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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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183101 | Editorial Note | One of the most influential of Adams’ Revolutionary writings was the pamphlet Thoughts on... | |||
183102 | To Benjamin Franklin from David Hall, 19 August 1766 | 1766-08-19 | Letterbook copy: American Philosophical Society Your Favour of May 19th. by Captain Cruikshanks I... | ||
183103 | Enclosure: Resolutions from Philadelphia Manufacturers … | 1794-05-08 | At a General & numerous Meeting of the Manufacturers of the City of Philadelphia and such other... | ||
183104 | Introductory Note: Opinion on the Constitutionality of … | There are at least eight manuscript versions of this famous document. One of these is an... | |||
183105 | Madison, James | To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 24 … | 1810-02-24 | 24 February 1810, Charleston. Criticizes the decision of the Jefferson administration to reduce... | |
183106 | To Benjamin Franklin from Charles Thomson, 24 August … | 1766-08-24 | Draft: Library of Congress I do not know whether the intimacy with which you have honoured my... | ||
183107 | Crime and Punishment in Federalist New York: Editorial … | Years of experience as chief justice for the New York Supreme Court of Judicature (1777–79) and... | |||
183108 | Canons of Official Etiquette: Editorial Note | After Jefferson hosted the newly arrived British Minister Anthony Merry and his wife, Elizabeth,... | |||
183109 | Editorial Note: Petition to Virginia House of Delegates | It is not clear when Jefferson decided to take it upon himself to respond to the grand jury... | |||
183110 | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from ———, [n.p., n.d.] | Mr. Duer the late Secretary of the Board of Treasury having informed us that in Consequence of... | ||
183111 | Visiting and Business Cards, [1757–1775] | ≈1757-01-01 | MS and printed cards: American Philosophical Society [1757–1775] Among Franklin’s surviving... | ||
183112 | James Madison to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 August 1789 | Note: The letter from James Madison of 2 August 1789, published in Volume 15 of the letterpress... | |||
183113 | Editorial Note: Rights of Man: The “Contest of Burke … | What James Monroe called “the contest of Burke and Paine, as reviv’d in America,” bore a... | |||
183114 | To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Hunt, 21 May 1766 | 1766-05-21 | ALS (mutilated): American Philosophical Society It is with great Reluctance that I trouble you... | ||
183115 | The Election of 1777 Editorial Note | Although the council believed that they did not have the authority to establish a permanent mode... | |||
183116 | Enclosure: [Letter to The New-York Daily Gazette], [1 … | 1793-10-01 | One Andrew G. Fraunces, lately a clerk in the treasury department, has been endeavoring to have... | ||
183117 | “Pacificus”: Pax Quaeritur Bello, 23 January 1766 | 1766-01-23 | Reprinted by Verner W. Crane, ed., Benjamin Franklin’s Letters to the Press 1758–1775 (Chapel... | ||
183118 | Second Inaugural Address: Editorial Note | Before noon on Monday, the 4th of March, Jefferson mounted his horse—probably Wildair, his prized... | |||
183119 | Early Political Activism Editorial Note | Even had John Jay not married the daughter of so able and active a political leader as William... | |||
183120 | Magna Britannia: Her Colonies Reduc’d … | ≈1766-01-01 | “Explanation” and “Moral” reprinted from William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and... | ||
183121 | Editorial Note | In this, Adams’ earliest known appearance in an Admiralty action for a violation of the Acts of... | |||
183122 | Madison in the Fourth Congress, 7 December 1795–3 March … | More than a month after the ending of the second session of the Third Congress, JM left... | |||
183123 | Editorial Note: The Debt to Farell & Jones and the … | Most of the documents presented in this group were discovered recently among the Ended Cases of... | |||
183124 | Enclosure: Resolutions of a Meeting on Slavery in … | ≈1819-10-29 | PUBLIC MEETING, Respecting Slavery. AT a large and respectable Meeting of the Citizens of the... | ||
183125 | To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Hunt, 14 December 1766 | 1766-12-14 | ALS (mutilated): American Philosophical Society Your friendly and obliging Favour by Captain... | ||
