1Thomas 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...
2Thomas 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...
3Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 12 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
In one of your last letters to my brother you ask for my dispositions of a certain box addressed to me, supposed to contain segars for smoaking— In the first place, then I beg of you to use & dispose of them as of your own property, if you are yourself addicted to smoaking and, if not, secondly to keep them in your possession until I call for them which, if my calculations do not fail, will be...
4Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 9 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th: curr t. is at hand. It is true, that I mistook the statement in your preceding, respecting the exchange, but now comprehend it better. I agree with you also in opinion as to the propriety of drawing now rather than at a future day. Money in Holland will probably find less opportunity of improvement than hitherto. As it respects myself however, security is all I want for...
5Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 10 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Upon my return from a short excursion to Pottsdam, where we passed three very pleasant days, I received your obliging letter of the 4 th: curr t and thank you for the detail respecting the Hamburger’s accommodations. My voyage I rather think now, will be deferred until after the autumnal equinox say commencement of October or last of September, because possibly by that time a person may arrive...
6Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 17 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 14 th: inst. came to hand last night a little time after my letter to you had gone to the post; its contents however may serve to regulate you as to engaging my passage, but I will add further, that as the season is so far advanced it would be imprudent to defer my passage for the sake of having accommodations quite to my liking—if therefore a clever Captain & good vessel...
7Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 2 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
That I have hitherto given you no account of my voyage since my arrival, is imputable to the unsettled state in which I have been from the time it took place to the present moment. I have made a visit to Philadelphia to see my father, have passed nearly 10 days at New York and for this last fortnight have been here with my Mother, whose state of health, though far better than it was during the...
8Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 13 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I address you again after a short interval from the date of my last, having little more to say than that hitherto we are all in health, which I doubt not you will be glad to learn. We have had several attempts to conjure up the yellow fever among us, and I have no doubt that cases of it have already occurred, for towards the close of the last & beginning of the current month the weather was...
9Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 23 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
Between the 8 th: & 16 th: instants I have been fortunate enough to receive your several agreeable favors of July 6 th: August 10 th: 15 th: 17 th: & 28 th: with sundry pamphlets & ca: & ca: for all which please to accept my thanks. The muskets by the Connecticut are likewise rec d:
10Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Pitcairn, 31 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
On my return last evening from a short journey into the interior of this State, I received your favor of April 7 th: accompanied with No 10 of Le Precis militaire. The two last preceding Numbers have not yet come to hand, nor any letter of a later date than December 3. From my brother I have no accounts so late as from yourself. Just before my departure from the City, I rec d: a letter from M...