1From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 4 December 1804 (Adams Papers)
I received your favor of the 23d instant the evening before last, and am happy to find you enjoying so good spirits amid the discomfiture of honest principles which has occurred in our old parent Massachusetts. This event, though altogether unexpected to me, is easily accounted for after it has happened. I do not, however, impute it to the measures adopted by the Legislature at their summer...
2To James Madison from Peder Blicherolsen, 4 December 1804 (Madison Papers)
It is now a considerable time since I left The United States, and although the unfortunate state of my health has prevented me from directing to You Sir, before now the expressions of my feelings and of my acknowledgment for all Your former proofs of goodness, Yet be assured, that these ever have been, and ever shall be faithfully engraved in my memory. I shall never forget Mr. & Mrs. Madison,...
3To James Madison from John M. Forbes, 4 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 December 1804, Hamburg. Forwards copies of his 26 Nov. dispatch and his letter to David Gelston regarding Thomas Clifton. “It is with pain that I have to announce that, notwithstanding all the pains I took to get this man to Tonningen in time for The Eliza, Capt. Wood, this Ship had Sailed when he arrived there and the only two American Ships now in the Eyder, The Lydia of New York and The...
4To James Madison from James P. Watson, 4 December 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 December 1804, New York. “I have taken the fredom of forwarding the inclos’d letter in my bhalf for the appointment before appleyd. Should the presidant of the U. S. confer on me that Office my outmest endevers Shall be used for gaving Satisfaction, I make free to gave you what information comes in my enqueries respecting ower commerce with St. Domingo. I fiend the generall oppinion of the...