I cannot help it! I can no longer resist the pleasure of expressing to my dear Mrs Adams my joy on the success of the election & my heart-felt congratulations on the signal triumph your husband has obtained over such plotting & treachery & malice & falshood! None of your friends have been more deeply interested than I—& not one more sincerely rejoices at this just & upright termination of our...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Mease, 8 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am aware of the delicate state of your health, and of the fatigue imposed upon you, by Correspondence, and I should Certainly not add to it, for any private Concern of my own. The nature of my present application, will I hope plead my apology, for the trouble I may put you to.— As I view every circumstance connected with the glorious instrument composed by you, which told the world we were...
3To Thomas Jefferson from James Mease, 4 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the three letters with which you favoured me, on the subject of the house in which you wrote the declaration of Independance, and very sincerely thank you for your prompt answer to my inquiry.—The last letter Came to hand to day. A journey to Connecticut which I took, after recieving the two first, and numerous avocations since my return; prevented my acknoledging them before...