52701From James Madison to James Monroe, 1 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
Since you left us we have no further intelligence from N. Orleans, except a letter dated Jany 20 from the vice Consular agent there, from which it appears that the letters to the Govr. & Intendant from the Spanish Minister here, had arrived abt. the 13th. and had not on the 20th. produced the desired change in the state of things. The delay however does not seem to have been viewed by the...
52702From James Madison to James Monroe, [ca. 1 March] 1803 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed came under cover of one to me from Mr. Coleman. The final communications to you will be put into the mail tomorrow, and will get to N Y. on sunday. Our utmost exertions could not send them off by this evenings mail. The bill before Congs. which is to be forwarded to you, required some formalities; and it passed a day or two ago only. Yrs affly. RC ( DLC ). Signature clipped....
52703To James Madison from Robert W. Fox, 1 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 March 1803, Falmouth. Encloses a list of American shipping arriving at Plymouth during the last six months of 1802 [not found]. Has already sent that for Falmouth. The Mary is still in port. The American passengers on board are now free of disease, and Captain Temple proposes to sail for Norfolk “the first fair wind.” The physician who attended the men during their sickness thinks this...
52704To James Madison from John Leonard, ca. 1 March 1803 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
Ca. 1 March 1803. “My connections & standing in commercial business rendering such an appointment more than commonly advantagious to myself, and affording opportunities of performing its Duties in a manner (as I trust) peculiarly satisfactory & useful to my Countrymen, I have determined to solicit … the American consulship for Barcelona.” Was apprenticed to a respectable mercantile house in...
52705To James Madison from Robert W. Fox, 1 March 1803 (Madison Papers)
I take the freedom to send thee annex’d a List of the American Shipping arrived at Plymouth the 6 Months ending the 31st. December. The List of those arrived at this port I have already Sent thee. The English Ship Mary, Thomas Temple Master, which has been so long detained in Quarantine at this port, in consequence of a very bad Fever onboard, is still in port; and I am informed the American...
52706To Thomas Jefferson from Abraham Baldwin, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have consulted my colleague and the Representatives respecting recommending two persons to be Commissioners of Bankruptcy we have concluded to recommend Robert Walker and George Watkins of Augusta RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR ); addressed: “Thomas Jefferson President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 1 Mch. received 28 Feb. and recorded in SJL as a...
52707To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise , I have investigated thy Problem for finding the longitude by lunar observation. In reducing the operation to a practical formula, in every modification which I have been able to give it, a knowledge of the time of observation appears essential. Without a knowledge of the time, the Moon’s right ascension, or longitude may be found, and, from the Nautical Almanac, the...
52708From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated your manuscript catalogue to the member of Congress charged with the purchase of books, and they have returned it to me with information that they had already exhausted their funds, and that therefore it was unnecessary for them to take the subject into consideration. it is now reinclosed to you with assurances of my esteem & respect. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M. Dufief”;...
52709To Thomas Jefferson from Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai fait mettre à bord du Sloop Harmony Cap. Ellwood , une Caisse à votre adresse, contenant les livres mentionés dans le mémoire ci-inclus. J’aurais bien desiré vous procurer un Gassendi en français, & d’une format tel que vous l’aimez, mais il parait d’après les recherches que mon Libraire a faites, qu’on ne trouve en France que cette édition , & que la philosophie d’Epicure n’est point...
52710Invoice for Books, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Thos. Jefferson. President of the U. S. To N. Gouin Dufief— Dr. To Philosophie d’Epicure par Gassendi, 6 vol. fol. ⅌ 24. " " Athenaei Dipinosophistarum &c. folio 1.50 " Philostratus concerning the life of Apollonius the Tyanaean, fol. 1. " " Derham’s physico-astro-Theology 2 vol. 8o. 3. " " Sermons de Massillon, 15 vol. 12mo. 15. " " OEuvres d’