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9 January 1803, Museum. At the request of his friend John I. Hawkins, writes to inform JM of...
The Polygraph intended for your Secretary and that for Mr. Volney were shippd yesterday, and the...
The bearer Mr. James Chalmers is desireous to enter into the Army. he is of a very respectable...
By tomorrows mail-stage I mean to send in one packing-case, two Polygraphs; one that you ordered...
It is my hope that I shall never do any thing, which will be disagreable to you. My father was a...
your Polygraph I received this afternoon, and it is now in the hands of the Workman, who will...
I have lately undertaken to form a Museum and have acquired the means of preserving in the...
Your obliging consent to set is confering a most singular favor on me, for which I hope I shall...
Making use of a Polygraph which is placed in the Room of my Sons Exhibition of the Skeleton of...
Some Ladies & Gentlemen from Virginia having desired an Exhibition at ½ past 4 oclock in the...
Mr. Hunter is returned from Kentucky and tells me that the account of the upper part of the Skull...
When I received your Polygraph, I repaired the springs, then made an essay to write with it,...
It is evident that many Persons who has had what is termed a classical Education, have so little...
It will be very interesting to see the Grisley-Bear brought to his full growth, one of the Skins...
The enclosed pen-cases I flatter myself will be found very convenient, the slits are made longer...
since my writing by the last Post I have recd the Twenty five Guineas which you sent by Monsr...
Believing you would be pleased in knowing my success in a trip up the north river, by the...
I was desirous to made enquiry of the Merchant about the Packet which carried your Lamp &...
Your favor of the 12th. ult. enclosing the payment of Sixty Dollars for your small polygraph,...
The American Philosophical Society, desirous of expressing due Regard for Preeminence in Science...
My son Rembrandt now at Baltemore exhibiting his Skeleton of the Mammoth, writes me as follows....
every object which can add to the comforts and conveniences of life are important to us, none...
with great reluctance I wrote my last letter to you, for I hold the military profession as the...
Your Model for a very small Polygraph is now before me, to give a proper answer on it, I must...
Last June I received a Letter from you, respecting an exchange of the Subjects of Natural...
Yesterday General Proctor called on me with the enclosed Letter to make what use I pleased with...
Herewith I send your silver springs for your Pollygraph according to my promise in my last...
Your small Polygraph sent by Mr. Hawkins I have at last received from New York. It is ingeniously...
It gives me pleasure to inform you that I am so far on my return to the Museum with the Bones...
17 April 1805, “Museum.” “Desireous of having some business done in the Patent Office I have...
It was my intention in this to have given you the particulars of expenditures for & to M r...
I have just received the enclosed Pamphlet with Letters from my Sons —they closed their...
Several Gentlemen of the Society of the Cincinati having desired to see my perspective Views with...
The Polygraph you desire for Mr. Volney is in the hands of my Workmen, who are pleased in the...
I now write with your Polygraph by way of tryal, and find that it is absolutely necessary to hold...
The machinery to make your Inkpots moovable will be sent by tomorrows post, the only difficulty...
Yours of the 15th Instant received yesterday. The Cabinet work of your Polygraph is nearly...
It is to be regreted that you had not sent sooner, when we might have sent you some of Coll....
Wishing to find some means of improving the Machinery of your Polygraph, I have since writing the...
Calling on a Watchmaker to day, he told me of a young man who is an excellent artist, that is now...
It will give me pleasure to meet your wishes in every thing which may tend to the benefit and...
nothing but dire necessity would have compel’d me to have called on you for any money until the...
Your favor of sitting today will oblige Your very Hble Servt., FC ( PPAP : Peale Letter Book); in...
Yours of the 27th. Ult. and 1st. Instant I have received.—A Polygraph with the alterations you...
Having bussiness in the line of my Profession which will detain me some time in this Place,...
I wish to be settled near Congress, and my Museum under their Patronage, having just heard that...
The first object of my Life is the inrichment of my Museum, In this view, I mean to continue my...
The Baron requests me to present his compliments that he will do himself the pleasure to wait on...
Your Polygraph will be put into the Mail Stage on tomorrow. Desiring to make it as correct as...
Having finished your Polygraph, I find it performs very well; therefore I have put the Pens as...