1Enclosure: Victor Adolphus Sasserno to Stephen Cathalan, 14 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Seeing that you have the Kindness to be concerned in my favour I take the liberty to answer to your honoured and obliging letter which m r Spreafico has communicated me. You desire of him Some informations on the commercial relations of Nice With the Unite-States of America —, and on the quantity of ships, belonging to that country, that touch at our port; to this; I’ll tell you, Sir, that its...
2From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th of June. That of the 8th: of August, I certainly have not. I have been justly accused of Imbecility & Dotage for twenty years past. Yet I seem to be a Man of more consequence now, than I ever was before in my whole life. What a cloud of Reminiscences, has your last letter, exhailed in my old brain! Several of with whom I gazed through a telescope...
We propose leaving this place tomorrow my dear Madam and expect to arrive at Quincy either Sunday or Monday you must prepare to find us all much altered since we last saw you and I have lost all my good looks and all my flesh on the voyage in consequence of a bad miscarriage at Sea added to the usual inconveniences attending the passage I am however past recovering my health and strength and...
4George Ticknor to Thomas Jefferson, 14 August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favour of June 6 reached me July 29 and contained—what I had long desired—the very welcome intelligence, that the Books Mr. Warden shipped from Havre and those I sent from Hamburg had reached you in good condition and met your approbation. Yesterday your duplicate of the same letter arrived, together with your order to the Messrs. De Bure . In this order I made but two alterations— one...