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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.PREFACE.The opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound s
- 101 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CXLVII.--TO MR. BELLINI, July 25,1788 TO MR. BELLINI.Paris, July 25,1788.Dear Sir, Though I have written to you seldom, you are often the object of my thoughts, and always of my affection. The truth is, that the circ.u.mstances with w
- 102 TO COLONEL MONROE.Paris, August 9, 1788.Dear Sir, Since my last to you, I have to thank your for your favors of July the 27th, 1787, and April the 10th, 1788, and the details they contained; and in return, will give you now the leading circ.u.mstances of
- 103 With respect to the internal affairs of this country, I hope they will be finally well arranged, and without having cost a drop of blood.Looking on as a by-stander, no otherwise interested, than as entertaining a sincere love for the nation in general, an
- 104 TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TREASURY.Paris, September 6, 1788.Gentlemen, Your favor of July the 3rd came to hand some days ago, and that of July the 22nd in the afternoon of yesterday. Knowing that a Mr. Vannet was to leave Paris this morning to go to Vir
- 105 The a.s.sembly of Virginia, hurried to their harvests, would not enter into a discussion of the district bill, but suspended it to the next session. E. Winston is appointed a judge, vice Gabriel Jones, resigned.R. Goode and Andrew Moore, Counsellors, vice
- 106 It is now proper I should give some account of the state of our dispute with Schweighaeuser and Dobree. In the conversation I had with Dobree, at Nantes, he appeared to think so rationally on this subject, that I thought there would be no difficulty in ac
- 107 Mr. Liniozin, at Havre, sent you, by mistake, a package belonging to somebody else. I do not know what it contained, but he has written to you on the subject, and prayed me to do the same, he is likely to suffer if it be not returned.Supposing that the fu
- 108 Both governments have seen with concern, that their commercial intercourse does not grow as rapidly as they would wish. The system of the United States is, to use neither prohibitions nor premiums.Commerce, there, regulates itself freely, and asks nothing
- 109 TO MR. SHORT.Paris, December 8, 1788.Dear Sir, My last to you was of the 21st of November, addressed to Milan, _poste restante_, according to the desire expressed through Mrs. Paradise.I have lately received yours of the 19th of November, and sincerely fe
- 110 Paris, January 12, 1789.Dear Sir, My last to you was of the 18th of November; since which, I have received yours of the 21st of September, and October the 8th, with the pamphlet on the Mohicon language, for which, receive my thanks. I endeavor to collect
- 111 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CLx.x.xIII.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, February 9,1789 TO WILLIAM SHORT.Paris, February 9,1789.Dear Sir, I wrote you last on the 22nd of January, on which day I received yours of December the 31st, and since that, the other of January the 14t
- 112 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CLx.x.xVIII.--TO JOHN JAY, March 12, 1789 TO JOHN JAY.Sir, Paris, March 12, 1789.I had the honor of addressing you, on the 1st instant, through the post.I write the present, uncertain whether Mr. Nesbitt, the bearer of your last, will
- 113 LETTER, CXCII.--TO THOMAS PAINE, March 17,1789 TO THOMAS PAINE.Paris, March 17,1789.Dear Sir, My last letter to you extended from December the 23rd to January the 11th. A confidential opportunity now arising, I can acknowledge the receipt of yours of Janu
- 114 In our first Confederation, the principle of rotation was established in the office of President of Congress, who could serve but one year in three, and in that of a member of Congress, who could serve but three years in six.I believe all the countries in
- 115 Ca.n.a.ls and locks may be necessary, and they are expensive; but I hardly know what expense would be too great for the object in question.Probably, negotiation with the Indians, perhaps even settlement, must precede the execution of the Cayahoga ca.n.a.l
- 116 May the 21st. I have this moment received a letter from Ledyard, dated Cairo, November the 15th. He therein says, 'I am doing up my baggage, and most curious baggage it is, and I leave Cairo in two or three days.I travel from hence southwest, about three
