30341To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 14 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
My son Richard who has been a customer for the Aurora ever since he lived at the Jersey College, after reading your last letter, brought the enclosed papers from his office, and requested me to forward them to you. I have lately met with an account of the brain of Voltaire being preserved by a Lady in a France, and showed to her friends as an object of affection and adoration. The author of...
30342Memorandum to the Cabinet, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison requests a consultation with the heads of the Depts. today at 12 O’C. Printed copy (John Heise Autograph Catalogue No. 2457 [1928]).
30343To James Madison from James Hillhouse, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Hillhouse will have the honor of dining with the President of the United States on Monday Next agreeably to his invitation. RC (owned by Charles M. Storey, Boston, Mass., 1961). Hillhouse was a Connecticut Federalist serving in the U.S. Senate.
30344To James Madison from Thomas Leiper, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I am informed that Joseph Wilson the American Consul at Dublin is dead and that Mr. Alexander of New York is applying to be appointed in his place. Mr. Samuel Carswell inform[s] me he is perfectly in sentiment with the high flying Federalist of New York and I should conclud from that circumstance he was not fit to represent the American Goverment at no time but most especially at the present...
30345To James Madison from William Macon, 14 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your Sister Macon had not an Opportunity of seeing me ’till I had disposed of part of my bacon hams. The 47. that ware left, was Carefully packed in two Casks and sent to Mr. Hatcher in Richmond from whome I Recd. paymt. They are generally large and all of the best quality. I wish they may git to hand in good order. If this bacon should please, and you should Choose to be supplyed from me next...
30346To James Madison from Thomas H. Williams, 14 June 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 June 1809, Washington, Mississippi Territory. Forwards petition from Seth Lewis and twelve other attorneys who recommend Drury W. Breazeale for the vacancy in Madison County, Mississippi Territory, if Congress will pass a law establishing a judicial district there. Takes this action as acting territorial governor and suggests the petition should go to the secretary of state, but “in giving...
30347Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn, 14 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
So entirely are my habits changed from constant labour at my writing table, to constant & active occupation without doors, that it is with difficulty I can resolve to take up my pen. I must do it however as a matter of duty to thank you for the dumb fish you have been so kind as to have forwarded, & which are recieved safely & are found to be excellent. but I do it with pleasure also as it...
30348From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
By last Friday mail, I received your very excellent Letter, wherein you observe, it was thought a journey might be of service to your health, I have not time now to make any remarks, only upon this part of your Letter, & warmly would second the motion, & would wish you to set off immediately, without stoping to adjust every preliminary —For if you do, you will see, I fear so many Lions, in the...
30349To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 13 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I send you the books you marked. Likewise a work I before forgot, of which I have a duplicate. It is the French Biographical Dictionary in nine volumes . This however you can give back to the man if you dont choose to take it—no harm is done except your trouble of looking at it—as he can bring it back in the carriage. Yr. obt. Sevt. RC ( DLC ). Probably [Louis Mayeul Chaudon], Nouveau...
30350To James Madison from Nathaniel Cutting, 13 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
As I wish that nothing relative to myself should intrude upon those moments when etiquette or public service induce you to receive the personal respects of your fellow citizens, I take the liberty by this method to request that when a leisure moment presents in the retirement of your closet you will have the goodness to peruse what I am now about to throw upon paper. You recollect, I presume,...
30351Memorandum [from Albert Gallatin?], 13 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The difficulties suggested by Col. Taylor in his letter to the President of the 26h. of May last, are not of a recent date, but have been a source of much inquietude to those who are particularly interested, for many years past. By the cession of the state of Virginia made to the United States in the year 1784, of the Territory North West of the River Ohio, all that tract of land lying between...
30352To James Madison from David Goldsmith, 13 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
You will exus a Deutchmen his bath writing I never wont undertainin it both in the misre of been a Prisner in Captain Gill Party of Marien Corps. Inlister in the Greates distres werent the Imbargo, & desertent for witch I exspect to sower Serverly with out the Honerable President Medicen Grant a Poor Distrest Seeler: Pardon your Servent RC ( DNA : RG 45, Misc. Letters Received). Postmarked “...
30353William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, 13 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your friendly letter of the 28 th ult o in answer to a communication of mine, dated the 14 th of March ;—and with great pleasure accept the apology you have been pleased to make for a delay in its’ acknowledgment;—for as well as I now recollect its’ contents, (having kept no copy) it might have remained in the hands of one of our self important would-be great men , an age,...
