1Edward Everett to James Madison, 9 June 1835 (Madison Papers)
(Private) By this day’s Mail I beg leave to forward you a copy of an address delivered by me on the Anniversary of the 19th of April 1775, of which I ask your acceptance. I take this occasion I hope you will not think too presumptuously, to make a suggestion to you which has been long in my mind. I had hoped to have had an opp’y of doing it in a personal interview at the close of the last...
2[Edward Everett] to James Madison, 29 April 1832 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to send You a copy of a Report of a select Committee of the Senate on the subject of the New Apportionment. The amendment recommended in that report has prevailed in the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice-President. The bill as amended has been referred in the H. R to a Committee of which I am a Member. I am greatly desirous of knowing your Opinion of the principle of this...
3Edward Everett to James Madison, 23 December 1831 (Madison Papers)
I have this day Your favor of the 21st, accompanied with a copy of a letter of the 14th Nov. The latter, I am concerned to say, never reached me. Deeply regretting its loss, I am nevertheless gratified to find, that it had occurred to You, that my neglect to answer it, was not intentional. I return You, with many thanks, the pamphlet You were good enough to send me. I feel very much gratified,...
4[Edward Everett] to James Madison, 28 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to send You A copy of my Article in the No. of the N. A. Review Which will appear on the 1st of Octr. done up in a pamphlet form. In reading it You will please to Consider it as written for A Miscellaneous periodical journal. Had I been Writing an essay for separate publication More Unity of plan w’d have been Studied. But Even for the review it is too long &ca –Cursive. This...
5Edward Everett to James Madison, 7 September 1830 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave to acknowledge, with Sincere thankfulness, the receipt of your favors of the 20th and 31st, with the pamphlets accompanying the former, & the Exposition of the views entertained by you, on the subject of Nullification, enclosed in the latter. The pamphlet containing the address of the general assembly to the People of Virginia I had not before seen. I am sincerely concerned to...
6Edward Everett to James Madison, 22 April 1830 (Madison Papers)
I had the great gratification of receiving Yesterday Your favor of the 17th addressed to myself with a copy of a portion of another letter containing Your views of the nullifying doctrine. I feel much indebted to You for this communication wh I deem of an importance not usually attaching to the expression of the opinions of any man. I shall perhaps ask permission to propose one or two...
7Edward Everett to James Madison, 11 April 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have Your favor of the 8th. enclosing a letter to Mr Sparks with respect to wh I shall follow Yr’ directions. I take the liberty by this mail, to send You another Speech in the debate on Mr Foot’s resolution; that of Mr Clayton of Delaware. I have not myself read it; but I find it highly commended by Mr C’s political friends. The closing remark in your letter has strengthened the desire...
8To James Madison from Edward Everett, [3 December 1826] (Madison Papers)
Mr David W. Jones just arrived in N.Y. from England, with excellent recommendations from high Sources is desirous to be employed As a teacher of the Ancient languages. I have been desired by a Much respected friend to endeavor to procure him A place. He is represented to Me As a person “Who loves the languages for their Own sake And who w’d take pleasure in the Work of teaching them; in Other...
9From Edward Everett to George Washington Adams, 10 November 1826 (Adams Papers)
A valued friend at the South who has already Made A considerable Collection of Autographs is desirous of extendg it & has Asked My assistance to that End. It has Occurred to Me that You C’d help him to that of y’r late Venerable grandfather, w’h is one of those he is Most desirous of procuring. The Smallest Specimen w’d be Acceptable to him. Could you procure & furnish Me such a specimen...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 16 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with Your letters of the 8th and 10th of this Month. I feel very proud, that my Speech should in any degree receive your Approbation. On the subject of Slavery, I do not mean to maintain that in the Abstract , One man has a right “to appropriate to himself the faculties of Another with-out his Consent.”—But it is Another question, whether, taking things as they Are,...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to ask Your acceptance of a speech lately delivered by me, on a motion to Amend the Constitution.—Some of the doctrines, I fear, will not meet your approbation, particularly those on the subject of slavery: which, while my Countrymen in New England are severely attacking them, are also at Variance with those, so powerfully expressed in Your Notes on Virginia. I also take the...
