1From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 25 April 1821 (Adams Papers)
You become so testy I almost begin to feel disinclined to write to you at all as my Letters instead of contributing to your happiness appear to produce a contrary effect—I do not think you more wild than young men of your age generally are but I think you suffer your passions frequently to master your reason and on this account I have sometimes been apprehensive that you might suffer severely...
2To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 25 April 1821 (Madison Papers)
I improve the first moment that I can write after a trifling accident to one of my eyes, to answer your very obliging favor of 18th. instt. I have no more Lisbon Wine on hand, nor do I know of any as good in town at present, but if you wish it will make the best purchase I can, or order some from Baltimore or Philada. When inquiring for some have found some very superior Sicily Madeira @...
3John A. Wharton to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Relying on your generosity, I take the liberty of addressing you, not having the honor of a personal acquaintance with you. I am convinced that no man in these United States beholds with more heartfelt satisfaction, the advancement of the cause of literature in this your native country, than yourself; I am, therefore, encouraged to write you on a subject of infinite importance to myself, as...