26241To James Madison from David Meade Randolph, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Notwithstanding my communications may be deemed unworthy your notice, yet since my conscience assures me that I am stimulated by patriotic motives, you will have the goodness to pardon the present repetition. Among the variety of practical improvements to which my enquiries have extended, there has nothing fallen within my reach so vastly important in a National point of view a[s] a subject...
26242From James Madison to Anthony Charles Cazenove, 16 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 16 December 1811. Acknowledged in Cazenove to JM, 17 Dec. 1811 . Encloses a check for $385.55 to pay both the account of Murdoch, Yuille, Wardrop, & Company and that of Cazenove. Forwards a letter for Cathcart at Madeira.
26243John Low to Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
About 2 weeks ago I sent you p r mail a Sett of the Encyclopædia, accompanied with a letter , which I hope you have received. Being doubtful however whither they might have arrived I have thought proper to write you a few more lines, on the subject.—As I shall return in a few days, for newyork , by way of Baltimore , I would be extremely glad if the amount, (which is 75$) could be forwarded on...
26244From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 14 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind inquiries after my Daughter Smith. She is, and has been as well, the Physicians Say, as any one could expect, after Such an Operation, as She has endured—to me it was agonizing—She Sustaind it with firmness, and fortitude The wound has been intirely healed for this month, but the mussels from the Arm, which communicate with the part affected, were necessarily laid So...
26245To James Madison from William Tatham, 14 December 1811 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed offer to the people of Norfolk, in whom I have not yet found those boasted patriotic virtues which I have too often felt their deficiency in, will shew you how my time has been occupied since I had last the pleasure of seeing you in Washington. Twelve months ago I left Harbour Island with a view to be with you before the meeting of Congress (I mean the last of October 1810), but...
26246To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 14 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
14 December 1811, Alexandria. “I have the honor to inform you that, to my great astonishment your messenger Ths. McGraw called on me this afternoon to inform me that owing to being disappointed by the Skipper of the packet, who promised him to go up yesterday afternoon, & again today,… he was still here. As it realy appears that the blame lays entirely with the packet man, who it seems has no...
26247To James Madison from the Union Volunteers of Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania, ca. 14 December 1811 … (Madison Papers)
Ca. 14 December 1811. The officers of the light infantry company called the Union Volunteers, attached to the Seventy-second Regiment, Second Brigade, of the Thirteenth Division of the Pennsylvania militia, are anxious to serve their country “in the field of Mars.” At a full meeting of the company in Uniontown, Fayette County, they resolved to offer their services to the president in order to...
26248From John Adams to Samuel Smith, 13 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the first of this month, in answer to mine of the twenty fifth of November—It is not less frank and candid, than prompt and punctual. I have only to remark that you were certainly mistaken when you thought that I “was personlly hostile to you.” Your brother Robert I never saw in my life, nor had any communication with him of any kind while I had any share in...
26249To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 13 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
The extract contained in one of your last Winter’s letters to me from the Astronomics of Manilius, excited my attention to that writer, of whom I had previously known nothing more than the name—I have not been able to purchase it here, but General Pardo da Figueroa the Spanish Minister at this Court, one of the most learned classical scholars in Europe has had the goodness to lend me this...
26250To James Madison from Anthony Charles Cazenove, 13 December 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
13 December 1811, Alexandria. States that he delivered JM’s wine “this day” to Thomas McGraw. Encloses an account of the charges on it as well as the cost of the “quarter cask of Lisbon,” for a total of $118.88, which JM can remit at his convenience. Advises that “an opportunity from hence for Madeira will offer in a few days” and offers to transmit any order JM wishes. Asks him to mention,...