16 November 1803 to 10 March 1804

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Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate. The administration sends stock certificates to France in payment for Louisiana. Relieved that affairs in the Mediterranean have improved with the evaporation of a threat of war with Morocco, the president does not know yet that Tripoli has captured the frigate Philadelphia with its officers and crew. He deals with never-ending issues of appointment to office and quarreling in his own party, while hearing that some Federalists are "as Bitter as wormwood." He shares seeds of the Venus flytrap with Elizabeth Leathes Merry, the British minister's wife. She and her husband, however, create a diplomatic storm over seating arrangements at dinner parties. Having reached St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis reports on the progress of the western expedition. Congress passes the Twelfth Amendment, which will provide for the separate election of president and vice president. In detailed notes made after Aaron Burr calls on him in January, Jefferson records his long-standing distrust of the New Yorker. Less than a month later, a congressional caucus nominates Jefferson for a second term, with George Clinton to replace Burr as vice president. Jefferson makes his first trials of the "double penned writing box" called the polygraph.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Editorial Method and Apparatus	xv
Illustrations	xliii
Chronology	2

1803

From Johann Abraham Albers, 16 November		3
From Louis Alexis Hocquet de Caritat, 16 November		4
From Henry Dearborn, 16 November		5
From John Goulding, 16 November		6
To Meriwether Lewis, enclosing Extracts from Accounts of
	Indian and the Fur Trade along the Missouri River,
	16 November	6
From John Page, 16 November		11
From Caspar Wistar, [on or before 16 November]		12
From Henry Dearborn, [17 November]		13
From Henry Dearborn, 17 November		13
From Nathaniel Macon, 17 November		14
To the Senate, 18 November		14
From Jones & Howell, 19 November		17
From the Mississippi Territory Legislative Council, 19 November		17
To Louis Alexis Hocquet de Caritat, 20 November		18
To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 20 November		19
From John Francis Renault, 20 November		19
From John Richman, with Jefferson’s Note, 21 November		22
To the Senate, 21 November		23
From John Vaughan, 21 November		24
From John Beckley, 22 November		26
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 22 November		27
To John Breckinridge, 22 November		27
From Henry Dearborn, 22 November		28
To Jones & Howell, 22 November		28
To John Milledge, 22 November		29
From John Rhea and Thomas Moore, 22 November		30
Bill for the Organization of Orleans Territory, [23 November]		31
From Christopher Ellery, 23 November		36
From Edward Johnston, 23 November		36
To John Breckinridge, 24 November		37
To the House of Representatives, 24 November		38
From James Sullivan, 24 November		39
To John Breckinridge, 25 November		40
From Richard Cutts, 25 November		40
From Jones & Howell, 25 November		41
To John Page, 25 November		42
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 November		43
To Jesse Simms, 25 November		43
From John Breckinridge, 26 November		44
From DeWitt Clinton, 26 November		44
From William Henry Harrison, 26 November		46
From Volney, 26 November		46
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 27 November		47
From William Eustis, 27 November		48
To Craven Peyton, 27 November		48
From John Conrad & Co., 28 November		49
To James Oldham, 28 November		50
From Robert Smith, [28 November]		50
From Park Woodward, 28 November		51
From John Bradford, 29 November		54
From Frank Nash, [29 November]		55
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 29 November		56
From Mary Osborne, 29 November		57
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 29 November		58
From Albert Gallatin, 30 November		59
From Albert Gallatin, [30 November]		60
To Jones & Howell, 30 November		61
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 30 November		61
From John Randolph, 30 November		62
From Adam Seybert, 30 November		63
To Marten Wanscher, 30 November		64
From Andrew Ellicott, 1 December		65
To William Eustis, 1 December		68
To Albert Gallatin, 1 December		68
Petition of Jesse Page and Wife, [on or before 1 December]		69
To John Randolph, 1 December		69
To DeWitt Clinton, 2 December		70
To John Conrad & Co., 2 December		71
From Albert Gallatin, [on or before 2 December]		72
To William Prentis, 2 December		72
From Thomas Rodney, 2 December		73
From Jesse Simms, 2 December		74
From James Madison, [4 December]		74
From Samuel Latham Mitchill, 4 December		75
From Robert Smith, [4 December]		76
From Robert Daniel, 5 December		77
From Isaac Hammer, 5 December		77
From James Mease, 5 December		78
From John Page, 5 December		79
To the Senate, 5 December, enclosing From James Madison,
	2 December	80
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 5 December		82
From Robert Simons, 5 December		84
From Peter Kuhn, Sr., 6 December		84
From Joseph Léonard Poirey, 6 December		86
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 7 December		87
From David Stone, 7 December		88
From William C. C. Claiborne, 8 December		89
From Andrew Marschalk, 8 December		91
From Craven Peyton, 8 December		92
List of Nominations from Albert Gallatin, [before 9 December]		92
