Volume 45

11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805

Volume Details

Description

This volume opens soon after the start of the second session of the Eighth Congress and ends a few days after the session closes. During the period, Jefferson receives twice as many documents as he writes. He sits for portraits by Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin and Rembrandt Peale. The nation endures an extreme winter. William Dunbar begins to send information from the exploration of the Ouachita River. Acts of Congress create new territories and give Orleans Territory an assembly and a path to statehood. The Senate ratifies a treaty to acquire an estimated 50 million acres of land from the Sac and Fox tribes. Levi Lincoln resigns, Robert Smith asks to succeed him as attorney general, and Jefferson seeks a new secretary of the navy. Jefferson and vice-presidential candidate George Clinton receive 162 electoral ballots against 14 for their opponents, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Rufus King. Napoleon is crowned emperor of the French, and Spain declares war on Great Britain. The Senate acquits Samuel Chase of eight articles of impeachment. Jefferson prepares his inaugural address and is sworn into office for his second term on 4 March. He refuses to consider serving a third term.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Editorial Method and Apparatus	xvii
Illustrations	xlvii
Chronology	2

1804

From Michael Leib, [11 November]	3
From William Scales, 11 November	3
To S. Smith & Buchanan, 11 November	5
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 12 November	5
To Caldcleugh & Thomas, 12 November	5
To Dabney Carr, 12 November	6
From Stanley Griswold, 12 November	6
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 12 November	8
From Thomas Storm, 12 November	8
From Peter Kuhn, Sr., 13 November	9
From Levi Lincoln, 13 November	9
To James Oldham, 13 November	13
From Philippe Reibelt, enclosing List of Books Sent to Jefferson 13 November	14
To the Senate, 13 November	16
From Robert Smith, enclosing Report on the Destruction of the Philadelphia, 13 November	17
To Daniel Trump, 13 November	19
From Caldcleugh & Thomas, 14 November	19
From William Jarvis, 14 November	20
From Charles Willson Peale, 14 November	21
From Robert Smith, 14 November	21
To the House of Representatives, 15 November	22
From George Jefferson, 15 November	22
From Mrs. Noland, 15 November	22
To Philippe Reibelt, 15 November	23
To the Senate, 15 November	24
From Robert Smith, 15 November	25
From Albert Gallatin, 16 November	25
To Benjamin Lincoln, 16 November	26
To James Lyle, 16 November	26
From Philippe Reibelt, 16 November	27
From John Vaughan, 16 November	28
From Thomas S. Cavender, 17 November	29
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 17 November	30
To Charles Willson Peale, 17 November	31
To James Madison, 18 November	32
From Daniel Trump, 18 November	33
From Pierre Chouteau, enclosing Indian Populations in Louisiana District, 19 November	33
From William C. C. Claiborne, 19 November	36
From William Cooch, 19 November	37
From Christopher Ellery, 19 November	38
From James Mease, 19 November	39
From William Moore, 19 November	40
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 19 November	41
To John Randolph, 19 November	42
To Philippe Reibelt, [19 November]	43
From Thomas Leiper, [before 20] November	43
From Auguste Chouteau, 20 November	43
From Francis Da Costa, 20 November	47
From Gabriel Duvall, 20 November	48
From William Herring, 20 November	48
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 20 November	49
From Thomas Seymour, 20 November	49
From Samuel Singleton, 20 November	50
From Benjamin Austin, Jr., 21 November	51
From William Bache, 21 November	52
To Adam Boyd, 21 November	52
To Aaron Burr, 21 November	53
From Albert Gallatin, [21 November]	53
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 21 November	54
From William Short, 21 November	55
From Alexander Stuart, 21 November	56
From Anonymous, [before 22 November]	57
To Christopher Ellery, 22 November	58
From Albert Gallatin, [22 November]	59
To Thomas Munroe, 22 November	59
From John Page, 22 November	60
From Robert Smith, [22 November]	60
From Robert Smith, [22 November]	61
From Mason Locke Weems, 22 November	61
From James Bowdoin, 23 November	62
From DeWitt Clinton, 23 November	63
To Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 23 November	63
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 23 November	64
To Elizabeth House Trist, 23 November	67
From Ann Welsh, 23 November	67
Petition of John Higdon, with Jefferson’s Order, 24 November	70
From William C. C. Claiborne, 25 November	72
From William Jarvis, 25 November	75
From Charles Willson Peale, 25 November	76
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 26 November	76
From Isaac Briggs, 26 November	77
From Stanley Griswold, 26 November	78
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 26 November	79
From James Oldham, 26 November	80
From Philip Reed, 26 November	82
From Madame Salimbeni, 26 November	83
To Larkin Smith, 26 November	85
From Elizabeth House Trist, 26 November	86
From David Leonard Barnes, 27 November	88
From John Callier and Ranson Harwell, 27 November	89
Statement of Account with William Duane, 27 November	90
From Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 27 November	92
From Albert Gallatin, 27 November	92
From William Heath, 27 November	93
From Constantine S. Rafinesque, 27 November	94
From James R. Rogers, 27 November	95
From Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, [on or before 27 November]	96
From Henry Dearborn, enclosing Disposition of Troops in the West, 28 November	97
To Jones & Howell, 28 November	98
To Charles Willson Peale, 28 November	99
From “R. G.,” 28 November	100
From Jean Marie de Bordes, 29 November	100
From William A. Burwell, 29 November	101
To James Oldham, 30 November	102
From Chandler Price, 30 November	103
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 30 November	104
To the Senate, 30 November	105
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 November	106
Report from John Lenthall, November	107
From John Abernethie, 1 December	108
To James Brown, 1 December	109
To John Graham, 1 December	110
To Ephraim Kirby, 1 December	110
From Lafayette, 1 December	111
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 1 December	112
To William C. C. Claiborne, 2 December	118
From William C. C. Claiborne, enclosing Composition of the Orleans Territory Legislative Council, 2 December	120
To Henry Dearborn, 2 December	122
Notes on Painting at Monticello, [after 2 December]	123
Bill for the Adjudication of Prizes, [before 3 December]	124
