1To James Madison from Joseph Habersham, 31 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
Upon further consideration I have concluded it would not be adviseable for me to undertake the office of District Judge which you was so good as to say the President was disposed to confer upon me. As the business before that court may suffer through the want of a Judge it appeared expedient for me to mention this before Your return that a new appointment might be made in time to prevent any...
2To James Madison from Jacob Wagner, 31 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
I have had the honor to receive, in due time, your letter of the last post. I have written to Mr. Helmbold, to inform me of his terms for printing the laws in German, and, if they prove reasonable, shall direct him to proceed. The enclosed two letters, which I have written to the Collector of New York, will shew the footing on which the business of the Ragusan Brigantine stands. I expect in a...
3To James Madison from George Davis, 31 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 August 1801, New York. Reminds JM of letters from Edward Livingston, DeWitt Clinton, and Samuel Mitchill recommending him for the post of consul for Algiers, which he forwarded on 23 July. Wrote JM on 6 Aug. [letter not found] requesting to be considered for post at Tunis or Tripoli. Dr. Kemp of Columbia College has also written to Jefferson on his behalf. Reports that the frigate...
4To James Madison from John J. Murray, 31 August 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
31 August 1801, Staten Island, New York. Announces that a few days earlier, in Aaron Burr’s presence, he made necessary alteration in his commission for consul at Glasgow as authorized by Wagner’s 6 Aug. letter. Burr endorsed certificate. Transmits bond and requests permission to delay departure until winter, as he wishes to visit principal trading towns, particularly those farther south, and...
5To James Madison from John J. Murray, 31 August 1801 (Madison Papers)
A few days since, in the presence of the Vice President, I made the alteration in the Pr esidents Commission to John C Murray, Consul at Glasgow, as authorized by Mr. Wagner in his Letter of the 6th. Instant. The Vice President thot proper to endorse the following certificate on Mr. Wagners letter vizt: “I certify that the person by me recommended for the office of Consul to Glasgow is John J...
6To Thomas Jefferson from David Austin, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Hearing that the Treaty with France, was not, at the sailing of the Maryland ratified, I beg liberty to lay before the President a few things in respect to this instrument, & to the appending circumstances of our relations with France. Please to understand that the total operation of what is stiled Revolution is, in the design of the Great Supreme, deadly & destructive . It is as a pioniering...
7To Thomas Jefferson from John Barnes, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two favrs 21. & 22d. are at hand. and I hope the plaisterer —as well the missing bbl. plaister are also Arrived with you.—that your experiments on the New tried matter of the Cow pox, meet your most sanguine wishes, must of course (—from its happy & most extray. effects.) become generally—to be practised, for the Benefit of the present, & future generations.—Mr Rapin, expects Mr Le Mair...
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Davis, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately visited that Scene which you have pronounced one of the most stupendous in Nature, & purposing to return to Philadelphia in a Month, where I shall publish my Travels under the title of A Journey from New York to the Passage of the Potomac through the Blue Ridge Mountains,—I take the liberty to entreat permission to dedicate my Work to you. If Gadienus travelled from the remote...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Hurt, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the pleasure to make you acquainted with Doctor Baynham —he & his brother (who I have not the pleasure of being acquainted with) are travailing up to your healthy country for the benefit of a pure air—happening to hear them say they wished to pay their respects to you but was not furnished with letters of introduction I make use of the opportunity of Congratulating you on what has...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 31 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I was a few minutes since with Mr. Glendy : on saturday last he was attacked with a violent bilious disorder which has since confined him to his bed: he laments much that his indisposition prevents his keeping the appointment he had made to preach in Charlottsville on Thursday next: he requested me to give you this information as early as possible, and to offer the violence of disorder, as his...