List of Nominations from Jacob Wagner, [before 9 December]		94
To the Senate, 9 December		95
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 9 December		97
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg and Others, [before 12 December]		98
From Timothy Bloodworth, 12 December		98
From Paul Dalrimple, 12 December		100
From Joseph Priestley, 12 December		101
From Benjamin Rush, 12 December		102
From John Smith of Ohio, [12 December]		103
To Albert Gallatin, 13 December		104
From Albert Gallatin, [13 December]		106
To the Governors of the States, 13 December		107
Notes on a Conversation with Charles Coffin, 13 December		108
Notes on Speeches of Homastubbee and Puckshunubbee, 13 December		108
From William Rue, 13 December		112
From Mountjoy Bayly, 14 December		113
From Christopher Ellery and Nehemiah Knight, 14 December		114
From John Godbold, 14 December		114
Petition from Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 14 December		116
From Ephraim Kirby, 14 December		117
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 14 December		118
From Mary Coles Payne, 14 December		119
From Stephen Perkins, 14 December		120
From John Smith of Ohio, [14 December]		121
From Joseph Stanton, Jr., and Samuel J. Potter, 14 December		121
To Abraham Bishop, 15 December		122
From Silvanus Ewer, 15 December		122
Petition from Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 15 December		124
Petition of Nathaniel Ingraham, 15 December		125
From Ephraim Kirby, 16 December		126
To Homastubbee and Puckshunubbee, 17 December		127
From Matthew Lyon, 17 December		131
To the Vermont General Assembly, 18 December		132
From Andrew Ellicott, enclosing Extract of
	Robert R. Livingston to Andrew Ellicott, 19 December	133
From Albert Gallatin, 19 December		135
From Albert Gallatin, 19 December		136
From Meriwether Lewis, 19 December		137
To Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 December		139
From William Stark, 19 December		140
From Albert Gallatin, 20 December		141
To George Jefferson, 20 December		142
From Rufus King, 20 December		143
From John Page, 20 December		143
To Mawlay Sulayman, Sultan of Morocco, 20 December		144
From John Vaughan, 20 December		145
From Benjamin B. Carter, 21 December		145
To the Senate, 21 December		148
From George Clinton, 22 December		150
To Hugh Holmes, 22 December		151
To Jones & Howell, 22 December		151
To John Langdon, 22 December		152
From James Turner, 22 December		153
Canons of Official Etiquette		154
I.	Notes on Diplomatic Etiquette in England, [after 22 December]	157
II.	Canons of Etiquette, [before 12 January 1804?]	159
III.	Memorandum on Official Etiquette, [before 12 January 1804?]	160
IV.	Response to the Washington Federalist, [before 13 February 1804]	162
To Andrew Ellicott, 23 December		163
To John Page, 23 December		164
To John Bradford, 24 December		165
From Arthur Fenner, 24 December		165
From Kuhn, Green & Co., 24 December		166
To William Marshall, 24 December		167
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 24 December		167
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 24 December		167
From Philip Spencer, Jr., and Joseph C. Field , 24 December		169
To the Tennessee General Assembly, 24 December		170
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 December		171
From William Hardy, 26 December		172
From Hugh Holmes, 26 December		173
From George Jefferson, 26 December		173
To Elizabeth Leathes Merry, 26 December		174
From Elizabeth Leathes Merry, 26 December		175
From Vandreville Larivière, 26 December		175
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 December		176
From Jonathan Dayton, 27 December		177
From Rufus Easton, 27 December		177
From Albert Gallatin, 27 December		178
To George Jefferson, 27 December		179
From George Jefferson, 27 December		179
From Jones & Howell, 27 December		179
From Charles d’Ayroy Lellieret, 27 December		180
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 27 December		181
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 27 December		181
From Caspar Wistar, 27 December		182
From Anonymous, [before 28] December		182
From Robert Bowie, [28] December		183
To Jonathan Dayton, 28 December		184
From John Dickinson, 28 December		184
To Albert Gallatin, 28 December		185
From Kentucky Members of the House of Representatives, 28 December		185
From Meriwether Lewis, 28 December		187
From Philip Mazzei, 28 December		194
Proclamation Extending Building Regulations in the City of Washington , 28 December		199
From Robert Smith, 28 December		200
From Archibald Stuart, 28 December		201
From Louis Valentin, 28 December		201
To Jacob Crowninshield, 29 December		202
To Albert Gallatin, 29 December		203
From Albert Gallatin, 29 December		204
From Thomas Leiper, 29 December		204
To the Mississippi Territory Legislative Council, 29 December		205
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 29 December		206
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 December		206
From Jacob Crowninshield, 30 December, enclosing Remarks
	on American Commerce, 29 December	208
From William Lee, 30 December		212
From Richard Stanford, 30 December		213
To David Leonard Barnes, 31 December		213
To George Clinton, 31 December		214
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 31 December		215
Notes on a Conversation with Matthew Lyon, 31 December		215
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 31 December		216

