1Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have been several times to your new house but I do feel such a want of my dear sisters smiling countinance that I do not know how to bear the house I go into the best Parlour & set my self down & view mrs Smith & the coll— this gives me some pleasure but I want to put little Jack in her arms I do wish to see & hug the little creature again that sweet archness in his countinance I shall never...
2From George Washington to Richard Henry Lee, 2 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
The extreme hurry in which I have been thrown for several days, to compare the merits and pretensions of the several applicants for appointments, under the Revenue Law (in order that the nominations might speedily follow the passage of the Collection Bill) has prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 27th Ulto until this time. Mr Charles Lee will certainly be brot forward as...
3To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 2 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
Sometime ago Mr Fitzhugh, of Chatham, gave me a list of tickets in Colo. Byrd’s lottery, in which yourself, several other gentlemen, as well as my father or uncle (I forget which) were jointly interested. He promised to procure, if possible, some more authentic grounds for proceeding in the recovery of the prize, and, if I do not mistake, he expected further information from you. I will thank...
4From James Madison to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
My last inclosed a continuation of the printed Journals of the H. of Reps. I now add two sheets more. They are no otherwise valuable than as they serve to make up an entire sett. The commercial bills are at lengths off our hands. They have been so long delayed that an interregnum of a day or two will take place even in this & the adjacent ports, and an inconvenient one in the distant ports....
5To James Madison from George Turner, 2 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
When I took the liberty to trouble you with my letter, I wished to leave much to the discretion of my friends, as to any appointment for which I might be offered. I had no precise knowledge of the greater part of the offices to be created; nor was I informed how the candidates for public favour had directed the train of their applications. It was possible, I reflected, that many of them might...
6To James Madison from John Walker, 2 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 2 August 1789. Calendared in the lists probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany). The one-page letter was offered for sale in the Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 694 (1892), which listed items from the McGuire collection of JM’s papers.
7To James Madison from John Walker, 2 August 1789 (Madison Papers)
I thank you for your favor of the 8th ult: with its inclosures; But little have I to give you in return. We have at length been blessed with a fine rainy season, after one of the most alarming droughts I remember, which was, as far as I could hear, almost universal; but the rain, I hope, has been as general, & if frequently repeated, we may still make a plenty of bread, tho’ the crops of...
8[To Thomas Jefferson from Brissot de Warville, 2 August 1789] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Paris 2 Aug. 1789 . Recorded in SJL as received 3 Aug. 1789. Not found.]
9To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 2 August 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Since Long time I am deprived of your agreable favors, however I had the honor of paying you my respects in 3 Letters Since the Midle of april, perhaps they were or intercepted or miscarried, as one that I wrotte to my Brother in Law at versailles. I had the Pleasure of Seeing yesterday M. Morgan an English Gentleman related to Dr. Price, who said to me he Left your Excellency (since the...