1From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
As I had made up my mind to Submit to the unpleasent circumstances attendent upon distance, and the frozen Region which not only excludes light, but seals up all communication with each other. I was the more delighted to receive your Letter of October 25th A day auspicious to me, altho in your Letter you do not notice it. The Aniversary of the day, which united me to your Father, and the 47th...
2To James Madison from Levi Lincoln, 20 January 1811 (Madison Papers)
I feel myself much honored by your favor & the Commission accompanying it, appointing me a successor to the late Judge Cushing. Among the various sensibilities, awakened on this occasion, I should express to you my anxiety, gratitude & encreased public devotedness, were it in my power to make the return called for by my sense of the obligation conferred. Yourself & my other friends did me but...
3To James Madison from Aaron H. Palmer, 20 January 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 January 1811, New York. Is contemplating a visit to Spain in the spring “in the event of the re-establishment of peace and tranquility” in that country and offers his services as chargé d’affaires, since the U.S. has no diplomatic representation at Madrid. RC ( DNA : RG 59, LAR , 1809–17, filed under “Palmer”). 2 pp.
4Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 20 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I had delayed asking the favor of you to procure my stock of plaister expecting I should be able to find a recipe for distinguishing the good from the bad, which I thought I possessed. but hitherto I have sought for it in vain; and lest the season should be lost for getting it in time, I will ask the favor of you to send me six tons, in the lump, to the care of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson at...
5Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 20 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege, my dear friend, the reciept of many of your letters , within the last twelvemonth , and altho’ I have not answered them specifically to yourself, yet I have not been inattentive or inactive as to their contents. on leaving the government, two years ago, I knew I could not serve you so effectually as by committing the whole care of your Orleans affairs to the President ....
6Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 20 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
While oppressed with the whole mass of the case of the Batture I passed over some topics too slightly, & some altogether, which have since occurred to myself, or been suggested by others. I have therefore made these the subject subjects of some amendments to my former memoir on that case; and desiring that my former colleagues in office may be apprized of the whole of what I deem our...
7Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Turpin, 20 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 8. arrived here just as I had set out on a journey to Bedford which occasioned an absence of some weeks. it was not till my return that I recieved your letter, and before that I had seen that a Marshal was already appointed. these births are so generally hopeless. it is for the most part the case of one loaf and ten persons seeking bread. an expected call to Richmond last...