1From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 7 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
I like this prompt and quick correspondences, I have received your Sons acknowledgement dated the 6th of my letter to you of the 5th. Your Sons letter has greatly obliged me and I cordially wish him success but he has proposed to me a plan that would increase, my already established reputation for Vanity and Egotism to a mountain as high as blue hill, Wachusett or Monadnock. Before any...
2To James Madison from John Devereux, 7 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to present you with two Peruvian Tiger Skins—which you’ll please to accept as a small token to record that gratitude which in common with our country, I shall never cease to owe you, and that high respect for virtues and merits, which I feel too Strongly to express by words. With profound respect and esteem, I am Sir, your most obdt. Servt. RC ( DLC ). Irish-born John Devereux left...
3To James Madison from Benjamin Grayson Orr, 7 November 1816 (Madison Papers)
A distrust, which existed during my Contract for the eighth military district, and by which I suffered very much, I flattered myself had been entirely extinguished, by the thorough investigations that Subject had undergone & by the regular & peaceable execution of two Subsequent contracts which had been granted to me. I flatter myself it exists now no where, but in the breasts of those, who...
4John Burke to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Having suspended the publication of the “Virginia Argus” it becomes necessary for me, to call upon those indebted to the Establishment, for payment. Accompanying this, you have your account stated—Being desirous to close my business, you will much oblige me by remitting the amount by mail, or if more convenient, by some private conveyance. RC ( MHi ); printed circular, with portions filled in...
5James Maury to Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter was of the 9 th Sep r 15. A State of war, for about twenty five years, appears to have so disqualified us for the sober habits of peace as to have occasioned great reverses in the affairs of many classes of persons in this country:—much so, even with the owners of the Soil; but, particularly, with merchants & Bankers, the failures of which last, I consider almost u n...