From Henry Dearborn, 3 December	125
From William Jarvis, 3 December	126
To Samuel A. Otis, 3 December	126
From Timothy Pickering, 3 December	126
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 3 December	127
To Hannah Briggs, 5 December	128
From Jacob Crowninshield, 5 December	128
From Albert Gallatin, [5 December]	129
From Albert Gallatin, 5 December	130
To George Jefferson, 5 December	130
To Justus Erich Bollmann, 6 December	131
From Thomas S. Cavender, 6 December	131
From “A Friend to the Constitution,” 6 December	132
From Thomas Munroe, 6 December	132
To Thomas Newton, 6 December	132
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 6 December	133
To Chandler Price, 6 December	134
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 6 December	135
To Henry Sheaff, 6 December	135
To Daniel Trump, 6 December	136
From Philip Turpin, 6 December	136
From Isaiah Weston, 6 December	137
From Henry Dearborn, 7 December	138
To Albert Gallatin, 7 December	139
Statement of Account with Edward Gantt, [7 December]	139
To Abiel Holmes, 7 December	140
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 7 December	141
From Philippe Reibelt, 7 December	141
To Charles Smith, 7 December	142
From Robert Smith, 7 December	142
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 December	143
From Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 8 December	145
From William C. C. Claiborne, 8 December	145
From George Jefferson, 8 December	147
From John M. Pintard, 8 December	147
To Jones & Howell, 9 December	148
To Philippe Reibelt, 9 December	148
From William Bosson, 10 December	148
From William C. C. Claiborne, 10 December	149
From William C. C. Claiborne, 10 December	150
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 10 December	151
From John Hollins, 10 December	151
Petition of John McFarlane, with Jefferson’s Order, 10 December	152
From Philippe Reibelt, 10 December	153
To William A. Burwell, 11 December	154
From Gideon Granger, 11 December	155
From John Page, 11 December	155
From Philippe Reibelt, 11 December	156
To the Senate, 11 December	157
From Josiah Dean, 12 December	158
From Christopher Ellery, 12 December	158
To John Hollins, 12 December	158
To Andrew T. McCormick, 12 December	159
From Andrew T. McCormick, 12 December	160
From Jeremiah Browning, Jr., 13 December	160
From Thomas Digges, 13 December	161
From John Fowler and Matthew Lyon, 13 December	162
From Albert Gallatin, 13 December	163
To William Heath, 13 December	164
From the Navy Department, [13 December]	165
From Philippe Reibelt, 13 December	165
To the Senate, 13 December	166
To Mason Locke Weems, 13 December	168
From Mahlon Dickerson, 14 December	169
From John Hollins, 14 December	171
From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 14 December	171
From Chandler Price, 14 December	172
To David Leonard Barnes, 15 December	173
To Albert Gallatin, 15 December	174
From Albert Gallatin, 15 December	175
From William Lambert, 15 December	175
From Philip Mazzei, 15 December	176
From Samuel Overton, 15 December	184
From Chandler Price, 15 December	185
To Constantine S. Rafinesque, 15 December	185
From Philippe Reibelt, 15 December	186
From William C. C. Claiborne, 16 December	187
To Henry Dearborn, 16 December	188
To Sylvanus Bourne, 17 December	189
From Hannah Briggs, 17 December	190
To Isaac Briggs, 17 December	190
From John Callier, 17 December	191
From George Lewis Gray, 17 December	192
To Nicholas Meriwether Lewis, 17 December	192
To Jared Mansfield, 17 December	193
From James Oldham, 17 December	193
To Philip Turpin, 17 December	195
From Thomas Clifford, 18 December	196
From William Lee, 18 December	196
From Charles Willson Peale, 18 December	197
From Robert Smith, 18 December	198
From Lewis Waugh, 18 December	198
From the Citizens of Bristol County, Massachusetts, 19 December	199
From Gideon Granger, 19 December	200
To George Jefferson, 19 December	200
From Thomas Munroe, 19 December	201
To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 December	201
Petition of John Orpwood, with Jefferson’s Order, 19 December	202
From Robert Smith, 19 December	203
From Jean Marie de Bordes, 20 December	204
From Alexander Murray, 20 December	206
From Joseph Priestley, Jr., 20 December	207
Proclamation Extending Building Regulations in the City of Washington, 20 December	208
From Edmund Randolph, 20 December	210
From Larkin Smith, 20 December	210
From John Stokely, 20 December	211
From William C. C. Claiborne, 21 December	212
To Michael Krafft, 21 December	214
From James Monroe, 21 December	214
From Philippe Reibelt, 21 December	215
From Robert Williams, 21 December	216
From Isaac Briggs, 22 December	217
From William C. C. Claiborne, 22 December	222
From Albert Gallatin, [22 December]	223
From George Jefferson, 22 December	223
To William Lambert, 22 December	224
From William C. C. Claiborne, 23 December	226
From Rodominick H. Gilmer, 23 December	226
From Thomas Appleton, 24 December	227
From Joseph Barnes, 24 December	229
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 24 December	234
From Oliver Evans, 24 December	235
From William Evans, 24 December	236
From Albert Gallatin, [on or before 24 December]	236
From John Lithgow, 24 December	236
To James Oldham, 24 December	238
To Philippe Reibelt, 24 December	238
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 24 December	240
From Jacob Wagner, 24 December	242
To John Clarke, 26 December	243
To Albert Gallatin, 26 December	243
From William Lambert, 26 December	244
From Levi Lincoln, 26 December	244
From Philippe Reibelt, 26 December	246
To Joseph Stanton, Jr., 26 December	247
From John Taylor, 26 December	247
To John Page, 27 December	249
To Joseph Priestley, Jr., 27 December	250
From Samuel R. Demaree, 28 December	251
From Louis H. Girardin, 28 December	253
From Henry Guest, 28 December	254
To Levi Lincoln, 28 December	255
From Philippe Reibelt, 28 December	256
From Samuel Bennett, 29 December	256
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 29 December	258
From “A Sincere Friend to the Prosperity of the United States,” [on or before 29 December]	258
To David Gelston, 30 December	259
From Isaac Cox Barnet, 31 December	259
From Isaac Briggs, 31 December	260
To the Senate, 31 December	262
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 31 December	264
From Daniel Trump, 31 December	265
From John Woodberry, 31 December	265
From Andrew Jackson, James Winchester, Edward Douglass, and William Hall, [ca. December]	266
List of Books Acquired, [December]	268
From Françoise Langlois du Bouchet Conway, 1804	269
Notes on Policy in the West, [ca. 1804]	271
Paragraph on Disaffected Citizens, [1804?]	272
Memorandum from Henry Dearborn, [1803-1804?]	272

