2321William Wood to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Herewith I send you the receipts for the flour of yours lately carryed by my Boatmen , with a request that, you will forward me a draft by the Bearer for the amount of the freight thereof, which Mr Bacon informed me was the mode of payment prefered by you I am very respectfully NB the price of freight is 4/ per barrel RC ( MHi ); postscript adjacent to closing and signature; dateline at foot...
2322From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 5 March 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, March 5, 1799 . “I recur to your letters of the 31st of January 4th 15 21. 22 23 & 27 of February, for the purpose of doing whatever may remain to be done in relation to their contents. “… the complete formation of the several corps and their subdivisions which includes the appointment of the full complement of Officers is so essential to order that delay in this respect is very...
2323Wednesday 16th of August 1780. (Adams Papers)
This morning Pappa went out and came back again at about eleven o clock. At about two o clock Commodore Gillon came to our lodgings and went out to dinner with Pappa but my brother Charles and myself dined at our lodgings. At about four o clock Pappa came back without Commodore Gillon. Pappa drank tea at our lodgings. After tea Brother Charles and myself went to take a walk and got back at...
2324To Benjamin Franklin from Jean-Jacques Caffiéri, 13 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society J’ai demendé a Monsieur votre fils, les Noms surnoms et qualités du Genéral Mongomery, le lieu et la Datte de sa naissance, en quel tems il a passé à Boston les grades par lesquels il a passé et les plus belles actions de sa vie, comment il à attaqué Quebec en quel lieu il à été tué, et les dattes surtouts de sa mort, et son âge et ces armes. Cela me sera...
2325Thomas Jefferson to Jean Guillaume Hyde de Neuville, 31 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is just recieved, & I with pleasure inclose a letter of introduction for you to the President . I am an entire stranger to the present situation of the Military school at West point , to the number of candidates for places there, & the prospect of succesful application. while the principles of our government yield little indulgence to manifestations of partiality in...
2326To George Washington from Anna La Caux, 29 July 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will doubtless be surpris’d at being address’d by a Stranger, & particularly from so distant a part of Europe as Ireland, but distant as it is, the Universal Benevolence of General Washinton’s Character is well known, & his firm attachment to the welfare of mankind, & even to individual right & happiness, has embolden’d me to lay before Your Excellency the Cause of two Orphans,...
2327From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 2 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have been sick a Month, and my eyes and hands incapable of writing otherise you would have heard more from me. Your favor of 18 Feby. arrived yesterday. Thanks for the Gazette. Well may you and I be perplexed in our calculations on post scenes and present unpleasant prospects, relative to the interior of the political state of Europe, and the interior & exterior aspect of our own national...
2328To Benjamin Franklin from James Parker, 13 June 1767 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Things here in general are much in the same State as they were in my last, only Mr. Foxcroft being returned from Virginia to Philadelphia; you will doubtless hear from him. I think I told you, I had sent the Bond for the whole I have had of you to Mrs. Franklin. The first of the inclosed Bill I sent per last Packet, I send this lest any Accident attend it....
2329To Thomas Jefferson from Daniel Carroll Brent, 5 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed, I recd. to day from Mr. Scott—on the subject of his letter I can only observe, that I am incompetent to judge of his legal qualifications—indeed if I thought I was, I wou’d not on subjects of such consequence obtrude my opinion I owe it however to Mr. Scott to as he has applied to me, to state his pretension, that he is a man of fair fame, much respected, & I beleive honest &...
2330From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel William Washington, 7 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been informed, tho’ not officially, that Monsr Gerrard was to leave Philada some time this week in his way toward Camp. As I would wish to have every mark of respect shewn to him, I must desire you to hold a Captain’s Command of Horse ready at Pompton, that should he come on they may fall in with him at that place, and escorte him to New Windsor. The Officer will present my Compliments...