1From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 16 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your Mama, and I, consent that you shall ask Doctor Nicholes’s permission to come home for the Holidays, on Tuesday; upon Condition that you will return to School after the Holidays, as cheerfully, as you now come from it. Your affectionate Father. MHi : Adams Papers.
2To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 16 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Mr. J. A. Smith, Secretary to the Legation of the United States at the Court of Great Britain, arrived here last week and delivered to me your favour of 22d Octr: I sincerely wish that he may find his new situation as agreeable and as profitable to himself as he anticipated. The construction which the British Court put upon the Treaties, as they relate to the Fisheries will be well known to...
3Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
M rs Dearborn’s respectful Compliments to M r Jefferson , recollecting his wish to have some of the seed of the winter Squash—She requested her Son Brigadier General Dearborn to procure some for him—he has put up some of several sorts which he says are very good. M rs D— hopes M r
4To James Madison from Orchard Cook, 16 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Believing the remarks on the second page of the enclosed News Paper, by the erudite & Reverend Mr. Bentley of Salem, to be just, useful & important “& in consent” with the universal opinion of all Parties in this part of the Country, & supposing you might not otherways see them, I have taken the liberty of enclosing the Paper for your perusal. With sentiments most truly grateful & respectful I...
5Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 16 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Disappointments in procuring supplies of wine have at length left me without a drop of wine. I must therefore request you to send me a quarter cask of the best you have. Termo is what I would prefer; and next to that good port. besides the exorbitance of price to which Madeira has got, it is a wine which I do not drink, being entirely too powerful. wine from long habit has become an...
6From John Quincy Adams to John Adams Smith, 16 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter to the Secretary of the Treasury is to be copied into the letter Book—After which it is to be sent together with a copy of the minutes of Stock refered to in it the original of which as received from the French Ambassador I send you herewith. I suppose however you will not be able to have the dispatch prepared before Monday when I propose to be in town. yours sincerely MHi...
7Thomas Jefferson to Fanny Brand, 16 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I was unfortunately from home when you were so kind as to send information of your having cyder to spare. I returned yesterday only, and now send the bearer to ask the favor of some samples of your best casks of cyder. he carries 6. phials with numbers on their corks, and if you will be so good as to give a sample from each good cask, and number the cask correspondingly with the number on the...