41Alexander J. Dallas to John Payne Todd, 29 March 1816 (Madison Papers)
Be so good as to let me know, as soon as you can, What is the amount of repairs and rent, which the President has paid for his House, since the conflagration? What is the rent for the current year? I have promised the Committee of Ways & Means information on the subject this morning. Yrs. with great regard RC ( ViU : Special Collections).
42To George Washington from Alexander J. Dallas, 26 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to request the honor of a place in your Library for a volume of “Reports of Cases ruled and adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania.” The work, as far as it depends on my labour, is of little value; but considering it as a useful example in a literary walk, which is almost untrodden in this country, and as a respectable production, in the articles of paper, types, and printing, of...