157101To James Madison from Josef Yznardy, 29 August 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
29 August 1811, Rota. Reports developments since leaving Cadiz in February 1810 when the French closed the port. Has been refused access to the city, but has been able to communicate with Hackley. Describes the efforts he and his son have made to rescue American property and repatriate seamen when eight vessels were stranded in the Bay of Cadiz in March 1810. Met with little success. His son...
157102George Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly received your favors of the 21 st and 26 th with the inclosure mentioned in the last. Wheat having fallen as you were informed by M r Coles on Monday the 19 th — that is, no sales having been made at 9/. after
157103Seventy-Six Association to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
In obedience to a regulation of the “Seventy Six” Association, we as their Standing Committee have transmitted a Copy of an Oration delivered on the 4 th of July by Benjamin A. Markley Esquire , A member of that Institution, for your perusal— Jo s Johnson J.B. White William Lance Joseph Kirkland
157104To James Madison from Daniel Lescallier, 30 August 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 August 1811, Norfolk, Virginia. “I have the honor to inform you of my arrival in the United States, and at Norfolk, in the capacity of Consul general of france by the Emperor’s Decree of Octr. 7th. 1810. My residence is to be at N. York.” Regrets that JM will not be in Washington when he passes through the city in a few days. RC ( NN ). 1 p. JM issued a proclamation on 25 Sept. 1811...
157105William C. Rives to Thomas Jefferson, 30 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I had the pleasure of being at Monticello , the unsettled state of my health has totally disqualified me for intellectual exertion. Indeed, for the last two years, either the incapacity resulting from this cause, or the avocations of business have materially obstructed my desire of knowledge, by taking away the physical power of obtaining it.— The former evil being now partially removed...
157106To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 31 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
In a former letter I have thanked you, for the two pamphlet speeches of Mr: Quincy delivered at the last Session of Congress—on the admission of the Orleans Territory as a State into the Union, and on his proposed Amendment to Mr: Maçons proposed Amendment of the Constitution—But I have not yet given you the reflections which occurred to my mind upon the perusal of them. It was my opinion at...
157107From James Madison to John Graham, 31 August 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 31 August 1811. Acknowledged in Graham to JM, 3 Sept. 1811 . Transmits a memorandum of purchases to be made and forwarded by Mr. Barry.
157108"A Bond Street Lounger" to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter of M r Sec y Smith (lately published) has fully exposed the diabolical views, & Strange fallacy of the democrats of America in fine the above letter will do more for the Cause of Federalism than all their own writers Combined could have done—to use a Cant & Vulgar phrase “when theives fall out, honest Men Come by their own”—the above speaks more than volumes—in fine you must Shrink...
157109Peter Carr to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
You will receive by James , a very fine boar-pig of the Chinese or Parkinson breed; he is just eight weeks old, and as the sow is in heat again, I thought it best, to seperate them. If they Should answer the character given of them, they will certainly be, a valuable acquisition. Judge Holmes and Gen l Smith of Winchester , speak of their being made fit for the table, on a third or even a...
157110Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 31 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Bolling Robertson proposing to return shortly to N. Orleans to resume the practice of the law there, I have thought it best to engage him to conduct the examination of witnesses there when we get to that stage of Livingston’s suit. and in order that he might understand the points which are likely to be made in the cause, I have communicated to him my view of it. a great proportion of the...
157111Josef Yznardy to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Muy Senôr mio y de mi mayor veneracion y respeto: Mucho tíempo hace caresco de la complacencía de savér de la salud de V.E. q e celebraré sea la mas robusta, la mía es bien endeble, despues de haver pasado, tantas fatígas, desvelos, y perdídas desde la entrada de las tropas Imperiales en este Pais, q e si no me hallase tan cargado de años y familia, y de propiedad fincal, me trasladaría á esa,...
157112From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, September 1811 (Adams Papers)
in replie to your inquiries I answer mrs Adams had a very bad night. at 2 oclock Nancy came to my Room to request that I would send for the doctor. he got here before day light and bled her, since which she has had some rest, altho much opprest & at times almost exhausted. discharges continue black, but the Soarness abated, and the dr says the pulse better—Mrs Smith by the use of the Mayweed...
