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JEFFERSON TO GALLATIN. - Albert Gallatin, The Writings of Albert Gallatin, vol. 1 [1879]

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The Writings of Albert Gallatin, ed. Henry Adams (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1879). 3 vols.

Part of: The Writings of Albert Gallatin, 3 vols.

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JEFFERSON TO GALLATIN.

December 18, 1807.

Th. J. to Mr. Gallatin.

Monroe will be here on Sunday; he will bring us no new information, as far as can be judged from his letter; but on the subject of the proclamation, should the message wait for him? I will keep it back till half after ten o’clock for your opinion, either written or verbal. Affectionate salutations.

I have just received your note, and am clearly for the exception; but come here before half after ten, and let us be together before the message goes out of our hands.

JEFFERSON TO GALLATIN.

January 14, 1808.

Th. Jefferson to Mr. Gallatin.

I return you Towers’s application, and send you a similar one from a Mr. Stewart. The idea of our having a power to give special permits getting abroad will overwhelm us with applications. Would it not be better to give notice in the papers that the exception in the law as to vessels under the direction of the President is considered as going to such vessels only as are necessary for the correspondence of the government with its agents abroad, or with foreign nations? Foronda is about sending a vessel to the Havana, Vera Cruz, &c. We have not decided on sending packets to that place, but, as a meeting will be necessary in two or three days on the surplus of seamen now in actual service, we will then consider that of packets generally. Affectionate salutations.