1804

From David Campbell, 1 January		216
From DeWitt Clinton, 1 January		218
From Sir John Sinclair, enclosing Observations on
	the American Board of Agriculture, 1 January	218
From Archibald Stuart, 1 January		220
From Isaac Briggs, 2 January		221
From Israel Israel, 2 January		225
From Brockholst Livingston, 2 January		225
Notes on a Conversation with Benjamin Hichborn, 2 January		226
From Mountjoy Bayly, 3 January		227
From Thomas Embree, 3 January		229
From Albert Gallatin, 4 January		230
Petition of Joseph Goodier, with Jefferson’s Order, 4 January		231
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, enclosing Invoice for
	Freight and Duties, , 4 January	232
From John Page, 4 January		233
To Mountjoy Bayly, 5 January		233
From Benjamin Galloway, enclosing Benjamin Galloway
	to Maryland General Assembly, 5 January	234
To Louis André Pichon, 5 January		235
Petition of John Duffey, with Jefferson’s Order, [on or before 6 January]		236
From Albert Gallatin, 6 January		238
From Thomas T. Hewson, 6 January		239
From John Langdon, 6 January		239
From Ephraim Jordan and Others, [before 7 January]		240
From Walter Saltonstall, 7 January		242
From Thomas McKean, 8 January		243
To James Monroe, 8 January		245
To Timothy Pickering, 8 January		251
From John Jay AcModery, 9 January		252
To James Oldham, 9 January		254
To Anne Cary Randolph, 9 January		254
From Tompson J. Skinner, 9 January		255
From David Leonard Barnes, 10 January		256
From Lydia Leslie, 10 January		256
From David Meade Randolph, 10 January		257
From Benjamin Vaughan, 10 January		258
From Albert Gallatin, 11 January		260
From Robert R. Livingston, 11 January		261
From Charles P. Sumner, 11 January		265
To Albert Gallatin, [12 January]		266
From Albert Gallatin, [12 January]		266
From John Sevier, 12 January		267
To William Short, 12 January		267
To George Jefferson, 13 January		269
To Meriwether Lewis, 13 January		270
To Timothy Pickering, [on or before 13 January]		271
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 13 January,
	enclosing Report of Director of the Mint, 6 January	272
From William Strickland, 13 January		273
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 14 January		277
From Timothy Pickering, 14 January		277
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 January		278
To Aaron Burr, 15 January		280
Continuation of an Examination of the Boundaries of Louisiana, 15 January		280
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 15 January		284
To Timothy Pickering, 15 January		285
From Alexander Baring, [16 January]		285
From William C. C. Claiborne, 16 January		286
From Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson’s Reply, [16 January]		289
From Joseph Lord, 16 January		289
From John Monroe, 16 January		290
To Craven Peyton, 16 January		291
To Timothy Pickering, 16 January		292
From Timothy Pickering, 16 January		292
From Timothy Pickering, enclosing Pickering’s Analysis
	of the Boundary between Louisiana and Canada, with
	Jefferson’s Notes, 16 January	293
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 16 January		301
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 16 January		303
Warrant for Delivery of Louisiana Stock , 16 January		303
From Timothy Bloodworth, 17 January		305
From Arthur Campbell, 17 January		306
To Thomas McKean, 17 January		307
From Henry Moore, 17 January		308
From William Short, 17 January		310
From Caspar Wistar, 17 January		310
From Thomas Worthington, 17 January		311
From Albert Gallatin, 18 January		311
From Timothy Pickering, 18 January		313
To Joel Barlow, 19 January		315
To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 19 January		316
To Timothy Pickering, 19 January		317
From Thomas Appleton, 20 January		317
To William Brent, 20 January		318
From George Clinton, 20 January		318
To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 20 January		320
To Thomas T. Hewson, 20 January		320