1805

From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 January		273
From David F. Launy, 1 January		274
From James Madison, [1 January]		275
From Thomas Munroe, 1 January		275
From Thomas Paine, 1 January		275
From Joshua Wingate, Jr., 1 January		277
To Hannah Briggs, 2 January		278
From Patrick Byrne, 2 January		278
From Henry Dearborn, enclosing List of Candidates for Attorney General, 2 January		278
From Albert Gallatin, [2 January]		279
From Albert Gallatin, 2 January		279
From John A. Graham, enclosing Letter of “McGillda,” 2 January		280
From Brockholst Livingston, 2 January		282
From Robert Smith, 2 January		282
From James Bringhurst, 3 January		283
To Henry Dearborn, 3 January		284
From Albert Gallatin, [3 January]		285
Petition of Eliza Peacock, 3 January		285
From Craven Peyton, 3 January		286
From Philippe Reibelt, 3 January		287
To Robert Smith, 3 January		288
Petition of John P. Van Ness and Others for Robert Ware Peacock, 3 January		288
From Thomas Appleton, 4 January		289
From Albert Gallatin, [4 January], enclosing Albert Gallatin to Samuel L. Mitchill, 3 January		290
To Louis H. Girardin, 4 January		295
From Thomas C. James, 4 January		295
To George Jefferson, 4 January		296
To Reuben Lewis, 4 January		296
To John Lithgow, 4 January		297
To João F. Oliveira Fernandes, 4 January		298
From Philippe Reibelt, 4 January		299
To Caspar Wistar, 4 January		299
Statement of Stable Expenses from Joseph Dougherty, [on or after 5 January]		300
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 5 January		300
To Littleton W. Tazewell, 5 January		303
From William Thomson, 5 January		306
From Mercy Otis Warren, 5 January		307
To Mathew Carey, 6 January		307
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 6 January		307
To John Taylor, 6 January		310
To Lewis Waugh, 6 January		311
To William C. C. Claiborne, 7 January		311
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 7 January		313
From Archibald McAllister, 7 January		313
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 January		314
From Philippe Reibelt, 7 January		315
From Robert Smith, with Jefferson’s Note, 7 January		315
From James Brown, 8 January		316
From Henry Dearborn, 8 January		317
From Henry Dearborn, [8 January]		318
From Susannah Febvrier, 8 January		319
Notes on Indian Affairs, Tripoli, and Great Britain, 8 January		319
To James Bringhurst, 9 January		321
From Mathew Carey, 9 January		321
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 9 January		322
To Mr. Grillette, 9 January		322
To John Langdon, 9 January		323
To Philippe Reibelt, 9 January		324
To John P. Van Ness, 9 January		324
From William C. C. Claiborne, 10 January		325
From Albert Gallatin, 10 January		327
To Robert Patterson, 10 January		327
From Philippe Reibelt, 10 January		328
From Thomas Worthington, 10 January		329
From Henry Dearborn, [11] January		330
Petition of Jesse Howard, with Jefferson’s Order, 11 January		332
From James Oldham, 11 January		333
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Notes and Calculations, 12 January		334
To Thomas C. James, 12 January		336
From Alexander Wood, 12 January		337
From William Lambert, 14 January		338
To the Senate, 14 January		338
To William Keteltas, [before 15 January]		339
From James Brown, 15 January		339
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 15 January		340
To Thomas Paine, 15 January		341
From Fulwar Skipwith, 15 January		341
From Jacob Wagner, [15 January]		343
From Caspar Wistar, 15 January		344
From Gabriel Duvall, 16 January		345
From Albert Gallatin, [16 January]		345
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 16 January		346
From Thomas Worthington, John Smith of Ohio, and Jeremiah Morrow, 16 January		347
From Rufus Easton, 17 January, enclosing Confidential Communication on Louisiana District, January		347
To William Lambert, 17 January		353
From Philippe Reibelt, 17 January		353
To Joseph Brown, 18 January		354
From William A. Burwell, 18 January		355
From DeWitt Clinton, 18 January		357
To William Branch Giles, 18 January		358
From Meriwether Jones, 18 January		359
To Philippe Reibelt, 18 January		359
From Henry Dearborn, 19 January		359
From Christopher Ellery, 19 January		360
To James Oldham, 19 January		360
From John Langdon, 21 January		361
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 21 January		362
From Philippe Reibelt, 21 January		363
From John Marrast, 22 January		364
From Philippe Reibelt, 22 January		365
From Reuben Lewis, 23 January		365
