1To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 6th: instant revived a great many pleasant ideas in my mind. I have not forgotten—I cannot forget you. You and your excellent Mrs Adams often compose a subject of conversation by my fire side. We now and then meet with a traveler who has been at Quincy, from whom we hear with great pleasure, not only that you enjoy good health, but that you retain your usual good spirits,...
2From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote you a line of Acknowledgment for your Lecture upon Tobacco, I kept no Copy of it, not expecting to ever hear any thing more of it, and I really remember very little that was in it. Tobacco, I have found by a long experience, having learned the use of it upon Ponds of Ice, when Skating with Boys at Eight years of Age, to be a very dangerous Vegetable, extremely apt to Steal upon a...
3From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod, 19 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
I received last Evening your Letter by the hand of mr Adams, and the little matters accompanying it. you executed my commission quite to my satisfaction. accept my thanks in return. I have regreted that you have had such wet Streets in Town, after having experienced so much confinement at Quincy. To know that we can go, and come at our pleasure, is a privilege, even when we do not use it, and...
4To James Madison from Robert W. Fox (Abstract), 19 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
19 February 1805, Falmouth . “The packet having only lately returned from a Voyage to the West Indies, could not be got ready to take the mail ’till this week, prevented my earlier in the Month sending the enclosed list [not found] of Vessels which have arrived at & off the Western ports of England, for the last 6 months ending with 1st. of December 1804, many having only called off the ports...
5To James Madison from Thomas Huntington (Abstract), 19 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
19 February 1805, Hartford . “I have been requested to write to The President in behalf of Noah Lester Esq, of Middlesex County, in this State. “I have Known M Lester several years, his Character & Talents as a man of Integrity, & a Lawyer are Respectable. “And his Uniform Attachment to the Constitution, and the System of measures pursued by the present Administration, have procured him the...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Paul Dalrimple, 19 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to communicate to you, that the hidden misterys are unfolded to me, by my Father who is in heaven, and your Father, if you beleieve the bible, you will not dote, that i am the Comforter, and believe all that theirin is Ritten, asto adminnister into my Necessaty if you please, am Destiut of the common necessaryes of life, and have not where to lay my head. Neither money for my Support,...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Albert Gallatin, 19 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
This claim is an old loan office certificate which might have been funded under the funding act, until it became barred by act of 3 March 1795. The operation of the last mentioned act was suspended for one year by act of 12 June 1798 (Vol. 4th page 123); and the certificate might have been paid off if presented before 12 June 1799: since which day it is barred by the act of limitation above...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas H. Green, 19 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
on my leaving New Orleans for this place. Mr Briggs Surveyor General of M. Territory Committed to my charge a Small packet directed to you to be deposited in the mail when I arrived here. I have just put it in the post office and Shall be happy to hear that you have received it Safe I am your most obdt. Servt. RC ( DLC ); at head of text: “Mr Jefferson”; at foot of text: “His Excellency Thos....
9To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 19 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
J’ai l’honneur, de repondre au Contenû de Votre respectable petit billet du 16, que le porteur de Lettre ne m’a remis, que hier Soir: a) que c’est pour Midlet. life of Cicero in 8vo. le meme Cas , que pour Miltons Paradise lost. b) que Vous m’avez bien demandè: Rayeval, Loix de la Nature—pour lequel j’ai deja ecrit a la Maison a Paris par un batiment, qui partoit de Norfolk;—mais point encore:...