10181To John Adams from Nathaniel Bowditch, 30 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty to forward to you a pamphlet containing a few papers prepared for the 4th vol. of the Academy’s Trans with a request that you would do me the honor to accept it— It gives me great pleasure to find that the situation of your health permits you to accept a seat in the convention, where your advice & influence will be extremely important in preserving a constitution,...
10182From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 30 October 1820 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 20 Inst. I concur in your opinion that a well for the Livery Stable, had better be placed in the Street than in the Yard— Let it be made or postponed, as you may think most adviseable.— The Sums paid on assessments— the Monies applied to ordinary Expenses, and which should have been replaced at Interest, together with the Debts contracted, have so reduced my...
10183Nathaniel Bowditch to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have forwarded a few papers just printed in the 4 th Vol. of the Memoirs of the Academy , with the request that you would do me the honor to accept them It gives me great pleasure to hear that your health is better than it was a few months since & I pray that it may long continue so. RC ( MHi ); endorsed by TJ as received 28 Nov. 1820 and so recorded in SJL . RC : left half of address cover...
10184John H. Rice to Thomas Jefferson, 30 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me, Sir, to offer thro’ you to the Library of the University of Virginia , a copy of the new edition of Smith ’s History. It is a small donation, indeed, but a token of deep interest felt by the donor in the prosperity of that institution. May it become an honour and a blessing to our native state , and a model for the literary establishments of others. Pardon me, a stranger, for adding...
10185From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 28 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
An indisposition which confined me to my bed in the first instance and moving in the next into our house in F Street has prevented my answering your Letter earlier and my papers are all in such confusion that I cannot pretend to find it now so as to answer it correctly— Our House will hardly be well fixed before you come on and at present Charles is obliged to sleep in the Drawing room which...
10186Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Since mine of the 23 d I have drawn as follows in favor of Alexr Garrett 217.29 and John Watson —72.76 and I have still two more to make, to wit for Joel Wolfe from 100. to 150.D. and in favor of E. Garland for 800.D. Will you be so good as to send by the boats about 15 or 20. gallons of linseed oil. as it is apt to leak in a cask you will judge whether it is better or not to have it in jugs....
10187Michele Raggi to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Si puol persuadere Sig re , che se mi fosse stato bene spiegata la ricevutta che lei qui mi a rimesso copia nella pregiatissima sua letera , non avrei avutto coraggio di ricercare il giusto viaggio; lei ben sà che io non lego l’inglese; ⅌ conseguenza quando il Sig r Brochenbord scrisse la ricevutta, aciò io mi firmassi, lo pregai prima di metere il mio nome, che avrei desiderato mi fosse...
10188Thomas Jefferson to Joel Yancey, with Jefferson’s Note, 28 October 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the 14 th I mentioned the circumstance of the illness of my horses which was likely to delay my visit to Poplar Forest . three of them are nearly well and the others begin to mend. I hope we may by high feeding get them able to take the road in 12. or 14. days, and I shall do it the moment they seem able. my hope is to set out about the 8 th of Nov. the advance of the cold...
10189From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, Jr., 27 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
When the enterprise against Cape-breton was planed and adopted by the Legislature of Masschusetts I was ten years old—My Father took the Newspapers and gave them to me to read—so that I became some what attentive to publick affairs—But my attention was more forcibly attracted by the din of Arms The Militia where frequently called to-gether, And the Ensigns with their Colours—and the Sergeants...
10190From John Adams to John Sanderson, 27 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I return you Hancock, with some Notes—partly by the Secretary of the Common Wea l th and partly by a Gentleman who speaks from his own knowledge, being sufficiently advanced in Age to remember all he says—Infinite injustice has been done to Mr Hancock As it has to every other Man in Massachusetts who was conspicuous in the Revolution—The fortune he left at his Death—Notwithstanding all his...