1From John Adams to Samuel Allyne Otis, 28 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I believe you may with propriety deliver to Mr Macpherson all his Papers except the Petition which was read in Senate, and a Copy of that if he desires it. I am Sir, with great regard / your most obedient OFH .
2From John Adams to Samuel Allyne Otis, 21 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President asks the favour of the Secretary of the Senate to furnish him with an Attested Copy of the Presidents Message to the senate of the 18 of February 1799, nominating William Vans Murray to be Minister Plenitentiary to the French Republick, and a Copy of the communication accompanying it. Also an Attested Copy of the Presidents Message of the 25 of Feb. 1799. nominating Oliver...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 19 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On examining the Documents referred to in my message respecting the Ex-bashaw, & that also on English affairs, I found that a material paper in each had not been sent me from the offices. as one would be to translate & copy, & the other was long & would be to be copied twice, I thought it best not to delay the messages, but to supply the omission of the documents by asking your permission for...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I discover that with my message to the Senate of Feb. 24. I, by mistake, sent a list of Cadets proposed to me by the Secretary at war. as these places are not offices, nor the Cadets officers, they are never nominated to the Senate; and it was not designed that they should be comprehended in the message. according to our usage of informally correcting mere errors, by consent, and without...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 6 March 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th:J returns the inclosed with his salutations & thanks to mr Otis. the only alteration necessary was to erase the words ‘and C. both’ and to withdraw the list of Cadets C Mar. 6. 06. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
6From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 5 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Otis and presuming the inclosed to be incompleatly copied (inasmuch as it does not say what the Senate determined on resuming the consideration) he returns it for correction DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
7From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 15 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I am often placed before the Senate in an awkward situation by errors, which are not my own, but of the gentlemen who give me the names of persons for office. in my message of yesterday I nominated Charles James Jouett Surveyor &c. yesterday’s post brings information that his name is James Charles Jewett wherein besides a misplacing the two first names there is a mispelling of the third. I...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Allyne Otis, 22 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Otis and observes that, by information just received, he learns that in his nomination of the 21st. inst. after the name of John W. Guion as Military agent in the Southern department of the US. it is necessary to insert ‘in the place of Abraham D. Abrahams’ in order to designate more precisely the extent of his agency. he prays mr Otis to permit the...