- 117 Th: Jefferson.P. S. June 18. The motion under debate with the Commons, for const.i.tuting their a.s.sembly, pa.s.sed yesterday by a majority of four hundred and odd, against eighty odd. The latter were for it in substance, but wished some particular amend
- 118 My letter of the 25th gave you the transactions of the States General to the afternoon of that day. On the next, the Archbishop of Paris joined the _Tiers_, as did some others of the Clergy and _n.o.blesse_. On the 27th, the question of the St. Domingo de
- 119 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCXV.--TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE, July 10, 1789 TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.Paris, July 10, 1789.Dear Sir, The acknowledgment by Monsieur de Mirabeau to the National a.s.sembly, that he had been in an error as to the offer he supp
- 120 Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.VOLUME III.LETTER I.--TO JOHN JAY, July 19, 1789 TO JOHN JAY.Paris, July 19, 1789.Dear Sir, I am become very uneasy, lest you should have adopted some channe
- 121 Sir, I have the pleasure to inform you, that money is now deposited in the hands of Messrs. Grand and company, for paying the arrears of interest due to the foreign officers who served in the American army. I will beg the favor of you to notify thereof as
- 122 The question, whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this, or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundament
- 123 TO JOHN JAY.Paris, September 19, 1789.Sir, I had the honor of addressing you on the 30th of the last month.Since that, I have taken the liberty of consigning to you a box of officers' muskets, containing half a dozen, made by the person and on the plan w
- 124 LETTER XVIII.--TO THE PRESIDENT, December 15,1789 TO THE PRESIDENT.Chesterfield, December 15,1789.Sir, I have received at this place the honor of your letters of October the 13th and November the 30th, and am truly flattered by your nomination of me to th
- 125 Sir, The President of the United States having been pleased, in the month of June last, to give me leave of absence for some time from the court of France, and to appoint Mr. William Short _charge des affaires_ for the United States during my absence, and
- 126 I beg you to present my friendly respects to Madame Grand, the elder and younger, and to your son, and believe me to be, with sentiments of great esteem and attachment, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER XXVIII.--TO
- 127 LETTER x.x.xII--TO WILLIAM SHORT, July 26, 1790 TO WILLIAM SHORT.New York, July 26, 1790.Dear Sir, My public letters to you have been of the 28th of March, the 6th and 30th of April. Yours, which remain to be acknowledged, are of March the 9th, 17th, 29th
- 128 LETTER x.x.xVI.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, August 10,1790 TO WILLIAM SHORT.New York, August 10,1790.Dear Sir, This letter, with the very confidential papers it encloses, will be delivered to you by Mr. Barrett with his own hands. If there be no war between Spain
- 129 LETTER XL.--TO SYLVa.n.u.s BOURNE, August 25, 1790 TO SYLVa.n.u.s BOURNE, _Consul at Hispaniola_.New York, August 25, 1790.Sir, I enclose you herein sundry papers containing a representation from Messrs. Updike and Earle of Providence, who complain that t
- 130 Th: Jefferson.LETTER XLIV.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, August 31,1790 TO WILLIAM SHORT.New York, August 31,1790.Dear Sir, Since writing my letter of the 26th, it has been decided to commit to your care the transaction of very important money matters at Amsterdam.I
- 131 Th: Jefferson.LETTER XLIX.--TO M. DE PINTO, February 21,1791 TO M. DE PINTO.Philadelphia, February 21,1791.Sir, I have duly received the letter of November the 30th, which your Excellency did me the honor to write, informing me that her Most Faithful Maje
- 132 LETTER LIII.--TO WILLIAM SHORT, March 12,1791 TO WILLIAM SHORT.Philadelphia, March 12,1791.Dear Sir, The enclosed papers will explain to you a case which imminently endangers the peace of the United States with Spain. It is not indeed of recent date, but
- 133 The third and fourth articles subject the vessels of each nation to pay in the ports of the other, only such duties as are paid by the most favored nation; and give them reciprocally, all the privileges and exemptions in navigation and commerce, which are
- 134 I have the honor to be, with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER LIX.--TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, April 11,1791 TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL.Philadelphia, April 11,1791.Sir, I wrote you on the 12th of March, a
