1To John Adams from John Manners, 19 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
I received, with peculiar gratification, your letters, together with the volume and other documents accompanying them, and am not insensible of the obligations under which you have laid me, by the kind attention with which you have been pleased to honour me. I have read with pleasure and interest your instructing letters and am satisfied of the correctness of your opinion respecting the...
2John Manners to Thomas Jefferson, 20 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
On a former occasion I took the liberty of consulting you on an interesting and important subject of Natural Science, and feel myself much honoured by the attention you were pleased to show my letter, in giving it a reply so ample, so instructing, & so satisfactory. I only regret that I did not apply for permission to publish it. I am fully convinced of the correctness of the observation...
3To John Adams from John Manners, 30 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
Although I have not the honour of a personal acquaintance with you, yet from the knowledge I have of your character, I trust you will pardon the liberty I have taken in consulting you on an important subject of our national jurisprudence. For in difficult subjects of this nature to whom shall we look, with so much propriety for instruction, as to the author of the Defence of the American...