1From James Madison to Solomon Southwick, 21 April 1821 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 12th. with a copy of your address at the opening of the Apprentices’ Library. This class of our youth is a valuable one; and its proportional numbers must increase as our population thickens. It is a class too which particularly claims the guardianship of benevolence. Their age, their separation from their parents, and their residence for the most part in towns...
2Thomas Jefferson to Solomon Southwick, 12 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with great pleasure your eloquent and moral address to the members of the Apprentices library, and believe it calculated to have excellent effect on that valuable description of young men. a guide as well as exhortation to the best employment of their hours of leisure, it indicates to them the sources of instruction in the duties of men & citizens and in the philosophy of the...
I yesterday informed His Excellency the Governor that on applying for your account against him for the Albany Register, you observed to me that it had been sent (without being charged) to the Governor as a compliment to the first Magistrate of the State. I am directed to signify to you, that the manner in which your Paper frequently treats the National Government and many of our most worthy...