- 135 I have the honor to be, with great esteem, Sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER LXIII.--TO THOMAS BARCLAY, May 13,1791 TO THOMAS BARCLAY.Philadelphia, May 13,1791.Sir, You are appointed by the President of the United States, to go
- 136 TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL.Philadelphia, May 16, 1791.Sir, Mr. Swanwick informs me, that the house of Morris, Willing, and Swanwick have suffered a very considerable loss in the port of St. Andero, by an abuse of office, in having a cargo of corn thrown overbo
- 137 Whenever jealousies are expressed as to any supposed views of ours, on the dominion of the West Indies, you cannot go farther than the truth, in a.s.serting we have none. If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every Ame
- 138 TO WILLIAM SHORT.Philadelphia, August 29, 1791.Dear Sir, I am to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 67, June the 6th, No. 68, June the 10th, No. 69, June the 22nd, No. 70, June the 26th, No. 71, June the 29th; the three last by the British packet. My las
- 139 I was in the moment of my departure from Philadelphia, for Virginia, when I received your favor, inquiring how far the law of nations is to govern in proceedings respecting foreign consuls.The law of nations does not of itself extend to consuls at all. Th
- 140 Sir, I have duly considered the letter you were pleased to refer to me, of the 18th of August, from his Excellency Governor Pinckney to yourself, together with the draught of one proposed to be written by him to the Governor of Florida, claiming the re-de
- 141 Sir, Your favor of November the 30th remains still unanswered, because the clerks are employed in copying some doc.u.ments on the subject of the treaty of peace, which I wish to exhibit to you with the answer.In the mean time, as to that part of your lett
- 142 Philadelphia, January 17, 1792.Sir, Your favors of November the 29th, 30th, and December the 1st, came duly to hand, and gave sincere pleasure, by announcing your disposition to accept the appointment to London. The nominations to Paris and the Hague havi
- 143 On the receipt of your letter of the 14th of December, I communicated it to the President of the United States, and under the sanction of his authority, the princ.i.p.al members of the executive department made it their duty to make known in conversations
- 144 Th: Jefferson.LETTER C.--TO COLONEL PICKERING, March 28, 1792 TO COLONEL PICKERING.Philadelphia, March 28, 1792.Sir, The President has desired me to confer with you on the proposition I made the other day, of endeavoring to move the posts at the rate of o
- 145 The Secretary of State presents his compliments to Mr. Hammond, and encloses him the draught of a letter to the President of the United States, which he has prepared to accompany Mr. Hammond's communication of the 11th and letter of the 12th. The whole w
- 146 For in the present state of things, it is next to impossible not to owe something. But I see neither injustice nor inconvenience in permitting the fugitive to be sued in our courts. The laws of some countries punis.h.i.+ng the unfortunate debtor by perpet
- 147 The ransom of the captives is next to be considered. They are now thirteen in number; to wit, Richard O'Bryan and Isaac Stevens, captains, Andrew Montgomery and Alexander Forsyth, mates, Jacob Tessanier, a French pa.s.senger, William Patterson, Philip Sl
- 148 LETTER CXIV.--TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, June 16, 1792 TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.Philadelphia, June 16, 1792.Dear Sir, My last to you was of March the 28th. Yours of April the 6th and 10th came to hand three days ago.With respect to the particular objects of commer
- 149 LETTER CXIX.--TO MR. PINCKNEY, October 12,1792 TO MR. PINCKNEY.Philadelphia, October 12,1792.Dear Sir, Your favor of August the 7th came to hand on the 6th instant, and gave me the first certain information of your safe arrival. Mr. Otto, being about to s
- 150 TO THE PRESIDENT.Philadelphia, November 2,1792.Sir, The letter of October the 29th, from Messrs. Viar and Jaudenes, not expressing the principle on which their government interests itself between the United States and the Creeks, I thought it of importanc
- 151 The first, I presume, is intended as a basis for the adoption of that alternative of the report on measures and weights, which proposed retaining the present system, and fixing its several parts by a reference to a rod vibrating seconds, under the circ.u.
