1Henry Colman to James Madison, 24 July 1830 (Madison Papers)
I am much obliged by your favorable reception of the "Hints to the Essex Farmers." Humbly as you seem inclined to speak of Virginia farming, the country is much indebted to Mr Taylor for his Arator, to Mr Bordley for many useful observations in his Husbandry, to Mr Jefferson for his improvements in the construction of ploughs, and to Mr Madison himself for a very able address on Agriculture,...
2To James Madison from Henry Colman, 3 August 1826 (Madison Papers)
Mr Colman presents his respectful compliments to James Madison Esqr; and asks the honor of his acceptance of the accompanying oration. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM . Henry Colman, An Oration Delivered in Salem, July 4, 1826, at the Request of the Town, on the Completion of a Half Century since the Declaration of American Independence (Salem, Mass., 1826; Shoemaker Richard H. Shoemaker, comp., A...
3To John Adams from Henry Colman, 9 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
Herewith are enclosed the two letters of Mr Jefferson, which you were kind enough to entrust to my care—I expected the pleasure before this of returning them in person which has been the reason of the delay. I regret that I cannot immediately avail myself of that privilege and gratification.— The letter of June 1. with the reply to it was published in the Christian Register, a copy of which...
4To John Adams from Henry Colman, 14 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
I regret very much that the enclosed is not more worthy of your acceptance by being more worthy of its lamented Subject. I hope you will not be displeased with it; but accept it as a small expression of my sincere veneration for the departed and my unfeigned Sympathy in your deep afflictions— I am, my Dear Sir, / with the highest respect / yr obliged & obed sert P.S. It appeared here with some...
5To John Adams from Henry Colman, 2 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have just learnt by this morning’s mail, with heartfelt grief, the death of Mrs Adams. I have looked with trembling solicitude upon every obituary since I left home, yet this painful intelligence from its delay was at last unexpected. I am deeply afflicted and feel that I have lost one of my best and one of my most revered and valued friends. I esteem it one of the greatest blessings of my...
6To John Adams from Henry Colman, 7 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you my Election Sermon; your silent approbation of which, if I felt confident that I should obtain it, would be the highest reward to which I aspire. The subject belongs to you, as furnishing one of the brightest and most illustrious examples of true, and inflexible and devoted patriotism which has honored this or any other age. I wished to have said this in the...
7To James Madison from Henry Colman, 21 February 1817 (Madison Papers)
I fear that you must have thought me unmindful of my engagement to forward you a copy of a most curious production, the Century Sermon, which I mentioned to you, but on my return I found that the first edition was out of print; a second edition however has been published and I have addressed a copy to you by this mail. With it is a copy of Buckminster’s Sermons, which Mrs. Madison was kind...
8To John Adams from Henry Colman, 20 February 1817 (Adams Papers)
I fear you must have thought me inattentive to your request that I would ascertain the requisitions for admission into the Sophomore and Junior Classes at Harvard University;—I immediately procured a copy of the College Laws, expecting to find the course of Studies prescribed in them but was disappointed; I then applied to Mr A. Norton and Prof. Ware on the subject, and from the former...
9To John Adams from Henry Colman, 1 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
You know my vanity and therefore are probably surprized that I have not before this transmitted you a journal of my travels; now do not condemn me too soon nor at any rate too severely but let it mitigate my sentence to recollect that Mrs. Adams herself invited this freedom and that I avail myself of the honor and kindness of that permission. I shall always consider myself, my dear Sir, under...
10To John Adams from Henry Colman, 11 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have made repeated appointments and attempts to visit you, since you did us the favour of your company; but my professional and parochial duties, which have been much increased of late, have confined me entirely at home for the last two months.—I avail myself however of this opportunity to forward you the third volume of Search’s Light of Nature, persuaded that his chapter entitled, “The...