2281From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 1 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
On Sunday last, Samuel Tucker Esquire of Bristol on the District of Maine, very unexpectedly made me a Visit.—I was delighted to see, once more, the Man, who in 1778 carried me Safely to Bourdeaux, through the Six and twenty misfortunes of Harlequin. He is Sixty five years of Age. He has retired upon a Farm and is a Representative in our State House of Representatives: but is more anxious at...
2282From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 20 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have a great desire to read the olive branch of which you are the publisher and reputed author, I have in vain sought for it in Boston, it is not to be had there, will you do me the favour to send me the pamphlet, and the price, which shall be remitted you by— / your humble Servant PS send me all upon the subject. MHi : Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.
2283From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 3 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 28th of June. I know your press of Business too well to need any Apology for delays of answers to my Letters. It is a great Satisfaction to me, that Mr Jefferson has interested himself in Mr Clarks Publication. His Memory, I presume can furnish many materials: and certainly no man is better qualified to suggest improvements of the Work. Jus suum cuique. I...
2284From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 7 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
The Letter, within, from Colonel Jeremiah Obrien to Captain John Foster Williams, inclosed is one to me from John Marston Esq, is at the Service of Mr Clark and yourself. The inclosed Letter to me From Mr Isaac Prince, you will please to return to me. This Gentleman is altogether unknown to me. I am apprehensive, that his magnificent Prospectus, by tempting the rich, and the elegant to wait...
2285From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 9 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 3d instant with two Copies of the Sketches having received one before, bseides the first. All the four arrived in perfect Condition. One I gave yesterday to my Nephew, William Smith Shaw, formerly my private Secretary, for his Boston Athenæum, who is delighted with it, a Second I gave to our Quincy Library, and it is now circulating in this Village,...
2286Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 19 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of mr Clarke’s Sketches of the naval history of the US. which you have been so kind as to send me. it is a convenient Repertory of the cases of that class, and has brought to my recollection a number of individual cases of the Revolutionary war which had escaped me. I recieved also one of mr Clarke’s circulars asking supplementory communications for a 2 d edition. but...
2287From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 8 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is another letter from John Marston esq. of Yesterday, containing an original letter from David Pierce to Captain John Foster Williams. Mr Clark may file these papers, among his Memorabilia maritima et navalia; and make such use of them as he thinks fit. I should be glad to know something of Mr Isaac Prince; at least of his profession and occupation and the place of his nativity. His...
2288Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 13 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the 6 th edition of your Olive branch, which you have been so good as to send me . I am glad to see that it grows in size and demand: and in compliance with the invitation of your printed letter of the 4 th inst. which is also recieved, I will notice a circumstance in your Appendix which may be worthy of correction in the new edition proposed. in page 400 . the...
2289Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 1 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Correa has favored me with a copy of your catalogue of D r Priestly ’s library, on which I have found the articles underwritten , which I will pray you to forward to me, or such of them as remain on hand, to Richmond to the address of Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson merchants there, who will pay the freight. I believe there are few weeks or days without a vessel sailing from Philadelphia for
2290From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 28 January 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your letter of the with a copy of the 2d. Edition of the Olive Branch, for which & for that of the 1st. previously sent to me I return you my thanks. I have not been able as yet to do more, than glance at the plan of the work, and run over a few of its pages. The course adopted, of assembling authentic & striking facts, and addressing them impartially & independently, but with...
2291From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I send you, as I received it, a Packett from Mr Bentley of Salem. You and Mr Clark must digest it. I have not the Power, not the means, to copy or extract. Expect more in a few days from your obliged OMC : Charles G. Slack Collection of Autographs.
2292From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 1 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Afflictions in my family of the most serious nature have delayed my answer to your letter of the 6th of August. I knew not that my friend Dr Rush had communicated the papers inclosed in yours to anyone His confidence however was not misplaced. My letter to him was written, as I should have talked to him Tete a tete. He understood me & knew that every line & every word in that letter was true....
2293From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 20 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I received your favor of the 15 with great pleasure and the volume attending it with gratitude.—When I received from our excellent friend Dr Rush, an intimation that Mr Matthew Carey was about publishing a work on the Navy of the U.S. I expected something very valuable because I recollected the American Museum and the history if the Yellow Fever in Philadelphia, the latter of which works to...
2294From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 3 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of Jan 26 is received, and a shower of obligations with it, before it, and after it, which demand my best Thanks, Mr. Marstons Copy I sent to him by his Son the Midshipman, to whom I gave one of my Copies. The elegant Copy you sent me Shall be placed upon my choicest shelf to be used only by me and my little Embryo Midshipman Isaac Hull, after me, who is yet 8 months old. Comfort...
2295Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Carmignani, 18 July [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
Within these few days I have recieved your favor of April 7. with certificates of the death of my estimable friend Philip Mazzei , and a copy of his Will . I learn this event with great affliction, altho’ his advanced age had given reason to apprehend it. an intimacy of 40. years had proved to me his great worth; and a friendship, which had begun in personal acquaintance, was maintained after...