157113From John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
In your letter of 18 January to your Mama, you mentioned that you read to your Aunt Cranch a chapter in the Bible, or a Section of Dr. Doddridges annotations every evening, this information gave me great pleasure, for so great is my veneration for the Bible & so strong my belief that when duly read & meditated upon, it is of all the books in the world, that which contributes most to make men...
157114From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you most sincerely for your excellent letter of 5th. ulto. which I should have answer’d before, but for the sickness & removal of my family. The precarious state of my dear mother’s health, for some time past, has, I trust, in some measure prepared me for an event, which is certainly inevitable and which we know can not be long procrastinated. Indeed our term of existence here is so...
157115Account with St. Mary’s College, 1 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 September 1811. Lists charges to JM amounting to $16.50 for one quarter’s tuition “ending this day” and school supplies for John Payne Todd. Ms ( MdBS : Day Book, 1810–13). 1 p.
157116Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to inform me to what place I should address a letter to James Lyon , son of Col o Matthew Lyon . it is so long since I have heard any thing of him, that I am quite uninformed of his residence, and have occasion to write to him. Let me take this occasion of thanking you for the new, post book, which is a daily convenience to me, and of renewing the assurances of my...
157117John Jordan to Thomas Jefferson, 1 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your favor of the 5 th Ul t covering one for M r Ogilvie , which I enveloped and forwarded him at Bairdstown Kentucky by the same Mail— having taken up his residence at that place to be near a literary friend of his ( M r M c Alister
157118Mutual Assurance Society Account for Insuring Milton Warehouses, [ca. 1 September 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
The Honble Tho s Jefferson To y e M l A Society D r 1809 Ap l 1 To Quota on Warehouses in Milton
157119To John Adams from Kilborn Whitman, 2 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Understanding from good authority, that you have been pleased to interest yourself in my favour, respecting the appointments about to be made by the Executive of this Commonwealth, my feelings of gratitude for your friendship, with the late expressions of it, at a time of all others the most desireable, compel this acknowledgment, the expression of which you will please to accept, as coming...
157120To James Madison from John Armstrong, 2 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed paragraph, coming from the quarter it does, would not have made any declaration from me either proper or necessary, (any more than that in the National Intelligencer, by which it was followed), had not a common friend, for whose opinions I have much respect, hinted to me the propriety of Stating, either privately to you, or publicly in a Newspaper, what was the fact. In choosing...
157121To James Madison from William Eustis, 2 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your Letter of the 24th of August enclosing the papers from Govr. Harrison &c nothing very remarkable has occurred. The alternation of alarm and of quiescence observable in the public papers, particularly in those of New York, is the natural consequence of the variegated intelligence from Europe and of the movements of the British Marine on the coast. By a letter from...
157122To James Madison from Chauncy Hall, 2 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 September 1811, Meriden, Connecticut. Describes a diving outfit he invented in October 1810. Presents six propositions so that “a man may Live and Work in the Diveing Dress under Water,” including the capability of raising or moving ships. Recalls putting his thoughts on paper in Washington and receiving letters patent for this invention by JM’s direction in December 1810. RC ( DLC ). 3 pp....
157123To James Madison from the Tammany Society of Newport, 2 September 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
2 September 1811, Newport, Rhode Island. The members express their indignation at the insults inflicted on the nation by the European belligerents, but they are satisfied that administration overtures “to the two great contending powers, have produced on the part of one, a manifestation of a more just and liberal policy.” They regret that truth, reasoning, and argument have failed to remove...
157124Francis Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I wish to see you very much I am very sorry that you did not answer my letter give my love to aunt Randolph and all the children— believe me to be your most affectionnate Grandson RC ( ViU : TJP-ER ); endorsed by TJ as received 5 Sept. 1811 and so recorded in SJL . Francis Wayles Eppes (1801–81) was the only surviving child of TJ’s daughter Maria Jefferson Eppes and his wife’s nephew John...
157125To James Madison from John Graham, [3 September] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mr Hamilton arrived last Night with the Despatches by the “John Adams.” By the advice of his Father I have decided that he should go on with them to you—thinking it probable that you might wish to make some enquiries of him on subjects not touched on in the Letters. It was my intention not to have opened any of the Despatches but I thought it right to inform the Heads of Departments who were...
