40781From Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
A law of the last session provided for making a road from Nashville to Natchez, & another from Cincinnati, by Vincennes to St. Louis. not having a copy of the laws yet, I do not know whether it is necessary for me to take any steps on this subject at present, or what it waits for. can you inform me? The road from Cumberland to Ohio will be an important link in the line to St. Louis. there will...
40782To Thomas Jefferson from John Gardiner, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the Honor to inform you that you were this Day elected (by the City Council) a Trustee to the Institution for the Education of Youth in the City of Washington, for the ensuing Year. By order of the Council The Trustees will meet at the Capitol on the 1st Monday in Augt. at 11 AM. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
40783To Thomas Jefferson from Lacosta S. Harris, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
A Lad or a young man presumes to adress you & request such a favour as probably never was asked of you or prehaps An One else before—I am a lad living in this town with a respectable Merchant.—being peculiarly unfortunate while very young in losing both my Parents, I am indebted to a very distant relation for clothing & Board, (as it is not the Custom in this place for Merchants to allow their...
40784To Thomas Jefferson from John Lenthall, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Report of the State of the Work on the South Wing of the Capitol July 14th. 1806 Freestone Work Set All the Architrave blocks on the west set and so much of the straight parts in the Centers, as amounts to within one block, of one half of the whole circumference of the room—All the Circular part of the Frieze is set on the above, which makes the Western part ready to receive the Vaulting. the...
40785To Thomas Jefferson from William Augustine Washington, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of mentioning to you that Mr. Beverley of Geo: Town & myself, have sent round to Richmond for a load of Nicholson and Heths best Coal—These Gentlen. assure us that the coal delivered at this time will be generally large, for as the demand at present is not considerable, the choice at the yard will be much better than it will be some time hence—Knowing that you consume a...
40786To Thomas Jefferson from Abner Waugh, 14 July 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
If I were not deliberately persuaded that I am now addressing myself to one who possesses, in an eminent degree, the best feelings that dignify human nature, I could never have prevailed upon myself to have undertaken the Task, which imperious necessity imposes upon me, of speaking of myself to a person to whom I am, I dare say, unknown. That necessity with a simple narrative of a few facts...
40787From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you from Cambridge last Tuesday, and then promised that my next should be from this place—Yesterday morning I walked from Cambridge into Boston, intending to come here in the Stage—My Passage was engaged, and I waited from four O’Clock in the afternoon, at Whitcomb’s untill Six expecting the Stage to call for me; but he came away and left me—having previously engaged as many passengers...
40788To James Madison from George W. Erving, 13 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
As your instructions were that the correspondence respecting D’Yrujo shoud be laid before this government without comment, I was a little doubtful whether or not you woud approve of any answer being given to such observations as it might Excite on the part of Mr Cevallos; but under the impressions mentioned in my public letter, it seemed upon the whole that some reply shoud be made; this I...
40789To James Madison from George W. Erving, 13 July 1806 (Madison Papers)
The last letter which I had the honor to write to you was dated 17th June, and inclosed copies of Don Pedro Cevallos’s note of the 2d & my reply of the 15th: He has thought proper to retouch the subjects of that note in another of the 24th June, a copy of which & my answer of the 1st Instt are herewith transmitted. As Mr Cevallos in his last note has not attempted by any argument to contest...
40790To James Madison from George Davis, 13 July 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From George Davis. 13 July 1806, Norfolk. No. 1. “By Mr. Payne who arrived at this place on the 10th. Inst: I had the honor to receive your letter of the 24th. June, with enclosures. “In closing my Accounts with the Department of State, as Acting Consul for the Regency of Tunis, I made a charge of the outfit usually allowed to Consuls on the Barbary Coast, and certainly without having a...