28781Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
I did not design to write another line till I could get my pen mendid but not a creature can I...
28782To Thomas Jefferson from Anonymous, 31 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Abstract of Monies expended on account of the President’s House from 1st. January to the 31st....
28783[Diary entry: 28 November 1773] (Washington Papers)
28. At Colo. Bassetts all day.
28784To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 1 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
A Flute belonging to the French Government, which was dispatch’d from hence for Philadelphia the...
28785Peter Derieux to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
N’ayant pas eu l’honneur de vous ecrire depuis plus de deux ans, par la crainte de vous...
28786William Temple Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 22 February 1781 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress My Grandfather recd. your letter of the 14 Inst. inclosing one for the...
28787From James Madison to Philip Mazzei, 7 July 1781 (Madison Papers)
Draft ( LC : Madison Papers). Docketed by JM, “Mazzei, Philip July 7. 1780.” The year should have...
28788To Thomas Jefferson from André Limozin, 5 June 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my former of the 22 May I am deprived of your favors. The young De la Croix Navy Prentice...
28789To Benjamin Franklin from O’Reilly de Quane, 26 July 1777: résumé (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society <Abbaye de St. Martin, Aumale, July 26, 1777, in French: I...
28790To Alexander Hamilton from Otho H. Williams, 30 October 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
I have too much reason to expect that a decree in the Court of Chancery for this state will very...
28791To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 21 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you on Friday, informing that on that day two vessels were to sail for England carrying...
28792[Diary entry: 25 June 1768] (Washington Papers)
25. The Carpenters finishd getting the Frame for the Barn at my Ho. House.
28793To Thomas Jefferson from the Board of Trade, 19 October 1779 (Jefferson Papers)
[ Williamsburg ] 19 Oct. 1779 . Fifteen hundred additional hogsheads of tobacco have been...
28794From Alexander Hamilton to Major General Horatio Gates, 4 September 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
[ West Point ] September 4, 1779 . Requests that Gates forward letter from Conrad Alexandre...
28795From George Washington to John Beatty, 29 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
From the particular circumstances of Capn Campble’s case I have been induced to permit his...
28796From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 21 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
I nominate Matthew Clarkson, of Pennsylvania, to be the Commissioner on the part of the United...
28797To Thomas Jefferson from Louis André Pichon, 9 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Pichon a l’honneur de présenter ses respects à Monsieur le Président des Etats Unis et de le...
28798From George Washington to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 15 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
Not till the 5th My dear Marqs was I able to leave York—providing for the detachment that was to...
28799From John Adams to Thomas Brand Hollis, 19 February 1792 (Adams Papers)
I ought not to neglect an opportunity by Col o: Smith to assure you by a few lines, of the...
28800From George Washington to John Francis Mercer, 30 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The last Post brought me your letter of the 10th Instt—and a former one handed me a line from Mr...
28801To George Washington from Colonel Mordecai Gist, 30 November 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have the Misfortune to be on camp Near the Quarters of General Maxwell and have no good Water...
28802To George Washington from Anonymous, March 1792 (Washington Papers)
I know you to be good—and you are great, independent of public opinion—I mean intrinsically...
28803To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 4 April 1801 [i.e. May 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose you the latest information in this Department relative to the...
28804To John Adams from Thomas Digges, 23 January 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am without any of your favours for some time. Not a word of news to write about that concerns...
28805To George Washington from Moses Gill and John Pitts, 30 November 1775 (Washington Papers)
Watertown [Mass.] 30 November 1775 . Present “Mr Gillam Tailer, a Gentleman from Boston, of a...
28806To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Middleton, 1 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When I had the honor of seeing you in Philadelphia about two years since I was happy enough to...
28807To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 22 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I did myself the pleasure a few days ago of writing you a...
28808To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 26 October 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I am Sensible that this freedom needs an [appology]. I wrote You a letter In last month and if...
28809James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 10 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of Nov r 29. came to hand a few days ago. The letter from T.C. is returned. I had one from...
28810To James Madison from Peter Kuhn Jr., 10 August 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Peter Kuhn Jr. 10 August 1805, Genoa . “My last respects were of the 16th Ulto as per Copy...
28811From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 29 July 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
The completion of the works in the vicinity of our City proceeds heavily. Some embarrassment is...
28812From John Adams to Jonathan Sewall, 10 September 1760 (Adams Papers)
You have perhaps expected from me (according to the Custom of the World) some Expressions of my...
28813Antoine Marie Cerisier to John Adams: A Translation, 1 October 1782 (Adams Papers)
It has been a long time since I broached the important subject of the admission of the United...
28814To George Washington from William La Péronie, 5 September 1754 (Washington Papers)
As I imagine you By this time, plung’d in the midst of dellight heaven can aford: & enchanted By...
28815Notice of University of Virginia’s opening, 25 May 1824, 25 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The University of Virginia. The period for opening this institution being ultimately fixed to the...
28816From Benjamin Franklin to [La Rochefoucauld], 17 November 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Bibliothèque Municipale de Besançon I return the Carolina Constitution which I have...
28817Enclosure: Proposal for the Establishment of Cross-posts in Virginia, 1 August 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Notice ! I am authorised to contract for the Establishment of two Cross Posts, for one year, from...
28818Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 23 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented setting out to Bedford as early as I had counted. I depart tomorrow. in the...
28819To George Washington from James McHenry, 24 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
I resume the answer to your letter of the 20th which I acknowleged the moment after I received...
28820To Thomas Jefferson from Maria Cosway, [30 October 1786] (Jefferson Papers)
[How I wish I?] could answer the Dialogue! But I hon[estly think my hear?]t is invisable, and...
28821To John Adams from Samuel B.H. Judah, 12 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour to present to you a copy of a poem that has attained some celebrity in this...
28822To James Madison from James Monroe, 25 April 1815 (Madison Papers)
I have yours of the 23 d. Col: Aspinwall is desirous of obtaining the appointment to London as...
28823To James Madison from Audley Laurens Osborne (Abstract), 3 May 1805 (Madison Papers)
3 May 1805, Salisbury, North Carolina. “If the most correct motives did not guide me, I should...
28824To Thomas Jefferson from William Branch Giles, 2 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Chevalier , the Gentleman who will probably present you this letter, in passing through your...
28825To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 9 November 1810 (Adams Papers)
One hundred and twenty American vessels have sailed from the Port of Cronstadt for the United...
28826[Diary entry: 4 September 1768] (Washington Papers)
4. Warm. Wind rather Westwardly tho but little of it.
28827Memorandum of Books, [ca. August] 1790 (Madison Papers)
16 livsons. from 15th. to 30th. inclusive 0 from 23 to 30 inclusive: not charged 0 Memoires...
28828From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 4 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day drawn on you in favor of Dabney Carr for [fifty] dollars. tho’ as far as I am...
28829Thomas Jefferson to John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 28 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 19 th is this moment recieved, and I hasten by it’s acknolegement, to...
28830To George Washington from Francis Mentges, 7 October 1782 (Washington Papers)
I received your Excel. Letter dated the 1st of March—the 26th of May in Carolnia, I am happy to...