From Thomas McKean, 20 January		321
To the Portsmouth, Virginia, Baptist Society, 20 January		321
From Thomas Bedwell, 21 January		322
From Anne Cary Randolph, 21 January		324
To Meriwether Lewis, 22 January		325
From Joseph Clay, Jacob Richards, and Frederick Conrad, 23 January		326
From Albert Gallatin, 23 January		328
From Craven Peyton, 23 January		328
To David Meade Randolph, 23 January		329
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 January		329
To William Short, 23 January		331
From David Austin, 24 January		334
From Albert Gallatin, [on or before 24 January]		336
To Albert Gallatin, 24 January		336
From Gideon Granger, 24 January		337
Notes on Lewis Harvie’s Mission, [24 January]		338
To the President of the Senate, 24 January		339
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 January		339
From Samuel Smith, 24 January		340
From James Taylor, Jr., 24 January		340
From Nicholas Febvrier, 25 January		341
From Levi Lincoln, [25 January]		342
From Henry Dearborn, 26 January		346
Notes on a Conversation with Aaron Burr, 26 January		346
To Charles P. Sumner, 26 January		349
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 26 January		349
To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 26 January		350
From Albert Gallatin, [27 January]		351
To Hammuda Pasha, Bey of Tunis, 27 January		352
From Philip Mazzei, 27 January		353
From Thomas T. Davis, 28 January		356
To James Dinsmore, 28 January		357
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 28 January		358
From William Dunbar, 28 January		359
From Lemuel Sessums, 28 January		361
To James Walker, 28 January		363
To Timothy Bloodworth, 29 January		363
From Timothy Bloodworth, 29 January		364
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 29 January		365
From Bishop James Madison, 29 January		366
From Samuel Morse, 29 January		367
To Joseph Priestley, 29 January		368
To James Taylor, Jr., 29 January		370
To Joseph Lord, 30 January		370
From Henry Moore, 30 January		371
From Sally Palmer, 30 January		371
To Craven Peyton, 30 January		372
From William Thomson, 30 January		372
To Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, 31 January		373
To Lafayette, [31] January		376
To La Valette, 31 January		377
To Louis Pio, 31 January		377
To Andrew Ellicott, 1 February		378
From George Hay, 1 February		379
To Jean Baptiste Say, 1 February		380
To James Taylor, Jr., 1 February		381
From Philip Van Cortlandt, 1 February		382
From Madame de Corny, 2 February		382
From William Eaton, 2 February		384
From Albert Gallatin, 3 February		393
From George Logan, 3 February		394
From Joseph Barnes, 4 February		394
From William Bradley, 4 February		398
From the Earl of Buchan, 4 February		399
From Peter Carr, 4 February		400
From Albert Gallatin, 4 February		400
From Gideon Granger, 4 February		402
From James Houston, 4 February		403
From James Jackson, 4 February		406
From Frank Nash, [on or before 4 February]		407
From Oliver Phelps, 4 February		408
From Ephraim Kirby, 5 February		408
From Daniel Smith, 5 February		410
To Abraham Bradley, Jr., 6 February		410
From Thomas Cooper, 6 February		411
From Charles Philip, Baron de Hanstein, with Jefferson’s Note, 6 February		411
From Joel Yancey, 6 February		413
From Allan B. Magruder, [before 7 February]		413
From Mathieu Dumas, 7 February		414
From Louis Gex-Oboussier, 7 February		416
To George Jefferson, 7 February		418
From Lacépède, 7 February		419
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, enclosing Draft Section of Bill
	for Organization of Upper Louisiana, 7 February	420
From James Powell, 7 February		422
From David Meade Randolph, 7 February		423
From William Alexander, 8 February		424
From David Leonard Barnes, 8 February		425
To William Eaton, 8 February		428
From Christopher Ellery, 8 February		430
From David Leonard Barnes, 9 February		430
From John Barnes, 9 February		431
To Henry Dearborn, 9 February		432
To Henry Dearborn, 9 February		433