30354Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not know, till mr Patterson called on us, a few days ago, that you had passed on to Washington . I had recently observed in the debates of Congress , a matter introduced, on which I wished to give explanations more fully in conversation which I will now do by abridgment in writing. mr Randolph has proposed an enquiry into certain prosecutions at Common law in Connecticut , for libels on...
30355To John Adams from Samuel Perley, 12 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of April, 18th. 1809, came safe to my Hand. It was soon read by our Lawyer in Gray. He was so Pleased with it, that he quickly publised it, in the Portland Gazette. I have seen your Letter and mine, Published in the Boston Patriot. Both are published (as I Understand) in Amherst Paper in the State of New-Hampshire. No writings, that appear in our public Papers, are in General read,...
30356From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The Pacific has just returned from G. B. bringing the accts. to be seen in the Newspapers. The communications from Pinkney add little to them. The new orders, considering the time, and that the act was known on the passage of which the instructions lately executed by Erskine, were predicated, present a curious feature in the conduct of the B Cabinet. It is explained by some at the expence of...
30357To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 24h April has been duly received. The Letter which you addressed to the Lady Abbess of the Ursulines, was immediately transmitted, and in a Note to me acknowledging its receipt, the Ab⟨bess⟩ expresses “the great pleasure, which the assurance of your protection, has afforded herself, & the Community,” and offers a prayer to Heaven, “for the prosperity of a Government, which...
30358To James Madison from Lafayette, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The Sudden departure of Mr. Coles Has Left me But the Time to Come to town, take Leave of Him, And aknowledge Your kind Letter Just Now Received By Mr. Gelston. With Affectionate Gratitude I See that No pressure of Business Can Make You forgetful of the private Concerns of Your friend. Be pleased to present Also My Best Thanks to Mr. Gallatin. You Will Have Been Much Surprised to Hear the...
30359To James Madison from George Luckey, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have opportunity of Writing to You by the mail from my dwelling in Harford county Maryland half Way distant from Baltimore to York Town Pennsylvania. I hear from You, & am glad that a kind providence has fixed one in Your present useful station so long tried for fidelity & affection to our beloved country. You took Your place in a most difficult & trying period of the Republic, but the dark...
30360To James Madison from Augustus B. Woodward, 12 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to transmit to the president of the united states the observations alluded to in a former letter; and to be, with the greatest respect, his obedient servant, Considerations addressed to the president of the united states, on the subject of opening an intercourse between the american and Chinese governments. Several features of similitude exist between china and the united...
30361Destutt de Tracy to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
je Suis Saisi de la plus timide inquietude quand je pense qu’un ouvrage de moi Sur les objets les plus importants au bonheur des hommes, va etre mis Sous les yeux de l’homme de l’univers que je respecte le plus et dont j’ambitionne le plus le Suffrage. cependant je ressens une joye vive de penser qu’aprés avoir fait le bonheur de votre pays, aprés lui avoir donné le plus grand et le plus utile...
30362Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
J’apprends que M r Coles , dont je croyais le départ retardé pour longtems encore, montera en voiture dans une heure. Je n’ai donc qu’un moment pour vous exprimer toute ma reconnaissance de la Lettre qu’il m’a remise de votre part. Quoique je sois convaincu que M r Madison , votre Ami et votre Elève, gouvernera dans les mêmes Principes que vous, je ne puis m’empêcher de regretter que vous...
30363Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous connaissez assez les sentimens respectueux d’attachement et d’amitié que je Vous porte, pour sentir Vous même la satisfaction que j’ai eu en recevant Votre lettre en date du 6 Mars . Je n’ai pas eté heureux depuis que j’ai quitté Votre beau pays. Battu par la tempête, on est plus sensible aux vrayes jouissances morales. Quelle carriere que la Votre! Quel exemple ravissant, Vous avez...
30364Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
It becomes necessary for me to establish a correspondence somewhere for the supply of my groceries, that is to say, of sugar, coffee & tea and salted fish and I believe Richmond will be more convenient than Baltimore , Philadelphia , & New York , if to be had there on nearly equal terms. but as I know nobody there I must ask the favor of you to select the most eligible correspondent there for...
30365George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The two boxes mentioned in M r Gelston’s letter were received, but Major Gibbon called soon after, with a letter from Cap t Tingey of Washington , saying that one of them belonged to him, and had been forwarded to us by mistake.—it is still here, waiting for a good opportunity by which to send it to Washington .—There is no direction on the box, a card appearing to have been rubbed off.— I am...
30366George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing you by this mail, a M r James Scott has called on me, with a few of the papers which must have come out of the lost trunk. M r S. lives within about five miles of Charlottesville , and, having been waiting for some Tobacco which he expected down the river, he concluded to go some miles up it, in the expectation of meeting the boat. He found the papers about a mile above the locks...
