1To John Adams from R.G. Van Polanen, June 1800 (Adams Papers)
The short time I have left to prepare for my Voyage to Europe, makes it impossible for me, to have the honor to wait in person on You, before my departure from America I can however not leave this Country, without declaring to You Sir, that I have received with infinite Satisfaction by the hand of the Secretary of State, the assurances that my official Conduct has been agreable to You. It has...
2Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
I returned to the City the night before last on the 18 th: day after my departure. My Father sat off on Tuesday and I found the house turned inside out. My own things were carefully packed up by M r: Briesler and yesterday I had them removed to my lodgings in the same family that I was with last year. M r: Briesler & family will be ready to sett out on Tuesday and will leave the house in good...
3William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
Before I left Philadelphia, I wrote you, expecting the letter would overtake you at Brookfield. The rain on monday prevented our leaving the city till Tuesday, as we had previously intended. The great rains, which they have had this way, have made the roads very bad— they are ploughed up, by the heavy loaded German waggons, exactly like the corn fields in New-England, and you might with equal...
4To John Adams from James McCubbin Lingan, 1 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Citizens of this Town are anxious to pay every possible mark of Respect to the President and many of them propose meeting and escorting Him into Town. I am requested by a Committee of the Citizens to ask the favor of you to inform Mr. Maccubbie (by whom this will be delivered) the probable time of his reaching this place. Be so obliging as to inform him, that I may receive the necessary...
5To John Adams from Benjamin Thompson, 1 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain have directed me to transmit to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the enclosed Prospectus; I have therefore the honour to forward the same to your Excellency, and to request that you would lay it, or cause it to be laid, before that learned and respectable Body. I have likewise the honour, in conformity to the Instructions I have...
6To Alexander Hamilton from Jonathan Cass, 1 June 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
I have been honoured with yours of the 28th. Ultimo, respecting Lieut Peyton. You are perfectly correct, Sir, in your idea, that his letter to you made the advance of four months pay the condition of his continuance in service. his conduct, through the whole of this business, has appeared sth Strange. I can account for it in no other way, than that his mind for the want of cash, and being...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Waller Holladay, 1 June 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
When Lewis Littlepage left America, he mentioned in the Presence of some of his friends, that he intended to hold a Correspondence with you , during his residence in Europe. He has now been absent nearly fifteen Years, in which time his relations have scarcely ever heard of him, but by doubtfull and unsatisfactory reports. He is my half-brother, and for the Communication of any Accounts you...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Count Rumford, 1 June 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
By direction of the Managers of the Royal Institution of Great Britain I have the honour to transmit to the President of the American Philosophical Society the enclosed Publication, in which an Account is given of an Establishment lately formed in this Metropolis for promoting useful Knowledge. I have likewise the honour, in conformity to the Instructions I have received, to request that the...