1To John Adams from Daniel Corry, 9 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
In your Obliging Letter to me, under date of the 24th. January 1820, you wisely observed that Maine “had avoided Several Errors in the Constitution of Massts:, and that it might have avoided Some others” I sincerely hope & expect that Massts: will avail herself of the present favorable opp’y to repair her constitution, The convention now in Session will, no doubt make an able Report to their...
2To James Madison from Joseph M. Sanderson, 9 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of sending to your address the first volume of the Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence. Should you find any thing in it worth the perusal, I will thank you for your recommendation, & as the succeeding volumes are published, I shall, with your permission, forward them to you. As the work is intended to perpetuate the lives of men distinguished...
3Edmund Bacon to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours by last weeks mail came to hand I shall certainly be on the serch for a workman and to imploy him on the best terms in my power. I have not yet been able to get off any flour. the rent wheat was deliverd so long after that which was deliverd by others in the mill that it seems to give them the right to their flour first indeed thare is only a few hundred bushels of the rent wheat yet...
4Patrick Gibson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th Ult o inclosing a blank note was received in the due course of mail, but too late to renew your note in bank due the 14 th for which I had to substitute another in the meantime— Flour has fallen below anything I have ever yet known, and from the great anxiety shown by the Holders to sell, there is every appearance of its being still lower it is now offering at 3 ½ $ and...