4361James Madison to Alexander Hamilton, Jr., 9 July 1831 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 30 was duly recd. and the death of Mr. Monroe which it anticipated, became, I learn, a sad reality on the 4th. instant; its date associating it with the coincidencies before so remarkable & so memorable. The feelings with which the event was recd. by me may be inferred from the long & uninterrupted friendship which united us, and the intimate knowledge I had of his great...
4362From James Madison to Archibald W. Hamilton, 16 April 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have just recd. your letter of the 10th. inclosing copies of letters from Judge Livingston, Mr. Brown, & Docrs. Flood & Cochrane. Not being able to furnish any information relative to the peculiarities of your case; or to your personal worth not already authenticated to the Government from sources more directly & intimately acquainted with both, I perceive no grounds on which I could...
4363From John Adams to John V. N. Yates, 15 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honour to write me Nov 1822 which has excited emotions too strong for faculties so enfeebled as mine to endure. Every humane christian & philosophical mind must appro ve the fine feelings and magnanimous sentiments which produced the assembly at Albany. Every lover of pathetic eloquence must be delighted with the speeches pronounced on that occasion....
4364Thomas Jefferson to James Hamilton (1786–1857), 9 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Hamilton for the copy of his oration on the 4 th of July which he has been so kind as to send him, & especially for the kind sentiments towards himself which he has expressed in the note accompanying it, he is happy to see in the oration of mr Hamilton a warm adhesion to the genuine principles of the revolution, and trusts they will be handed down in all...
4365From James Madison to James Hamilton Jr., 30 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
About the close of the last Session of Congs. I recd. from you a Copy in pamphlet form of your Speech on the Panama Mission. It being for some time thereafter uncertain where you would be found, my acknowledgments for the favor were neglected. If not too late, I beg leave now to offer them. The subject appears to have been very ably discussed on both sides; and your views of it, are to be...
4366James Madison to James Hamilton, Jr., 13 December 1828 (Madison Papers)
I have duly recd. the copy of your speech on the 28th. of Ocr. last; for which I am indebted to your politeness & tender my acknowledgments. I join very sincerely in all the praise which has been bestowed on the intellectual power & impressive eloquence by which it is distinguished But I am constrained to mingle with this just tribute, the remark that it comprizes doctrines in which I can not...
4367From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to William Hamilton, 12 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mrs Adams requests the favor of an order from Mr Hamilton to receive from the Custom House a small Packet containing Childrens caps brought by Mr Oswald from Paris. UK-KeNA : Foreign Office.
4368Thomas Jefferson to Amos Hamlin, 1 April 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted for your letter of Jan. 12. which was exactly 2 ½ months in getting to my hands, & brought me the favor of your meteorological observations which bear the marks of great care and accuracy. I believe there is not a single person in this part of our country who attends to this subject, so that I am not able to offer you any thing from others. I kept pretty exact tables for a space...
4369Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 18 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 7 th is just now recieved. the letter to which it refers was written by me with the sole view of recommending to the study of my fellow citizens a book which I considered as containing more genuine doctrines on the subject of our government and carrying us back more truly to it’s fundamental principles than any one which had been written since the adoption of our...
4370From Thomas Jefferson to George Hancock, 13 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I am thankful to you for your attention in offering to us the purchase of your collection of minerals; but the University having recieved several donations of that kind, is in a condition to proceed with them, and therefore does not propose to extend it’s stock by purchase. Accept the assurance of my great respect CtY .