1To Thomas Jefferson from George Helmbold, 12 [i.e. 11] May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I once more intrude myself upon your notice and beg your attention to an object worthy of a mind like yours. Mr. G. Stuart the celebrated Portrait Painter has by a strange fatality of circumstances involved himself and nine children in a situation the most distressing that can be conceived—His houshold furniture, little specimens of genius exhibited by his son, nay, even the last bed has been...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 31 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed you by Adam Gordon Esqr, a gentleman I have been intimately acquainted with ever Since my return from London. he expects to establish himself at the Natches, in the Messisipi Terretory, and would be hapy in rendering the government any Services in his power, he has been informed that there are appointments shortly to be made in that Territory, for which I have no doubt he...
3To Thomas Jefferson from George Wythe, 31 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Peter Tinsley, the brother of the officer , concerning a demand against whom i took the liberty to write a letter to thee not long since, apprehends, that the letter may make some impression thy mind unfavourable to the officer, and may produce a suspicion in others of some unjustifiable conduct in captain Tinsley. this i write for the purpose of declaring that i know of no such conduct; and...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Matthew Groves, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
the unfortunate person who Does himself the honor to adress Your excellencey, solicits if Agreeable to your honor, some little office in the government service. such as a weigher and gauger, or any thing better which your excellencey wou’d be pleasd to bestow, or recommend to the Collector of this port. what gives me Confidence to make this application arises from the following Circumstances...
5To Thomas Jefferson from George Helmbold, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming the press of business would render it inconvenient for you to grant me a personal interview, I take this method of soliciting your attention—Men of information have frequently advanced it as their opinion, that so respectable a portion of the population of the United States as the Germans consist of, ought to have more attention paid them by government, on the score of diffusing...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Philip Mazzei, [30 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
richiede, e che non è possibile di ottenere qualora si voglion dire delle verità. Dalle correzioni fattevi colla penna. Ella concepirà, che, a motivo del necessario segreto, non potei averne le prove per correggerle. Il Capn. Ramsdell partì finalmente da Napoli, dopo subìti altri cattivi trattamenti, conforme faranno sentire (credo io) al Governo i Proprietari del carico spedito qua da...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Peyton, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Enclosed you will recieve an estimate of the taxes formerly imposed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, on that part of the District of Columbia included within the county of Alexandria . the statement is procured from the Clerk of our Court who I supposed possessed the best information on the subject, I must beg your permission to return half the money sent me for the horse nettings as I shall...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Williamson, 30 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
If the subject of this Letter should be deemed improper that impropriety would be increased by giving you the trouble of reading an Apologie. It is probable that a young gentleman in Boston, Mr Charles Bulfinch has the honour of being known by you for I think I heard him say that he had been at your house in Paris on his return from Italy. Mr Bulfinch is the only son of Dr. Bulfinch of Boston...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Anthony Butler, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Believing from various Information, that a Change in the office of the Collector of this Port is a Measure decided on by you; upon that Conviction alone, I beg leave to lay before you my application for that office and to solicit your favorable Decision thereon. I must confess that it is with Hesitation & great Deference I approach you on this Business—knowing & feeling as I do, the painful...
10To Thomas Jefferson from William Caruthers, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I have not been in the habit of Troubling You or any Other person who has better and more important business to attend to than my Nonsence perhaps it may with propriety be Called Yet in this instance I have taken that liberty—The object of this letter is to comminicate to You an Oppinion I have for some time entertained though Never Communicated to any person before in Order to be...
11To Thomas Jefferson from George Clinton, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mrs: Tudor intending to pass through the City of Washington on her way to the Springs in Berkeley County Virginia permit me to recommend her to your Friendly Notice and Attention—She is the Wife of Judge Tudor of Boston a Gentleman of much respectabillity and steady adherent to the virtuous Principles of our Revolution & his good Lady possesses the same Sentiment in an immenent Degree—She will...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Drayton, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th: June, accompanied with sundry papers from the Naval department; And, whenever any French Consul or Commercial Agent repairs to this place, I shall request him to hasten the discharge of the French prisoners here: unless, you should otherwise direct. I am also favored with your dispatches of the 15th: July ; and feel myself...
13To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a statement of the monies collected on account of the marine hospitals from when the law began to operate to the 31st of March 1801, showing also the disbursements made for the relief of sick seamen during the same period by the Agents appointed for that purpose, & the unexpended balances remaining on the last mentioned day in hands of said Agents or of the...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I enclose the hospital money statement which ought to have accompanied my letter of this morning, and add a letter, on the subject of repairs of Gosport hospital, received from the Collector of Norfolk who acts as Agent. I really do not know out of what fund the repairs can be paid. I forgot to mention that a blank commission will be wanted for Inspector of the internal revenues for the Survey...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed was delivered to me open this evening by Colo. Burr. It encloses an open letter for Mr Madison ; but the whole in fact is designed for you. I had not heard that Mr Lewis the new Marshal had offered to resign. If it is thought proper that he should & he has not offered to do it, I will, if you approve of it, write to Doctor Vaughan, on the grounds of public utility, advising that...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel H. Smith, 29 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Samuel H. Smith presents his respectful compliments to Mr. Jefferson, and sends, accompanying this note, the Bee sent to S.H.S. from the Post office thro’ mistake, and the French Calender which ought to have been returned long since. The only apology S.H.S. can offer for this conflict is the having sent it on the very day on which Mr. Jefferson last left the city for Monticello, and its being...
