15th. (Adams Papers)
Took an early breakfast, and walk’d with Cranch to Cambridge. We got to Packard’s chamber, just after 9 o’clock. There was a meeting of the ΦBK. The president and vice-president being both absent, Mr. Andrews presided for the meeting: a number of new regulations were introduced; the resignation of the president was read and accepted. Just before 12 The officers for the ensuing year were...
2From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 5 September 1787 (Adams Papers)
I am very much concerned that an absence in the Country should have So long delayed My Answer to your Letter of the tenth of July. There is no Act of Congress which authorizes me expressly, to order the Payment of your Salary,: But the Representation in your Letter Supported by the Extract from that of M r Jefferson to you of the 14. of June last, Show Such an Absolute necessity of it that I...
3From John Adams to Thomas Brand Hollis, 5 September 1787 (Adams Papers)
I have received with much Pleasure your Letter without a date— nothing can ever give me more satisfaction than the reflection that I may have been instrumental of doing Justice in any degree to injured Innocence, especially in the Case of a friend— The 2 persons you allude to were once friendly to me, as I most certainly ever was to them, & I have no reason to think that either of them was...
Le C te de Woronzow à I’honneur de remercier Monsieur Adams pour deux exemplaires d’un poeme sur l’Amerique qu’il a eu la bonté de lui envoyer, il le prie de vouloir bien se charger de transmettre ses remercimens à l’Auteur. Il aura soin de faire parvenir à Sa Majesté l’exemplaire que Mons r. Barlow lui a destiné; quoique Sa Majesté s’occupe peu de poesie et ne lise pas l’anglois, Il est...
5[Diary entry: 5 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 5th. In Convention. Dined at Mrs. Houses & drank Tea at Mr. Binghams.
6[Diary entry: 5 September 1787] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 5th. Dined at Mrs. Houses, and drank Tea at Mr. Binghams.
7To George Washington from Robert Fenning, 5 September 1787 (Washington Papers)
I hope your Excellence will excuse the freeness of a strainger troubleing you with a Letter, as he had no other way to make himself known, or aquaint your Excellency, that he was about three years ago examind by Mr Laurence, and Mr Chase in London; Mr Laurence, of Charles Town, South Caralione and Mr Samuel Chase, of Maryland in Ameraca. I must now beg Leave to aquaint your Excellence, that I...
8To James Madison from James McClurg, 5 September 1787 (Madison Papers)
I am not surprized to hear that you have been indisposed, at this season, with such a weight of business upon you. I am more surprized that you have been able to persevere in the application, which that business required. I hope you will never take a moment either from that, or from the relaxation which it renders necessary, on account of such a correspondent as myself; who would readily give...
9To Thomas Jefferson from C. W. F. Dumas, 5 September 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Hague, 5 Sep. 1787 . Thanks TJ for the information in his letter of 9 Aug.; asks to be informed when news arrives from America concerning Congress, the Federal Convention, and the treasury department. Encloses a letter which contains all the information he has concerning affairs in The Netherlands. RC ( DLC ); 2 p.; in French; endorsed. FC (Dumas Letter Book, Rijksarchief, The Hague;...