1From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 28 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 21, inclosing my Letter to Dr James Rush of April 30th. If you or Mr Clark could want any proof of the Utility, importance or necessity of The History of the Navy which you have published and propose to enlarge and improve it would be worth while to revise our American Historians for 1775. 1776. &c. Since I received your Book I have had the Curiosity to consult...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 26 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Carey and incloses him a N Caroli[na] newspaper containing a convention between the two states of Virginia and N Carolina and submitting to Mr. Carey whether it be not worth a place in his Museum. Th: Jefferson has been told that the same convention is complete in the ac[t] of Virginia of about 1786, but he does not possess the act. RC not found but sold at...
3From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 19 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a sketch of the unfortunate enterprize against Penobscot in 1779. drawn by an eye witness. Mr Clarks materials for the modern History of the Navy are multiplying so fast and are so much more splendid than those of ancient date that I begin to be apprehensive he will not have room for all of the latter that ought to be preserved. There is the more reason for inserting these because...
4Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
The Parliamentary Manual, originally compiled for my own personal use, was printed on the supposition it might be of use to others, and have some tendency to settle the rules of proceeding in Congress , where, in the lower house especially they had got into forms totally unfriendly to a fair extrication of the will of the majority. no right over it was therefore wished to be retained over it...
5Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 April 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your New Olive branch, which you have been so kind as to send me. you have taken the right road to solve the great question which is the subject of it, by bringing it to the test of figures. age and ill health have obliged me to abandon all such speculations, and to resign myself to the care of the authorities of the day, which I do with equal chearfulness and...
6From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 9 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I had not sufficiently thanked you for your great Work—The Vindicie Hybernice, when I received your favour of the 26th. Janry. With the Valuable present of Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the Protection of National Industry—for which again I thank you— Under the necessity which I am, of borrowing Eyes to read, and hands to write, It is utterly impossible for me to take any useful...
7From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 25 June 1788 (Washington Papers)
Although I believe “the American Museum” published by you, has met with extensive, I may say, with universal approbation from competent Judges; yet, I am sorry to find by your favor of the 19th that in a pecuniary view it has not equalled your expectations. A discontinuance of the Publication for want of proper support would, in my judgment, be an impeachment on the Understanding of this...
8From John Jay to Mathew Carey, 8 September 1787 (Jay Papers)
Your Letter of the 7 th . Inst: together with the two numbers of the American Museum mentioned in it, have been delivered to me. The Design of the work is certainly a good one, and if no Pieces but such as merit the Attention of the public and of Posterity be inserted, it will become useful and interesting. As it will always give me Pleasure to promote the Progress of useful Knowledge, I will...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 2 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Matthew Cary, & will be obliged to him if he can inform him how to address a letter to his brother John Carey in London, as he does not know the street, number &c where he would be found. RC ( NN ); addressed: “Mr. Matthew Carey 118. Market street.” Not recorded in SJL . According to SJL on 2 Apr. 1798 TJ wrote a letter to John Carey “at mr....
10From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 3 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your appeal to common sense & common honesty which I really think is a valuabl and important service to the nation. You have marshaled stubborn facts against plausible theories with triumphant success. It is however no easy task to reconcile a vigorous commerce with profitable manufacturers. This can be done only by a tariff which can be formed only by a minute knowledge of the...
11Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 28 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter of Oct. 6. I requested the favor of you to send me Griesbach ’s Greek testament, the 8 vo & full edition, and The New testament in an improved version on the basis of Newcome ’s translation which, altho’ published in Boston , I supposed could be had in Philadelphia . hearing nothing of them I conjecture they are either forgotten or not to be had in Philadelphia . I would rather...
12From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 26 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Our old Commodores & Captains, are not so ardent for glory as they were 35 years ago. One of the bravest of them sends me word, that his wife has covered with his journal: but he will send me what he can recollect, as soon as he can prepare it, with proper deliberation. As soon as it comes I will enclose it to you. Commodore John Foster Williams, who at his advanced age still condescends to...
13Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 31 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 13. was recieved on the 21 st inst. and I now inclose you 25.D. in bills of the bank of Virginia as none of the US. are to be had here. the surplus of 1.75 may cover the discount perhaps. I presume you import from time to time books from England , and should be glad if on the first occasion you would write for a copy of Baxter ’s history of England for me. and if there be an...
14Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 18 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to request you to send me the under written books, only 1. vol. a week of 8 vos or 2. vols a week where 12 mos beginning with the Sophocles which is most immediately w anting this caution is to prevent overburthening our village mails I have entirely lost sight & recollection of the state of our accounts. be so good as to send it to me and it shall be duly attended to. I salute you with...
15From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 18 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 6th. has given me much pleasure; had I lived with Dr Johnson I would have given him a guinea a piece his usual price for two sermons; one upon “Let your light shine before men” the other upon Let not your left hand know what your right hand performs.” They are perfectly reconciliable though it may be somewhat difficult in practice to comply with both precepts in sincerity....
16From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 15 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
I purposed, so soon as I understood you intended to become the Publisher of a News Paper in Philadelphia to request that a copy of your weekly production might be sent to me. I was the more pleased with this determination, when, by a letter from my friend the Marquis de la Fayette, I found he had interested himself in your behalf. It has so happened, that my Gazettes from Philadelphia, whether...
17From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 24 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
On the 22d of the month I received the letter you did me the honour to write me on the 16th.—“The Sett of Papers the object of which is to prove that our present Policy is highly pernicious to the best Interests of the Cultivators of the Soil,” is not yet arrived.” It would not be difficult to prove, that the Policy of this Country is erroneous in Several particulars. We have an uncertain a...
18From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 21 February 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. the copy of the “Appeal to common sense and common Justice” which you were so good as to send me. And I have since received one of your letters inviting observations on it. It would be impossible for me to do justice, even to my own view of the subject within the time limited, were the attempt permitted by engagements of other sorts. It is I believe not unknown to you that I...
19From Alexander Hamilton to Mathew Carey, 4 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Philadelphia ] April 4, 1791 . Presents his compliments to Carey and declines an invitation to a dinner of the Hibernian Society. Copy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Carey, publisher of The American Museum , had emigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland in 1784. Early in the seventeen-nineties he organized the Hibernian Society for the relief of Irish immigrants.
20Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 19 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been longer inattentive to my little account with you than I ought perhaps to have been expecting the arrival of Baxter ’s history & the publication of the American edn of Sinclair ’s code, formerly desired. I correct the omission by now inclosing you 10. Dollars on account. looking over your letters & mine they mention only the Nautical Almanacs 5.D. & Conversations in Chemistry (price...
21From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 7 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
Since the receipt of your two letters of the 5 & 6th. of Ocr. a third with additional proofs in the manufacturing cause, has called for my acknowledgts. I now pray you to accept them for the whole. Your second letter arrived in time, for the destruction of the documents accompanying the first; and I have disposed of the corrected ones as occasions offered, & shall do the same with those last...
22From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 21 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Letter of the 14th. and printed half Sheets inclosed. I am Sorry there has been So much cause for the publication of the Olive Branch; but as I believe it will do good I have Subscribed for it. I am ashamed of the Vanity and Injustice of Some of our Preachers and Writers: and rejoice that the Events of the War have so completely confuted their Calumnies against the...
23Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 1 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in due time your favor of Jan. 23. and the work of Asserius also by mail. Hutton & Guicciardini will doubtless arrive ere long. the amount of these is stated at 17.75 D and I now inclose you 25.D. in bank bills of the US. presuming to request you to pay to mr Dobson my subscription for the 2. volumes of the American register, which he, I believe has printed. I will thank you for a...
24Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 28 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after the date of my letter of the 21 st I recieved Bridgman ’s Index safely, and had taken for granted M c Mahon was coming with it. but as it did not come, I presume it has either been forgotten or is lodged by the way. in either case I ask your information & attention to it; and further that you will be so kind as to inform me whether a copy of Baron Grimm ’s memoirs (16. vols 8 vo )...
25Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 13 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I must ask the favor of you to send me by mail 2. copies of the Nautical Almanacs for the present year, and 2. also of the next year if already to be had. the English editions are best printed, but if none on hand, Blount ’s edition of N. York will do. I formerly wrote to you for S r John Sinclair ’s book of Agriculture; but I observe that mr Skinner of Baltimore is about publishing an...
26Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 11 [November] 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve here (where I pass a good deal of my time) your favor of Oct. 22. covering a Prospectus of a new edition of your Olive branch : I subscribe to it with pleasure, because I believe it has done & will do much good, in holding up the mirror to both parties, and exhibiting to both their political errors. that I have had my share of them, I am not vain enough to doubt, and some indeed I...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 12 January 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your favor by Doctr. Carey together with the American Monitor , for which be pleased to accept my thanks. I have no doubt of it’s utility as a school-book as soon as the pupil is so far advanced as to reflect on what he reads, and that I believe is in an earlier stage than is generally imagined. I concur with you in the importance of inculcating into the minds of young...
28From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 24 November 1813 (Adams Papers)
I wish you to procure me a morsel of white marble eighteen or twenty inches square, and two or three inches thick and to engrave upon it the enclosed words and figures. It is to be inserted in a little monument of Quincy Granite that I have erected to my Father and Mother. If you will send it to me, Mr Trask will insert it in its proper place. I will pay your account on demand. Your humble...
29Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 22 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The reverend mr Weems called on me a few days ago on the subject of your letter of Oct. 6. and recieved the same answer which I had given to yourself in mine of the 25 th in the course of our conversation however I mentioned to him that there was indeed a history of England which, could we get it reprinted, I would risk the presumption of inviting the attention of readers to it, meaning...
30From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 25 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the reduction of the Price of the copies of the first Edition of the “Sketches” And I now thank for the two volumes of the Naval history. The arrangement is improved, and the same chaste simplicity is preserved. I cannot however but wish, that the elegant and masterly Biographia and the social Feasts might be preserved in some reputable collection. My reverend neighbour Dr....
31From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 12 May 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 22. Ult: with the several printed Sheets sent with it. It is very gratifying to observe the prospect of internal improvements expanding as it is under the emulating auspices of the several States, and the co-operating patriotism of enlightened Citizens. No Country more than ours admits of improvement by artificial roads & Canals; nor can it be doubted either that...
32From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 14 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 5th has distressed me; because it has made me apprehend that I expressed myself in mine to you of the 29th Ult. with too little caution. But be assured that I never had a suspicion that you were actuated by any mean, mercenary, or even mercantile motive in this business. You have not sent me one copy too many; You have deserved well of your Country, and will merit the thanks...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 6 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Cary and will thank him if he can advise him of the address of his brother John Cary, whom he presumes to be still in London PoC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ.
34From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 11 March 1824 (Madison Papers)
Yours of Feby. 28. was duly recd. with the pamphlet referred to; and I add to my thanks for it, those due for the several previous communications with which you favored me. They afford continued proofs of the ability & public spirit which you have exerted on the subject them and I can not be insensible to the friendly & flattering terms in which you invite a public exposition of my views of...
35From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 11 June 1824 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of June 5th. in behalf of Mr. Saunderson came duly to hand. I have so much confidence in your judgment of his character & scholarship, that I should feel a pleasure in forwarding his views of turning them more to his own account as well as that of others. But I know too little of the condition or wants of the Seminaries in this State, other than its Embryo University, to venture on...
36From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 19 September 1812 (Madison Papers)
The sermon inclosed with your last of the 3d. instant is now returned. It is a strong proof of the baneful spirit for which your proposed plan is meant as an antidote. I wish not to diminish your laudable solicitude on the occasion, nor to question the powerful tendency of the resource which it has suggested to you. But I can not suppress my hope that the wicked project of destroying the Union...
37From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 29 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
In the course of my whole existence, I never have before been made the subject of such extraordinary conduct as that which I have been obliged to suffer by your sending to me unsealed, through a public conveyance, my letter of the 22nd and yours of the 27th of this month. After the candid, and my heart witnessed for me not unfriendly part I had always acted towards you, I hoped, for the credit...
38Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 6 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Sep. 21. reached me on the 28. and the book which is the subject of it had come to hand by the preceding mail. both found me recovering from a long indisposition, and not yet able to set up to write, but in pain. the reading a 4 to volume of close print is an undertaking which my ordinary occupations and habits of life would not permit me to encounter: nor under any...
39Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 9 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the copy of the Olive branch you have been so kind as to send me. many extracts from it which I had seen in the newspapers had excited a wish to procure it, but the effecting this had been prevented by the difficulty of making small or fractional remittances to Philadelphia and especially since the bank bills of the different states have ceased to be recievable in all others. a...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Carey, and incloses him the price of the two testaments which he found here on his return to this place. MH .
41From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 21 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have been highly gratified by your obliging letter recd Yesterday. You need not give yourself any concern about my Name in your future Edition. I desire no more than Neighboursfare. A memoir from me, would amount to little more, than the Soliloqui of the Fly upon the Chariot Wheel “What a Dust We raise”? And would excite many little Strong Passions, that we might injure rather than Serve the...
42From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 29 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have this day received from the Post Office, three copies of the sketches which with twelve received before amount to fifteen copies. I did not intend to exceed twenty copies, and when you arrive at that number I pray you to stop, I expected but one by a mail but you have sent two and oftener three. I have transmitted through my son Thomas Boylston Adams to his Friend Jonathan Jones Esqr a...
43From James Madison to Mathew Carey, 12 December 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 1st. inst. and am sorry that neither my memory, nor my knowledge goes far enough back to furnish the desirable answers to your questions, whether and to what amount, the balance in the trade with G. Britain was against the colonies, particularly Virginia previous to the Revolution. That the ordinary balance was unfavorable cannot be doubted, and the limit to...
44From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 22 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
In addition to what I wrote to you formerly on the subject of a loan, I now inform you (and desire that this letter which conveys the information, may be destroyed as soon as read) that my utmost exertions were ineffectually used to borrow a sum of money (even at a high interest, and for me, disadvantageous terms) to comply with contracts of my own, before I left Virginia. Having made this...
45From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 26 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
Though my Letter presented to you by Dr James Rush came too late to answer the purpose intended, you may retain it if you please, or return it to Dr James Rush, as you please. The appointment of the Son to succeed his Father, has my cordial Approbation. “The publication of the Naval History is a great Event.” I hope you will Send a number of the first Edition to Boston: and every other...
46Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 21 June 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The miniature Bible came safely, and Bridgman and M c Mahon are arrived at Richmond and are now on their way here. the Viri Romae came also safely but was lost by an accident soon after it’s arrival, wherefore I must ask another copy of the same edition with a dictionary at the end. I inclose you 50. Dollars which, covers my balance if I keep our account right. but there is the article of the...
47From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 21 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with your letter of the 5th instt, and shall be happy if mine, to which you allude, may have any operation in favour of your literary undertaking. If I had more leizure, I should most willingly give you any such communications (that might be within my reach) as would serve to keep up the reputation of your Museum. At present, occupied as I am with my Agriculture &...
48From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 30 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour, and thank you for it—I should have written to you before but St Anthony has sent his subtarranan fires into my eyes— so that I have not been able to write or read—a word.—The little sparring at my table was alltogether my fault, and I ask your pardon; I did not give the opinion as my own but as the general opinion of this part of the Country—The facts as generally...
49Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 10 February 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m r Carey and his thanks for the copy of the 2 d edition of Clark’s Naval history which has come safely to hand. he is happy to find that mr Clark is continuing the work, and ensuring to us the preservation of the facts as they occur. he has recovered more of those of the Revolutionary war than had been deemed practicable. Th:J. salutes mr Carey with...
50From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 10 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter to me of the 27 and mine to you of the 22 ultimo came open to my hand as I informed you in my last. The first never had received a seal, nor a fold that would have enclosed (agreeably to the expression of your letter) the latter. Both of them were wrapped in an open cover of brown paper, and exposed to the inspection of every curious person through whose hands they passed. As you...