12From Edward Everett to George Washington Adams, 17 October 1825 (Adams Papers)
I will thank you to Send Me by the bearer the diplomas of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences of which We Spoke at Mr Lloyd’s. If they do Not happen to be in Your Keeping may I trouble You to let me know when I shall send for them. Your friend & Servant MHi : Edward Everett Papers.
13To John Adams from Edward Everett, 29 July 1825 (Adams Papers)
His Serene Highness, the Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar has expressed a Strong desire of being introduced to you. He is the Second Son of the reigning Grand-Duke of Weimar, who so honorably distinguished himself in 1817, by being the first German Prince to give a Popular Constitution to his subjects. The Wife of the Duke Bernard is sister to the reigning prince of Saxe Meiningen. He is himself a...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 6 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor duly to receive Your interesting letter, in further illustration of Your views, As expressed in that to Major Cartwright. I should seasonably have acknowledged it, & expressed My entire conviction of the Soundness of y’r exposition of the passage in the Year books (which I own, I did not at first entirely see my Way to adopt) had I not felt some tenderness of pursuing My...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
By order of the Standing Committee of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, I beg leave to inform you, that you were this day elected an honorary member of that institution. Its object is, by the erection of a permanent monument, to commemorate an event highly interesting in its consequences to the cause of American freedom. Should it, as is hoped, be agreeable to you to be thus united with...
16To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 10 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me to ask your acceptance of an address lately pronounced by me, and to renew to you the assurance of my profound Respect.— P.S. I have lately seen in our Newspapers your letter to Major Cartwright, on the question “whether Christianity be a part of the Common Law.” I am ashamed to say the whole Enquiry was new to me, & that I know nothing of the subject but what I learn from your...
17To John Adams from Edward Everett, 8 September 1824 (Adams Papers)
You are hereby informed, that you have been elected a an Honorary member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, incorporated June 7, 1823, for the purpose of commemorating the early events of the American Revolution, and especially for the erection of a monument on the ground, where the action of June 17, 1775 was fought. The intention of the Association, in electing you a member, is to...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to an intimation in a note, which I wrote You sometime ago I now beg leave to offer to Your Acceptance a copy of a school book, which I have lately published.—The appearance of this work has been long delayed, by accidental Causes beyond my control, and the few observations, which I designed respectfully to offer to You, in reply to a portion of Your letter of February 23. of the...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 9 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the letter which You did me the honor near a Year ago to address me on the subject of my brother’s work on the Political State of Europe.—I should have thanked You for it at the time, but that I felt myself unauthorized to intrude on so slight occasion upon Your leisure. Permit me now to forward You a pamphlet which my brother has just published in reply to a Notice of his work...
20Edward Everett to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer You a Volume, lately written by my brother Alexander H. Everett , Chargé d’Affaires in Holland .The Prefatory letter gives the true account of its origin viz: in of my Request to him last Summer to furnish me With an acc’t of the present State of national polit s in Europe .—I hope, therefore, it will meet Your indulgence, as a Work of hasty preparation.— Edward Everett ....
21To John Adams from Edward Everett, 12 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
It will give me great pleasure to have Mr & Mrs De Wint attend my lectures, so long as they may be in the Neighbourhood. I hope they will feel no Scruple in doing it; for tho’ it was found convenient to limit the subscriptions;—the hall is not filled, & I consider the attendance of my friends a favor done me.— I have taken the liberty to add a ticket for Yr’self—Not in the expectation that You...
22To John Adams from Edward Everett, 16 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
It would be making a poor return for Your Kindness in Communicating to me Mr. Jefferson’s remarkably interesting letter, to enter into a Criticism of it: the rather as I ought to be grateful for his doing me the honor of expressing his general assent to the remarks in the Review of the Report of the Virginia University. Without therefore entering into a disrespectful discussion of the...
23To John Adams from Edward Everett, 7 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have just received Your favor of the 2d instant, inclosing the letter from Mr. Jefferson. I hasten to present You my grateful acknowledgements, for Your kindness in Communicating this interesting letter, & for the flattering expressions, with which You do me the honor to accompany it. As soon as I am able to give Mr. Jefferson’s letter a perusal as careful as becomes the respect due to its...
24John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in giving this Letter to the Gentleman who requests it. The Rev d David Edward Everett , the Successor of M r Buckminster and Thatcher and