1From John Adams to Timothy Alden, 29 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
You have been kind enough to send me five Numbers of your Allegany Magazine, for which I can only return you my Thanks. It must be a very useful Publication in your Neighbourhood, and there are curious papers preserved in it. I should willingly become one of your Subscribers, but I am already bound by so many Subscriptions and have so many demands for the Subsistence of my Family, that I can...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Timothy Alden, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very sensible of the kind attention of the trustees of Allegany college, in sending me a copy of the catalogue of their library, and congratulate them on the good fortune of having become the objects of donations so liberal. that of D r Bentley is truly valuable for it’s classical riches, but mr Winthrop’s is inappreciable for the variety of the branches of science to which it extends,...
3From James Madison to Timothy Alden, 18 February 1824 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the Resolution of the Trustees of Alleghany College with the printed copy of its Library, as forwarded by you. The Trustees were not mistaken in the belief that it would give me pleasure to know that a learned Institution had been so promptly reared in so favorable a position, and under such happy auspices. No one who regards public liberty as essential to public happiness, can...