From William Fleming, 9 February		434
From Albert Gallatin, [9 February]		435
From Henry W. Livingston, 9 February, enclosing
	From William Jenkins and Others, 27 January	435
From David Leonard Barnes, 10 February		437
From Jean Étienne Boré, 10 February		437
From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 10 February		442
From Albert Gallatin, [10 February]		443
To James Houston, 10 February		444
From Carlos Martínez de Irujo, [10 February]		444
From David Jackson, Jr., 10 February		445
From Elizabeth House Trist, 10 February		445
From Joel Barlow, 11 February		447
From Albert Gallatin, [ca. 11 February]		451
To Albert Gallatin, [11 February]		452
From Albert Gallatin, 11 February		454
From Albert Gallatin, 11 February		456
To George Hay, 11 February		456
From George Jefferson, 11 February		456
From John Rice Jones, 11 February		457
To Allan B. Magruder, 11 February		458
From Lyman Spalding, 11 February		459
To Thomas Sumter, Sr., 11 February		459
To Solomon Sessums, 12 February		460
From George W. P. Custis, 13 February		460
To Henry Dearborn, 13 February		461
From Nicholas Febvrier, 13 February		463
From Albert Gallatin, 13 February		463
From John Langdon, 13 February		464
From Nathaniel Macon, with Jefferson’s Note, 13 February		465
From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 13 February		466
Notes on Henry Putnam’s Case, [on or after 13 February]		466
To Caesar A. Rodney, 13 February		468
From Aaron Vail, 13 February		468
From Cato West, 13 February		469
From Alexandre Baudin, 14 February		471
From Andrew Ellicott, 14 February		474
To Albert Gallatin, [14 February]		474
From Albert Gallatin, 14 February		474
From Craven Peyton, 14 February		476
From Albert Gallatin, 15 February		476
Memorial from Alexander Richards, 15 February		478
From William Short, 15 February		480
From William Wingate, 15 February		480
From Joseph Anderson, 16 February		483
From Richard Claiborne, 16 February		484
From Thomas Cooper, 16 February		485
From Albert Gallatin, 16 February		487
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 16 February		488
From Edward Thornton, 16 February		489
From George Wolcott, 16 February		490
To Henry Dearborn, 17 February		490
From Henry Dearborn, 17 February		491
From Simon Didama, 17 February		492
From Gideon Fitz, 17 February		494
From Peachy R. Gilmer, 17 February		494
To Rufus King, 17 February		495
Notes on Charles Jouett’s Report on Detroit, [ca. 17 February]		496
Notes on Supreme Court Candidates, 17 February		497
From Henry Dearborn, [18 February]		498
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 18 February, enclosing Sources
	of Stone for the Capitol, [on or before 18 February]	499
From John Thomson Mason, 18 February		501
From Thomas Munroe, 18 February		502
From Thomas Munroe, 18 February		503
Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 18 February		504
From Thomas Sumter, Sr., 18 February		506
To Caspar Wistar, 18 February		506
From “Your Freind”, [on or before 18 February]		507
From John Armstrong, 20 February		507
To Albert Gallatin, 20 February, enclosing Memorandum
	on the Edward Stevens Claim, 19 February	508
From Albert Gallatin, 20 February		511
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 20 February		513
From Caesar A. Rodney, 20 February		517
From James Taylor, Jr., 20 February		519
From Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, 21 February		520
To Albert Gallatin, 21 February		522
From Albert Gallatin, 21 February		523
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 21 February		524
Order for Pardon of Nathaniel Ingraham, 21 February		525
From Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 22 February		525
To Albert Gallatin, 22 February		529
From Albert Gallatin, 22 February		530
From Robert Lawson, 22 February		531
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 22 February		532
To George W. P. Custis, 23 February		533
