1Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 19 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
It gives me the greatest pain, dear Sir, to make a serious complaint to you. from the letter which I wrote you on the 3 d of Oct. 1813. an extract was published, with my name, in the newspapers, conveying a very just, but certainly a very harsh censure on Bonaparte . this produced to me more complaints from my best friends, and called for more explanations than any transaction of my life had...
2Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 20 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 5 th is now recieved. I never doubted the purity of your intentions in the publications of which I complained ; but the correctness only of committing to the public a private correspondence not intended for them. their eye. as to federal slanders, I never wished them to be answered, but by the tenor of my life, half a century of which has been on a theatre at which the public...
3Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 23 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved and read with great pleasure the account you have been so kind as to send me, of the interview between the emperor Alexander and mr Clarkson , which I now return, as it is in MS. it shews great condescension of character on the part of the emperor, and power of mind also to be able to abdicate the artificial distance between himself and other good and able men, and to converse...
4Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 12 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your favor of Oct. 16. at this place, where I pass much of my time, very distant from Monticello . I am quite astonished at the idea which seems to have got abroad; that I propose publishing something on the subject of religion. and this is said to have arisen from a letter of mine to my friend Charles Thompson , in which certainly there is no trace of such an idea. when we see...
5Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 24 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your favor of Nov. 1. here, as I am about setting out on my return to Monticello for the winter. the specimen of flax from S r John Sinclair is exquisite. we have learned from the newspapers that a new method of preparing flax has been discovered in England . I presume this is an example. about 25. years ago S r John Sinclair sent me a specimen of