1To James Madison from James Ogilvie, August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty, my dear Sir, to transmit for your perusal a sort of synopsis of a book which will shortly make its appearance. He must have stouter nerves than mine, who in an age like this, can provoke the attention & await the decision of the august & penetrating awarders of literary justice, without apprehension & awe. But I have arrived somewhat abruptly & unpreparedly, at a stage in...
2To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your two philosophical letters of May 4. and 6. have been too long in my Carton of “Letters to be answered.” to the question indeed on the utility of Grief, no answer remains to be given. you have exhausted the subject. I see that, with the other evils of life, it is destined to temper the cup we are to drink. Two urns by Jove’s high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of...
3To John Adams from Stephen Miller, 1 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Being personally unknown to you, I fear that I am chargeable with a breach of decorum in thus addressing a letter to you without a particular introduction; but as no person is at hand to give me a letter, & the object of my enquiry such as few except yourself can answer, I must depend on your goodness for forgiveness. you will probably recollect sir that Soon after the peace of 1763, the King...
4From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I embrace the earliest oppertunity, after receiving the inclosed, of forwarding it to you; I received a Letter at the same time. William & Family I find are gone, but C had not heard from them after they left the city. She does not Say to me when She expects to Sit out for Quincy—I presume she has been more particular to you. I have Letters from England to the 9th of June, entertaining as...
5To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 1 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
The multiplicity of business, and of things that consume more time than business, have in spite of all my efforts, broken down to such a degree the regularity of my private Correspondence that I am now to acknowledge the receipt of your favours of 20. and 28. March of 10. and 20. May—and of 16. and 25 June; every one of which contains matter, upon which if I had the time and the talents I...
I ought to have thanked you long ago my Dear Harriet for your very obliging Letter announcing the recovery of Mrs. Adams for which news as you rightly and kindly judged we were very anxious I am happy to find by the last accounts that she is once more restored to health and I hope that the Summer weather will reanimate her could she bear the journey I think towards Winter she should move...
7From James Madison to John Graham, [ca. 1 August 1816] (Madison Papers)
I return the papers sent with yours of the 29th: except the letter from E. Lewis, which goes to the Treasy. Dept. If Mr. B. has no more power than to receive proposals, I sd. have supposed his object in an interview wd. have been simply to ask for them, with an assurance of the General disposition of his Govts. to receive them favorably, and that the uncertainty or misconception occasioned by...
8To James Madison from George Graham, 1 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I return you the Letter from Mr. Garrard; he is an unfortunate young man who belonged formerly to the marine Corps, & was compelled to resign in consequence of intemperance, & which intemperance it would seem has produced another evil propensity, for I believe that none of the circumstances stated in his Letter are true, except so far as they relate to his Family. Mr. Franklin has accepted his...
9To James Madison from Christopher Hughes Jr., 1 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I write to you, by the authority of Col. Monroe, to say, that after a proper reflection upon the proposition which I have had the honour to receive from the Government, to go to Sweden as Secretary of Legation, and to remain as the Chargè des affaires, de facto, in succession to Mr. Russell: and after a necessary investigation into my private affairs, required by the important domestic...
10To James Madison from Jonas Humbert, 1 August 1816 (Madison Papers)
I beg your friendly indulgence in submitting this Communication for perusal. Perhaps I owe the President an appology for troubling him on a former occasion, particularly for the clumsy manner in which the letter was written. That letter however stated truths, and from the satisfactory way in which the President expressed himself to Mr Geo. White Editor of the “Public Advertiser” Concerning a...