My Grateful friendship. My Last did inform You that I Had Received Your kind Letters 18h and 19h May, But that No Answer to My Long triplicate By the John Adams Had Come to Hand. I Have Since Got the Nine patents delivered By Mr. parish Himself. The Homer Brought Me a Very...
28157To James Madison from Caesar A. Rodney, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed letter, from Captain R. C. Dale was received the day before yesterday. The resignation he speaks of, if I recollect, was put into the hands of some officer of the U. S. army, & when I spoke to the Secretary at war, had not reached the office. His answer was that it should be accepted when received . Mr. Dale has been selected as the Democratic candidate for congress, & with a...
28158To James Madison from Robert Smith, 26 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 26 September 1810. Described as a two-page letter in the lists probably made by Peter Force (DLC, series 7, container 2). Also referred to in Smith to JM, 28 Sept. 1810 . Concerns the drafting of a proclamation to be issued upon the revocation of the French decrees. Smith probably enclosed as well a letter (not found) from William Harris Crawford of 27 July 1810 (Crawford to...
28159Thomas Jefferson to James Dinsmore, 26 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Johnny Hemings is just entering on a job of sash doors for the house at Poplar forest , and tells me he cannot proceed without his sash planes & the templet belonging to them in your possession. they may come safely in a box by the stage, to the care of mr Higginbotham . if you could send them by Sunday’s stage you would oblige me. Accept my best wishes. RC ( ViU : TJP ); addressed: “M
28160Samuel Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Be good enough to excuse the freedom I take in troubling a personage of your illustrious character, by requesting a personal answer on a subject, which you may, perhaps, justly think totally unworthy your notice. But, Sir, necessity alone induces me thus to solicit the favor of obtaining information from the highest authority to decide the question in controvercy. Sir, on the 11 th Day of June...
28161Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 26 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to you of Feb. 28. in answer to yours of the 3 d of that month, I acknoleged & thanked you for the parent’s assistant, & expressed a willingness to receive the Tales of fashionable life when published. to a former request of the 7 th & 8 th vols of Scientific dialogues, I added one for Mitford’s history of Greece , if an 8 vo edition could be had, and also for the 4 th
28162To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 25 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
I do myself the pleasure of enclosing to you a paper received this day from New York, the contents of which are very important, and as such, will speak for themselves. I yield to my wishes when I believe that the information may be relied on, and venture to offer to you my congratulations on this dawn of returning justice on the part of the Belligerents of Europe towards us. If this paper...
28163From James Madison to George W. Erving, 25 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 25 September 1810. Acknowledged in Erving to JM, 20 Oct. 1810 . Discusses Spanish-American affairs and the policies of Great Britain toward Spain’s colonies.
28164Charles P. De Lasteyrie to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
je profite du départ de M r Warden pour vous donner de mes nouvelles, et pour m’informer de l’état de votre Santé. je le prie de vous remettre un exemplaire de la traduction du Torpedo de M r fulton que j’ai fait faire traduire et insérer dans le bulletin de la Société d’Encouragement. je tache de faire insérer dans nos journeaux les découvertes que vous faite dans les sciences et dans les...
28165Levett Harris to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasure of transmitting You herewith a copy of the last work of Count John Potocky of which he requests your Acceptance. M r John Spear Smith has lately returned from an interesting tour in the interior, where he has been received & treated by the principal nobility with great destinction. As Mr. Adams since his arrival here, has releived me some what of the burthen of public...
28166William Pinkney to Thomas Jefferson, 25 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Leigh , who is I believe known to you, sent me some Time ago two Copies of her Book upon Government, with a Request that I would tender them to you on her Behalf as a Mark of her Respect.—I promised that I would do so; but missed the opportunity on which I had calculated.—At Length however I fulfil my promise and send the Books. I have not the Honour to know M rs Leigh personally.—She...
28167Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 25 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for your kind letter of June 8. and the suggestions it furnished on the question whether Livingston could maintain an action in Richmond for a trespass committed in Orleans . this being a question of Common law, I leave it to my Counsel, so much more recent than I am in that branch of law. I have undertaken to furnish them with the grounds of my defence under the Lex loci ....
28168From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 24 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
The Hague, June 15, 1782—Wrote to Secretary Livingston. “This morning, I made a visit to the grand pensionary of Holland, Mr Van Bleiswick, and had a long conference with him, concerning the plan of a treaty of commerce which is now under consideration, and endeavored to remove some of his objections; and to explain to him the grounds and reasons of certain articles which have been objected to...
28169From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
Through the protecting hand of a gracious Providence, I am rising from a bed of Sickness, where I have been confined for more than three weeks—Indeed, I did not keep about but a few days after my last letter to you—Lydia was evidently much better her Tongue cleared, & her fever had a proper turn & had got to eating Beef, & drinking wine, but still her Cough hung round, & kept her too weak to...
28170To James Madison from John Vaughan, 24 September 1810 (Madison Papers)
Mr Thomas Cooper having communicated to me the active part taken by you to assist him, thro’ Mr Warden, in procuring some publications from France, which May be made useful to this Country, has at the same time requested me to inform you, that I am ready at any time & in any mode which can be pointed out be ready to transmit the sum of 100$ for this Object—or to pay at sight, the Amount of the...