Yesterday I received your favour of the 19 th. and learn with Pleasure your design to pursue your valuable History of New Hampshire. The Anecdote of “Positive Proof from Holland that military Stores, to the amount of 400,000 £ st. were ordered and purchased from N. America,” is wholly unknown to me. that Col Lee of Marblehead ever “rec d or dispersed” any stores I never heard nor that he was...
2Abigail Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 5 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
The President received yesterday your obliging favour of May 29 th: accompanied by two of your Fast Sermons. permit me sir to be the organ of his acknowledgment to you for them; A Friend had Sent him one a week before; which he read with pleasure and Satisfaction. It is indeed, a consolatary reflection amidst the weight of cares which press upon him from every quarter and the dangers which...
3From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of January 31, and thank you for your obliging Congratulations, as well as for the monthly Publication. Will you do me the favor of having my name Subscribed and the Magazine Sent to Quincy regularly as it comes out? I am no doubt obliged to Capt. Ingraham, and I Suppose also to Mr Barrel, my old Friend for the Compliment. The Time has been when such a feather...
4Abigail Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 11 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I return you, with thank’s the Letter You was so good as to communicate, and the Specimin’s of Poetry, which do great honour to the memory of the unfortunate youth; who is the subject of them. at the same time they bear a pleasing testimony to the Talants and abilities of the Authoressess. The Eligy of the Lady of Seventy, I think bears away the palm. I have a Mischievious inclination to...
5From George Washington to Jeremy Belknap, 15 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 29th Ulto accompanying the Discourse delivered on the day recommended by the President of the U. States to be observed for a Fast, was received in the usual course of the Mail, from Boston; and the copies therewith sent, were forwarded agreeably to your desire. My best wishes attend the prosecution of your American Biography, and (not recollecting whether the request was...
6From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 24 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have, this morning received your Letter of the 18 th. , George Chalmers, I have Seen in London. He is a Scot, who adventured to Maryland and practised Law,. When Hostilities commenced, he fled to the British Army in N. York. He has much of the Scornful, fastidious Temper of his nation; has been a very bitter Tory: but is a laborious writer. There is no Second Volume of his Annals, and as he...
7From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter of the 2d. was brought to me from the Post office this morning, and I thank you for your Attention to the Reputation of our Country. I have Shewn your Letter to Mr Henry Mr Elsworth and other Members of Congress in 1779 and 1780 and to some others , and there is not one who remembers any Thing like the account which Dr Kippis has given. I will however take other Measures for...
8From George Washington to Jeremy Belknap, 12 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to the promise contained in my last, I put your “Proposal for continuing and enlarging the Subscription for the American Biography &ca” into the hands of a friend of mine in Alexandria, for the purpose of obtaining Subscribers, and enclosed you will receive the result. With great esteem & respect I am Sir Your Obedt & Very H. Ser. ALS , MHi : Belknap Papers; ALS (letterpress copy),...
9From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 23 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I have delivered your Letter to the Secretary of State and he has caused the Records to be searched, and the Result is the Report inclosed. I shall send you more upon this subject. Mean time, you will preserve this. With great Regard &c MHi : Andrew Kippis Papers.
10From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 5 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have this Evening received, your favour of May 30 th. inclosed with a Sermon at the Installation of M r Morse. This elegant Discourse, I have read with the more pleasure, because that, besides the good Sense, the moral Sentiments and christian Benevolence which it breaths, I had the last Week an Opportunity of commencing an Acquaintance with M r Morse himself, who appears to be an...