1From Abigail Smith Adams to James Monroe, 20 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have this day the pleasure of your Letter of April 10th with the inclosure. The intelligence you have been pleased to communicate to mr Adams, and to me, occasion many reflections in my mind. But with respect, to the path of Duty before me, I have not any hesitation. Early taught to relinquish all personal considerations and enjoyments, at the call of my Country, Surrounded with a young...
2From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 20 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
In former Letters, I have made a few hasty Remarks upon Mrs Warren and Mr Marshall: permit me now to add one or two upon Dr Gordon. In the Second Volume of his History, page 144, he Says, “The Massachusetts Assembly resolved, October the ninth, to fit out armed Vessells; ” But how is this? This Resolution is four days later, than the Resolution of Congress, Octr. 5. which asserts that...
3From John Adams to James Monroe, 20 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 10th. of this month has laid me under very great Obligations to you. No intelligence could be more agreable to me, than the information, that the conduct of my Son has the entire approbation of The President. As a public Man I have no views for him, but to such Services as The President Shall assign him. As a private person, though his absence and the loss of his Society is...
4To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 20 April 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1813, Philadelphia. “By the death of Dr. Rush, there is a vacancy in the Mint. I had for a long time been anxious to for a place in that institution, & accordingly I wrote to the late president, on the subject, some years ago. Should you think me worthy of the place, I shall endeavour to discharge its duties with fidelity, and with a continuance of my unaffected attachment to my...
5To James Madison from John Binns and Others, 20 April 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1813, Philadelphia. “A vacancy having occurred in the office of Treasurer of the Mint by the death of Dr. Rush, we respectfully recommend Dr. Elijah Griffiths for that appointment. He is a native of this state and has resided for many years in this City. His intelligence and good morals, joined to his unassuming manners has rendered him much respected. As a politician his conduct has...
6To James Madison from Edward Coles, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have this moment received a direct intimation from Dr. Barton, which I am requested to communicate to you without delay, that he is desirous of being appointed Treasurer to the Mint of the U. S. which has become vacant by the death of Dr. Rush. I have barely time before the mail will close to add, that the cure of my disease continues to progress as rapidly as Dr. Physick says I have any...
7To James Madison from Tench Coxe, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
In the course of my reflections upon the intended negociations at St. Petersburg, I find my mind equally solicitous for a pacific issue , and for an issue, which may be found regular at public law, as it was received and considered in 1783 & from thence till the commencement of the wars which have arisen from the late European revolutions. The Former object of solicitude is immediate peace:...
8To James Madison from Hugh Ferguson, 20 April 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1813, Philadelphia. “The common Lot of mankind has deprived the world of one of its great men, and the united states of the Treasurer of the mint— Doctor Benjamin Rush is no more . “The undersigned respectfully requests to be appointed to the vacant office. “I am, Sir, one of the Revolutionary whigs whom I trust the President will be satisfied from the information of Men, in whom he...
9From Walter Hellen to John Quincy Adams, 20 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to write you, on the 18th: Nov. 1811, since which I have been deprived of the pleasure of any of your always highly esteemed favors. I heard with the most sincere sorrow, it had been the Divine Dispensation, to afflict you & your dear Lady with the loss of your little Daughter, I wish it was in my power to offer any Consolation on an occasion so trying & distressing; but alass...
10Thomas Jefferson to William DuVal, 20 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have occasion for the agency of a friend in the neighborhood of Shelbyville Kentucky , in a case which gives me considerable trouble and inquietude; and I do not know that I have either a friend or acquaintance in that neighborhood. I have learnt however that you have a son there, a practitioner of law, and I have believed that from our acquaintance and friendship, of now half a century, I...
11Thomas Jefferson to David Michie, 20 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In the disputed Case between us it was agreed that any depositions which either party wished to make use of hereafter in any arbitration or suit on the subject might be taken on due notice and should be used by Consent wishing to secure the deposition of Judge Carr before he left this neighbourhood, I applied to you by letter the last Autumn for this purpose, but was informed you Could not...
12From James Madison to William Jones, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
In persuance of the act of Congress providing that in case of absence from the seat of Government, of the Secretary of the Treasury, the President of the United States may authorise a Person to perform the Duties of that officer, during his absence, I am to ask the favor of you, and hereby authorise you to perform the same. RC ( PHi : William Jones Papers). In a clerk’s hand, signed by JM. JM...
13Thomas H. Palmer to Thomas Jefferson, 20 April 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I received a few weeks ago your letter containing answers to some questions respecting the Constitution of Virginia , for which I return you many thanks. I have taken the liberty of again addressing you, to call your attention to the enclosed Prospectus of a new Periodical Work to w h I intend to devote my exclusive attention. Should the Plan meet your approbation, & should you think the work...
14To James Madison from Thomas H. Palmer, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty respectfully to address you, & to call your attention to the enclosed Prospectus of a work I am making arrangements for publishing at the City of Washington. In Philadelphia, the only place as yet where I have published the proposals it has been very much approved, & a number of respectable literary characters have flattered me by expressing their opinion that the work,...
15To James Madison from Thomas Parker, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
In the national Intelligencer of the 16th Instant I observe the names of Zebulon M Pike George Izard Duncan McArthur Lewis Cass Wm H Winder & Benjamin Howard mentioned as Brigadier Generals in the army of the United States. When I accepted the appointment you did me the Honor to Confer on me (without Solicitation on my part) I did it with a Solemn determination never to withdraw my Services...
16To James Madison from Robert Patterson, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
It becomes my heart-affecting duty, to announce to you, the decease of Doctor Rush. He died yesterday evening, after a short Typhus fever. illness of six days. By his death the office of Treasurer of the Mint has become vacant: such arrangements, however, may be made that no material inconvenience or impediment in the operations of this Institution will be experienced for two or three weeks,...
17To James Madison from James Willey, 20 April 1813 (Madison Papers)
When I inform you how unfortunate I have been, I presume you will pardon me for thus addressing you. In the early part of last Autumn a large number of free, enlightened and patriotic Republicans, among whom were the Hon. Obed Hall M. C. Hon Silas Meserve with many Civil and Military Officers, associated and formed themselves into a Company of Volunteers under the U. S. V. act, and I, although...