1From John Adams to Jesse Torrey, Jr., 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Moral Instructor I have read the table of Contents, and turned over the leaves—and have found nothing, but such excellent maxims of Wisdom and Virtue which cannot be too plentifully scattered among the people, nor presented in too great a variety of forms—the Compilation, and Composition of this Work must have cost you much labour of research, and of thought, which merits...
2To John Adams from Robert J. Evans, 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have again the gratification, of acknowledging the receipt of a letter from you; a gratification, which with the utmost sincerity I assure you, is of no ordinary kind. The opinions relative to Paine , and his infamy of character, are it is beleived, perfectly coincident, with those of the wise and good, wherever this disturber of the peace of nations, and this enemy to social happiness was...
3From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
If you have a desire of a long life and a happy life I advise you to read Cicero. Your Father has expressed sufficient admiration of his office and his other writings but I wish at this time to recommend to you particular his treatise on Friendship. his dream of Scipio his letter to his brother Quintus about to take upon him for the third time the Government of Asia, and above all his treatise...
4From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
If Nature in scattering her bounties had bestowed upon me the genius of a Poet or a Painter I would entertain you with a description of a scene of sublimity, beauty, and novelty, such as eighty four winters never before presented to my sight: when I arose in the morning, the Sun was rising, the heavens were not of Brass but the Sky was a vast concave of clear blue marble and the earth was of...
5Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by mail 2. copies of the Nautical Almanacs for the present year, and 2. also of the next year if already to be had. the English editions are best printed, but if none on hand, Blount ’s edition of N. York will do. I formerly wrote to you for S r John Sinclair ’s book of Agriculture; but I observe that mr Skinner of Baltimore is about publishing an...
6Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 1 st came to hand the last night. 4 days before that, to wit on the 8 th I had addressed one to you; in which however I had committed an error which I must correct in the first place. it was in naming 1500 instead of 750.D. this lapse of memory occurred to me after despatching mine. on turning to yours of Oct. 25. 19. I found that the proposition made in that and acceded to...
7Ferdinando Fairfax to Thomas Jefferson, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be presented to you by M r Thomas Ragland , one of the Committee of (5) Cadets, whose case, now before Congress , you probably have looked into. He has with him the best credentials, shewing his Qualifications, as one of the proficients, and as one of the Assist t Professors, at West-Point ; and his object in visiting you, is, to obtain your patronage, in seeking a respectable...