2211From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 26 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
If you could have foreseen the length of passage, to which your letter of the 23d of April was destined, there would have been no occasion to have hurried yourself in writing it in order to receive a conveyance by the brother of Mr Neale: for Saturday last was (and by the way of Richmond too) the first of its appearance, in my hands. Knowing that Mr Corbin Washington had arrived safe in...
2212Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1802 (Adams Papers)
Indolence shall no longer prevent my acknowledging, the pleasure I felt (my dear M rs Adams) from your kind & affectionate letter which I received some time ago. Your sentiments on the subject of friends are so congenial with my own, that I wish by every means in my power, to cherish with the warmest affection, the few that are spared to me. The last respects were paid to our friend M rs...
2213Resolution of the Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Washington, 18 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
Resolved unanimously by the board of Aldermen and board of Common Council of the City of Washington in joint meeting met—That the Mayor of the City—Elias B. Caldwell, Daniel Carroll of Dudn. Buller Cocke, Walter Jones Jr. & Thomas Monroe, be a Committee to carry to the President of the U.S. the expression of the Citizens of this City of their unprotected & defenceless state from menaced...
2214To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 17 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Pichon has the honor to present his respects to Mr. Madison and his regrets that the reports of a Sickness prevailing at washington together with Mrs. Pichon’s State of health which does not admit, just now, of travelling have detained him here longer than he intended, and deprived him of the pleasure of waiting, as early as he proposed, on Mr. Madison. The latter cause, the Situation of...
2215From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 17th. on the subject of the stores for Algiers, since which your’s of the 12th. is recieved. I thought I had spoken to mr Madison on the day of my departure on the subject of the gun carriages for the emperor of Marocco. I now write to him respecting them. I presume the date of the enlistment of the crews of our frigates in the Mediterranean should decide which of them shall...
2216From James Madison to George Washington, 6 April 1789 (Madison Papers)
The arrival of R. H. Lee yesterday has made up a Quorum of the Senate. A Quorum in the other House was made on wednesday last. The ballots will be opened today unless an indisposition of Mr. Basset should prevent, which was not probable yesterday afternoon. The notifications to the President & Vice President will be left to the Senate. Mr. Charles Thomson will be the Messenger to the former....
2217From Thomas Jefferson to William Linn, 5 February 179[8] (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor before of acknoleging the receipt of [your] favor of [May] […] and of stating that on my return home I would see whether [the papers?] […] there would [enable] me to contribute any thing to the general subj[ect of the in]quiry contained in the printed paper you enclosed [me. on examination] of my papers I found that I could not with certainty establish from [them] any thing...
2218Peter Poinsot to Thomas Jefferson, 24 June 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Je profite de la Goëlette Fénélon C a pitaine Mayhew de Fairhaven faisant voile pour Norfolk , pour avoir lhonneur de vous écrire. Je n’ai pas été assez heureux d’être favorisé du Succés de la demande que je vous ai addressée par ma lettre du 7 Juin 1819 à Son Excellence M r
2219To Benjamin Franklin from George Washington: Résumé, 9 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress ⟨Philadelphia, December 9, 1783: Dr. Witherspoon, whom you know, is going to Great Britain on business and may possibly travel to France. I recommend him to your civility and attention.⟩ In the hand of GW ’s clerk Tobias Lear. There is no evidence that Witherspoon ever delivered the letter (now missing). John Witherspoon, president of the College of New Jersey, had...
2220To Thomas Jefferson from De Ponçins, 29 August 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Vôtre excellence verra par les deux lettres que j’ay l’honeur de lui adrësser cy inclus, que j’ay proposé à m. le docteur franklin un projet, pour lever un état topografique, de tous les états unis de l’amerique, avec la notice du grain et qualité de terre de chaque canton, et le régime particulier à chaque lieu, pour y faire fleurir l’agriculture, le comerce, ou l’industrie. J’avois l’honeur...