157126To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 3 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The John Adams arrived at Boston on the 28th. ult., and my Son reached this place with his dispatches on yesterday; and as I do not consider him as having entirely fulfilled his duty untill he shall have delivered them to you, I have desired him to proceed with them by this days Mail. The informality of his not carrying them to Mr. Monroe, in the first instance, will be accounted for and...
157127To James Madison from Levett Harris, 3 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Swinguin, who will have the honor to deliver this letter to Your Excellency, is a young Gentleman of rank & family: he goes to America attached to Mr. Kosloff the new Consul Gl. Successor to mr. Daschkoff; but principally with a view to see the United states & to Study our manners & customs. The Count Romanzoff has particularly recommended him to me, and as Mr. Swinguin has cultivated the...
157128Enclosure: James S. Gaines’s Plan for a New Virginia Constitution and Revised Legal Code, [ca. 3 September 1811] (Jefferson Papers)
A New plan or form of Government— Divisions of the State 1. The state of Virginia shall as follows be laid off into three departments the first thirty Counties lying along the atlantic ocean shall be called the Eastern department the next thirty two Counties lying parallel with the Eastern department shall be denominated the middle department and the thirty Counties lying North & West of the...
157129Paul Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My Son who has lately returned from Europe with public dispatches , and goes with them to M r Monroe , will not fail to gratify himself by calling on you: and although I am not favored with a personal acquaintance with you, I cannot consistently with justice to him hesitate to announce him to you: respect for you having been a part of his education; and I do it the more readily as it affords...
157130To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I am two letters in your debt. To the last I shall reply first. I am not satisfied with any one of your objections to my proposal of a posthumous Address from you to the Citizens of the United States. The “good that men do lives after them” the evil they have done or the evil that has been unjustly imputed to them generally perishes in descends into the grave with them. I have lately met with...
157131From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 4 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have Sent to The Post Office this Morning, your Diploma, as Member of our Accademy. How many years ago ought you to have had it? I hope you will now communicate your Speculations to that Body through Mr Quincy their corresponding Secretary. I should advise Mr George Marsden to petition Congress for Relief, Setting forth his Service Commissions and present Circumstances. of Meteroric Stones I...
157132To James Madison from Paul Hamilton, 4 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
The enclosed I have just now received, and altho’ it contains nothing specifically important, yet having connection with our foreign relations I think it not amiss to forward it to you. I think that, combining this arrival with the certainty of the departure of Sir Joseph Yorke with his squadron from England, something interesting must very soon be developed. I have the satisfaction to inform...
157133Joseph Dougherty to Thomas Jefferson, 4 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I now solicit you on a cause of great importance to me, and one too in which you can make more interest for me than I can Suppose, M r Mathers , the Door keeper for the Senate th was buried the other day, and no doubt but there will be one hundred applicants for his place, my friends advise me to try for it, Now Sir, you best know what will be the best mode to pursue, would a few lines from...
157134To John Adams from William Plumer, 5 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is sometime since I have had any information from my much esteemed friend, your worthy son, the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg. There is a report that he has not accepted the office of Judge, but will still remain at that court in the character of minister—permit me therefore to ask the favor of informing me per mail when you last heard from him—when you expect his return...
157135Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
J’envoie en Amérique trois bons Précurseurs, ma Belle Fille Madame de Pusy que vous y avez déja vue; Sa Fille très aimable qui a eu l’honneur de diner chez vous à Washington quand elle êtait encore enfant, et qui ne dément point ce qu’elle promettait alors; et enfin Maurice de Pusy qui n’avait que trois mois la premiere fois qu’il S’est embarqué pour les Etats-Unis , et qui est devenu...
157136Thomas Jefferson to James L. Edwards, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 20. has truly surprised me. in this it is said that for certain services performed by mr James Lyon and mr Samuel Morse , formerly editors of the Savanna Republican, I promised them the sum of 1000.D. this, Sir, is totally unfounded. I never promised to any printer on earth the sum of 1000.D. nor any other sum, for certain services performed, or for any services which that...
157137Ralph Granger to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
My Father being absent on a journey to N England , the pleasing office of answering your’s of the 1’st devolves on me— It is reported, on what grounds I know not, that M r James Lyon dares not be seen at his usual place of residence, but a letter directed to him at Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee , where his family resides, by their conveyance would doubtless find him— RC ( DLC ); between...