2296Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 24 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Michie having flown from his agreement to take depositions by consent, in the questions between him and myself, I filed a bill against him to take them de bene esse , and to perpetuate them, which the court has decreed. among others I have taken out a commission for obtaining your deposition. this I now inclose and pray you to fill it with the names of justices who can attend at the time &...
2297Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 27 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I put the inclosed under cover to you, leaving it open for your perusal in the hope you will stick a wafer in it after perusal and have it safely delivered. I do it because I do not know the present state of mr Randolph’s mind, and whether it may not want jogging & perhaps encouragement in a business of which it has so long lost sight. in this case I will pray you to use any urgency you can...
2298Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 19 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of your letter of Dec. 1. I was in Bedford , & since my return so many letters, accumulated during my absence, have been pressing for answers, that this is the first moment I have been able to ae attend to the subject of yours. while mr Girardin was in this neighborhood writing his continuation of Burke ’s history, I had suggested to him a proper notice of the establishment of the...
2299Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 17 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote some time ago to mr Barlow to ask the favor of him to lend me an instrument called a Dynamometer, and took the liberty of saying you were to be in Washington shortly and would be so kind as to bring it. it is in a box about the size of that of a surveying compas. will you be so good as to call on him, & take charge of it if he can spare it to me. Your’s affectionately PoC ( MHi ); at...
2300Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 27 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for setting me to rights as to my notices. I had trusted that an old experienced magistrate had done given his certificate according to the existing laws, and therefore did not look into them. I now send you one in due form, and have corrected the others. I have set a long day in yours on consultation with judge Holmes . I return you also the paper you inclosed me . I think you...
2301Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 8 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here on my late return from Bedford , your favor of Sep. 24. and am very thankful for the information it conveys. I recieved in the summer, a pamphlet and a letter under the name of H. Tompkinson . I knew no such person; but the pamphlet was sensibly & temperately written, on the subject of a convention, and as my sentiments on it were sollicited, and I thought such a writer might make...
2302Thomas Jefferson to Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Having no cash in hand, I do the best in my power by sending you an order on Richmond for 50. Dollars which will be paid on sight. I am in hopes it may enable you to procure in Charlottesville enough for the road if that is wanting. I wish you health and success. PoC ( ViU : TJP-CC ); at foot of text: “M r Dan l F. Carr”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.
2303Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 7 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
On the subject of the Academy or College proposed to be established in our neighborhood, I promised the trustees that I would prepare for them a plan, adapted in the first instance to our slender funds, but susceptible of being enlarged either by their own growth or by accession from other quarters. I have long entertained the hope that this our native state would take up the subject of...
2304Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Carr, 16 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I send the horse by the bearer. if he is to be had for 100 D I will take him without further hesitation or reserve. if 120.D are required, they must agree to take him back if his lameness does not go off in one month, during which he shall be little used, merely to see if he gets better. I shall be glad to be decided as soon as convenient. I send you some Benni seed, and more asparagus beans...
2305Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Carr, 29 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Roland Goodman who has lived with me as a carpenter since January last, informs me he is a member of your company, now called into service, and desires me to inform you of the state of his health. in May last he broke a blood vessel, in the lungs as was supposed, and voided a vast quantity of blood from it by the mouth, insomuch that he was long in imminent danger of dying, & was under the...
2306From James Madison to Samuel Carswell, 8 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 8 September 1812. Described as an “Autograph Letter, signed” in Stan. V. Henkels Catalogue No. 698 (1893), item 521.
2307From John Adams to John M. Carter, 15 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of Feb 1, and a copy of Mr Taylors Arator. Your draught its price, shall be honoured at sight. and I should like to pay for a copy of the second edition at the same time. I have been waiting a long time, with some impatience for the communication & publication of Mr Taylors great work upon Aristocracy. I should be glad to pay for that work handsomely but at the same...
2308Thomas Jefferson to John C. Carter, 21 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Something upwards of 20. years ago you sold a piece of land adjoining Colle , part of your father’s estate here, to Col o Monroe . the deed says it is bounded ‘on the South by a run on the Eastern side of Dick’s plantation, and running thence to the source of the sd run and thence in a straight line to the top of the S. W. mountains.’ above Dick’s plantation & far up the mountain the bra run...
2309Thomas Jefferson to John M. Carter, 26 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Carter and his thanks for the copy of Arator which he has been so kind as to send him. we are indebted to Col o Taylor for a great deal of valuable information given us in that volume on the subject of Agriculture; and whether we consider the question of slavery as a political or religious one, all differences of opinion are entitled to toleration,...
2310From James Madison to Landon Carter, 24 February 1810 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. your letter of the 19th. on the subject of a newly invented Lock. From the description of it, it would seem to be a useful subs[t]itute for the common locks. Its value however necessarily depends on so many circumstances which influence a general preference, in such cases, & which are so well understood by yourself, that with your better knowledge of the merits of your...