1From John Adams to Rufus King, 29 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter of th 12th has greatly obliged me. I had read the Speech before in the public papers and now again more than once, and always with great Satisfaction. It is a Master Piece of a Master Spirit. As far as my information goes and Memory recollets, I have not Seen So accurate and judicious So comprehensive and concise a View of the important Subject. I admire the Wisdom which...
2From John Adams to Rufus King, 7 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received, and read with Avidity and pleasure your Eloquence and Ratiocination, on the great question of Slavery in the Missouri.—I have rarely if ever; meet a Stronger proof of the importance to a Nation of having in her Councils, Men of great Sagacity, and long experience in public affairs—As far as my Memory serves me, the facts you have stated, are perfectly correct—I believe there...
3From John Jay to Rufus King, 8 October 1818 (Jay Papers)
On Friday last M rs . Hamilton favored us with a Visit.— Speaking of Doct r . Mason, she observed that the State of his Health not permitting him to write the Life of General Hamilton, she had received from him the Papers which had been put into his hands for that purpose.— She expressed her Desire to have the Life written, and remarked in Substance, that she knew of no Person who was both so...
4From James Madison to Rufus King, 6 July 1825 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Morton of my neighbourhood will pass through London on a trip to Scotland with an object which he will explain to you. The esteem in which he is held by those best acquainted with him, induces me to introduce him to an opportunity of paying his respects to you, and of asking whatever friendly suggestions may be useful to him. He is accompanied by Capt: Glassel of the army of the U. States,...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 30 June 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume that while with us you must have become informed that we were establishing in Virginia an University on a scale of considerable respectability. we are now provided with funds to procure for the institution a competent library and Apparatus. for the former we have engaged a special agent, now on his departure for Europe, on that business. for the selection and purchase of our...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 28 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 30 th of June I took the liberty of addressing to you a letter requesting your kind aid to the University of Virginia so far as to permit yourself to be made the depository of a sum of 6300. D. or 1350. £ sterl to be called for by mr Barlow of Woolwich, in the manner and for the purposes therein stated; for which sum I inclosed you a bill of exchange; and in the same letter I mentioned...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 17 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In two former letters of June 30. and July 28. I took the liberty, on behalf of the University of Virginia of inclosing to you two bills of exchange, the one for 1350. £ sterl. cost here 6300. D. the other for 675. £ sterl. cost here 3157. D 50 c the former for the purchase of a philosophical apparatus, the latter for that of Anatomical articles, according to details in those letters. the...