From Albert Gallatin, 23 February, enclosing Memorial of
	Burlington, New Jersey, Republican Citizens, 25 May 1803	533
To George Jefferson, 23 February		536
From George Jefferson, 23 February		536
To David Meade Randolph, 23 February		537
To David Leonard Barnes, 24 February		537
To Thomas Cooper, 24 February		537
List of Nominations from Albert Gallatin, [24 February]		538
To Bishop James Madison, 24 February		539
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 24 February		540
To Caesar A. Rodney, 24 February		540
To the Senate, 24 February		541
From William C. C. Claiborne, 25 February		542
From Joseph Fenwick, 25 February		543
From Albert Gallatin, 25 February		544
From Albert Gallatin, [25 February]		545
To Samuel A. Otis, 25 February		545
To Craven Peyton, 25 February		545
Report on Meeting of Republican Caucus, [25 February]		546
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 26 February		547
To Albert Gallatin, 26 February		548
From Lafayette, 26 February		549
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 26 February		551
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 26 February		551
From Levi Lincoln, 26 February		552
From Charles Willson Peale, 26 February		553
From Isaac Briggs, 27 February		555
From Christopher Ellery, 27 February		556
To George Jefferson, 27 February		557
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 27 February		559
To Charles Willson Peale, 27 February		560
Petition from Washington Inhabitants, 27 February		561
From William Henderson, 28 February		562
To George Jefferson, 28 February		562
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 28 February		563
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 28 February		564
From Robert Purviance, 28 February		567
From William W. Woodward, 28 February		567
To Henry Dearborn, [29 February]		568
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 29 February		569
To Samuel Miller, 29 February		570
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 29 February		570
Resolution on Land Titles in Louisiana,
	[ca. 29 February to 14 March]	571
From Albert Gallatin, [February]		572
To Nicoll Fosdick, 1 March		573
To Charles Willson Peale, 1 March		573
From Félix Varleta, [before 2 March]		574
From Wheeler Martin, 2 March		575
From Alexandria Republicans, 3 March		576
From Moses Coates, 3 March		577
To Henry Dearborn, 3 March		579
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 3 March		579
To Elbridge Gerry, 3 March		580
From William Lee, 3 March		580
From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March		581
To Thomas Newton, 5 March		582
From Charles Willson Peale, 5 March		582
Proclamation to Pardon Deserters in Louisiana, 5 March		583
From Joseph T. Scott, 5 March		584
To John Barnes, 6 March		586
From Jean Frignet de Fermagh, 6 March		586
To Albert Gallatin, 6 March		588
From George Jefferson, 6 March		588
From Hore Browse Trist, 6 March		589
From Albert Gallatin, [7 March]		590
To George Jefferson, 7 March		590
From William J. Lewis, 7 March		591
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 7 March		593
From Thomas Butler, 8 March		594
From George W. Erving, enclosing Invoice for Books ordered
	for the Library of Congress, 8 March	597
From Albert Gallatin, 8 March		600
From Albert Gallatin, 8 March		601
From Michael Leib, 8 March		601
From Philip Mazzei, 8 March		602
From Israel B. Parshall, 8 March		606
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 March		607
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 8 March		608
From John Woodbridge, [before 9 March]		610
From Albert Gallatin, [9 March]		611
From John Wayles Eppes, 9 March		611
From Nehemiah Knight and Others, 9 March		612
To Charles Willson Peale, 9 March		612
To Joseph T. Scott, 9 March		612
To Moses Coates, 10 March		613
To Albert Gallatin, 10 March		614
From Samuel Hanson, 10 March		614
Preface to a Manuscript on Bacon’s Rebellion,
	[on or before 10 March]	616