30367Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
While I was indulging the Hope to See M r Coles at La Grange , to possess Him Some days in our family, to go with Him to Aulnay where M r et M de de tessé , expected the pleasure to Receive Him, I Have Been Yesterday informed of His Sudden departure—I immediately Came to town, But am much Vexed at My disappointment—The impression M r Coles Has made Upon me Makes me Heartily Regret Not to Have...
30368James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The Pacific has just returned from G.B. bringing the acc ts to be seen in the Newspapers. The communications from Pinkney add little to them. The new orders , considering the time, and that the act was known on the passage of which the instructions lately executed by Erskine , were predicated, present a curious feature in the conduct of the B Cabinet . It is explained by some at the expence of...
30369Madame de Tessé to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
je demande sans cesse depuis un mois, Monsieur, d’etre prevenue du depart de M r Coles et j’ai L’ambition de le Recevoir, non dans La maison, mais dans le jardin ou je dois terminer mes jours, pour que vous connoîssiés au moins mon tombeau. il n’a Rien d’attristant et pourroit exciter en moi trop d’orgueil, si je prenois un peu serieusement à lá plaisanterie de M r Short qui ne Rougit point de...
30370Destutt de Tracy’s Commentary on Book 2 of Montesquieu’s Esprit des Lois, [ca. 12 June 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
Livre Second: Des Loix qui derivent directement de la Nature du Gouvernement. Esprit des lois Copies liv. 2 e Il ny a que deux especes de Gouvernemens, Ceux qui Sont fondés Sur les droits généraux des hommes, et ceux qui Se pretendent fondés Sur Des droits particuliers. La division ordinaire des gouvernemens en republicains, monarchiques, et despotiques, me parait essentiellement mauvaises...
30371Extracts from Destutt de Tracy’s Reflections on Montesquieu’s First Twelve Books, [ca. 12 June 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
nous trouvons dés le livre second que les gouvernemens viennent tous Se ranger dans deux classes, Savoir ceux qui Sont fondés Sur les droits généraux des hommes, et ceux qui Se pretendent fondés Sur des droits particuliers . Montesquieu n’a pas adopté cette division. Il classe les gouvernemens d’après la circonstance accidentelle du nombre des hommes qui Sont les depositaires de l’autorité: et...
30372To James Madison from Rembrandt Peale, 11 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Having just learned by the National Intelligencer that the Enterprise will sail without delay, my fear of appearing importunate is overruled by my fevered anxiety to enter upon the glorious undertaking which has been offered to my Ambition & love of my Art. If it is not possible I must be satisfied—but if it is possible to profit by this opportunity for me & my family to pass unmolested into...
30373John Armstrong to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the letter you did me the honor to write to me by M. Coles , whom I found to be everything that you had said of him,—well informed & confidential & therefore an excellent supplement to my letters both public and private. In discharge of this new obligation, I employed myself in writing to you a long letter, filled with facts, conjectures and forebodings. On looking over it, I found...
30374From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
IN page 29. Mr. Hamilton says, "when an ordinary man dreams himself to be a Frederick," &c. To this I shall make but a short answer. When a Miss of the street shall print a pamphlet in London, and call the Queen of England an ordinary woman, who dreams herself a Catharine of Russia, no Englishman will have the less esteem for his queen for that impudent libel. There is something in the 24th...
30375To James Madison from the City Council of New Orleans, [10 June] 1809 (Madison Papers)
With all that respect and esteem, which long and faithful public Services are calculated to inspire, the City Council of New-Orleans, beg leave to approach you, and to tender their congratulations on your elevation to the Presidency of the U. States. Under the guidance of your illustrious predecessor, we have Seen our Government conducted in Safety, in times the most perilous; and our Country...
30376To James Madison from George W. Erving, 10 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I had the honor to write to you on the 5t May, since then I have received a letter from Mr Smith, dated April 1st, in which he acquaints me that you have disapproved of the agreement made some months since between Mr Yznardi & Mr Hackley respecting the management of this consulate: that agreement is consequently now annulled: in the month of Jany soon after it had been formed, I found that Mr...
30377To James Madison from George Joy, 10 June 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
10 June 1809, London. Joy is upset over Canning’s handling of the Erskine affair. Expresses his own preference for the pleasures of private life over the plagues suffered when one is in the public eye and wishes JM could also withdraw from his political responsibilities. RC ( DLC ). 10 pp.
