1George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The translator of de Pradt ’s Europe for 1819. hopes it may find acceptance as an apology for addressing the revered author of the declaration of American Independence, & of the Notes on Virginia , of and the twice elected Chief Magistrate of the only free Nation on Earth. This Greatness already appreciated by Contemporaries, and destined to acquire increase of Splendour with the lapse of...
2George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I hasten to return my acknowledgements for the letter with which you have honoured me under date of 8th July, in which the character of Botta ’s work is traced with so much force and elegance , that M r Walsh has persuaded me it would be an injustice to the Historian as well as to the people of this Union, as yet unacquainted with him his merit, to withhold it from the world, I have...
3George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 5 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour to address to you the Second volume of my translation; which I have laboured with all the industry and care I am capable of, and Should deem myself amply rewarded if it is so fortunate as to find acceptance with the highest authority in my Country. The President Adams is so good as to wish me well and success to my labours; but he complains that in the first Volume, there is...
4George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your respected and benign letter of 25 th Ult o : and especially, the signal honour you have deigned to confer on me in transmitting my translation to the Author . It is assuredly the most flattering, and altogether the most grateful to my feelings of any circumstance that could have befallen me. Though I have been several years in different parts of Europe...
5George Alexander Otis to Thomas Jefferson, 30 January 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
While I have the honor of transmitting you the last volume of my translation, I avail myself of that indulgence which you have already so largely extended towards me, to lay before you a criticism of the venerable John Jay : and though somewhat lengthy, in justice to that estimable man, I beg leave to do it in his own words. “Having as yet received and read only the first volume of the...
6To Thomas Jefferson from George Alexander Otis, 12 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The writer of the work, which I have the honor herewith to address to you, I had the pleasure to become acquainted with in 1816, when I was travelling in Italy, for the recovery of my health. He has recently sent me a few copies of it, with a request that I would present them to such of our eminent fellow-citizens as were remarkable for their love of the five arts; “being desirous, to be read...