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Since the receipt of your favor of 13 instant I have waited for the return of Col. Humphreys from Philadelphia, upon the suggestion of his agent, that the Col. would be ambitious to select, personally, such cloth as might do justice to his factory & your expectations. The Col. returned this evening, says that four weeks at least will be necessary for finishing a piece in hand of such quality,...
On the reciept of your letter of the 24th. complaining of an unjust detention of money from you in the Navy department, I had the proper enquiries made, and now inclose you the report of the Navy accountant, which you will percieve to differ in essential facts from your statement. should you think it worth while to controvert these facts, the proposal offered by the Accountant in the last...
Prompted by urgent necessity to address Your Excellency, and having two aged Parents dependant on me for Support I trust that this appeal to your excellency’s humanity will not be unavailing., Having been employed as Clerk in a Respectable Mercantile house in this City, but owing to the Embargo, a measure Calculated to rescue our property from the Grasp of Foreign Nations, but severe in its...
Business and indisposition have prevented my sooner acknoleging the recipt of your letter of the 3d. instant, which came to hand on the 10th. mr Granger, before that, had sent here the very elegant ivory staff of which you wished my acceptance. the motives of your wish are honorable to me, and gratifying, as they evidence the approbation of my public conduct by a stranger who has not viewed it...
According to the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the 25th. instant, I now lay before them a copy of my proclamation of the 19th. of April last. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
J G Jackson presents his best respects to the President of the US & has the pleasure to communicate the information he promised to furnish him some time since. the delay is attributable to the absence of Mr. Love who only returned to day—Upon conversing with Mr. Love he stated to me that Dr. Ware is the person to whom my friend Winston referred as eminent for his Surgical talents—that he is...
The impossibility in the present hurry of the Post office of ascertaining correctly the balances of the appropriations & indeed the variation hourly taking place in them by the payment of accounts, induced me to alter in the Report the passage rela tive to them, & to State merely tha t they were so nearly exhausted that the Work must soon close an d Workmen be discharged unless the legislature...
This may at first excite your surprize: but when you see its contents, I am more than certain that you will feel for my situation. Knowing that you are about to retire from the cares of the nation; and seek repose and happiness in the bosom of private and rural life, I have taken upon myself to ask a favor; which, if granted, will throw me under every obligation conceivable. Having always had...
To the best of my recollection, Dr. Barton, Doctr. Wistar and yourself are the Vicepresidents of the Philosophical society; but not being entirely confident in my memory and still less as to the order of the names, I take the liberty of putting the inclosed under a private cover to you, with a request that you will communicate it to your colleagues. I salute you with great friendship and...
Being to remove within a few months from my present residence to one still more distant from the seat of the meetings of the American Philosophical society, I feel it a duty no longer to obstruct it’s service by keeping from it’s chair members whose position, as well as qualifications, may enable them to discharge it’s duties with so much more effect. begging leave therefore to withdraw from...