1From John Adams to Stephen Mack, 10 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I should sooner have answered your letter of the 20th Ulto if I could. My disposition is very good to assist as far as I can with truth & Justice any claims of my fellow citizens on the Justice or favour of their country But the claim of Mr Young is so very ancient & so many things have passed through my mind since, that I cannot depend on my memory for so remote a transaction. If Mr Young has...
2From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 23d ulto. & your father’s letter & octavo volume mentioned in it The book will answer for itself wherever it goes & I hope will satisfy the world. If you take the “Old Colony Memorial” you will see some ancient documents concerning the fisheries, if you do not take that paper I hope you will subscribe for it, for it is of great importance to the history of...
We have an interesting question whether by the “middle of the week” which in your Journal of last Saturday you mentioned as the time when you expected to reach home, you intended the middle of this week or of the next—If of the present it is already here; but then your last Journal which is of Tuesday, was written in expectation of hearing from one, which you doubtless did the next Morning. I...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein, 10 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has recieved from Doct r Lobstein his letter of Sep. 6. on the subject of his topography of Philadelphia, and of some other works in German. of these last however he cannot avail himself, not understanding the German language. writing is become so slow and painful to him, that he can only make his acknolegement for this mark of attention, express his wishes for their success and...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Bernard Peyton, 10 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeable to your request hand herewith statement: your a/c to 10 th Inst:—which I have no doubt will be found correct— Flour $6 @ 6⅛ Wheat 120¢ MHi .