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I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to Washington But I covet the like pleasure so much that if I could do it with out stirring up an uproar, & hurly burly through the Contenent—Old as I am I would get into my Gig, & bend my course thitherward to morrow morning—. I regret most grievously that you did not Visit Cedar Grove—at Fishkill...
I may appear to take a liberty, which I ought not to do, but your liberality will countenance it, because addressed through patriotic motive, motives, and a confidence in my capacity to be useful. As the superintendant of a great concern, including multifarious duties, may by his influence, or right appoint subordinate agents, I entreat that you will be so good as to give me some employment...
When I recieved the favor of your visit two days ago, your companion mentioned your name, but my hearing is so slow that I did not catch it, and it he did not happen to call you by your name in conversation afterwards: hence I had no suspicion, during your short stay, who you were. after your departure, recollecting you had said you resided at Washington , that you spoke with familiarity of...
The very gratifying letter which you did me the honor to address to me in May last, has followed me from the States until it has reached me at this place in England . I cannot resist the impulse of my heart which leads me to express to M r Jefferson the pleasure that his letter has imparted to me. The approbation of such a mind as M r Jefferson ’s does indeed make the heart of the poet...