1John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 26 December 1795 (Adams Papers)
Your Packet by M r: Clarke at length was delivered me on the 21 st: and your letter of the 11 th: of this month, by M r: Calhoun the day preceding. Quincy’s letter is indeed a valuable one, and contains some opinions which are at once just important, and not sufficiently established in the minds of Americans in general. I would enclose it back to you, but think I may as well be the bearer of...
2To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, c.26–29 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to send you inclosed two letters one from Young La Fayette the other from his Preceptor —They appear reconciled to some further delay. I take the liberty to inclose copy of a letter to the Secy of State respecting Mr Cutting —I do not know upon the whole what sort of a man Mr Cutting is, and I have heared unfavourable whispers—But as to the particular subject of his ⟨claim⟩...
At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, on the 26th day of December, 1795, Present: The President of the Senate , The Secretary of State , The Secretary of the Treasury . A report of the Secretary of the Treasury was read, as follows: “That, to provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt, which will fall due at the close of the present year, it will be necessary...
4To George Washington from Henry Lee, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Till very lately have I felt myself well enough to discharge my daily dutys & now hardly fit for writing—But your letr (without date) recd last evg as well as my constant desire to administer to your information so far as I can, induces me to sieze the first opportunity of replying. Mr H. was written to by me in a way to obtain his answer by a direct opportunity which was presented in the...
5Timothy Pickering to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Pickering incloses the proceedings from Winchester, with the draught of an answer under the same cover, which Colo. Pickering wrote a number of days since & locked up in a closet at the office of state, where it lay unnoticed till this forenoon. Mr Dandridge will also find inclosed two letters received to day from Mr Monroe, which Mr D. will have the goodness to lay before the President....
6From Thomas Jefferson to Sampson Crosby, [26] December 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I have safely recieved your favor of the 9th. and have no doubt the box of blinds will soon be at Richmond. I am in hopes the Captain has either been directed to deliver them to Gamble & Temple, my correspondents there, or that he will take the trouble to find by enquiry some one acquainted with me who will recieve them and pay his freight. I now return you Mr. Randolph’s certificate, and with...
7[The Defence No. XXXV], [26 December 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
ADf , in the handwriting of Rufus King, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress; The [New York] Herald; A Gazette for the Country , December 26, 1795. For background to this document, see the introductory note to “The Defence No. I,” July 22, 1795 . Except for some phrases, sentences, and two paragraphs inserted by H, the draft of “The Defence No. XXXV” is in the handwriting of Rufus King. On the...
8Charles Adams to John Adams, 26 December 1795 (Adams Papers)
Your favors of the 13 th and 24 th I have received the latter containing the Post note for Dol s 100 and I return you my thanks for it. The Vindication of M r Randolph’s Resignation is read with the greatest avidity. I think there are many things contained in it quite foreign to the subject and which it was unnecessary to disclose. That good will come of it I do not doubt, not to him but to...
9From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
This letter will be handed to you by Captn Myers, of whom I have made mention in a former letter. Being desirous of knowing whether the Directors of the Potomack Compa. are disposed to employ him as an Engineer & Superintendant of their lock navigation, and on what terms, he has resolved to wait upon them for those purposes. The testimonials of his skill as an Architect, and of his knowledge...
10To George Washington from James Maury, 26 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honor of addressing you the 16th Instant. I found it more difficult to procure the peas & Vetches than I imagined & was obliged to send to London for the latter. I expect both here next week. Small as this Matter is, I have been under the Necessity of applying to the Lords of the privy Council to permit the officers of the Customs here to admit it to Entry. A punctilio, which I...