17th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
This morning Mr. D. went with Mr. Artaud to get some maps at the Academy. I went to a bookseller’s and bought Manstein’s Memoir’s upon Russia, and Anecdotes du Nord. Mr. Artaud dined and supped out. Clear weather. Christoph Hermann von Manstein, Memoires historiques sur la Russie depuis 1727 jusqu’à 1744 , Paris, 1771, with JQA ’s notation: “bo’t at St. Petersbourg, March 7th., 1782, No. 20”;...
2John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1782 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. of December last informs me of the Arrival of the Apollo, Minerva, and Juno, three of fabulous Divinity who know nothing of me You observe. I do not wish to altercate even with Gods, much less with Goddesses: but I have a Right to quarrel with the Destinies, or bad Men, and there is but little benefit, I fear, arising from Contests of this kind. What am I to do with such...
3To John Adams from Edmund Jenings , 7 March 1782 (Adams Papers)
I Congratulate your Excellency on the Confusion that the English ministry is in; besides That, I see but very little that our Country has reason to rejoice in from the late Triumph of the minority, which appears to me to have as perverse a disposition as its Enemies, the former majority. I doubt not that your Excellency has seen the Speech which the attorney General made the day preceding his...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Brissot de Warville, 7 March 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I have had the pleasure of seeing at my friend Mr. Marat’s experiments, a man Whom I admir’d a long While ago. I Would not speak to you, not to be indiscreet, about my Litterarys enterprises & the prospectus of my philosophical Biblioteck on the penal Laws, Which I sent to you a fortnight ago, With a Letter unanswer’d, for what I was much disappointed. The...
5To Benjamin Franklin from John Thaxter, Jr., 7 March 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Mr. Adams being obliged to go to the Hague this Morning to meet Mr. Le Duc de la Vauguyon, has prevented him from writing to your Excellency by this Post, and forwarding the inclosed Lists. He has therefore requested me to forward them, which I have the Honor to do, and to be, with the most perfect Respect, Sir, your Excellency’s most obedient and most...
6To Benjamin Franklin from James Warren, 7 March 1782 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Having affairs to settle in Philadelphia several of my friends have advised my going over for that purpose, I therefore take the liberty of requesting the favor of you to give me such credentials as will insure my reception, and a permission to remain there till I have adjusted every thing between Mr. Hare & myself, the term for which we engaged having...
7To George Washington from Henry Clinton, 7 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to Your Desire I send You herewith the Description of the Vessels which I propose sending into the Delaware and Chesapeake with Clothing and other Necessaries for the Prisoners of War; and I request that the Passports may be made out & transmitted to me as soon as may be convenient. In Consequence of the Meeting of our respective Commissioners having been so long delayed, many...
8From George Washington to David Forman, 7 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 5th Inst. has just come to hand. Exclusive of the objection I have, to the establishment of a precedent, for granting Passports to Citizens, without the interference of the Civil Authority of the States to which they belong, I think, the circumstance of my deviating from a fixed Rule, might in the present instance, be an occasion of suspicion to the Enemy & frustrate the ends...
9From George Washington to Benjamin Lincoln, 7 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
The alteration which has lately been made in the system of the Inspectors Department, having left the Department of the Adjutant General, which was blended with it, in a vague & deranged State, it has become necessary that some new regulations & appointments should be made—for this purpose, I wish the enclosed Plan, may thro’ the channel of the War Office, be proposed for the consideration of...
10From George Washington to William Livingston, 7 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
General Forman has applied to me for permission for Mrs Provost to go into New York in search of some property she has there, taking with her some person whom he would chuse, and from whom he makes no doubt of obtaining some very usefull intelligence on his return. As Mrs Provost & the Gentleman intended to go with her are both Citizens of New Jersey and as the ostensible reason of their going...