1To John Adams from Alexander Mitchell, 8 February 1792 (Adams Papers)
May I be So bold as to join my humble Sollicitations to those of My Revd: Father, Nothing coúld have determin’d me to do it, but the almost Certain information of the present Critical Sitúation of Mr. Dúmás Affairs. If the Honourable Congress shoúld think Proper to appoint another in his place, may I be So free to beg yoúr Interest & Favoúr to Recommend me as his súccessor, A fixed Resident...
2To John Adams from William Mitchell, 8 February 1792 (Adams Papers)
As I had the Honour of knowing you personally during your short Residence here, & had seen many Proofs of your generous & disinterested Conduct, I use the Freedom to make a direct application to yourself in the important Character & Relation in which you stand to the united & independent States of N: America. It is more than probable, Honle: sir, that Mr; Dumas the present Agent or Chargé...
3To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 8 February 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter of the 2d Instant commiting to me the direction of the future movements of the Revenue Cutter; But you have not yet informed me how the hands ⟨are to⟩ be subsisted. I think that it would be cheapest and best to supply them as on board merchantmen. Any bargain with the Captain might be the cause of discontent among the crew, and to draw rations on shore would be...
4From George Washington to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, 8 February 1792 (Washington Papers)
An article of expence having occurred in the department of foreign affairs for which no provision has been made by law, I lay before you a letter from the Secretary of State explaining the same, in order that you may do thereon what you shall find to be right. DS , DNA : RG 46, Second Congress, 1791–1793, Records of Legislative Proceedings, President’s Messages; LB , DLC:GW ; LB , DNA : RG...
5To James Madison from John Carey, 8 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
John Carey presents his humble respects to the honble. Mr. Madison, & requests, that, if he has preserved any notes of his speech of Monday last, on the Fishery Bill, he will be so obliging, as to give him leave to copy them for publication. At the same time he begs leave to remark, that this favor, if conferred, will not be strained by him into a precedent for troubling Mr. Madison with...
6To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 8 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 February 1792. Acknowledged in JM to Pendleton, 21 Feb. 1792 . The list of JM’s correspondence probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany) notes that this letter consisted of one page and calendars it as follows: “Larger representation in Congress. The Report on manufactures. Manufactures not conducive to the interests of the southern states. Eastern monopolies.”
7To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 8 February 1792 (Madison Papers)
Your obliging favr. of the 21st. past has just made it’s way hither through the Frost, and with it’s inclosures, was a high treat in my present houseburnt state. I think anticipating the taking another Census, & shortning the Operation of any fractional inconvenience arising from the former, a happy expedient, & more constitutional than any Arrangement of those fractions, which it seems to me...
8To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 8 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my last of the 25th. ulto. sent by the way of Havre I have received the letter which Mr. Remsen wrote to me by your order on the 9th. of Dec. I have heard nothing as yet of your letter of Aug. 29. alluded to in yours of Nov. 24. I apprehend therefore it must be lost, and I fear the same fate for others you must have written about the 18th. of Dec. as Mr. Howell who arrived here a few...