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During my residence in Paris I was much acquainted with Commodore Paul Jones whose life you purpose to write and had much to do with him. yet my memory is so decayed that from that source I can furnish you nothing worth a place in his history. I believe I cannot better comply with your request than by sending you all the papers relating to him in my possn. his letters to me, which are many,...
Your favor of the 3 d was recieved some days ago and I have taken time to make a thorough search among my paper for whatever might relate to D r Sibley, but to no effective purpose. the part of his correspondence which related to public matters was with the Sec y at War. the few letters I have of his, respect matters of curiosity, Indian vocabularies E t c things of that kind. When we acquired...
Receive the Most Cordial Congratulations from an old friend of the father and the Son, who on this Occasion feels much for You, and for Him, and who will Be Happy on the Bunker Hill Anniversary to express in person the patriotic and individual Sentiments which Have Been known to You for Near Half a Century. Most truly and Affectionately / Your old friend MHi : Adams Papers.
I concur with entire satisfaction in your amendment of my resolution, and am peculiarly pleased with your insertion of Genl Wash’ns addresses, which had not occurred to me or I should have referred to them also. I send you another letter of mr. Cabell’s which I think you will read with pleasure. Affectionate salutations. RC ( DLC : Rives Collection, Madison Papers); draft ( DLC : Jefferson...
your kind lre of Jan. 14. was rec d 3. weeks ago. the Report accompanying it got separated from the lre in some of the post offices and did not come to hand until a few days ago. I have taken time to read it before I made my acknolmts for it which I now do with great pleasure. to our young establmt it conveys a treasure of informn in the experience of the oldest and most successful one in our...
I have so many calls to answer & write with so much difficulty that I have not till now been able to furnish you the copy which your lre of Jan. 23 requests of my letter Apr. 20, the original of which you say is mislaid, it is now subjoined with the assurance of my respect MHi .
I concur with entire satisfaction in your amendment of my resolution, and am peculiarly pleased with your insertion of Gen l Wash’ns addresses, which had not occurred to me or I should have referred to them also. I send you another letter of mr Cabell’s which I think you will read with pleasure. affectionate salutations. DLC : Papers of James Madison, Rives Collection.
Your letter of the 30th December last addressed to Col. Thomas Forster was handed me some time since with a request that I would reply to it which I have not been able to do until the present time. I have made particular inquiry of Mr. C. T. Reed respecting his field of wheat harvested in 1823. The result is as follows. The land was originally covered with Oak chesnut sugar Maple Black Walnut...
I received duly your kind letter of Oct r Ult: in answer to some I had written before. We hear much of late of “pious privileges”—“previous privileges” and all other sorts of privileges—but without any cant or affectation, it is to me a truly grateful privilege, my Dear & respected Sir, to be permitted to write to you when I can, with the reasonable expectation that my letters are rec d with...
I cannot deny myself the pleasure of improving the earliest opportunity, to offer to you my warmest congratulations, upon the accession of your son to the Presidency It is a circumstance which on several accounts I have long lookd forward to, with the most earnest anxiety: & I trust you will not deem me uncourteous when I say, that that which most prompted my hopes for his success, was the...
Allow me my venerable Friend, from whom I have recd. such marks of favor and friendship, to ongratulate you on the Election of your son John Quincy Adams to the Presidency of the United States—may His administracion under Divine Providence, be a blessed with success to our beloved country, and his own happiness, is the ardent wish and prayers to God of Him who has the Honor to be with the...
Your favor of 3 d ins t has been duly received, and your requests attended to. Both the letter and the enclosed resolutions have been shewn to M r Loyall, and to him alone. He will unite in supporting the resolution relative to the text books on government. It would be very agreeable to us to know the time of our next meeting; but I suppose it is impossible to place it on a footing of greater...
In my letter of this morning, I forgot to mention that I had sent you by the mail an extra Copy of the Documents relative to our interest claim transmitted by the Governor to the Assembly at the commencement of the session. M r Loyall strongly recommends that you should send these documents to M r Tazewell with a note of request that he would pay particular attention to the subject. It is now...
I, in some measure, regret that you have no spare niche for the Rev d M r Bertrum, yet I should be loathe to part with such a learned neighbour. He has since, expressed a wish to enter the service of the Rhode Island College, at Providence, but I do not encourage it, for there he would be “Condemn’d to trudge, “Without an equal, and without a judge.” It would be almost as bad at Dartmouth...
It hath pleased Almighty God in his Goodness and Mercy to give to this great & favored people yesterday, about half past four oclock P.M., your Son John Quincy Adams, as the President elect, to rule over this nation four years from the 4th. day of March next; I rejoice with you & with those dear to you on this happy event, I rejoice the more because it must be a balm to your heretofore wounded...