17Albert Gallatin’s Report on Collection of Internal Revenues, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury, respectfully submits to the President the following Facts and Observations on the subject of the Laws, providing for the Collection of internal Revenues .— By the existing Regulations, the United States are, for the purpose of collecting internal Revenues, divided into sixteen Districts, each State forming one District, with the Exception of the District of Ohio,...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Jacob Lewis, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the honor of waiting upon you this morning Mr. Madison has Inform’d Mr Erving on my behalf that he had left a blank Commission, & that if I chose it might be fill’d up with the Consulate of Morlaix or Calais, either of which he suppos’d I might hold without any prejudice to the hope of my Establishment In the Isle of france, & In the expectation even very soon of a removal to some...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Lincoln, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By yours of the 12th mentioning a former letter which I have since had the honor of receiving, I was put into a state of some anxiety. The one of the 11th from some circumstance or another did not come to hand untill several days after the one of a later date. It is said by the Worcester post-Office tht. it went on to Boston & afterwards came back. On its reception, not suspecting it had been...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Levi Stutson, 28 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The unwarrantable Freedom which I now take, in the very singular, (and prehaps unprecedented) method of addressing You, tho’ in the most exalted station, which a Grateful and magnanimous people can place you—I humbly desire you to forgive,—nor can I doubt of the generous readiness, with which your complyance, will honour the urgent request, and especially when the cause of this application,...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Davidson, 27 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In consequence of your friendly assurances of examining into the merits of my claim, respecting certain alterations in the Plans of the City, from the first location thereof; I have in the accompanying Memorial endeavoured to state the same, with the corroborating facts I sensibly feel your polite, and ready attention to the subject, and doubt not but I shall receive every redress which the...
22To Thomas Jefferson from “A Boston Merchant,” 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your REPLY to the merchants of the respectable City of New-Haven has just come to hand—Your boasted majority who are they. why Negro’s or what in New England are there cattle as the majority by whom you have been chosen. as you will see dele[…] in a peice in a late centinel of this town?—Let your Vengence of which you intimate as much fall on this spirited town. the first to avenge its...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Calvin Jones, 26 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The importance of the Militia I trust will be duly appreciated by an administration that is unfriendly to a Standing military force. I have for 3 years laboured to improve their discipline and with some little success—but not in a degree proportionate to the importance of the object. The Laws have been in many respects defective and though lately revised, come far short of perfection. I had...
24To Thomas Jefferson from “A. Z.,” 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately read your justly celebrated Notes on the State of Virginia, it occurred to my mind to account for the shells of fishes being on the mountains in Virginia and So. America in the following manner— On the annexed figure, let A.B.C.D. have once been the figure of the Earth—the parts covered with red dots the land, the parts with black lines the water—by the motion of the Earth around...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Sebastian Bauman, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By this day Post I have recieved a letter from you, Covering one for London addressed to Edmund Jennings Esquire, the letter is open and has neither wax nor wafer to it; probably you may have omitted to Seal it, or desinged that it Should go open. Please Sir, to let me know your Pleasure by the return of the Post, whether I shall Seal the letter or forwarded in the manner it is. the British...
26To Thomas Jefferson from William Bingham, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Being about to embark for Europe, (induced to change the Scenes which Surround me, from a recent melancholy Event having rendered them peculiarly distressing) I shall be extremely gratified at having an opportunity of executing any of your Commissions, or in any other Manner of being Serviceable to you during my Residence abroad— Permit me to express my cordial good Wishes for the Success of...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Theodore Foster, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At the Close of my Letter, by the last Mail, I mentioned the Liberty I should presume to take, in requesting your Opinion of the Adviseableness and Practicability of an annual Publication , intended to give a correct Historical View of the great National Measures, adopted by the Government, illustrative of the Reasons and Motives of the Public Counsels more especially those of the Executive...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed is the rough draft of a circular to the Collectors & is intended to correct several abuses which have crept in many ports. But it is submitted for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is proper to take this opportunity of communicating the sentiments expressed in the two last paragraphs marked #. In the first it is only intended to let them know that it is expected that they...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honor to enclose the within letter, in order to know whether, on account of the suggestions of the Charleston Collector in relation to dangers from Saint Domingo, the President thinks fit to except that cutter from the general arrangements contemplated. If any danger be apprehended from that quarter, the Cutter may be preserved, but disarmed & reduced in...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 25 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to the Memo. which you gave me, I have now the pleasure of sending you some of the Liqueurs & Sweetmeats of this place.—They are packed in two Boxes with a card of Direction on each “The President of the US.”—ship’d in the Schooner Betsy of Alexandria , Saml. Gilpin Master, and addressed to the care of Colo. Gilpin of that place, to whom you will have the goodness to order the Amount...