JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, to Christopher Ellery (1768-1840), Washington, 2 July 1803. 1 page, 4to, lower blank portion of sheet trimmed, neatly laid down. GOVERNMENT ECONOMY VERSUS PARTY PATRONAGE: A JEFFERSONIAN DILEMNA. On the 27th anniversary of the Continental Congress's vote for Independence, President Jefferson writes Rhode Island Senator Christopher Ellery (nephew of Declaration signer William Ellery) to discuss the closure of a patronage post. "The business of Supervisor for Rhode Island being nearly finished," he writes, "it has become proper according to the provisions of the law to suppress the office and transfer the residuary duties of it to some other officer. As it has been thought Newport has not had its due share of office, I have thought of making the transfer to some one of the officers of the U. S. there. Mr. Nichols & Mr. Slocum are the only ones I know of. Will you be so good as to inform me which is most capable of undertaking the winding up of this business? The best accountant would be the properest. Or if there be any other officer of the U. S. that you think preferable, be so good as to name him. As the business is almost nothing so is the allowance fixed by law, being only at the rate of 250D a year. Consequently it may be well to know they will accept of it. Yet it had better be kept in confidence till we decide on the arrangement. I am not quite certain we can await your answer, but if it be without delay we probably can." Looking forward to his escape from the deadly swamp heat of Washington, Jefferson says: "Our annual vacation begins on the 25th isn't. when we shall every one go some where in quest of security to our health. I go then to Monticello, and the absence will be during the months of August & September. We shall reassemble on the last day of September..." After Ellery failed to win renomination to the Senate in 1806, Jefferson made him commissioner of loans at Providence, and President Monroe later made him customs commissioner at Newport, where Ellery served from 1820 to 1834.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, to Christopher Ellery (1768-1840), Washington, 2 July 1803. 1 page, 4to, lower blank portion of sheet trimmed, neatly laid down. GOVERNMENT ECONOMY VERSUS PARTY PATRONAGE: A JEFFERSONIAN DILEMNA. On the 27th anniversary of the Continental Congress's vote for Independence, President Jefferson writes Rhode Island Senator Christopher Ellery (nephew of Declaration signer William Ellery) to discuss the closure of a patronage post. "The business of Supervisor for Rhode Island being nearly finished," he writes, "it has become proper according to the provisions of the law to suppress the office and transfer the residuary duties of it to some other officer. As it has been thought Newport has not had its due share of office, I have thought of making the transfer to some one of the officers of the U. S. there. Mr. Nichols & Mr. Slocum are the only ones I know of. Will you be so good as to inform me which is most capable of undertaking the winding up of this business? The best accountant would be the properest. Or if there be any other officer of the U. S. that you think preferable, be so good as to name him. As the business is almost nothing so is the allowance fixed by law, being only at the rate of 250D a year. Consequently it may be well to know they will accept of it. Yet it had better be kept in confidence till we decide on the arrangement. I am not quite certain we can await your answer, but if it be without delay we probably can." Looking forward to his escape from the deadly swamp heat of Washington, Jefferson says: "Our annual vacation begins on the 25th isn't. when we shall every one go some where in quest of security to our health. I go then to Monticello, and the absence will be during the months of August & September. We shall reassemble on the last day of September..." After Ellery failed to win renomination to the Senate in 1806, Jefferson made him commissioner of loans at Providence, and President Monroe later made him customs commissioner at Newport, where Ellery served from 1820 to 1834.
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