- 152 Foreign goods, except some East India articles, are received in the vessels of any nation.Our s.h.i.+ps may be sold and naturalized there, with exceptions of one or two privileges, which scarcely lessen their value.In the American possessions of the Unite
- 153 TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.Philadelphia, February 20, 1793.Sir, The House of Representatives, about the close of the session before the last, referred to me the report of a committee on a message from the President of the United States
- 154 TO COLONEL HUMPHREYS.Philadelphia, March 21, 1793.Sir, The death of Admiral Paul Jones first, and afterwards of Mr. Barclay, to whom the mission to Algiers, explained in the enclosed papers, was successively confided, have led the President to desire you
- 155 [The letter of the Attorney General, referred to in the preceding.]TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.Philadelphia, April 12, 1793.Sir, You will perceive from the two letters marked A. and B. of which I enclose copies, that the subject of Mr. Pagan has been for so
- 156 LETTER CXLV.--TO M. DE TERNANT, May 3,1793 TO M. DE TERNANT.Philadelphia, May 3,1793.Sir, The Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty has represented to the government of the United States, that on the 25th of April last, the British s.h.i.+p Gr
- 157 I have the honor to be, with sentiments of great respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.[* The parts of this letter which are mere repet.i.tions of what is contained in the preceding, to the British Minister, are omitted.]
- 158 TO MR. HAMMOND.Philadelphia, June 5, 1793.Sir, In the letter which I had the honor of writing you on the 15th of May, in answer to your several memorials of the 8th of that month, I mentioned that the President reserved for further consideration, a part o
- 159 Grand._Letter from Mr. Durival to Mr. Grand_.Versailles, August 30, 1786.Sir, I have received the letter which you did me the honor to write the 28th of this month, touching the advance of a million, which you say was made by the General Farm to the Unite
- 160 We shall endeavor to get your newspapers under the care of Major Read, the bearer of this letter.I have the honor to be, with great respect and esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CLVI.--TO MR. PINCKNEY, June
- 161 2. Furnis.h.i.+ng them with provisions and arms.3. Aiming at the occupation of a post at the _Ecores Amargas_.4. Giving medals and marks of distinction to several Indians.5. Meddling with the affairs of such as are allies of Spain.6. Not using efficacious
- 162 In consequence of the information given in your letter of the 4th instant, that certain citizens of St. Domingo, lately arrived in the United States, were a.s.sociating for the purpose of undertaking a military expedition from the territory of the United
- 163 Th: Jefferson.** A copy of the preceding letter was sent, enclosed by the Secretary of State, to Mr. Genet.LETTER CLXIV.--CIRCULAR TO THE MERCHANTS OF THE U.S., August 23, 1793 CIRCULAR TO THE MERCHANTS OF THE UNITED STATES.Philadelphia, August 23, 1793,
- 164 It is with concern, however, I am obliged to observe, that so marked has been the inattention of the British court to every application which has been made to them on any subject, by this government (not a single answer I believe having ever been given to
- 165 Sir, In a former letter which I had the honor of writing you, I mentioned that information had been received that M. Duplaine, Vice-Consul of France, at Boston, had been charged with an opposition to the laws of the land, of such a character, as, if true,
- 166 Dear Sir, I have to thank you for the transmission of the letters from General Gates, La Motte, and Hauterive. I perceive by the latter, that the partisans of the one or the other principle (perhaps of both) have thought my name a convenient cover for dec
- 167 Dear Sir, I have kept Mr. Jay's letter a post or two, with an intention of considering attentively the observations it contains: but I have really now so little stomach for any thing of that kind, that I have not resolution enough even to endeavor to
- 168 THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON.Monticello, September 21,1795.I received, about three weeks ago, a box containing six dozen volumes, of two hundred and eighty-three pages, 12mo. with a letter from Lambert, Beckley's clerk, that they came from Mr. B
