1From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 21 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have been as Civil to Mr Lane who brought me your letter of 26. As I could. He dined with me and I was much pleased with him— I am sincerely grieved at your long continued indisposition, What can I do to restore your health—If you come to the Convention, as I hope you will; That I think will Cure you—For wrangling and Contention exhilarates the Spirits and Animates the Body—You will have...
2Cesario Bias to Thomas Jefferson, 21 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 16 th Inst to B. Peyton was yesterday received. The iron and tin, you wished sent up, has have been to day procured and forwarded to M r Leitch : the iron, (the longest I could get) is 5 ½ feet. And was got on a credit of 60 days, the tin was a very saleable article and could not be got on a credit of any definite period; the seller said he would settle it with M
3Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 September 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I leave at Flood’s with this letter a packet containing 3. small volumes of my petit format library containing several tragedies of Euripides , some of Sophocles and one of Aeschylus . the 1 st you will find easy, the 2 d tolerably so; the last incomprehensible in his flights among the clouds. his text has come to us so mutilated & defective and has been so much plaistered with amendments by...
4Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Distances between Monticello and Poplar Forest, [ca. 21 September 1820] (Jefferson Papers)
Mont o Carter’s bridge 10.37 Warren ferry 12.35