From D. L. Morel, 23 January		366
To Philippe Reibelt, 23 January		368
To Robert Smith, 23 January		369
Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 24 January		370
From Micajah Coffin and Others, 24 January		370
From Jacob Crowninshield, 24 January		371
From David Gelston, 24 January		373
From Oliveira Fernandes & Co., 24 January, enclosing Invoice for Wines from Oliveira Fernandes & Co., 22 January		373
From Philippe Reibelt, 24 January		374
From Chinubbee and Others, 25 January		375
From David C. DeForest, 25 January		377
From Albert Gallatin, [25 January]		378
From Thomas Paine, 25 January		378
To Philippe Reibelt, 25 January		389
From Philippe Reibelt, 25 January		389
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 January, enclosing Report of Director of the Mint, 1 January		391
From Stephen Thorn, 25 January		393
From DeWitt Clinton, 26 January		394
To Jacob Crowninshield, 26 January		394
From Albert Gallatin, 26 January		395
To Albert Gallatin, 26 January		395
From Albert Gallatin, 26 January		396
From Albert Gallatin, [26 January]		397
To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 26 January		397
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 26 January		398
From Thomas Mann Randolph, 26 January		400
To Alexander Wood, 26 January		400
To Albert Gallatin, 27 January		401
From Samuel Morse, 27 January		401
From Anonymous, 28 January		403
To William A. Burwell, 28 January		403
From Gideon Granger, 28 January		404
From Joseph H. Nicholson, 28 January		407
From Charles Willson Peale, [on or before 28 January]		407
From Charles Pinckney, 28 January		408
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 28 January		414
From Philippe Reibelt, 28 January		415
From John Salusbury, 28 January		416
To the Senate, 28 January		417
From John Shaw, 28 January		418
From Isaac Briggs, 29 January		420
From William C. C. Claiborne, 29 January		422
To DeWitt Clinton, 29 January		423
From Henry Dearborn, 29 January		424
From Samuel Elliot, 29 January		425
From Albert Gallatin, 29 January		427
To Joseph H. Nicholson, 29 January		428
From Philippe Reibelt, 29 January		430
From Robert Smith, [29 January]		432
From Henry Dearborn, [30 January]		432
From Abiel Holmes, 30 January		433
From Philippe Reibelt, 30 January		433
From Phebe Baldwin, 31 January		434
From Henry Dearborn, 31 January		435
To the House of Representatives, 31 January		436
To Philippe Reibelt, 31 January		436
From Philippe Reibelt, 31 January		438
To the Senate, enclosing James Madison: Report on Complaints against Arming of Vessels, 31 January		439
From Thomas Newton, Jr., January		441
From Thomas Appleton, 1 February		441
From Benjamin Smith Barton, 1 February		442
From Jean Decout, 1 February		443
To the House of Representatives, 1 February		446
From Ambrose Spencer, 1 February		447
From Augustus B. Woodward, 1 February		448
To William Cushing and Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 February		450
From William Dunbar, 2 February		451
From Albert Gallatin, 2 February		452
From John Page, 2 February		453
From Philippe Reibelt, 2 February		454
To Mathew Carey, 3 February		455
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 3 February		455
From Thomas Munroe 3 February		456
From John Bond, 4 February		457
To Albert Gallatin, 4 February		458
From Thomas Munroe, enclosing Statement of Claims, 4 February		459
To Craven Peyton, 4 February		460
From Philippe Reibelt, 4 February		460
From Henry Dearborn, [5 February]		461
From Nicoll Fosdick, 5 February		461
From David Gelston, 5 February		462
From George Jefferson, 5 February		462
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 5 February		463
From Gideon Granger, enclosing Report on Post Roads to New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit, 6 February		464
From Pierre Derbigny, 7 February		467
From Philippe Reibelt, 7 February		468
From Philippe Reibelt, [on or before 7 February]		469
From John Rennolds, 7 February		469
To David Gelston, 8 February		471
To William Short, 8 February		471
From Isaac Story, 8 February		472
To Volney, 8 February		473
To Mercy Otis Warren, 8 February		477
From Noah Lester, [before 9] February		477
From Isaac Briggs, 9 February		478
From Robert Patton, 9 February		480
To Philippe Reibelt, 9 February		480
From Abner Ritchie, 9 February		481
To George Jefferson, 10 February		482
To George Read, Jr., 10 February		483
From Elisha Avery, 11 February		484
From Justus Erich Bollmann, 11 February		488
