1To John Adams from Lewis A. Tarascon, 3 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
I Come to you as one of the fathers of our family to tell you my views, to shew you my work and ask your opinion. you have Created the Navy and from its Mooring in the East it has been allready a Great Mean of power for America. it seems to Me that a Branch of it in the Bay of Columbia should be a Great Engine on the pacific; but it seems to me also that Establishments in that Bay Could not...