1From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I had the good fortune of sending a single letter from this place to England, in time to go by the Saratoga, a Cartel which sailed about the middle of this Month for New–York, and that letter was my last go to you. I hope it will reach you safely for it is the only opportunity by which I can expect that you will have heard from me, almost since the beginning of this Year—For the letters which...
Your No 14 is just put into my hands and the hope it gives me of your return has come most opportunely to restore me to something like happiness my spirits were so much depressed at the parting with my Sister and her Dear Babe and the house is so dull and gloomy without them that I roam about like a spirit without knowing what to do with myself or on what to fix my attention Charles is almost...
3From James Madison to John Armstrong, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Treaty of Greenville in 1795. may be the basis of the new Treaty, with any improvements which may be eligible under existing circumstances. ______ The former allowances to the Indians may be continued; and if deemed necessary by the Comrs., enlarged. Those suspended by the war should not be made up unless indispensable to keep the Indians quiet; as present supplies will suffice for actual...
4From James Madison to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 18th. instant, & delivered into the hands of Mr. Rush the interesting extract inclosed in it. The armed neutrality in 1780, forms an Epoch in the history of maritime law which makes it more than a point of mere curiosity, to trance it to its real source. You know perhaps that there is an American pretension to a share at least in bringing about that measure. The...
5From James Madison to Samuel Latham Mitchill, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Doctor Jennings has a medical invention in the value of which he feels as much confidence that he is anxious to present it to the consideration of the most enlightened of the profession. Altho’ a departure in some measure from an established rule, I can not refuse a line which may promote an opportunity for the accurate explanations by which he wishes his invention to be tested. His benevolent...
6To James Madison from John Armstrong, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Having been made acquainted with the instructions given to Commodore Decatur, in the event of his taking the command of the Ontario fleet, and not perceiving in them any provision for a prompt and efficient cooperation with General Brown and the army under his command, but on the contrary, a suggestion of measures, which if adopted will necessarily lead to a system of separate action, I have...
7To James Madison from John P. Van Ness, 28 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
The Bearer Major Thos. L. Mc.Kenny, one of my Aids de Camp, will have the honor of handing you this note. He is anxious, in conformity with what appears to be the public wish in this District, to know what the Government would think of the project of calling into the field, say, a battalion of the Militia of the District: to remain under arms & in camp in the vicinity for a short period; then...
8To James Madison from David Holmes, 28 July 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From David Holmes. 28 July 1814, Washington, Mississippi Territory. “I transmit to you the proceedings of the House of Representatives of this Territory relative to the nomination of persons, quali[fi]ed to be members of the Legislative Council. Of the ten persons nominated I recommend the following five to be commissioned towit” List of names follows: James Titus, Thomas Barnes, Nathaniel...
9Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I acknowledge, most sincerely, the receipt of your kind and obliging favour of the 29 th of the last month.— It was my intention from the commencement of my undertaking to have placed your portrait in the first half volume of the Repository, and I regret, greatly regret, that any circumstances should induce me to depart from it. On this subject I have reflected much. I perceive from your letter...