45921To Thomas Jefferson from Elisha Avery, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
With any other than yourself, elevated to the rank in which you are placed, I should have been awed by a sense of my presumption, & probably detered from excercising the liberty to which I am now emboldend: and it is alone Sir, On those liberal & virtuous Qualities, which so emminently distinguish your character, that I rely for pardon of the freedom I allow myself. Too generally does it...
45922To Thomas Jefferson from Justus Erich Bollmann, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am apprehensive I have been guilty of an Incorrectness in not acknowledging before the Receipt of Your Excellency’s Remittance for $546. 43/100 in full for the Hungary-Wines. It was occasioned by the Expectation I entertained of paying personally my Respects to you at Washington, but which I have not yet been able to realise. It is very satisfactory to me that the Wines in the whole have...
45923From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my letter of yesterday I now inclose you the treasurer’s order on mr Gibbons for 600. D. which I hope will get to hand in time to prevent disappointment. will you be so good as to send to Monticello a hogshead of best molasses, but in a double case in sound & good condition or it will be no better than a hogshead of water when it arrives there. if there is any syrop of punch to be...
45924To Thomas Jefferson from George Read, Jr., 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
G. Read presents his most respectful compliments to the President of the United States, and has been honoured with his Note of yesterday, on the subject of the power of the Courts of the United States, to restrain the State Courts within their limits by a prohibition:—G. Read laments that there is no law-library in Washington to which he could have recourse for the purpose of investigating the...
45925To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Warren, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Through the medium of Judge Cushing’s family I have learnt that Cod’s tongues & sounds are a dish of which you are peculiarly fond. I embrace the opportunity which this hint affords me to transmit a half barrel, which I believe are excellent, & have sent them by the Schooner Nightingale, Capt. Paine, bound up the Potomack, who has promised me to forward them safely. I pray you, Sir, to accept...
45926To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Willcox, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to observe that Noah Lester Esqr. Councelor at Law, offers himself as a candidate for some imployment under the general government, he wishes to be placed in some of the Territorial Governments as a Judge or District Attorney, ether of which I belive he wold fill with propriety—He is a gentleman of Abilities, Respected in his profession, & has been a uniform & regular suporter of...
45927To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne (Abstract), 10 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
10 February 1805, New Orleans . “Colonel De Lassus formerly Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana (with thirty Spanish Soldiers) is now in this City on his way to Pensacola; his Arrival was Announced to me by a Letter from the Marquis of Casa Calvo, of which the enclosure No 1 is a translation, and to which I returned the Answer No 2. The delay attending the evacuation of the Ceded Territory...
45928From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 10 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended by yesterday evening’s post to have sent you the treasurer’s draught on mr Gibbons for 600. D. but unfortunately on calling at mr Gallatin’s office, he had left it. I called on him to-day, but it being Sunday, the draught cannot be procured till tomorrow. it shall certainly go by the post which leaves this tomorrow evening & consequently will get to hand 24. hours after this is...
45929From Thomas Jefferson to George Read, Jr., 10 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Reid, and his apologies after 30. years abstraction from law questions, for intruding into them with mr Reid who is in daily familiarity with them. but he means only to make such suggestions as may draw mr Reid’s own attention to the subject of their yesterday’s conversation . he has no law books here but the Abridgments. by turning to Comyns’...
45930To James Madison from William Jarvis, 9 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
It is with pain that I feel myself obliged to lay before Government a Correspondence of such an unpleasant nature as the inclosed between Captain Rodgers & myself, but when my reputation has been attacked & an attempt has been made to lessen my influence as a man & my consequence as an officer justice to my character oblidges me to lay a fair statement of the transaction before Government to...