1From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 13 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
You cannot imagine how much You have obliged me by your kind Letter of the 6th. I was intimately acquainted with your Uncle Cesar Rodney who under the constant pressure of ill health, preserved a clear Under Staing and a firmness a stediness, and inflexibility of heart, equal to any Statesman I have known. He was pleased to be very Social and familiar with me; and there was no Topick on which...
2From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 26 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for Permission to publish your former Letter. In that Letter you allude to original Letters from Mr Otis which you have Seen, and which do him honour. I dare not ask for those Original Letters, because If I possessed them myself, I would not part with them. But if you will favour me with Copies you will greatly oblige me. I would hesitate at no Price for them. I can never recollect...
3Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 7 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A long absence from home, my dear friend, and long indisposition since my return, must apologise for this late and short acknolegement of your favor of Aug. 8 . I am on the recovery, but not yet able to set up to write but in pain. I can therefore only return you thanks for the communications of your letter, which strengthen my hopes that our Southern brethren may be able to do as we have...
4From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you Sir for your Condolence in my great affliction.— And for the Copies of the two letters from your Uncle to you Father—the first in 65. and the last in 76. Cæsar Rodney your Uncle was in my opinion a judicious and Sagacious Judge of men and things—I knew only three of the Delegates to the Congress of 65.—General Timothy Ruggles was a Man of a strong mind—but devoted to great...
5Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 2 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Dec. 19. is recieved. a letter from an antient friend and fellow-laborer in good works is like refreshing showers to a thirsty plant. when the pleasures of prospect are shut up to advanced life, those of retrospect are it’s remaining comfort. and the times into which we fell, and the scenes and trials we have gone thro’ together, afford abundant matter to employ retrospection, and to...
6Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 9 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 1 st is recieved, and I note your recommendation of mr Askew , to whom I should be glad to be useful, as well on account of your recommendation as of his merit. but our work has been done entirely by undertakers, bricklayers at 10.D. a thousand, & house carpenters at the Philada prices. so that we have nothing to do with the daily laborers, or any body but the Undertaker. I wish...
7Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 28 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of July 10. has been recieved. the view therein taken of the impossibility of the fact charged by the Native Virginian is certainly conclusive; but I believe we may leave that calumniator to the judgment of the world. The public papers have announced you r mission to Buenos Ayres , but the silence of your letter on the subject is at least not confirmative of it. I sincerely wish...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 12 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Mar. 18. has been duly recieved, and in it the copy of Gov r M c kaim’s letter. what he says of your respectable uncle is all true, and I within my own recollection. his memory has failed him in some other particulars of no importance. he has confoundd two distinct votes and blended together the transactions on them as if on one, to wit the vote on the Virga proposn to declare...
9From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am honored by your favor of the 20th. April with a Copy of Gov McKeans letter of 22 August 1813—inclosed. I have no doubt that Mr. McKean sent an express to Delaware to summon Mr. Rodney to Congress—that he arrived at the critical moment with boots and with spurs—went into Congress and made a speech which Mr McKean rehearses and voted for independence thereby deciding the vote of the State...