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [16 November 1803 to 3 March 1804]		619
Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full		622
Appendix III: Letters Not Found		623
Appendix IV: Financial Documents		628

Index

Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Abaco, Bahamas, 428n

abolition, 52-3, 230n, 265n

acacia, 442

Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury

appendix to, 58-9, 598, 599n

praise for, 24, 79

preparation of, 6

publication of, 598, 599n

and "salt mountain," 54n

TJ sends to friends, colleagues, 6, 8n, 42

AcModery, John Jay

identified, 254n

letter from, 252-4

seeks appointment, 252-4

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 394-5

Adams (U.S. frigate), 50n

Adams, Fort

Choctaw treaty signed at, 109, 110, 112n, 130n

collector at, 589

postal service, 337

troops from, to take possession of Louisiana, New Orleans, 89-90, 139, 184, 301

Adams, George, Jr.

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, 567, 568n

Adams, John

consults with TJ on mission to France, 348, 349n

and diplomatic protocol, 154, 155

makes appointments, 424, 455n

portraits of, xlvi

relationship with Washington, 347-8

removals by, 88, 455n

views on future of the federal union, 108

Adams, John Quincy, 34n, 103, 149n, 155, 339n

Adams, Jonas

letters from, 116-17, 124-5

seeks removal of collector, 116-17, 124-5

Adams, Samuel

death of, 248, 251n

Aeneid (Virgil), 20, 21

Africa

and slave trade, 425-8, 473n

Africaine (British frigate), 624

agriculture

agricultural machinery, 578

agricultural societies, 219-20

agricultural surveys, 274-5, 276n

crop rotation, 268

encouragement of mechanical arts among farmers, 554

fertilizer, 218-19, 273-4

grafting, 507-8

plows, 78-9

superior to manufacturing, 380-1

tenants, tenancy, 267-8

Aitken, Jane, 25n

Albemarle Co., Va.

Fredericksville Parish, 413n

Glenmore estate, 255n

sheriffs, 92, 413n

Albers, Johann Abraham

identified, 3n

letter from, 3

sends Americanische Annalen to TJ, 3

alcoholism

among artisans, 28-9

among judges, 464n

among officeholders, 40, 116, 414n, 620

caused by idleness, 554

in military, 69, 432

substitutes for ardent spirits in army, 491-2

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia

potential correspondence with TJ, 246, 250n, 447-51

works dedicated to, 354, 355, 356n

Alexander, Alexander, 424, 425n

Alexander, Alexander, Jr., 424, 425n

Alexander, Amos

signs memorial on Alexandria collectorship, 576-7

Alexander, Archibald, 518, 519n

Alexander, Lawson, 94-5, 620

Alexander, Rachel, 424, 425n

Alexander, William (S.C.)

identified, 425n

letter from, 424-5

seeks appointment, 424-5

Alexandria, D.C.

attorneys, 309n

banks, 44n

boardinghouses, 371

bridges, 460-1

grocers, 371

merchants, 309n

Republicans seek removal of collector at, 576-7

yellow fever in, 131, 132n

Alexandria Expositor, 131-2

Algiers. See Mustafa Baba, Dey of Algiers

aliens. See immigrants

Aliti, José, 575n

Allbright, Capt., 206

Allen, Elizabeth, 171n

Allen, James, 171n

Allen, Thomas, 466-7, 468n

Allison, Burgess, 242, 243n

Almy, William, 557

Alston, Willis

letter from cited, 93n, 623

recommends aspirants for office, 93n, 623

Alworthy, Thomas, 466, 467-8n

American Board of Agriculture, 219-20

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 122n

Americanische Annalen der Arzneykunde, Naturgeschichte, Chemie und Physik (Johann Abraham Albers), 3