30378To James Madison from Joel Barlow, 9 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Latrobe has informed me that you wished to have the Encyclopedie sent to your house with the bill. I now send them by the Bearer of this. I take the liberty at the same time to offer you some other books, of which I enclose a notice. Your very obt. Mr. Madison bo’t of J. Barlow The french encyclopedie methodique—incomplete, consisting as follows 93 vol. bound & 14 half vol. unbd. letter...
30379To James Madison from John Mason, 9 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
The letter which I have now the honour to enclose, came to my hands yesterday, under cover with a letter of business, relative to his accounts, from Mr Rodolph Tellier (late agent at the indian trading house which was established at the cantonment at Belle Fontaine near St Louis, now discontinued) and to which was the following postscript—“I intended to send the enclosed to his Excellency the...
30380To James Madison from David Gelston, 9 June 1809 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
9 June 1809, New York. Has received JM’s letter of 15 May and has “had the wine cased.” Encloses a bill of lading of the same date, signed by the master of the schooner Eliza Ann , at New York, who will deliver to Georgetown the shipment described in Gelston to JM, 11 May 1809 . An account for duties, freight, casing, and storage, totaling $146.20, is enclosed. RC and enclosures ( DLC ). RC 1...
30381From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 8 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
IN page 20, Mr. Hamilton says, my "conduct in the office of President was a heterogeneous compound of right and wrong, of wisdom and error." As at that time, in my opinion, his principal rule of right and wrong, of wisdom and error, was his own ambition and indelicate pleasures, I despise his censure, and should consider his approbation as a satire on my administration. “The outset," he says,...
30382To James Madison from Philip Barbour, 8 June 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have been permitted by Governour Harrison in the praise of whose Judgement & descretion I Need Say Nothing, to Search for Salt Water in the neighbourhood of the U. States Saline, With the priviledge of using it during the Continuance of the present Case. I have sunk one Well in which there is an abundance of water, But of an inferior quality, from this Circumstance it Cannot be Manufactured...
30383Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 8 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of May 30. was duly recieved informing me you had sent by mr Randolph ’s boat 2 boxes lately recieved. these have since come to hand. the one was from Lemaire at Philadelphia , containing oil & syrops. the other was from mr Gelston of N. York and contained 3. doz. bottles of Burgundy wine. I inclose you his letter stating that he had recieved & should forward for me to you two
30384Shadrach Ricketson to Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Shadrach Ricketson presents his respectful Esteem to his Friend, Thomas Jefferson ; & herewith sends him his Treatise on Health, which he desires he will accept as a Testimony of the same: also his pamphlet on the Influenza, & two other small ones. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 14 June 1809 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosures: (1) Ricketson, Means of Preserving Health, and Preventing...
30385Augustin François Silvestre to Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai reçu et communiqué à la Société d’agriculture de Paris la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire en date du 11 fevrier dernier. La Société a vu, dans l’empressement avec lequel vous avez daigné vous occuper de la demande, que j’avais pris la liberté de vous faire en Son nom, d’une certaine quantité de graine de coton, un nouveau témoignage de l’intérêt que vous voulez bien...
30386From John Adams to William Cunningham, 7 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
Yours of May 6th, I have not acknowledged, and cannot particularly consider the abundance of matter in it at present. If you see the Patriot, you will see that I am scribbling, twice a week. I am hammering out a brass farthing into an acre of leaf brass. But I was determined that posterity should know the facts relative to my peace with France in 1800. I expect “angry surges” enough. Let them...
30387From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which I have recd. an Aurora under your envellope. I thank you for both. Thanks too for your sons inaugural Dissertation. I wish him success in his studies Travels and Practice. May he become as eminent, as skilful, as humane, as virtuous and as successful as his father. I rejoice that your son Richard...
30388From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 7 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
In page 26, Mr. Hamilton says, that the mission “could hardly fail to injure our interests with other countries.” This is another of those phantoms which he had conjured up to terrify minds and nerves as weak as his own. It was a common place theme of discourse, which, no doubt, the British faction very efficaciously assisted him in propagating. I know it made impression on some, from whose...
30389Kimber & Conrad to Thomas Jefferson, 7 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
We are engaged in the Publication of a work of the first Character and importance, which has recently appeared in London , edited by John Pinkerton , Author of Modern Geography &c. The prospectus , which developes the Plan the Author has pursued, we have directed to be handed to thee with this note, by John Hellings who is engaged in obtaining subscribers; and as the undertaking is a very...
30390From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 6 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I recd in Season your interesting favor of the 10th of May: but have not had Opportunity to acknowledge it till now. There appears to me, to be a very extraordinary and unaccountable Inattention in our Countrymen to the History of their own Country. While every kind of Trifle from Europe is printed and Scattered profusely in America our own Original Historians are very much neglected. A Copy...