1Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 17 May 1796 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 10 th: curr t: has just come to hand, and as I find a vacant moment, it cannot be better employed than in renewing my thanks for your kind attention to the Commission relative to my Books. I have requested M r: Bourne to refund the Cash paid by you on my account, as the prospect of my seeing him before you, is perhaps greatest. In my letter of the 4 th: inst t: I gave you...
2Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 21 January 1796 (Adams Papers)
Your favor from Paris of the 9 th. Instant has been some days in hand. I thank you sincerely for the intelligence both public & private contained in it. The florishing state of our American Commerce is a sufficient indication of our growing prosperity; it is if possible, perhaps too rapid for our benefit, though it might be difficult to inspire our Countrymen with such a belief. Upon the...