1To George Washington from John Carey, 2 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
By the ship Friends, captain Bacon, I have the honor of transmitting to Your Excellency a copy of your letters to Congress, written during the first four years of that memorable contest, which, under your auspices, so happily terminated in the establishment of American Independence. If, in any passage, I have mistaken your sense, if, by any errors of the press, it is obscured, permit me, Sir,...
2To George Washington from John Carey, 8 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
when you consider the serious nature of the business, on which I have the honor to address you, I trust your good sense will induce you to overlook & excuse any impropriety or indelicacy which there may be in my writing to you on the subject. A few days since, I, for the first time, saw a book entitled “ Epistles Domestic, &c. from General Washington. ” As you also have probably seen it, I...
3To George Washington from John Carey, 9 September 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from John Carey, 9 Sept. 1796. GW wrote Carey on 30 Dec.: “I have received your letters of the 8th and 9th of September” ( DLC:GW ).
4To George Washington from John Carey, 1 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor of transmitting to Your Excellency a copy of the Critical Review, containing remarks on a publication which bears your name, as mentioned in a letter of Sept. 9, which I took the liberty of addressing to Your Excellency, by the brig Diana, Potts. At the same time I beg leave to assure Your Excellency, that, had I then known from what source the letters were derived, I should...
5To James Madison from John Carey, 8 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
John Carey presents his humble respects to the honble. Mr. Madison, & requests, that, if he has preserved any notes of his speech of Monday last, on the Fishery Bill, he will be so obliging, as to give him leave to copy them for publication. At the same time he begs leave to remark, that this favor, if conferred, will not be strained by him into a precedent for troubling Mr. Madison with...
6To James Madison from John Carey, [March?] 1792 (Madison Papers)
Having this moment received from Mr. Claxton fifteen Dollars for your share of the three lots of books, I beg leave to enclose them to you, as Mr. Jefferson has already paid the whole thirty. With thanks for your liberal exertions on this occasion, as well as that of the Shorthand, I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obliged humble servt RC ( DLC ). Docketed but not dated by JM. Conjectural...
7To James Madison from John Carey, 31 March 1795 (Madison Papers)
Permit me to request your acceptance of a copy of as much of the President’s official correspondence as I have yet printed. And, as you were so good to interest yourself heretofore in the publication, and to honor me with your opinion on the subject, allow me, Sir, to add my regret that I have not the series complete, and am for the present prevented from publishing two or three volumes more,...
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 4 July [1791] (Jefferson Papers)
[Philadelphia], “Monday, July 4 [1791], No. 96, South Street.” Apologizes for trouble given him about Irenæus and is mortified to discover his mistake. Mr. Crawford, who purchased the book, has positively assured him he mentioned Justin Martyr, not Irenæus, though, as TJ had already bought one of the two copies of Justin Martyr, he “cannot possibly account for the error.” Having yesterday...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 30 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Encouraged by a Resolution of Congress, of May 25, 1784, allowing Mr. Gordon a free access to certain papers, now in your Office, I beg leave to request a similar indulgence, if you see no impropriety in granting it. If permitted to copy out such of those papers as no longer require Secresy, I would wish to incorporate them, in their proper places, in an abridgment of the Journals of the old...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 6 October 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Understanding, that there is now a vacancy in your department, I beg leave respectfully to offer myself as a candidate, in case your choice be not already determined in favor of one better qualified. A stranger in this country, I cannot come forward with the Support of influential recommendations: but I trust, that, if this hand-writing does not, in the first instance, prove an objection, you...
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 31 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Before I proceed in the business of copying the records, which your kindness has enabled me to resume, I request your permission to suggest a few hints—on paper rather than otherwise, as being less likely to trespass on your time. Whenever you are pleased to command my attendance, to learn your pleasure respecting these points, I shall be ready to wait on you; and have the honor to be, with...
12To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 20 February [1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Whenever you are pleased to favor me with my transcripts of the state-papers, I wish to proceed to the copying of many of the enclosures, which I omitted at first to insert in their proper places. I cannot indeed help regretting, that so many of the originals are missing, and, I fear, irrecoverably lost, unless the President has preserved copies of them. The want of them will oblige me to omit...
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 26 March 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of submitting to your inspection the enclosed draught of an index to the laws—mortified, at the same time, to reflect, that, notwithstanding my earnest wishes and efforts to render it complete and satisfactory, it is yet so very far from being adequate to the liberal reward offered for it. I can therefore only add, that, to the utmost of my power, I am ready to make whatever...
14To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 23 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of presenting, for your inspection, the remainder of what I have been able to copy of general Washington’s correspondence . The whole of those 808 pages, and the best part of what has been copied by two of the gentlemen in your office, has been carefully compared with the originals. One of the original letters, of a particular nature, I take the liberty of enclosing. The...
15To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 1 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of presenting to you the remainder of my manuscripts; and beg leave to observe, that there are a few of the concluding books of each of the two parcels, which you have not yet inspected. I refrain, Sir, from expressing here my obligations, as well for the many favors I have received from you, as for the polite and easy condescension with which they were conferred, well aware,...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 13 July [1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Having amended my proposals in conformity to the ideas you were pleased to suggest, permit me (with sincerest thanks for the favors conferred on me in the commencement of my undertaking) to enclose you a few copies , on the eve of your departure, in hopes they may come into the hands of some of your friends in Virginia. I have the honor to be, with perfect respect, Sir, your most obliged...
17To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 6 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor of transmitting you two volumes of those official documents, which, through your favor and indulgence, I was enabled to transcribe. I would have published two or three volumes more, had not a chasm in the commander-in-chief’s correspondence, and the want of many of the inclosures, stopped my progress. On this subject, I take the liberty of writing to Mr. Madison , Mr....
18To Thomas Jefferson from John Carey, 1 September 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
It may appear presumptuous in me to address you, since I have not been honored with any reply to a letter which I took the liberty of writing to you about April , 1795. However, as that letter did not absolutely require an answer, and as, possibly, you may have sent an answer which miscarried, possibly, on the other hand, my letter may have never reached you, I venture to trouble you with a...