26501From John Adams to Arnold Henri Dohrman, 16 May 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have recieved the Letter which You did me the Honor of writing to me, the 11th. of April, in which You inform me, that more than six hundred of my unfortunate Countrymen have recieved Succours from You, without which they must have been reduced to Despair, or forced to engage on Board the Vessels of their Enemies. In this, Sir, you have distinguished yourself by Efforts of Humanity, which do...
26502From James Madison to Arnold Henry Dohrman, 21 February 1796 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 21 February 1796. Acknowledged in Dohrman to JM, 26 Feb. 1796 . Concerns Dohrman’s debt to Philip Mazzei.
26503From James Madison to Arnold Henry Dohrman, 20 March 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 20 March 1795. Acknowledged in Dohrman to JM, 24 Mar. 1795 . Concerns Dohrman’s debt to Philip Mazzei.
26504From James Madison to Arnold Henry Dohrman, ca. 6 March 1796 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 6 March 1796. Acknowledged in Dohrman to JM, 11 Mar. 1796 . Concerns Dohrman’s debt to Philip Mazzei.
26505From Thomas Jefferson to Arnold Henry Dohrman, 24 May 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
The many Kindnesses which you have shown to our captive countrymen, whom the fortune of war has carried within the reach of your inquiries, do great honour to your humanity, and must forever interest us in your welfare. I beg leave on behalf of my countrymen to assure you, that these attentions are felt with sensibility, and that any occasion which shall offer of rendering you service will be...
26506From James Madison to Arnold Henry Dohrman, 3 April 1795 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 3 April 1795. On this day JM wrote letters to Dohrman and Joseph Jones but sent each to the incorrect recipient. These letters were respectively acknowledged in Dohrman to JM, 6 Apr. 1795 , and Jones to JM, 7 Apr. 1795 . The letter intended for Dohrman but received by Jones concerned Dohrman’s debt to Philip Mazzei.
26507From George Washington to George J. L. Doll, 16 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I am happy in receiving this public mark of the esteem of the Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Kingston. Convinced that our Religious Liberties were as essential as our lives, my endeavors have never been wanting to encourage & promote the one while I have been contending for the other—and I am highly flattered by finding that my efforts have met the...
26508From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 30 May 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
When I left public office I expected to be so much at leisure that I should keep up a very animated correspondence with my friends. On my return home I found my farms in a ruinous condition, which made it necessary for me to undertake their recovery and culture myself. Forced to make myself acquainted both with the theory and practice, I at length became so fascinated with the occupation that...
26509From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, 11 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
This accompanies a duplicate of my letter of Oct. 11. troubling you with some small commissions, to which I must add the having some window sashes made for me agreeable to the inclosed directions, and the sending them to Virginia in the ensuing spring.—But there is another commission with which I trouble you with real reluctance. It is to procure for me from Glasgow or Edinburgh a mason...
26510From Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, [8 June 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
I was going to acknolege th[e receipt of yours of Jany. 5th. and Feb.] 15. when I was seised with a yearning of [the heart, which] obliges me to stop till I could write the inclosed. He is a good man to whom it is addressed, and he is himself the bearer of it. I shall make it the subject of a conversation with him. I thought it would not be disagreeable to you to enter with him the claim we...