To George Jefferson, 11 February		488
From George Read, Jr., 11 February		488
From Henry Warren, 11 February		489
From Joseph Willcox, 11 February		489
From Pierre Chouteau, 12 February		490
From John Hay, 12 February		493
From George Jefferson, 12 February		494
To Jones & Howell, 12 February		494
From Samuel Morse, 12 February		494
From John Witherspoon Smith, 12 February		495
Opinion of Alexander J. Dallas, 13 February		496
From Philippe Reibelt, 13 February		499
From Nathan Rockhill, 13 February		500
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 13 February		501
To Benjamin Smith Barton, 14 February		502
To Patrick Byrne, 14 February		503
From Zadok Cramer, 14 February		504
To Alexander J. Dallas, 14 February		505
From William Dickson of Virginia, 14 February		505
From Jesse Franklin and David Stone, 14 February		506
From Anne Cary Randolph, 14 February		506
To George Read, Jr., 14 February		507
To Philippe Reibelt, 14 February		507
To Abner Ritchie, 14 February		507
From William Short, 14 February		508
To Matthew Anderson, 15 February		510
From Aaron Burr, 15 February		510
To Aaron Burr, 15 February		511
From Joseph Copes, 15 February		511
From William Dunbar, 15 February		513
To Jesse Franklin and David Stone, 15 February		515
From George Jefferson, 15 February		515
To Philippe Reibelt, 15 February		515
From John Reich, 15 February		516
From Abner Ritchie, 15 February		517
From Oliver Whipple, 15 February		517
To Caspar Wistar, 15 February		522
From Joseph Barnes, 16 February		522
From Isaac Coffin, 16 February		524
From John Davis, 16 February		525
From William Eustis, 16 February		526
From Jesse Franklin and David Stone, 16 February		527
From Albert Gallatin, 16 February		527
From Calvin Goddard, 16 February		528
From Jones & Howell, 16 February		529
From William Keteltas, 16 February		529
From Philippe Reibelt, 16 February		530
From Littleton W. Tazewell, 16 February		531
To Elisha Avery, [17 February]		532
From William C. C. Claiborne, 17 February		532
To Albert Gallatin, 17 February		534
From Ralph Pomeroy, 17 February		534
From George Read, Jr., 17 February		535
From Philippe Reibelt, 17 February		536
To William Thornton, 17 February		537
From James Humphreys, [before 18 February]		537
From Elisha Avery, 18 February		538
From Henry Dearborn, [18 February]		539
From George Jefferson, 18 February		540
From Thomas McKean, 18 February		540
From Robert Smith, [18 February]		542
From Paul Dalrimple, 19 February		542
From Albert Gallatin, [19 February]		543
From Thomas H. Green, 19 February		544
From Philippe Reibelt, 19 February		544
From John Brown, 20 February		545
From Mathew Carey, 20 February		546
From Jacob Crowninshield, 20 February		546
From Thomas T. Davis, 20 February		547
From Albert Gallatin, 20 February		548
From Joshua B. Langdon, 20 February		549
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 20 February		550
From Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 February		551
From Richard Cutts, 21 February		551
From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 21 February		552
Notes on Spanish Actions and Indian Affairs, 21 February		553
From John Smith of Ohio, [21 February]		555
To Samuel Harrison Smith, enclosing Supplementary Note on the Moldboard Plow, 21 February		555
Petition of Ira Allen, 22 February		556
From Patrick Byrne, 22 February		557
From Christopher Ellery, 22 February		558
From Thomas Elwyn, 22 February		558
To James Holland, 22 February		559
From Anne Cary Randolph, 22 February		560
From Ellen Wayles Randolph, 22 February		561
To John Brown, 23 February		561
To Jacob Crowninshield, 23 February		562
From Jacob Crowninshield, 23 February		563
From Henry Dearborn, 23 February		563
From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson’s Approval, 23 February		564
From William Dunbar, enclosing Plants of the Ouachita River Region, 23 February		564
From Albert Gallatin, 23 February		566
To the House of Representatives, 23 February		567
To Robert Smith, 23 February		567
From Thomas Munroe, 24 February		568
From Thomas Appleton, 25 February		570
From Albert Gallatin, 25 February		570
From John Langdon, 25 February		571
From Jean Perreïn, 25 February		572
Notes on Renominations and Nominations, [before 26 February]		573
From Henry Fry, 26 February		576
To the Senate, 26 February		576
From William Short, 26 February		577
From Henry Dearborn, 27 February		577
From Henry Dearborn, 27 February		578
Petition of Andrew MaGee, 27 February, enclosing Song, 20 February		579
