1From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have mourned with your mourning in your No. 9 of the 16th Dec. for the loss of Colonel Trimble, and laughed through your gaiety concerning the Ball at the English Ambassador’s. The transitions from grave to gay and from gay to grave are very frequent in this mingled world and we ought to make sober reflections on them all. But I must transide from the letter to a former one.— You are reading...
2To James Madison from John A. Wharton, 27 December 1821 (Madison Papers)
Some five or six months since, I addressed a letter to you, from Nashville Tennessee: requesting any information which you might possess relative to the University established near Charlottesville. From the circumstance of your not having acknowledged the receipt of it, I am persauded [ sic ] you did not receive it: I therefore take the liberty of addressing a second letter, the object of...