- 169 I know not when I have received greater satisfaction than on reading the speech of Dr. Leib, in the Pennsylvania a.s.sembly. He calls himself a new member. I congratulate honest republicanism on such an acquisition, and promise myself much from a career w
- 170 LETTER CXCIV.*--TO P. MAZZEI, April 24, 1796 TO P. MAZZEI.Monticello, April 24, 1796.Mr Dear Friend, [* The first part of this letter is on private business, and is therefore omitted.]The aspect of our politics has wonderfully changed since you left us.In
- 171 Mr. Thomas Lewis, deceased, an accurate man, with a good quadrant, made the north side of the highest mountain opposite my house something more (I think) than one thousand feet; but the mountain estimated by him and myself is probably higher than that nex
- 172 Yours of December the 19th is safely received. I never entertained a doubt of the event of the election. I knew that the eastern troops were trained in the schools of their town-meetings, to sacrifice little differences of opinion to the solid advantages
- 173 There is no post where you can render greater services, without going out of your State. Let but this block stand firm on its basis, and Pennsylvania do the same, our Union will be perpetual, and our General Government kept within the bounds and form of t
- 174 Philadelphia, June 1, 1797.Dear Sir, I wrote you on the 18th of May. The address of the Senate was soon after that. The first draught was responsive to the speech, and higher toned. Mr. Henry arrived the day it was reported; the addressers had not yet the
- 175 THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON.Monticello, August 3, 1797.I scribbled you a line on the 24th ultimo: it missed of the post, and so went by a private hand. I perceive from yours by Mr. Bringhurst, that you had not received it. In fact, it was only an ea
- 176 Good tobacco here is thirteen dollars, flour eight dollars and fifty cents, wheat one dollar and fifty cents, but dull, because only the millers buy. The river, however, is nearly open, and the merchants will now come to market and give a spur to the pric
- 177 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, March 2, 1798.Dear Sir, I wrote to you last on the 22nd ultimo; since which I have received yours without date, but probably of April the 18th or 19th. An arrival to the eastward brings us some news, which you will see detai
- 178 LETTER CCx.x.x.--TO JAMES MADISON, April 6, 1798 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, April 6, 1798.Dear Sir, So much of the communications from our Envoys has got abroad, and so partially, that there can now be no ground for reconsideration with the Senate. I
- 179 I am, with much esteem, Dear Sir, your must obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCx.x.xV.--TO JAMES MADISON, May 31, 1798 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, May 31, 1798.Dear Sir, I wrote you last on the 24th; since which yours of the 20th has been
- 180 The President's message says, that as the instructions were not to consent to any loan, he considers the negotiation as at an end, and that he will never send another minister to France, until he shall be a.s.sured that he will be received and treate
- 181 I have suffered the post hour to come so nearly on me, that I must huddle over what I have more than appears in the public papers. I arrived here on Christmas day, not a single bill or other article of business having yet been brought into Senate. The Pre
- 182 The bill for continuing the suspension of intercourse with France and her dependencies, is still before the Senate, but will pa.s.s by a very great vote. An attack is made on what is called the Toussaint's clause, the object of which, as is charged b
- 183 LETTER CCLII.--TO T. LOMAX, March 12, 1799 TO T. LOMAX.Monticello, March 12, 1799.Dear Sir, Your welcome favor of last month came to my hands in Philadelphia. So long a time has elapsed since we have been separated by events, that it was like a letter fro
- 184 TO SAMUEL ADAMS.Philadelphia, February 26,1800.Dear Sir, Mr. Erving delivered me your favor of January the 31st, and I thank you for making me acquainted with him. You will always do me a favor in giving me an opportunity of knowing gentlemen as estimable