From Edward Tiffin, 27 February		581
From Henry Champion and Others, 28 February		581
From Henry Dearborn, [28 February]		583
From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 28 February		583
From David Gelston, 28 February		584
From John Glendy, 28 February		584
From George Jefferson, 28 February		586
From Isaac Jefferson of Boston, 28 February		587
Petition of Bernard Johnson and Isaac Suares, 28 February		587
From Kentucky Members of the House of Representatives, 28 February		588
From Robert Moore, 28 February		589
From Thomas Munroe, 28 February		590
From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 28 February		590
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February		591
To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 28 February		591
From John Smith of New York, 28 February		592
From John Stewart, 28 February		592
From Charles Pinckney, February		594
From Abraham Baldwin, Peter Early, and Joseph Bryan, 1 March		601
From Thomas Claxton, 1 March		601
From John Davis, 1 March		602
From John Hawkins of Kentucky, 1 March		603
From James Jackson, 1 March		603
From Thomas C. James, 1 March		604
To John Marshall, 1 March		604
Memorandum of Votes in Chase Impeachment Trial, [on or after 1 March]		605
From Navy Yard Tradesmen, [1 March]		607
To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1 March		608
From Caesar A. Rodney, [1 March]		609
To the Senate, 1 March		609
To the Senate, 1 March		610
From Pierre Chouteau, 2 March		610
From Henry Dearborn, 2 March		616
From William Dunbar, [2 March]		616
From John G. Jackson, 2 March		617
From Anne Cary Randolph, 2 March		618
To the Senate, 2 March		618
From Joseph Anderson and Others, 3 March		618
From William Findley, [3 March]		619
To John Glendy, 3 March		620
To Thomas McKean, 3 March		620
From Philippe Reibelt, 3 March		621
From John Rhea, 3 March		622
To the Senate, 3 March		623
To John Stewart, 3 March		624
From Thomas Worthington, 3 March		625
Second Inaugural Address		625
I.	Topics for Inaugural Address, [before 8 February]	638
II.	Partial Draft, [before 8 February]	639
III.	Partial Draft, [before 8 February]	639
IV.	Partial Draft, [before 8 February]	640
V.	Partial Draft, [before 8 February]	645
VI.	Partial Draft, [before 8 February]	646
VII.	James Madison’s Remarks on a Draft, [8 February]	648
VIII.	Albert Gallatin’s Remarks on a Draft, [12 February]	649
IX.	From Henry Dearborn, [13 February]	650
X.	To Robert Smith, 14 February	651
XI.	James Madison’s Remarks on a Draft, [21 February]	651
XII.	Notes on the Second Inaugural Address, [February?]	651
XIII.	Second Inaugural Address, [before 4 March]	652
XIV.	Reading Copy of Second Inaugural Address, [before 4 March]	657
XV.	To Samuel Harrison Smith, [ca. 4 March]	663
From Thomas Allen, [before 4 March]		663
From Étienne Barras, 4 March		671
From Thomas Jefferson Gassaway, 4 March		672
From Rodominick H. Gilmer, 4 March		673
From Joseph Hiester, 4 March		674
From John P. Ingle, 4 March		674
From George Jefferson, 4 March		675
From John Lithgow, 4 March		675
To Edward Preble, [4 March]		678
To Ellen Wayles Randolph, 4 March		678
From John Randolph, 4 March		679
From Joseph Anderson and John Rhea, 5 March		679
From Albert Gallatin, 5 March		680
From Stephen W. Johnson, 5 March		680
Description of a Plant by Meriwether Lewis, 5 March		682
From John Thomson Mason, 5 March		683
From James Oldham, 5 March		684
From Samuel A. Otis, 5 March		685
Petition of Robert Ware Peacock, 5 March		685
From John Stewart, 5 March		686
From John Woodberry, [on or before 5 March]		687
From John Archer, 6 March		687
Account with John Barnes, 6 March		688
From Eliza Peacock, 6 March		688
From Charles Willson Peale, 6 March		690
From Samuel Burchard, 7 March		691
To Patrick Byrne, 7 March		692
To Mathew Carey, 7 March		692
From George Washington Hakes, 7 March		692
Statement of Account with Mrs. John March, 7 March		695
To Mingo Mattaha and Tishoo Hooluhta, 7 March		698
Notes on Speech of Mingo Mattaha, 7 March		700
To João F. Oliveira Fernandes, 7 March		701
To Philippe Reibelt, 7 March		701
From Robert Smith, 7 March		703
To Zadok Cramer, 8 March		703
To John Davis, 8 March		704
From Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 8 March		704
To Thomas Elwyn, 8 March		706
Statement of Account with Henry Ingle, 8 March		707
From Charles Willson Peale, 8 March		707
From Nathaniel Perkins, 8 March		708
To Jean Perreïn, 8 March		708
To Caesar A. Rodney, 8 March		708

