1From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 15 December 1804 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge yours of the 4th Inst. and two subsequent, inclosing public documents and to express my grateful sense of these attentions. Your opinions concerning the late changes in Massachusetts and your reasonings and impressions resulting from them, entirely coincide with them mine. I was particularly well pleased that you find no fault with the “medecines” administered, but...
2To James Madison from Josiah, III Quincy, 9 March 1808 (Madison Papers)
In reply to your inquiry, contained in Mr. Graham’s letter of the 29th ult. I am instructed by the Committee, to whom were referred the messages of the President of the United States of the 9th. and 15th. of February, relative to the rupture and to the amicable settlement with the Dey of Algiers, to state, that, notwithstanding "the late information from Algiers," they are desirous of the...
3To James Madison from Josiah, III Quincy, 13 February 1808 (Madison Papers)
The committee to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States of the 9th. instant, relative to the war, commenced against the United States by the Dey of Algiers have instructed me to request that you would cause to be laid before them, the present state of the pecuniary stipulations of the United States with that regency; the period to which they are known to have been...
4To John Adams from Josiah, III Quincy, 14 December 1808 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 25th: found me, in the midst of parliamentary contest, which occupied me too intensely to admit of that early acknowledgment, which a deep sense of the honour, you have conferred on me, dictated. The battle has raged, with some warmth; and it has been my fate, to be in the hottest of it. Whether my exertions were as wise, as, I am sure, they were, well intended, I confess, I...
5From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 23 November 1804 (Adams Papers)
I am duly sensible of your polite attention in your letter of the 13. Inst. and its inclosure. It is doing me a very acceptable and important service, to provide me, as you propose, with the documents of the expiring Congress and will lay me under many obligations. Should any of them be too voluminous for your franking power to cover you need not hesitate to inclose them, on that account, by...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Josiah, III Quincy, 28 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Quincy presents his respectful compliments to the President of the United States, and acknowledges his polite communication of the papers, destined for Mr. Blake. Having availed himself of their contents, in the manner permitted, he has, as requested, sealed and committed them to the Post Office. NNPM .
7To John Adams from Josiah, III Quincy, 17 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am astonished, on recurring to my files, at finding that your favour of the 23d. Ulto. has lain by me, so long, unanswered. I shall not recapitulate reasons, nor invent apologies. I know that your goodness will supply both, and find a cause of delay, any where, rather than in a want of a deep sense of the honour & of the value of your correspondence. Both of which, you know me well enough to...