157138Robert Johnson to Thomas Jefferson, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
The right of instruction by state Legislatures has become a subject of controversy in Kentucky Perhaps on account of the state Legislature having passed a resolution to the following effect Resolved That our Senators & Representatives in Congress are requested to oppose a renewal of the Cha r ter of the Bank of the United States . Two members in the lower house voted against the resolution. A...
157139Thomas Jefferson to James Lyon, 5 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you the copy of a letter I have recieved from a James L. Edwards of Boston . you will percieve at once it’s swindling object. it appeals to two dead men, and one (yourself) whom he supposes I cannot get at. I have written him an answer which may perhaps prevent his persevering in the attempt, for the whole face of his letter betrays a consciousness of it’s guilt. but perhaps he may...
157140From James Madison to James Monroe, [6 September] 1811 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Hamilton from the John Adams reached me yesterday. He reposes to day, and will be with you tomorrow. I send by the bearer, the dispatches opened at the Dept. of State &c. The packets of less importance Mr. H. will take with him tomorrow. The Secy of the Navy you will observe suggests the disclosure of the intelligence recd. from Mr Russel. An abstract of the matter in the letter to Mr....
157141To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
I have been honoured with your letter of 22d. Ulto. containing an order for a pipe of Messrs Murdoch’s L. P. Madeira Wine which went forward per brig Louisa McNamara & expect the wine will come out in her. There is no doubt but these gentlemen’s wine improved by one or two years of our climate will prove of a very superior quality, & I hope merit your attention. I beg leave to express my hope...
157142To James Madison from Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence des Mémoires Sur la vie d’un Grand Homme, dont je vous ai déja fait passer les Oeuvres , où vous aurez vu combien votre République naissante lui donnait d’esperance et lui inspirait d’attachement. Ces Mémoires complettent l’Edition. Ils vous Seront portés par une branche de ma Famille qui me précede dans mon retour aux Etats-Unis. Elle est composée...
157143To James Madison from the Inhabitants of St. Clair County, Illinois Territory, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
In approaching the chief Magistrate of our country, we should not do Justice to our feelings, were we to neglect expressing our confidence in his administration, and our sincere respect and esteem for his person. And, although we are situated far from the seat of our National government; and not possessed of the best means of information respecting our National concerns—we humbly conceive,...
157144To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
It was my intention to have undertaken the survey of the line of the Western Navigation of the State of New York, and I had already accepted the Office of Engineer offered to me by the Commissioners of that State, when you left the city. But on reconsidering the duty I have to perform for the Navy department here, & the injury which so long an absence might occasion to my other concerns I...
157145To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
“Illustrious” Madison! canting “Fellow Citizen”!!! ☞ ☞ ☞ I hope you and all your infernal Set, are now in the Suds : if you are not yet, a post or two, will convince you. War, has taken place, between Britain, and the United States; you may recollect this, & credit anonymous’ account, in future . All , that I have predicted, & warned you of, will come to pass. A commence , you will hear of,...
157146To James Madison from Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 6 September 1811. Acknowledged in JM to Rush, 20 Sept. 1811 . Forwards a copy of a pamphlet received from the earl of Buchan.
157147Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Aug. 19 . came to hand only 4. or 5. days ago. I should have answered it by post hat had not Martin arrived with your second. I am glad to learn you are becoming a Roman, which a familiarity with their history will certainly make you. the putting you into qui, quae, quod , was only to strengthen your memory, which you may do quite as well by getting pieces of poetry by heart....
157148Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had before learned with great concern your affliction with the rheumatism. your remedy of the cold bath is new to me, except a single instance of the wife of an overseer of mine who uses the cold bath every day of her life, and the day she omits it, has a return of Rheumatic symptoms. I have had an attack of it myself for two months past, confined a part of the time, without fever, and...
157149Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 6 September 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Our sis worthy sister Carr has at length yielded to the wasting complaint which has for two or three years been gaining upon her. without any increase of pain, or any other than her gradual decay, she exi expired three days ago, and was yesterday deposited here by the side of the companion who had been taken from her 38. years before. she had the happiness, and it is a great one, of seeing all...
157150From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 7 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The preliminaries of peace were signed and I was weary of writing in the night. I do not find that I kept any journal during the remainder of the winter, until the month of May, 1783. I spent my time in looking at France, in the court and the city, in the theatres, churches, and especially in the palace, where the courts of justice are held. This survey of the laws, government, history,...