105431From George Washington to Richard Peters, 6 April 1788 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Richard Peters, 6 April 1788. On 27 April Peters wrote GW : “I was honoured yesterday with yours of the 6th instant.”
105432To James Madison from James Monroe, 13 May 1814 (Madison Papers)
The affr. of the convention, is the most embarrassing that I have ever known. On further reflection, after the departure of Mr Ganntt, I was apprehensive that I might have expressd myself rather too strongly in my private letter to genl. winder, as to the ratification of the conventn., into which I was of course led by a desire to make a suitable impression on his mind, & in consequence I...
105433To James Madison from David Nye and Others, 8 August 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
8 August 1804, Falmouth. “Humbly represent the Subscribers that they are well acquainted with James Freeman Esqr. of Sandwich in the State of Massachusetts & having Understood that the said Freeman has made application for the appointment of Collector for the District of Barnstable in the place of Joseph Otis Esqr. the present incumbent in that Office, we take the liberty to state to your...
105434To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Leigh, 18 March 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
as the President of the United States there was early transmitted you the Illustrations of the Prediction of Merlin. The Heads of Departments was Furnished each Furnishd with One. R E Lee Esqr. at Norfolk—The Incorporate Seal of the N Jerusalem Church at Baltimore & I presume a Man of thy A and Deep Penitration will Readily Allow that Some deep Matter is Still in Embryo. under the Sacred tie...
105435To George Washington from Edmund Pendleton, 10 January 1775 (Washington Papers)
Mr Valentine Crawford and Mr John Neavill have given bonds to Mr Benjamin Temple for £400. for Lands sold them on the Ohio, in which a brother of mine is Interested—the remote Situation of those Gentn makes it difficult to know how to come at the money, and they think your Connection with that Countrey, & particularly with Mr Crawford will enable you to serve them in it, as they would be happy...
105436David L. Morril to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me, to do myself the honor, to enclose to you, the substance of some remarks , which I had the privilege of making in the Senate of the United States , on the Missouri Question. RC ( MoSHi: TJC-BC ); between dateline and salutation: “The Honorable Thomas Jefferson ”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Mar. 1820 and so recorded in SJL . David Lawrence Morril (1772–1849), physician, clergyman,...
105437Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Robertson, 29 November 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I did not learn till within these two or three days that y ou were returned from Richmond , to which place I understood you were gone, or I should sooner have applied to know whether you could furnish the winter’s supply of cloathing for my negroes. we shall need about 250. yds of woollens, 300 yds. of linen & 20. blankets. I am now getting the last of my wheat to the mills and shall have it...
105438To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 14 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been until three days ago that I have been relieved from the anxiety which arises naturally from the long silence of those who are absent and from whom we wish to hear. The first moments which followed the arrival of your letters of April the 6th. private and duplicate and April the 27th. were such as you may easily concieve. They shewed me that you had written often and that I had...
105439To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 28 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
We Arriv’d Last Night at This place and was Much favor’d By the weather in our Recconnoitring of the island where, I Confess, my feelings were different from what I had experienc’d when looking at these forts with an hopefull Eye—I Saw the fatal Centry Clel Gouvion Alluded to on an Upper Battery of jeffery’s hook—I also Saw a Small vessel playing of This hook, But quite a trifling thing...
105440To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 12 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
No man can be more unpractised in devices, whether moral or scientific, than I am. I should at once say that the one proposed & so ably combined by Mr. Williams was too perfect for me to think of amending, were it not for the risk of being suspected of having paid but a slight attention to your kind commands. To avoid that imputation I am going to subject myself to its alternative, that of...