1From John Adams to John Coffin, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Better late than never, to acknowledge your discourse on Medical Education, which I read in the Season of it, with great pleasure. and intended to have immediately to have acknowledged my obligation for it—It is as elegant and instructive a Composition as any I have read of the kind; but in the confusion of my papers an it has slipped my memory for which I ask you pardon, And I pray you to...
2From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 26th. December just now received, has thrown me into a kind of froliksome mixture of gaiety and gravity, which has raised my Spirits. I am glad you are so fond of Swift; I know of no Man who has exhibited stronger proofs of a sound rational mind, and profound information on one hand, or of wanton fun, on the other; even his indecent drollery is instructive, and even moral....
3From James Madison to Charles Yancey, [4 January 1823] (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 21st inclosing a prospectus of a Newspaper about to be printed at Richmond. I have for a considerable time found it convenient rather to reduce than extend my receipts of Newspapers; and have no farther lost sight of that object, than by taking, in one or two instances a new Gazette for a single year . Under that limitation the paper in question may be forwarded...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Granger, 4 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the pleasure of writing you last fall, you spoke so kindly of my Father that I have felt it a duty that the intelligence of his departure should be communicated in a manner more respectful than through the Public Journals.— After wrestling for near six months; with a complication of diseases excrutiating in the Extreme, he resigned his spirit on Tuesday last, leaving a fond family...