- 185 Your favor of July the 19th has been received, and received with the tribute of respect due to a person, who, unurged by motives of personal friends.h.i.+p or acquaintance, and unaided by particular information, will so far exercise his justice as to adve
- 186 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCLXVI.--TO JAMES MADISON, December 19,1800 TO JAMES MADISON.Was.h.i.+ngton, December 19,1800.Dear Sir, Mrs. Brown's departure for Virginia enables me to write confidentially what I could not have ventured by the post at this pry
- 187 LETTER CCLXXI.--TO JAMES MONROE, February 15, 1801 TO JAMES MONROE.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 15, 1801.Dear Sir, I have received several letters from you which have not been acknowledged. By the post I dare not, and one or two confidential opportunities hav
- 188 TO JOEL BARLOW.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 14, 1801.Dear Sir, Not having my papers here, it is not in my power to acknowledge the receipt of your letters by their dates, but T am pretty certain I have received two in the course of the last twelve months, one of
- 189 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCLx.x.xI.--TO WILLIAM B. GILES, March 23, 1801 TO WILLIAM B. GILES.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 23, 1801.Dear Sir, I received two days ago your favor of the 16th, and thank you for your kind felicitations on my election: but whether it will
- 190 Your favors of April the 20th and 23rd had been received, and the commission made out for Mr. Potts, before I received the letter of the 1st instant. I have still thought it better to forward the commission, in the hope that reconsideration, or the influe
- 191 LETTER CCLx.x.xIX.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, August 26, 1801 TO LEVI LINCOLN.Monticello, August 26, 1801.Dear Sir, Your favor of July the 28th was received here on the 20th instant. The superscription of my letter of July the 11th, by another hand, was to prevent
- 192 LETTER CCXCIII.--TO JOHN d.i.c.kINSON, December 19, 1801 TO JOHN d.i.c.kINSON.Was.h.i.+ngton, December 19, 1801.Dear Sir, The approbation of my ancient friends is above all things the most grateful to my heart. They know for what objects we relinquished t
- 193 Besides the letter I wrote him in answer to the one from General Mason's, I wrote him another containing answers to two questions he addressed to me; 1. whether Mr. Jay received salary as Chief Justice and Envoy at the same time; and 2. something rel
- 194 Accept a.s.surances of my constant and affectionate attachment.Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCCIII.--TO M. DUPONT, February 1, 1803 TO M. DUPONT.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 1, 1803.Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of August the 16th and Oct
- 195 Was.h.i.+ngton, July 11, 1803.Dear General, I accept with pleasure, and with pleasure reciprocate your congratulations on the acquisition of Louisiana: for it is a subject of mutual congratulation, as it interests every man of the nation. The territory ac
- 196 Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.LETTER I.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, August 30, 1803 TO LEVI LINCOLN.Monticello, August 30, 1803.Deak. Sir, The enclosed letter came to hand by yesterday's post.
- 197 TO ELBRIDGE GERRY.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 3, 1804.Dear Sir, Although it is long since I received your favor of October the 27th, yet I have not had leisure sooner to acknowledge it. In the Middle and Southern States, as great an union of sentiment has now t
- 198 LETTER XV.--TO MRS. ADAMS, July 22, 1804 TO MRS. ADAMS.Was.h.i.+ngton, July 22, 1804.Dear Madam, Your favor of the 1st instant was duly received, and I would not again have intruded on you, but to rectify certain facts which seem not to have been presente
- 199 LETTER XX.--TO MR. VOLNEY, February 8, 1805 TO MR. VOLNEY.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 8, 1805.Dear Sir, Your letter of November the 26th came to hand May the 14th; the books some time after, which were all distributed according to direction.The copy for the
- 200 Dear Sir, Your letters, Nos. 1, 2, 3, the last of them dated April the 20th, were received April the 26th. I congratulate you on your retirement to your farm, and still more that it is of a character so worthy of your attention. I much doubt whether the o