I have the honor to inform you that myself, and colleagues arrived here, this evening, after a long and tedious passage. We left London on the 27 th of October, and were detained in the British Channel until the 16 th of December. Of the introduction contained in the accompanying letters with which we were politely favored by M r Gilmer, we shall personally avail ourselves, so soon as the...
Among the papers, of the late M r John W. Eppes, your letter to him, of the 9 th Sept r 23, on the subject of a balance, due from you, to him, has been found—the embarrass’d state, in which M r Eppes left his affairs, renders it necessary, to call on you for this balance—there is a debt due from the estate, to the Central College, of one hundred dollars, which Mrs Eppes has taken the liberty,...
I beg leave to submit to you the first sheets of a Cherokee Grammar , which is now publishing (by our Missionary Society) under my direction. You will perceive, Sir, that I have been obliged to form an alphabet , as well as to reduce the language to grammatical order. The alphabet is constructed agreeably to the general views given in my Memoir upon an Orthography for the Indian Languages...
The enclosed note from Mr King, will inform you of the Event of this day, upon which I can only offer you , my congratulations, and ask your blessing and prayers. Your affectionate and dutiful Son P.S. Have the goodness to cause the Note from Mr King, to be sent back to me. MHi : Adams Papers.
I Thank Heaven my dear Grand father that I am so happy as to announce to you the Election of Uncle, by 13 states—It is indeed Virtue triumphant & an event which will add much to your happiness—I never saw a stronger expression of real feeling than in an old Gentleman, a perfect stranger to all the family, who came in great haste from the Capitol to congratulate Aunt—God knows says he I...
The letters from Mr. Cabell are herein returned. I just see that he has succeeded in defeating the project for removing the College from Williamsburg. I hope your concurrence in what I said of Mr. Barbour will not divert your thoughts from others. It is possible that the drudgery of his profession, the uncertainty of a Judicial appointment acceptable to him, and some attractions at the...
I was prevented by hurting my foot from being at last Madison court. I wrote however to Harrison and invited him at the request of Mr. Y. Cowherd to be at our court in this month. I had intended to have pumped Mr. Cowherd in relation to what I wrote you, Harrison me—but he anticipated me and volunteered the information that you would be obliged to pay the whole. I asked him if he meant the...
The letters from M r Cabell are herein returned. I just see that he has succeeded in defeating the project for removing the College from Williamsburg. I hope your concurrence in what I said of M r Barbour will not divert your thoughts from others. It is possible that the drudgery of his profession, the uncertainty of a Judicial appointment acceptable to him, and some attractions at the...
I have the honor to return you your excellent little tract on the Anglo Saxon language and mode of teaching it. I have perused it with attention and am delighted with your idea on the subject. I have found, in the course of my experience as a teacher, that assimilating, even by forcing and straining a little, the language of the learner to that he is to acquire greatly facilitates his labor....
I am happy to inform you that our efforts have eventuated in success, and that the College party have been defeated in the House of Delegates by a majority of 24. You need not give yourself any further trouble on this subject. Our friends & myself concur in thinking that it would be improper to bring in the bill for dividing the funds of the College. The public mind is not prepared for so bold...
About the begining of January, I took the freedom of sending, for your acceptance, some medical tracts.—Accompanying them, with observations of a desultory nature; as to the object of so sending them. Perhaps the packet in which they were enclosed got lost, or stolen, as often is the case. In a seperate packet, by the same mail, I also forwarded a letter in manuscript.—To this letter I wisht...
haveing seen mr Catlett on the subject of the road proposed to be run through his lot in front of his house & also having made the best arrangement with him I Could—I report to you the result—M r Catlett is willing to take 110$ for the ground the road will take leaving eight feet in front of his house which 8 feet he wishes to inclose—and which is the width of the walk above—M r Catlett...
I discover by a newspaper corrospondence that the University of Virginia is one of superior eminence to any in the U.S. and that it would go into operation the 1st of this month I am going to School to this College but being one of a n ordinary kind I do not wish to complete my education here knowing that the instruction of the University of Virginia will be invaluably superior my Father was...
M r Littell an enterprising, intelligent and respectable Citizen of Philadelphia will communicate to you a plan which he has profected for the promotion of education, literature and Science on an extensive scale. He has conferred with me on this subject. Approving of its outlines and viewing you as a sincere and distinguished friend of these great interests, I have taken the liberty of...
I perceive that several professors are still to be appointed for the Central Seminary of the State I take the liberty to bring into your view for one of those professorships—D r Henry Jackson youngest brother of General James Jackson—late of late of the Senate of the US. D r Jackson was professor of natural philosophy in 1813 when I was going to France in that year, he desired to accompany me...