42451To James Madison from Thomas T. Gamble, 26 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Thomas T. Gamble. 26 January 1806, Washington. “The office of Consul for the Danish Island of Santa Cruz being vacant I offer myself as a Candidate for the appointment. “The inclosed papers [not found] were intended to recommend me in An application for the Consulate of St. Thomas at which place I have for a long time resided at the head of the most respectable American Mercantile...
42452To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to acquaint you that I arrived at this Port a few days since after a Passage of Fifty days from Bordeaux. By the public Newspapers which I have seen here, I find you are already in possession of all the important political intelligence known at Bordeaux previous to my departure. Mr. Armstrong’s dispatches for Government by the ship in which I came, he gave in charge to Mr. Henry...
42453To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I am given to understand that George Ingles the Military Storekeeper at this Arsenal is going to resign—I most acknowledge I am not sorry at it because it gives an oppertunity for a much better man being appointed in his place–Ingles’s unfeeling and I may add unjust treatment to Mr. Irvine I shall never forget for he a very few days after the Generals’ death sent a Common Carter with an order...
42454To Thomas Jefferson from James Ogilvie, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Every person in Virginia fond of reading, & those, more especially, who have cultivated a taste for miscellaneous research, must frequently experience interruption & disappointment from the difficulty & expense of procuring books.—Few, probably, have felt the disadvantages, arising from this circumstance, more painfully than I have done.—Engaged in a profession, the duties of which call for...
42455To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Je Vous prie, d’avoir—pour le Comble de la Chose—la Grace, de prendre—en Qualitè d’illustre protecteur d’un Republicain persecutè—Notice de l’incluse, d’engager Mr le General Dearborn en Consequence, qu’il m’expedie avec la Celèritè necessaire—et d’agreer les sentimens du plus pur et plus profond Respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
42456To Thomas Jefferson from J. Phillipe Reibelt, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. G. a de nouveau changè de projet relativ. au batiment pour Bordeaux—et ne compte maintenant pas d’y en envoyer avant plusieurs Mois. En ayant—en Consequence—parlè à Mr. Cristian Maÿer au sujet des Livres pour Vous et pour Moi, il m’a fait des reproches, de l’avoir presque privè de l honneur et du plaisir distinguè, d’executer cette Commission pour Vous, et m’a en même tems pressè, de Vous...
42457From Thomas Jefferson to John Strode, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters of the 20th. to Genl. Dearborne & myself are recieved. a recent loss in his family suspending for a while his attention to business. I sieze a moment to advise you to put off going to the furnace till we can concert a day with mr Foxall and give you notice of it. an advance of money to same amount can be made you. I wish this may reach you in time. Accept affectionate salutations....
42458To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Wagner, 26 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of State supposes, that the within abstract in the form of a report to the President, with the decree annexed to it, and the documents and correspondence communicated to Congress between the date of the Senate’s resolution and that of the report, will be an ample compliance with the requisition of the former. The favor is requested that the packet enclosed herewith for Mr....
42459From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 25 January 1806 (Adams Papers)
The new Edition of your medical Works, mentioned in your favour of the sixth of this month, have been committed to mr Shaw: my Nephew whom you know, and will be sent to me from Boston in due time. Many of those compositions I have read and shall read again with much pleasure, and shall make them as generally useful as I can among the Physicians in my Neighbourhood: but as I feel as few as I...
42460From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 January 1806 (Adams Papers)
The first thing I look for in all the letters I receive from Quincy, is that which relates to our children, who cannot speak for themselves, and both of whom we left indisposed, and when I find that they are well, I feel myself relieved thus far, and only hope that the rest of the letter may contain information equally pleasing, of all the other persons in whose welfare I am so deeply...