183126 | Editorial Note | The courts of Vice Admiralty in the colonies had been established by the Crown in 1697 primarily... | |||
183127 | Editorial Note | Following his receipt of Congress’s official notification that Vice Admiral d’Estaing had arrived... | |||
183128 | Note on an Extract from a Purported Letter by Franklin … | 1774-12-24 | Verner Crane reprinted an extract, published in the Boston Gazette of March 20, 1775, of a letter... | ||
183129 | To Benjamin Franklin from Thomas Franklin, 11 October … | 1766-10-11 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I have Received all the Letters You have been so good as to... | ||
183130 | Final Version: First Report on the Further Provision … | 1790-12-13 | [To the Speaker of the House of Representatives] In obedience to the order of the House of... | ||
183131 | To Benjamin Franklin from Jonathan Potts, 22 October … | 1766-10-22 | ALS : American Philosophical Society You will receive by this post several Letters in my favour... | ||
183132 | Madison, James | To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 9 … | 1812-06-09 | The moment is now approaching which will probably place in your hands the Destinies of millions,... | |
183133 | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Anderson, William … | 1803-02-19 | Some days ago , we had the honer to adress you, in Conjunction with the Members of Congress from... | |
183134 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Comments on François … | The assistance that Jefferson gave to the French historian François Soulés (1748–1809) was... | |||
183135 | Visitors of the University of Virginia | From the Faculty Committee for General Purposes to the … | 1826-09-09 | The Committee to whom was referred such matters of a general nature as it would be proper to... | |
183136 | Madison, James | To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 6 … | 1812-03-06 | The Sentiments of an individual on the Great subject of national concern may be thought assuming... | |
183137 | Minutes of the Supreme Court, 7–8 February 1791 | ≈1791-02-07 | At the Supreme Court of the United States begun and held at Philadelphia (being the Seat of the... | ||
183138 | Madison, James | To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 10 … | 1812-10-10 | It is one of the greatest blessings of our republican Goverment and administration; the Ease, and... | |
183139 | [Draft of “An Act to incorporate ‘the Associates of the … | ≈1804-05-01 | Although William H. Richardson, Jersey City: A Study of Its Beginning, Its Growth, and Its... | ||
183140 | The General Assembly Session of October 1785 (Editorial … | The Virginia legislative session of 1785 was a complicated interplay of power politics and... | |||
183141 | To Benjamin Franklin from David Hall, 3 March 1766 | 1766-03-03 | Letterbook copy: American Philosophical Society I was in hopes of a Letter from you by the... | ||
183142 | Minutes of the New-York Manumission Society, 17 August … | 1787-08-17 | Present John Jay Esq r . President, Matthew Clarkson Esq r . V. Pres t ., John Murray Jun r .... | ||
183143 | Adams, John | Oration on JA’s Birthday, 19 October 1801 | 1801-10-19 | Your neighbours and friends assembled to celebrate the anniversary of your natal day, beg leave... | |
183144 | To Benjamin Franklin from Mary Stevenson, 9 March 1766 | 1766-03-09 | ALS : American Philosophical Society You will give us great pleasure if you will favour us with... | ||
183145 | Introduction | In shaping the necessarily complex plan of a comprehensive edition of the papers of the Adams... | |||
183146 | EnclSchedule G, [9 January 1790] | 1790-01-09 | SCHEDULE G Table Shewing What Annuity Would be Enjoyed by the Survivor of Any Two Persons Of... | ||
183147 | Editorial Note | In the summer of 1805 William Wirt asked Jefferson to supply him with information for a... | |||
183148 | Editorial Note: Charges Against Arthur St. Clair | A former general in the Continental army and president of the Confederation Congress, Arthur St.... | |||
183149 | John Jay and the Response to the XYZ Affair in New … | John Jay’s summoning of a special session of the New York state legislature in July 1798... | |||
183150 | Minutes of the Supreme Court, [6–11 August 1792] | ≈1792-08-06 | Monday August 6th. 1792. At a Supreme Court of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia... |