2161From James Madison to Sarah Bowdoin, 6 June 1812 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison has received the little volume which Mrs. Bowdoin has had the goodness to send him. The sensibility which he begs leave to express to her, is much quickened, by his high respect for the memory of the distinguished Patriot, to whom the public is indebted for the valuable Legacy. RC ( MHi ). James Bowdoin, U.S. minister to Spain from 1804 to 1808, had died in October 1811. Possibly JM...
2162From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 19 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have long meditated to write you a Line. You are giving annual Bounties, for Medical Essays which Nobody reads; No Body thanks you; Nobody learns any Thing from all your Care and expence. Let me advise you to alter your Plan. Offer Premiums or Premia, for Dissertations on natural History. Not at large, for that Subject is infinite. But upon the Civilization, the Policy, the Legislation and...
2163From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 7 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your kind favour of the 27th. of Septr. has greatly obliged me. The Will of your Uncle has not Surprised me. I have known his Mind more than forty years ago. I believed him insane “quoad hoc,” at that time, as much as I do now. There was a Sense of Integrity and Benevolence and Humanity in him, united with the Wild Vagaries of a Monk and a Miser. A more curious Character is not to be found in...
2164From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 24 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have seen but one of your Papers. I know nothing of the Transactions in England or America. The Will is a Phenomenon. A Neuton a Saunders a Barrow or a Bowditch might make the Algebraick Calculations necessary to explain it: I am totally incapable of it. I know not whether the Will has been proved and approved in Europe, or America. I know not what questions are depending before the Court or...
2165Thomas Jefferson to John Bracken, 9 October 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly recieved your favor of Aug. 13. stating the ineffectual effort you had made to remit to the sisters of Bellini the amount of their claim on his effects. they are very old, said to be in great poverty & distress, and therefore entitled in charity to our good offices in conveying their money to them. a remittance thro’ England to the continent of Europe is now impracticable, & a direct...
2166Thomas Jefferson to John Bracken, 2 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately recieved a letter from mr Mazzei in which he sais ‘I have several times mentioned to you the unhappy state of the poor old sisters of our deceased friend Bellini . referring you to former letters, I will only add to what I have before said, my prayers for your aid in to the interests of these poor & distressed old women.’ On recurring to our former correspondence on this subject...
2167Thomas Jefferson to John Bracken, 23 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
In a late letter from mr Mazzei I have recieved inclosed a power of Attorney from the representatives of th e late mr Bellini for the settlement of the administration of his affairs and remitment of the proceeds. my distance rendering it impracticable for myself, I have thought it would be for your convenience also to engage some person in your neighborhood to attend to this. I have therefore...
2168Thomas Jefferson to Henry M. Brackenridge, 20 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 25. is just now recieved: and I have read with pleasure the account it gives of the antient mounds & fortifications in the Western country. I never before had an idea that they were so numerous. presuming the communication was meant for me in my relation with the Philosophical society , and deeming it well worthy their attention, I have forwarded it to them, and with my...
2169Thomas Jefferson to Henry M. Brackenridge, 16 March 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his thanks to mr Brackenridge for the copy of his much esteemed ‘Views of Louisiana’ which he has been so kind as to send him. in doing this he does but render his portion of the general gratitude due for the this contri valuable contribution towards the knolege of a great country which nature has destined to become the most interesting portion of the Western world. he...
2170Thomas Jefferson to John Bradbury, 29 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter has laid by me a month unacknoleged and unacted on; which should not have happened, had not an engagement in a business of peculiar pressure obliged me to suspend all correspondence till I got thro’ it. I have now written to the Secretary at war , expressing to him your wish and your fitness for the appointment of a Commissioner on the Arkansa road. I should be very glad indeed if...