1To John Adams from Elihu Marshall, 16 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
As it is customary for the Authors of Literary works to ask the opinion of the judicious respecting the propriety of their performance I thought I should not act amiss if I should ask thee to give thine on mine. Therefore if it be not inconsistent with thy feelings & leisure wilt thou please to give the American Tutor’s Assistant a review & send me thy ideas as soon as thou canst conveniently....
2From John Adams to Elihu Marshall, 7 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the honour you have done me, by your letter of the 16th. of last Month—and for the valuable present of the American Tutors Assistant—which I believe to be a valuable Book—At the moment I received these favours; I was deeply engaged in reading Cato Major—and I could scarce help thinking, that I was reading Tillotson Sherlocke, Buttler, or our Buckminster, or Everett—for there...