APPENDICES

Appendix I: List of Appointments, [28 November 1804-7 March 1805]		711
Appendix II: Dinner Guest Records: Dinners by Date, [11 November 1804-7 March 1805]		714
Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full		733
Appendix IV: Letters Not Found		734
Appendix V: Financial Documents		738
Index	739

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

Abernethie, John

letter from, 108-9

seeks payment of loan office certificate, 108-9, 534, 543-4

Abingdon, Va., 465, 500

Abrégé chronologique de la révolution de France à l’usage des écoles publiques (Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin-Desodoards), 480, 481n, 702

Abrégé de l’histoire des traités de paix entre les puissances de l’Europe depuis la paix de Westphalie (Christoph Wilhelm von Koch), 15

Abrégé du système de la nature de Linné, histoire des mammaires ou de quadrupèdes et cétacées (Jean Emmanuel Gilibert), 368, 390

Acton, Sir John Francis Edward, 231, 232

Adaes (Adais). See Los Adaes (Adais; Spanish presidio)

Adair (Aidar; brig), 290n, 442

Adams, Abigail, 450n

Adams, Fort, 97, 98

Adams, Henry, 638

Adams, John

and H. Guest, 255n

arming of merchant vessels, 358

poetry dedicated to, 521n

accused of opposing innovation, progress, 631

accused of monarchist desires, 668

Adams, John Quincy

describes TJ’s inauguration, l, 628

describes severe cold in Washington, li

dines with TJ, 316n, 716, 723, 731n, 732n

votes in Chase impeachment trial, 605-6, 607n

Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson, 23n, 316n, 731n

“Address to the Public, together with a Copy of a Letter to Stephen R. Bradley” (John A. Graham), 280n

Africa, 572-3

Africanus, Leo

Ioannis Leonis Africani Africæ Descriptio, 437

Africa Polyglotta Scribendi Modos Gentium Exhibens, 454, 455, 481, 499, 507, 702

agriculture

condition of agricultural laborers, xi, 675-6

impact of slavery on, xi, 676

resistance to innovation in, 641, 654

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Agriculture

Aikin, Arthur, 526

Akens, Captain, 440-1n

Alabama River, 77, 219, 220

Alcock, Robert, 79

alcoholism

officeholders accused of, 39, 59, 88, 173, 375

youth warned against, 551

Alcyone (star), 176n

Aldini, Giovanni

Précis des expériences galvaniques, 315n, 324, 328, 329, 354

Aldrich, George, 79

Alemoin (Le Chien, the Dog, Piankashaw Indian), 25n

Alexander, Nathaniel

dines with TJ, 721, 726, 728

Alexander, Robert, Jr., 712

Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 5, 183n

Alexandria, D.C.

militia in, 138-9

See also District of Columbia

Alexandria Expositor, 635

Alfred the Great, 254, 255n

Alien Enemies Act (1798), 664

Alien Friends Act (1798), 664

aliens. See immigrants

Allegheny Mountains, 465

Allegheny River, 467

Allen, Ethan Augustus, 151

Allen, Hannibal M., 16

Allen, Ira

petition to the president and Congress from, 556-7

and Olive Branch affair, 556-7

Allen, Mr., 60

Allen, Thomas, 495

Allen, Thomas (Mass.)

letter from, 663-71

praises TJ’s administration, criticizes slavery, xii-xiii, 663-71

identified, 670n

Allen, Thomas, Jr., 472n

Allen, William (Philadelphia), 144

Almanac des ambassades (Antoine Christian Wedekind), 368, 369, 697, 701

Almy, William, 360

Alpha Arietis (star), 564, 565n

alphabets, 251-3

Alston, Willis

dines with TJ, 715, 720, 725, 729

Altamaha River, 167n

Altona, 463n

America cum Supplementis Polyglottis, 454, 455, 481, 499, 507, 702

American, and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore, Md.), 634-5

American and British Chronicle of War and Politics: Being an Accurate and Comprehensive Register of the Most Memorable Occurrences in the Last Ten Years of His Majesty’s Reign (E.I.S.), 140, 433

American Annals (Abiel Holmes), 433

American Board of Agriculture, 40

American Citizen and General Advertiser (New York), 280n

American Coast Pilot (Lawrence Furlong), 513n

American Crisis (Thomas Paine), 383-4

American Distiller (Michael Krafft), 214

American Gardener (John Gardiner and David Hepburn), 314

American Philosophical Society

library of, 28

requests information on Louisiana, 28

elects members, 56

receives communications, specimens, 252, 253n, 522, 604, 682n, 708, 737

TJ as president of, 252, 338

TJ reelected president of, 295-6, 336

eulogy for Priestley, 303n, 442-3

publishes Transactions, 555

and TJ’s moldboard plow, 555

letter from cited, 737

American Remembrancer (J. Hardie), 140

American Revolution

criticism of, 3

veterans of, 38n, 56-8, 67-9, 70, 82, 83n, 93, 100-1, 109n, 120, 149n, 162n, 205n, 207n, 267n, 338n, 383, 388n, 434-5, 448-9, 457-8, 534-5, 560n, 582n, 619, 671-2

bounty and pension claims, 67-9, 100-1, 109n, 125, 141, 269-71, 317-18, 338n, 383, 388n, 457-8, 461, 543-4

loan office certificates, 108-9

Continental Navy, 207

neutral trade during, 292

histories of, 307, 370, 477

Loyalists, 449

Amœnitatis Graphicæ (Louis H. Girardin), 253-4, 295

Amory & Callender (New Orleans), 75n

Amsterdam, 437n

Amsterdam (British frigate), 736

Ancillon, Frédéric

Tableau des révolutions, 15

Anderson, Isaac

dines with TJ, 715, 721, 724, 731n

Anderson, Joseph

letters from, 618-19, 679

as reference, 57

votes in Chase impeachment trial, 605-6

recommends aspirants for office, 618-19, 679

dines with TJ, 719, 722, 725

Anderson, Mary Dabney, 510

Anderson, Matthew

letter to, 510

TJ sends silkworm eggs to, 510

Anderson, Richard, 104, 105n, 201n

Anderson, Robert, 166, 167n

Anderson, Thomas O., 18

Andrews, George, 360-1, 684

Anecdotes of the Life of Right Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 503, 557

