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By this day’s mail I send you a copy of the Olive Branch, of which I request Your acceptance, & am, RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson , Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Jan. 1815 and so recorded in SJL . The work sent to TJ by this day’s mail was probably the 9 Jan. 1815 second edition of Carey ’s The Olive Branch: or Faults on Both Sides,...
Your very polite & friendly favour of the 26th. ult. I duly recd. It is before me, & demand my thanks. I enclose the extracts from John Marston’s Communications, which I have had copied for the new Edition. Agreeably to your directions, I send by this day’s Mail, a copy of the Naval History, & shall send two more by the succeeding mails. Accept the assurances of very sincere respect from /...
Your favour of the 28th. ult. with the approbation of the plan of my work, is peculiarly gratifying. From the concurring opinions of a number of my friends, I have reason to hope, that it will in some degree answer the purpose for which it was intended. I am fearful, however, the disorders of the Country have advanced beyond the power of remedy by reason or argument. The profligate & ambitious...
Your favour of the 19th. which I duly recd is before me. I am rejoiced that you, who have so much better opportunities than I have, feel so confident of a favourable issue of the present state of affairs. Altho’ your opinion has allayed my apprehensions in some degree, yet I cannot feel quite so sanguine as you are. I owe it to myself to explain one part of my letters, which you have...
Your favour of the 29th. ult. which I recd yesterday, distressed me. I cannot, however, allow myself to believe for a single moment that you anticipated such a consequence. It appears to imply that for the sake of disposing of a few more copies of the Naval History, I had departed from your instructions; & sent states that instead of one per every mail, I had sent two or three. Were I capable...
By this day’s mail, I take the liberty of forwarding you a copy of the second Edition of the Naval History, for which I request a place in your Library, as a mark of the esteem & respect of RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Feb. 1814 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Thomas Clark, Naval History of...
The enclosed letter was written on the 30th. ult. I delayed sending it; for I clung to the lingering hope that we might escape the perdition that menaced us. But I now feel satisfied the hope is vain. We are gone past the power of redemption. No man ever laboured a cause with more solicitude & anxiety than I have done this one. Never were labours more unavailing. None of the human race,...
Your favour of the 28th. ult—is duly recd I believe there is not a copy of the first Volume of the Defence, to be had in the United States, for Sale. This work, revised & corrected, would, I believe, at a future day, bear a small Edition. It is a pity itshould be out of the market I am, very respectfully, / Your obt. hble. servt MHi : Adams Papers.
By last Mail, I sent you a copy of the new Edition, & I now send you two, of which I request your acceptance. I hope this Edition will meet with as much approbation from you, as the former. It has cost the editor much pains & trouble. If it answers no other purpose, it will be of considerable service to future historians. Your obt. hble servt MHi : Adams Papers.
I have recd your favour of the 20th and should have before now sent you a copy of the Olive Branch; but the first Edition is so very imperfect, having been very much hurried in the execution, that I determined to wait till the second is ready. This will probably be about the middle of next week. Mean while I send you by this opportunity such part of the new one as is ready. You may from thence...
I recd from my venerable & respected friend, Dr Rush, sundry communications from you , forwarded by you for the use of the author of the Naval History, which I have just published. I now return them with thanks. A mistake of the post office prevented the first of them coming early enough to answer the purpose. I request your acceptance of a copy of the work, which I send herewith. Any As it...
With a heavy heart, I take up my pen to close a correspondence of nearly six years, which has cost me great uneasiness, & utterly disappointed all my expectations. Invested with the executive magistracy of the nation, it was your imperious & incumbent duty to watch over its safety, to guard it from danger, and to counteract any plots formed for its destruction. A conspiracy of the most...
Your parliamentary Manual has been for a long time out of print, & in demand. I have written to the publisher, M r S. H. Smith , to enquire whether he has any objection to a republication of it. And wish to be informed by you, whether, if he consents to its being reprinted, you have any alterations or improvements to make in it. RC ( MHi ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed...
By this day’s mail I send, & request Your acceptance of, a copy of the last Edition of the Olive Branch, greatly enlarged. Absence from Philadelphia & long continued indisposition have tarnished the work with some most egregious blunders, of which I feel deeply ashamed. I hope & trust the 72 d Chapter will be found a complete & unanswerable refutation of some most pernicious & deleterious...
Dr James Rush, yesterday, put into my hands your letter of the 30th. ult. which came too late to answer the purpose intended. As I propose to publish in one time a new Edition of the Naval History, I shall, if you judge proper, retain this communication; or otherwise return it to you. I remain, with sincere respect, / your obt. hble Servt MHi : Adams Papers.
I have taken the liberty to transmit You by mail, & request your acceptance of, a copy of “Sketches of the Naval History of the U. States ,” which, due allowance being made for the haste in which it was prepared, will I hope be found not uninteresting. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson, Esq r ”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 June 1813 and so recorded...
Your favour of the 1 st inst. which I Rec d a few days since, is before me. Of the whole list of Books you wish, there are only three remain, of which I annex the Invoice . They shall be sent by the first opportunity in a Box to Fitzwhylsonn & Potter , my correspondents at Richmond , with directions to deliver them to Mes rs Gibson & Jefferson . RC
For five years & a half I unceasingly strove to induce you to adopt a plain, simple, salutary measure, which wd. have saved your country from external warfare—& from (what now impend) bankruptcy & civil war. Never was there a measure more unexceptionable, more indispensibly necessary, or more practicable. It was all in vain. The events I foresaw & foretold, have partly arrived, & the residue...
