Your Letter of Jan’ry 6 I received last Evening. your Children are very well, and very well taken care of. so do not give yourself any anxious solisitude about them. I believe they are much better off than they could have been at any boarding House in washington, where they must have been confined in some degree; or have mixd with improper persons; with respect to John, the Child enjoys...
§ From Carlos Martínez de Yrujo. 19 January 1806, Washington. Freed of the personal explanations which I saw myself obliged to go into in my first answer to your letter of the 15th inst. I now tell you what otherwise would then have constituted my only response, namely, that the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty, near the United States takes no orders...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel Bradley, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night only your favor of Dec. 26. and percieving by the delay it has incurred that there is some inexactitude in the conveyance by post between us, I think it safest not to commit the money for you to this letter, but to lodge it with mr Lewis Deblois a merchant of Alexandria, with which place I presume you must have daily relations. I am perfectly disposed to make you the...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Deblois, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to pay 35. D. to Daniel Bradley at Fairfax court house and percieving that in the passage of letters between us by post there has been great inexactitude, I take the liberty of asking you to recieve the inclosed sum of 35. D. and to pay it to his order. I have by a letter of this day informed him of this measure & inclosed him an order on you, hoping you will excuse this free use of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes Freeman, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I now inclose you 350. D. to be applied as follows. James Walker 100 . D John Perry 100 .
6From Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Gibson, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I was to have paid mr James Lyle a thousand dollars in the course of the last summer, which was not done. I expect my tobacco from Poplar forest is now arrived at Richmond or is on it’s way thither, consigned to you. I wish therefore either that a part of it to the amount of that value should be delivered to him, or that you should pay him that amount out of the first proceeds of the sale when...
7To Thomas Jefferson from William Keteltas, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
In Your answer to A letter I Wrote You some time past, You Observed it would be agreeable at all times to have Every information touching all Matters, involving Your Responsibility in Making Appointments , with a View to Make the best—Having Made A Tour in the Course of the Summer, through upper and Lower Louissiana I had an opportunity of hearing the Opinion of the people Respecting their...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On examining the Documents referred to in my message respecting the Ex-bashaw, & that also on English affairs, I found that a material paper in each had not been sent me from the offices. as one would be to translate & copy, & the other was long & would be to be copied twice, I thought it best not to delay the messages, but to supply the omission of the documents by asking your permission for...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Allyne Otis, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the request with which you honoured me this morning, I have put into the hands of the committee appointed on your message 13th. respecting Hamet Caramalli, the copy of Caramallis letter to yourself, 5 Augt 85. The committee are Messrs Bradley Wright Baldwin Smith of Maryland Tracy The copy of the American Ministers letter, (Mr Monroe) to the British Secretary of foreign affairs,...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Raphaelle Peale, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing the pleasure you derive from a Communication of improvements or discoveries—induce me to intrude upon some of your leisure moments, if any, at this busy Season, to communicate what I concieve to be new & may, possibly, be of use to our Goverment—a disagreeable passage of 48 days from Philaa. to Savannah, on board a leaky and dismasted vessel, induced me to view in a bad light the...