en gave
him fifty dollars), I did not think the public offices confided to me
to give away as charities. He took it in mortal offence, and from that
moment has been hauling off to his former enemies, the federalists.
Besides the letter I wrote him in answer to the one from General
Mason's, I wrote him another containing answers to two questions he
addressed to me; 1. whether Mr. Jay received salary as Chief Justice and
Envoy at the same time; and 2. something relative to the expenses of an
embassy to Constantinople. I think these were the only letters I ever
wrote him in answer to volumes he was perpetually writing to me. This is
the true state of what has passed between him and me. I do not know that
it can be used without committing me in controversy, as it were, with
one too little respected by the public to merit that notice. I leave to
your judgment what use can be made of these facts. Perhaps it will be
better judged of, when we see what use the tories will endeavor to
make of their new friend. I shall leave this on the 21st, and be at
Monticello probably on the 24th, or within two or three days of that,
and shall hope, ere long, to see you there. Accept assurances of my
affectionate attachment.

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCXCVIII.--TO GOVERNOR MONROE, July 17, 1802

TO GOVERNOR MONROE.

Washington, July 17, 1802.

Dear Sir,

After writing you on the 15th, I turned to my letter-file to see what
letters I had written to Callender, and found them to have been of
the dates of 1798, October the 11th, and 1799, September the 6th, and
October the 6th; but on looking for the letters they were not in their
places, nor to be found. On recollection, I believe I sent them to you
a year or two ago. If you have them, I shall be glad to receive them
at Monticello, where I shall be on this day se'nnight. I enclose you
a paper, which shows the tories mean to pervert these charities to
Callender as much as they can. They will probably first represent me as
the patron and support of the 'Prospect before Us,' and other things
of Callender's, and then picking out all the scurrilities of the author
against General Washington, Mr. Adams, and others, impute them to me.
I, as well as most other republicans who were in the way of doing it,
contributed what I could afford to the support of the republican papers
and printers, paid sums of money for the 'Bee,' the 'Albany Register,'
&c. when they were staggering under the sediti