Your favour of the 19 th ult. (which I rec d only the 3 d inst. ) was handed to M r Clarke , who detained it several days; which prevented its being answered in due course. For the various valuable suggestions it contains for the improvement of the Naval History, accept my sincere acknowledgments. M r Clarke promise s
Your favour of the 1st. which I recd yesterday, is before me. I observe its contents. While I sympathize with you in the domestic afflictions which produced the chasm in our correspondence, I must needs observe that your letter gave me sincere pleasure. I was seriously apprehensive that I had inadvertently, in some of my letters, given you offence. I most perfectly accord with you on the...
Absence from home, & want of Leisure, have prevented me returning an earlier answer to your very kind & friendly letter of the 9th. inst. Should any such intermission occur at any time hereafter I rely upon your goodness to ascribe it to the real cause, my being borne down by the pressure of business. It is highly gratifying to find that notwithstanding the various disadvantageous...
The rapid sale of the sixth edition of the Olive Branch , recently published , places it beyond doubt , that a new edition will be indispensably necessary. I am , therefore , making all the necessary preparations to put one to press about the first of November , which I hope to publish early in December. The pressure of business—the utter want of that degree of leisure and abstraction of mind...
It is a long period since I have been favoured with a line from you—which I much regret. A Continuation of the Correspondence wd. have afforded me high gratification. I enclose two half parts of the different Editions of the Olive Branch, wherein I have borne my testimony in favour of your valuable, but much abused work. I remain, respectfully, / Your obt. hble. Servt MHi : Adams Papers.
Agreeably to Your instructions, I have forwarded three copies of the Naval History. I have likewise taken the liberty to forward you several Copies of a Circular, requesting nautical Communications, which, if you judge it proper, I request you will be have conveyed to suitable persons. I hope the second Edition of the Naval History will be found not unworthy of the public patronage. It will be...
I enclose a letter for Mr Marston, by his request—& likewise some papers, recd. some months since, under an injunction that they should not leave my house. I return them, in order to ascertain whether it be agreeable to you to have them delivered to Mr Clarke, which, without your permission, it wd. be improper to do. I remain, very respectfully, / your obt. hble. servt MHi : Adams Papers.
I take up my pen once more, for probably the last time, on the subject of the present crisis. Many persons suppose that the determination to dissolve the Union, which has been formed by the leaders of the federal party in New England, has arisen from the measures of the last and present administration. It is an utter error, & a belief in it has a tendency to lead to ruinous results. To apply...
I hope & trust, you will believe that I sit down to trespass on you once more, with no small degree of diffidence & reluctance. There is so strong an appearance, at least, of presumption in an obscure individual obtruding his opinions, liable from his situation to great error, on a chief magistrate whose means of information are so much superior, that nothing short of the alarming explosion...
That I once more trespass on you, after the failure of all my former applications, will not, I hope, be ascribed to an incorrect or improper motive. It arises from an earnest solicitude for the preservation of the existing order of things—from an apprehension of imminent danger impending—& from a thorough conviction of the efficacy of the means I have pointed out. Never was there a stronger...
I have had considerable hesitation about a second trespass upon your time & attention. And nothing but the extreme delicacy & difficulty of the existing state of affairs wd. have induced me. The press, one of the greatest blessings of mankind, when properly conducted, has for four or five years been the greatest curse & scourge of this Country, particularly of the New England section of it....
For five years I have been thoroughly & unalterably convinced that this Country was verging towards anarchy & civil war. And for those five years I have been ardently desirous of the adoption of means of prevention, simple, practicable, efficacious, & incapable of producing ill in any possible event. All my importunity—all my efforts have been in vain, although it required but a single...
By this day’s mail I forward you a Set of the Naval History, which I request You will place in your library, as a mark of respect & esteem from / Your obt. hble servt. I send a Copy for Capt Marston P.S. I have much alarmed myself respecting the probability of a separation of the states. My friends generally are tranquil on the subject. This does not allay my fears. Will you be so good to...
Had the associations which I recommended in my last letter, been adopted fo[u]r or five years since, when they were first urged, they could not, I am persuaded, have failed of success. At that period, the spirit of treason, insurrection, & rebellion, was in its cradle, & might easily have been strangled. It was confined to a few persons, part of them probably in the pay of England, and the...
Your favour with five four Dollars, I have duly Rec d . I enclose 25 cents. By a letter of yours to Charles Thompson , Esq r I find you have been collating the Morality of the New Testament. Do you intend it for publication? If so, w d you be willing to let me have the MS. & on what terms? RC ( MHi
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I have rec d Your favour of the 27 th ult. & thank you sincerely for Your polite attention to my request . If M r Milligan has the Parliamentary Manual in the press, I shall not interfere with him. I am, respectfully, RC ( MHi ); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esq r
The enclosed art is, I find, in the Appendix to the Naval History. I therefore return it, & am, / respectfully, / Your obt. hble Servt MHi : Adams Papers.
Your favours of the 3d. 5th. 7th. & 8th are before me, & call for a renewal of my acknowledgments for the warm interest your public spirit has led you to take in the Success of the Naval History. I enclose two papers, which you wished to be returned. I am unacquainted with the Situation or native Country, or any other of the circumstances of Mr Prince. He called at my Store & made me the offer...