4441From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 28 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the with a copy of the 2d. Edition of the Olive Branch, for which & for that of the 1st. previously sent to me I return you my thanks. I have not been able as yet to do more, than glance at the plan of the work, and run over a few of its pages. The course adopted, of assembling authentic & striking facts, and addressing them impartially & independently, but with...
4442To James Madison from Joshua Barker Whitridge, 28 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to address you on a subject of extreme delicacy, and of some importance both to me and to the Government. On a subject upon which I have written a copious letter to the late Secretary at War, but obtained no answer. I have only to request, that this may not meet a similar neglect; but at some hour, of most leisure, it may receive that attention which it merits. During the prevalence...
4443To James Madison from Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 28 January 1815 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Benjamin W. Crowninshield. 28 January 1815, Navy Department. “The enclosed promotions are required in the Naval Service of the U States.” Letterbook copy and letterbook copy of enclosure ( DNA : RG 45, LSP ); enclosure ( DNA : RG 46, Executive Proceedings, Nominations, 13B–A3). Letterbook copy 1 p. The enclosure (1 p.) nominated Master Commandant James T. Leonard to be promoted to the...
4444James Cutbush to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time I wrote you from Norfolk , I was taken with the disease so common at that place and Neighborhood; and after recovery, I proceeded to Washington , and was transferred to this district. I received, however, your letter in reply to mine , on the subject of M r Hall s improvement, as it is termed, in Agriculture; but not recollecting the particulars, of the certificate I mentioned to...
4445Horatio G. Spafford to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I send, herewith, the little pamphlet I mentioned in my Letter a few days since . I am in hopes it may amuse thee a few hours, & that thou wilt favor me with thy opinion of the principles I have laid down, & of the utility of my invention. The numerous & expensive experiments which I have made on this subject, shall be, in due time, detailed for some Literary or philosophical Society. I have a...
4446From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 27 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Here we are, Seated by the fire Side, viz Sir myself and Louisa, Susan gone to her uncles, mrs Adams and mrs Stebins came for her this afternoon. now look in upon us, the Segar going, Louisa with her Needle, I with my pen, missing dear Harriet, and wishing She was with us. for want of her, I read loud Six weeks in paris , and made myself So hoars; that to day I am obliged to keep as close as a...
4447From Meyer & Bruxner to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 27 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Meyer & Bruxner have the honor to send Mrs. Adams the balance of the account transmitted of Four Thousand Eight Hundred Seventy Rubles BA. by the bearer sealed up & by desire of M Harris they will send the same man on Friday morning to fetch the Trunks which they are to take under their care—. MHi : Adams Papers.
4448From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 27 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Me voici, at length out of Ghent; though I believe it had not been for the shame of fixing so many times a day for departure, and still postponing the act I should have stayed there a fortnight longer—The natural philosophers say that inertness is one of the properties of matter—By which they understand the aptitude of remaining in whatever situation it is, whether in motion or at rest—Thus...
4449To James Madison from Henry Dearborn, 26 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I should not take the liberty of addressing the following observations to yourself; had I not recently heard that the Secretary of War is very unwell. The Court Martial for the trial of Genl. Wilkinson has been in session twenty three days, and for the want of the principle witnesses on the part of the prosecution, no witnesses have yet been examined, the Judge Advocate having declined...
4450To James Madison from John B. C. Lucas, 26 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
Being an inhabitant of the territory of Missouri and its insulated and dispersed population rendering it accessible and weak at all points, Considering the in roads which our ennmies have made and are making about Mackinack prairie du chien and New orleans; my anxiety rises in proportion to the Crisis. The judicious selection of field officers to Command the force which is intended to defend...