11From John Jay to Richard Peters, 26 December 1820 (Jay Papers)
I thank you cordially, my good and constant Friend! for your Letter of the 25 th . Ult.— it affords me no little Gratification. We grow old but our Hearts retain their Warmth.— The Perversion and Obliquity you notice, has not been recent nor unexpected— Men who are ardent in the pursuit of Influence and its Fruits; and more attentive to the Prosecution than to the Propriety of their Schemes,...
12From James Madison to Richard Peters, 4 November 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have another occasion for making my acknowlegements in the receipt of the Agricultural Almanac for 1820, which you have been so good as to send me. It is well recommended to circulation, by its substitution of instructive paragraphs on rural subjects for trite & trifling jests; and by the blank leaves inviting practical and experimental notices. The backwardness in furnishing these is much...
13From James Madison to Richard Peters, 22 February 1819 (Madison Papers)
I perceive that I am indebted to you for the copy of an Agricultural Almanack & Memorial, brought me by a late mail, for which I offer my thanks. Accept them also for the Copy of Mr Rawle’s Address which you have been so kind as to send me. I am particularly pleased with your scheme of a “Pattern Farm.” There is no form in which Agricultural instruction can be so successfully conveyed: nor is...
14From John Jay to Richard Peters, 25 January 1819 (Jay Papers)
My Eyes were lately rendered so weak by an Influenza, that I was obliged to postpone answering your friendly Letter ^of the 12 Ult:^— Of this I lately informed you by a few Lines— At present I am so nearly free from that Complaint, as to be able to resume my Pen. I have read your Letter more than once. Mutuality of friendly Feelings always affords Gratification; and the kindness which pervades...
15From James Madison to Richard Peters, 15 August 1818 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 30 ult: and trouble you with an acknowlegement of it, for the sake of thanking you, which I do very sincerely for the “Notices for a young farmer.” I do not know that there exists any where so many good lessons compressed into so small a space, and placed in so fair a light. I have read the little manual with profit, and with the gratification derived from its...
16Thomas Jefferson to Richard Peters, 6 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to thank you for the copy of your Discourse on agriculture which you have been so kind as to send me. I participate in all your love for the art, and wish I did also in your skill. but I was never but an amateur, and have been kept from it’s practice until I am too old to learn it. we are indebted to you for much of our knolege as to the use of the plaister, which is become a principal...
17Philip Russell to Richard Peters, 27 September 1815 (Madison Papers)
The petition of the subscriber respectfully represents that he has been imprisoned for above six weeks, and is now confined, charged with having sold spirituous liquors without licence: that he has a wife and children who are dependent upon his earnings for support; and, that, in consequence of his imprisonment, they are now reduced to a state of great distress. Even if your petitioner had...
18From John Jay to Richard Peters, 14 March 1815 (Jay Papers)
On reading your interesting Letter of the 19 th . of Jan y . I observed with particular pleasure, from the matter and manner of it, that notwithstanding the winter of Life and Snow falling on your Head, you endure like an Evergreen. Your Impression that “we should e’re long have Peace,” has been verified. If I remember right, you had heretofore an Impression that Spain, altho’ her case was...
19From John Jay to Richard Peters, 9 January 1815 (Jay Papers)
It is a great while since any Letters have passed between us— perhaps some of them have miscarried. The Season reminds me that I have survived the last year, and that I have left with it a great number who enjoyed more Health and Strength. Many friendly wishes have as usual been reciprocated on this occasion, but it seems to be questionable, whether an average proportion of them will be...
20From John Jay to Richard Peters, 16 October 1811 (Jay Papers)
It was not until this Day, that I rec d . your Letter of the 5 Inst — owing to some Derangement in the post office, the two last mails did not come before Yesterday. It gives me pleasure to learn that your Health continues good—may it long continue so— mine is at present somewhat better— The Day before yesterday, my Son William returned from Rye. He found there the two Sheep you mention, safe...