American Literary Advertiser (Washington, D.C.), 132n

American Philosophical Society

election of officers, 239n

elects members, 24, 25n, 63-4, 202n, 239n, 326

exchanges publications with other societies, 24

library of, 25, 64n

officers, 85n

publishes Transactions, 24, 25n, 78, 79n, 360n

receives communications, specimens, 359, 360n, 506, 507n, 550n, 591, 593

TJ as president of, 239, 320, 360n, 591

and TJ's moldboard plow, 78, 79n

American Revolution

and Bacon's Rebellion, 496n

bounty and pension claims, 253

depicted in art, xlv, 21n

and France, 416n

Hessian troops in, 412

histories of, 245, 250n, 380n

Irish in, 585

Loyalists, 252, 411-12, 497

prisoners of war, 26, 252

veterans of, 40-1, 84n, 113n, 172, 173n, 186n, 237, 241n, 252, 309, 392n, 436, 562n, 585, 597n, 601n

Amphictyonic League, 20, 21

anatomy, 64n

Anderson, Isaac, 445

Anderson, James, 424

Anderson, John (N.Y.), 412

Anderson, Joseph

letter from, 483

seeks compliment for Tenn. militia, 483

and Twelfth Amendment, 103

Anderson, Nathaniel

letter from cited, 627

Anderson, Richard

letters from cited, 623, 624

letters to cited, 624, 625

Andrews, Robert, 367n

Annales du muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 375n

Annals of Agriculture (Arthur Young), 79n

Anna Maria (ship), 388, 392n

Ann and Hope (ship), 147n

Annapolis Convention (1786), 184-5

Annual Message to Congress (1803)

praise for, 11-12, 382, 383, 384n, 397, 549

anonymous letters

conveying maxims, 507

criticize U.S. vessels covering foreign cargoes, 182-3

Antwerp, 94, 95, 620

Apalachicola River, 504

apples

apple paring machines, 577-8, 613

varieties of, 507-8

Appleton, Thomas

and Ceracchi claim, 317

criticism of, 195, 197, 603, 604-5

forwards dispatches to Preble, 396, 398n

forwards vines, plants to TJ, 318, 394

letter from, 317-18

letter to cited, 318n

and plants for TJ, 354, 355

seeks to become navy agent, 198n

TJ's correspondence with, 599

and wine for TJ, 317-18

apricots, 195, 196, 198n, 354, 355

Aquia Creek

quarries on, 284, 500-1, 504n

architects. See Hadfield, George; Hallet, Stephen; Jones, Inigo; Latrobe, Benjamin Henry; Lenthall, John; Palladio, Andrea; Thornton, William

architecture. See Capitol, U.S.; Jefferson, Thomas: Architecture; Monticello; President's House

“Aristides” (pseudonym). See Van Ness, William P.

Arkansas Post, 491

Arkansas River

exploration of, 7, 164, 375, 378

salt deposits on, 55n, 356

Armstrong, John (1755-1816)

letter from, 507-8

sends cuttings to TJ, 507-8

Armstrong, Gen. John, 169n, 214n

Armstrong, Tabitha Goforth, 508n

Army, U.S. See War, U.S. Department of

Arnold, Samuel (mariner), 425, 427n, 428n

Arrowsmith, Aaron, 194, 378

art

art education, xlvii

artist's fees, xlv

engravings, xlix, 19-22, 276 (illus.)

patronage for, 20, 21

physiognotrace, xlv-xlvi, 443n

verre églomisé, xlvi, 276 (illus.)

Assiniboine River, 193, 194

astronomy

calculation of longitude, 146, 378

meteors, 133-5, 163

Augustus, Emperor, 20, 21

Auld, William, 599

Aurora (Philadelphia), 8, 59n, 155, 163n

Aurora (schooner), 166

Austin, David

letter from, 334-6

seeks appointment, 334-6

Australia, 146

Avery, Mr., 599