Anmours, Charles François, Chevalier d’

“Mémoire sur la district du Ouachita,” 468n, 539

Annales du musée et de l’école moderne des beaux-arts (Charles Paul Landon), 15, 239, 246, 247, 256, 268, 299, 324, 328, 329, 359, 368, 695

Annuaire de la librairie (William Fleischer), 369n, 507

Annuaire météorologique (Jean Baptiste Pierre de Monet de Lamarck), 499-500, 507, 697, 702

Annual Message to Congress (1801), 183n

Annual Message to Congress (1804), 49, 273

anonymous letters

advise on appointments and removals, 57-8

report on Pa. impeachment trial, 403

See also Jefferson, Thomas: Correspondence

Anquetil Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe

Oupnek’hat (Id Est, Secretum Tegendum), 15, 16n

Theologia et philosophia Indica, 15, 16n

Antiquities of Athens (James Stuart and Nicholas Revett), 30-1

Aperçu statistique des états d’Allemagne (Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck), 354n, 431, 481

Apology for the True Christian Divinity (Robert Barclay), 369n

Appalachian Mountains, 464

apples, 126-7, 229

Appleton, Thomas

letters from, 227-9, 289-90, 441-2, 570

forwards letters, 176, 180, 227

payments to, 227

forwards vines, plants to TJ, 227-8, 229

and wine for TJ, 227-9, 289, 442

sends description of yellow fever at Leghorn, 228-9

sends seeds to TJ, 289-90, 441-2

and Timpanari Viganò, 441

and Ceracchi claim, 570

sends books to TJ, 644n

Appomattox River, 240

Aquia Creek, 116

Arabia, seu Arabum Vicinarumque Gentium Orientalium Leges, Ritus, Sacri et Profani Mores, Instituta et Historia, 437

Archer, John

letter from, 687-8

as reference, 57, 82

recommends aspirant for office, 687-8

dines with TJ, 715, 721

architecture

Monument of Lysicrates, 30-1

Tower of the Winds, 31n

Corinthian order, 334, 360-1

architectural ornaments, 360-1, 684

See also Capitol, U.S.; Jefferson, Thomas: Architecture; Monticello; President’s House

Argentina, 378n

Argus (Paris), 637

Argus (U.S. brig), 264n, 550n

Aries (constellation), 565n

Aristotle’s Ethicks and Politics (John Gillies), 192n

Arkansas Post, 98

Arkansas River

frozen, xi, 490, 492

exploration of, 185, 490, 492

Native American settlements along, 490, 492, 611, 614

description of, 616n

Armistead, Theodorick, 64-5

Armstrong, Gen. John

carries letters for TJ and others, 111, 143

correspondence with Talleyrand, 412, 414n

letter from cited, 735

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

Arnould, Ambroise Marie

Résultats des guerres, 15, 530, 531n, 696, 702

art

reverse painting on glass, xlix

physiognotrace, l-li, liii, 96-7

busts, 5

artist’s fees, 96

poor remuneration of artists, 197

Arundel, Me., 579n

Asia Polyglotta, Linguarum Genealogiam cum Literis, 454, 455, 481, 499, 507, 702

Astronomie (Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande), 225

astronomy. See latitude; longitude

Athens, 437n

Athens, Ga., 218, 220, 560

Atlas d’histoire naturelle, ou Collection de tableaux relatifs aux trois règnes de la nature (Charles Chaisneau), 15

Atwater, Jesse, 478n

Audibert de Ramatuelle, Joseph d’

Cours élémentaire de tactique navale, 369, 370n

Audouin, François Xavier

Du commerce maritime, 16, 239n

Audubon, John James, 47n

Aurora (Philadelphia)

describes inaugural festivities, 628

See also Duane, William

Austin, Benjamin, Jr.

letter from, 51

congratulates TJ on election results, 51

appointed commissioner of loans, 106, 122-3, 126, 575, 712

Austin, Benjamin, Sr., 122, 126

Austria, 353, 354, 431

Aventures de Télémaque (François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon), 561

Avery, Elisha

letter to, 532

letters from, 484-7, 538-9

seeks appointment, 484-7, 526-7, 528, 532, 538-9

identified, 487n

Avery, Eunice Putnam, 528

Avery, John, 487n, 527

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

Selected Documents

3 January 1805

Petition of Eliza Peacock

The wife of a forger of bills of exchange appeals to the president in hopes of averting her husband's prosecution.

5 January 1805

From Mercy Otis Warren

The New England writer sends Jefferson the prospectus of her history of the American Revolution.

4 March 1805

Second Inaugural Address

Jefferson affirms the general principles of his presidency and expresses hope that the nation can achieve a complete "union of sentiment."

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