27331W. Flan. Jennings and Others to James Madison, 25 March 1834 (Madison Papers)
(committee of the Jefferson Democratic Society of Philadelphia) The Jefferson Democratic Society of the City and County of Philadelphia, have deputed the undersigned, to convey to you the expression of their high regard for your character, their admiration of your talents, their gratitude for your public Services, and their earnest desires that you would accept the honorary Office of Patron of...
27332John Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed papers were handed to me by M r William C. Preston with a request that I would deliver them to you on my way to Richmond when I had hoped to have had the pleasure of paying my respects to you. Being detained however longer than I expected in the West I found it necessary to hasten on to Richmond and did not therefore come by the way of Monticello as I had expected to do. The paper...
27333To James Madison from John Campbell, 21 February 1787 (Madison Papers)
On my way to this place I met a Man from the Settlement on Cumberland River in North Carolina who had just come in by the way of Kentuckey. He informs that the minds of all the Western People are agitated on Account of the proposed cession of the Mississippi Navigation to Spain. Every person talks of it with i[n]d[i]gnation and reprobates it as a Measure of the greatest Injustice and Despotism...
27334To George Washington from John Campbell, 18 May 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Campbell, 18 May 1789. On 31 May GW wrote to Campbell : “I have received your very polite letter of the 18th.”
27335John Campbell to [James Madison], 13 June 1829 (Madison Papers)
I received this morning your kind letter of the 11th. and return you my respectful & sincere acknowledgements for the friendly good wishes with which you have honored me: Coming as they do from an aged patriot so long and so eminently distinguished in the estimation of his country they can not be otherwise than extremely flattering to me. I shall soon be familiar with all the forms of this...
27336To Alexander Hamilton from John Campbell, 10 May 1784 (Hamilton Papers)
I am happy to have the Satisfaction to Inform you that If I could by any means find a Safe Opportunity at Present I have in my power to remit you the Cash to pay those people that you was my Security too. As I only arrived here the 29th. of last Month, I beg you may not think it Strange you not Recd. the mony by this. I hope you’ll rest assured that when ever I can with any Safety Send it to...
27337Agreement with John Campbell and Receipt from John Campbell, [9 November 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
Agreement between Alexander Hamilton on behalf of Nicholas Low & Abijah Hammond of the one part and John Campbell on the other part. The said John Campbell agrees to proceed forthwith to Scotland in the Kingdom of Great Britain there to endeavor to purchase and to ship from thence to the united States on account of the said Nicholas Low & Abijah Hammond the following articles, Eight Stocking...
27338Promissory Note from John Campbell to Stephen Rapalje, [1 April 1784] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, April 1, 1784. ] Hamilton engages to pay promissory note from John Campbell to Stephen Rapalje if Campbell defaults. D , in writing of H, signed by John Campbell and H, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress. Campbell was a merchant who lived at 31 Hanover Square, New York City. Rapalje was a New York merchant.
27339John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taken the liberty of enclosing you a proposal for a work which I expect to publish during the next Summer. I have progressed in this work, as far as the year Seventy Six, but for the period, subsequent to that, I find it extremely difficult to procure materials. I would be much gratified by your advice as to the best sources of information; an d if you have any thing, that would yield...
27340John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I avail myself of this method of making a proposition to you, respecting the publication of a complete Edition of your different writings, as far as they may be designed for the public; including the, “Notes on Virginia .” The work should be executed in Philadelphia , by the best publisher in the city, & in a stile, not inferiour to any prose work yet published in our country. Should the...