1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Crockett, 15 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The cession of Louisiana to the united States, I expect will make it Necessary for a collector of the revenue to be appointed at the port of New Orleans: If so I would beg leave to inform you Sir, Mr. George Madison of Frankfort, wishes to be considered a candidate for that Office. I have been well acquainted with Mr Madison ever since a small boy his character is equal to any for honesty and...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William Polk, 15 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The warm Attachment I feel to your Person and Principles, as displayed in your Administration I hope will be Accepted as my excuse for troubling you with this Address— I have lately seen an Address signed by a Number of Gentlemen Residing in Worcester County Maryland directed to the Secretary of the Treasury, Soliciting the Removal of William Selby the present Collector of the district of Snow...
3To Thomas Jefferson from John Tarver, 15 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
To attempt an apology for the Liberty I t[ake] in addressing you, or to say what gave birth in my mind the idea of the application is out of my power, but hope that my boldness will find excuse in that exalted goodness which I have, with thousands of others been some Year’s an humble admirer off. My Prayer Honble Sir, is to find employment, in our new acquired and much admired acquisition of...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Bloomfield, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
George C. Maxwell the Attorney of the United States, for the district of New-Jersey, with difficulty has been prevailed upon, not to resign, untill Willm. S. Pennington , representative in Council for Essex, could be Spared from the Legislature of this State. This time having arrived, Mr. Maxwell by the Mail that takes this letter, Sends his resignation. The Republican Members of the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from William P. Gardner, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I trust you will excuse the Liberty which I take in addressing this Letter to you at a time when your Attention is naturally occupied by Concerns important and interesting to our Nation. In the first place I would wish to convey to you my thanks for the honor which you conferred upon me in the Appointment as Consul of the United States for Demerary and Essequibo and tho’ not accepted as such...
6To Thomas Jefferson from William Prentis, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long had it in contemplation to promote a work, so interesting to the State of Virginia, and indeed to the present as well as future generations, that I cannot refrain, on viewing its magnitude, from addressing a letter to you on the subject of it. Mr. Burke has informed me, that he communicated to you, his intention to write a History of Virginia. A work of this kind I have long wished...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Rawlings, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Being desirous of an employment under the present Administration of my Country, induced me to obtain the enclosed letters, from your respected Son in Law Thos M, Randolph and Wilson C, Nicholas Esqrs.—These letters although they speak of my connexions as respectable, could mention myself only when a minor; and therefore in your opinion, I fear, may not be deemed sufficient to prove, that...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Abel Spencer, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In pursuance of the directions given me by a Resolution of the Genel. Assembley of the State of Vermont I hearewith Transmit you an Address of Said Assembley—passed Novr. 11th. 1803 . I am Sir. with Grate Respect your Obediant Humble Servt. RC ( MHi ); at foot of text: “the President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Nov. and so recorded in SJL with notation “coverg. address...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Lawrence Wartmann, 14 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty to write your Excelency, I pray Your will pardon me, I hope your Excelency will believe me, that this few lines come from one of your true Subject. Dear Sir, your Excelency in this present moment the only person which can save a very poor and distressfull Family, I trust in God and in your Excelency, as a Father of our Country, that your Excelency will open your pityfull...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Carr, 12 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 24th. October came this day to hand, and I hasten to answer it immediately, but am afraid it will not come in time to answer any purpose. In the course of my conversations with Dr Baker upon the subject of your letter, I inferred from what passed that he would not dispose of him for life, but if he did, not less than four hundred dollars would be his price. The family at this...