54511From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favors of the 25th. & blank were recieved yesterday; and all the papers forwarded me are returned by this post. I must pray you to direct an extract from so much of mr Clarke’s letter as relates to the dissatisfaction of the Chickasaw chief with the Spanish governor, to be taken & sent to Genl. Dearborn to whom I have written on the subject. mr Clarke’s letter cuts out a considerable...
54512To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Sébastien Mercier, [30 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
honnoré de L’amitié de Thomas Payne, permettéz que Je sois ici L’interprete du corps litteraire qui voit avec joye sur la liste de ses membres Le nom d’un de ces hommes éminement chers aux lettres et à la liberté. c’est donc un hommage merité et volontaire que nous nous sommes empressés à vous rendre. nous avons acquitté la dette de plus d’une Nation et nous nous sommes ainsi honorés nous...
54513From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 30 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 27th. was recieved yesterday. the host of commissions had come to hand and been signed & sent back by the last post. those now recieved are therefore returned: as are also the instructions to Commodore Morris with the suggestion of a small alteration or two. I doubt too whether it might not be proper to say something on the conditions of peace with Tripoli & Marocco; to wit that...
54514To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, [on or before 29 August 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 27. came duly to hand. I had recd. the letter from W. Hampton & F. Maury. I had proposed to observe to them , that the case fell wholly within the State laws, & that it was probable the several Governors would be led to attend to it by the correspondence between the Mayor of N.Y. & the French consul & Admiral. It had occurred also that it might not be amiss for the President to...
54515From Thomas Jefferson to Elias Boudinot, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Boudinot, and his thanks for the grains inclosed him, which have been safely recieved. tho’ not entirely unknown here, it has been so rare as not to afford an opportunity of investigating it’s botanical appellation. it has been once raised in the neighborhood by the name of the live-oat : yet it may be doubted whether it be an oat at all. he prays...
54516To Thomas Jefferson from William Deblois, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I am induced to this freedom by the desire of Thomas Paine Esqr. who is shortly to embark from hence for America; He very deservedly merits my friendship and esteem, and from his observations on his long tryed acquaintance with you, I am induced to entertain a hope you will look with an indulgent eye, on the liberty I now take, and when you know the cause I wish it may plead a further excuse;...
54517From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Not knowing whether the postmasters from hence to & at Boston are all true, I inclose the within to you and ask the favor of your cover to the postmaster or any other person you can confide in at Boston to deliver it. Your favors of Aug. 23. & 24. are recieved. pray forward me by post one of mr Bishop’s new pamphlets , & let it stand in account between us till we meet. I see with sincere grief...
54518From Thomas Jefferson to Willem H. van Hasselt, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 20. was recieved only on the 23d. inst. there was certainly nothing in my former letter which was meant to give you offence, nor can I, on a review of it, find any thing more in it than the caution of a stranger writing to a stranger. the sample of silk is recieved & shall be forwarded to some manufacturer of that article in Philadelphia or wherever else I can hear of one:...
54519To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Warren, 29 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
A few weeks since I received an intimation from General Dearborn that you had determined to appoint me Collector for the Port of Marblehead: since which it has been publicly announced in the papers. Be pleased to suffer me at this moment, to express to you my grateful sentiments for your notice & attention—and the extreme regret I feel at declining the acceptance of any appointment with which...
54520To John Adams from David Humphreys, 28 August 1802 (Adams Papers)
A combination of circumstances having prevented me from having the honour of paying my respects in person to Mrs Adams & yourself, I could not proceed on my journey to the Westward, without expressing in this manner my extreme sensibility of the disappointment. When I was in this Town, a few weeks ago, on my way to the Province of Main, I so fully indulged the expectation of making the visit,...