27491From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to your situation. the thought struck me to say, that some light might spring up, where we did not foresee it, and extricate you from your difficulties. Such a light appears to me to have arrisen in the midst of surrounding darkness, by the appointment of mr Adams an associate judge of the Supreem...
27492From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
This Letter is devoted to one Subject. Since the Death of Judge Cushing there has been frequently expressed in Conversation, much regret at your Absence, among People of all Parties. Presuming that Absence to be an insuperable Bar to any Nomination as a Judge, I have taken very little Notice of such Insinuations of Regret and imputed some of them to one Motive and Some to another. I need not...
27493From James Madison to William Steuben Smith, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Reposing a special Trust and Confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability: I have appointed you the said William Steuben Smith Secretary of Legation of the United States of America to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; authorizing you hereby to do and perform all such matters and things as to the said place or office doth appertain, and the same to Hold and exercise...
27494To James Madison from Samuel Smith, 4 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 March 1811, Washington. “My excellent young friend Mr. John Skinner of Annapolis, (who I believe was presented to you by Mr. Duvall) intends going to the Western Country. He wishes to commence his Career there in Some public Employ.” Skinner’s legal studies and service as a clerk in the state legislature qualify him for a secretary’s position, and his “connections & family are among the most...
27495To James Madison from William Tatham, 4 March 1811 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
4 March 1811, Norfolk. “Perhaps there never was a period when speedy communication was more important to the safety and prosperity of the United states than the present; especially when we consider how difficult it must be to manage a population so far and widely expanding itself.” Encloses a sketch to demonstrate a method of telegraphic communication “whereby I deem it practicable to pass a...
27496Thomas Jefferson to Skelton Jones, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
An absen absence of upwards of a month from this place has put it out of my power sooner to acknolege the reciept of your favor of Jan. 15 . on my return home I make it my first duty to offer you this apology for the delay of my answer. I was under the necessity of visiting, in a very inclement season, a possession I have in Bedford , near 100. miles from this, where I have continued from...
27497Thomas Jefferson to Mary Page, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Jan. 2. by some unusual course of the post was near a month before it reached this place, to which a further delay has been added by my absence of upwards of a month from home, to which I returned but two days ago. I make it among my first duties to acknolege it’s reciept, to offer this apology for so late a reply, and to give you assurances of the pleasure I should recieve from...
27498Dudley Richardson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I hope you will Pardon me For Pestering you with Letters But Rely on your Tender Cear for your Fellow Man. I wood be glad to know if you have heard from my Son Richard Richardson Since I Rote you 1810 & to know if he Has got aney Letter from me or from George Richardson . As I am Desirous of Hearing from him as I am at a Loss to know how I Can Convay A Letter to him as have Got No Account from...
27499Caesar A. Rodney to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter enclosing the additional observations on the subject of the Batture directed to me at this place way was received on my arrival here on the first of february. Since that time I have read them with much pleasure & satisfaction, & highly approve of them. The President M r Gallatin & M
27500From Thomas Boylston Adams to William Meredith, 3 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your very highly esteemed favour of the 25th: ult: came to hand this day. An acquisition of such value, demands a prompt acknowledgment, and I avail myself of a slight indisposition, as a plausible excuse for absenting myself from Church, that I may have the pleasure of once more communing with you. It was at the instance of my Brother, that I transmitted to you a set of the Lectures, of which...