JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence, President . Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), AS PRESIDENT, to General Samuel Smith (1752-1839), Washington, 10 October 1801; WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Th: Jefferson"). 1 page, 4to, blank integral, small closed tears and losses at extremities of creases (not affecting text), slight spotting .
JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence, President . Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), AS PRESIDENT, to General Samuel Smith (1752-1839), Washington, 10 October 1801; WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Th: Jefferson"). 1 page, 4to, blank integral, small closed tears and losses at extremities of creases (not affecting text), slight spotting . BOOKS, HOCK, A ROBERT FULTON INVENTION AND POLITICAL ETHICS are among the topics of this wide-ranging presidential letter. "I do not recollect having received advice of any books delivered [by] Capt. Rogers for me," Jefferson tells Maryland Congressman and later Senator, Samuel Smith "If you have no other way of discovering from whom they are, I should think you haed better open them, & a very superficial note of the contents would satisfy me whether they were intended for me. If they were they should come here. The two former boxes you were so kind as to forward were, one of them for the Secretary of State's office [Jefferson has crossed out from Col o Fulton"] containing a model of a ship with some nautical improvement." Evidently a patent application from the great Robert Fulton "The other from a friend containing a model of one of the pyramids of Egypt." He mentions a worthy clergyman-Mr. Glendye, saying: "a man rarely sees as eloquent a preacher twice in his life;" turns away a gift of hock from another man "on the general rule that I accept present while in public office from nobody;" and denies an appointment to a Maryland man because of the over-representation of Virginia and Maryland in minor offices that "on the just principle of distribution" he must find a man from another state. He acknowledges that he has only appointed one man from each State into his cabinet-Madison and Navy Secretary Robert Smith But Jefferson allows that in the case of the Cabinet, "particular indulgence is a right." A fine letter from Jefferson's first year as President, showing both his scrupulous honesty and his intellectual passion.
JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence, President . Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), AS PRESIDENT, to General Samuel Smith (1752-1839), Washington, 10 October 1801; WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Th: Jefferson"). 1 page, 4to, blank integral, small closed tears and losses at extremities of creases (not affecting text), slight spotting .
JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence, President . Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), AS PRESIDENT, to General Samuel Smith (1752-1839), Washington, 10 October 1801; WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Th: Jefferson"). 1 page, 4to, blank integral, small closed tears and losses at extremities of creases (not affecting text), slight spotting . BOOKS, HOCK, A ROBERT FULTON INVENTION AND POLITICAL ETHICS are among the topics of this wide-ranging presidential letter. "I do not recollect having received advice of any books delivered [by] Capt. Rogers for me," Jefferson tells Maryland Congressman and later Senator, Samuel Smith "If you have no other way of discovering from whom they are, I should think you haed better open them, & a very superficial note of the contents would satisfy me whether they were intended for me. If they were they should come here. The two former boxes you were so kind as to forward were, one of them for the Secretary of State's office [Jefferson has crossed out from Col o Fulton"] containing a model of a ship with some nautical improvement." Evidently a patent application from the great Robert Fulton "The other from a friend containing a model of one of the pyramids of Egypt." He mentions a worthy clergyman-Mr. Glendye, saying: "a man rarely sees as eloquent a preacher twice in his life;" turns away a gift of hock from another man "on the general rule that I accept present while in public office from nobody;" and denies an appointment to a Maryland man because of the over-representation of Virginia and Maryland in minor offices that "on the just principle of distribution" he must find a man from another state. He acknowledges that he has only appointed one man from each State into his cabinet-Madison and Navy Secretary Robert Smith But Jefferson allows that in the case of the Cabinet, "particular indulgence is a right." A fine letter from Jefferson's first year as President, showing both his scrupulous honesty and his intellectual passion.
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