58101John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been deeply afflicted with the account of your accident—At first your Leg was broke—I shuddered, I feared that I should have no more letters from Montecello —Next came the account that it was only a small bone in the Arm—My hopes revived . the difference between the leg and the Arm was immense. To illustrate this difference, and for your consolation and amusement; I will give you an...
58102Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams, 14 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
Your agreable Letter of May. 10. from Auteuil I received by your Son. His Absence You will feel and I do not wonder that you parted with him with Regret as his Ability to relieve his Parents from many Cares and Burdens must have been great. He is now pursuing his Studies with his Uncle Shaw, more especially in the Latin and Greek Languages. In other Respects he was qualified to have entered in...
58103To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 23 March 1790 (Madison Papers)
My dear wife is not better, than when I wrote to you last. I expect something determinate in a few days. Inclosed is a copy of my motion. Had it been intended to bring forward a convention immediately, the thing was imprudently worded; because it contains many unpopular points. But as subjects of reflection for the people, they could not, I thought, be too pointed. I give you a duplicate, that...
58104From George Washington to William Dobbs, 31 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
On the receipt of this, I wish to procure a number of those Pilot s that you formerly engag’d, and who ar e par ticularly acquainted with the Navigation of the Hook & North River, and with them repair, as soon as possible to Capt. Dennis’s at Baskenridge, where you’ll continue ’till you receive further orders from Genel Foreman of Monmouth County; after you have procur’d the Pilots , & sent...
58105To Thomas Jefferson from J.A. Storrow, 18 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to use the name ne of your antient friends—that of Mr William champe Carter whose son in law I am—as my means of introduction. The bearer is a young gentlemen of Fauquier, the son of a particular friend. He is destined for the University & proceeds to charlottesville for specific information respecting his future course—the time when the Lectures are to commence, the requisites for...
58106From Thomas Jefferson to Napoleon Bonaparte, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just received your Imperial Majesty’s letter of the 29th of March 1807 communicating the intelligence that the Princess Eugéne Napoleon, Vice Queen of Italy, was happily delivered on the 14 of that month of a Princess who had received the name of Josephine. The friendly interest which the United States take in an event so conducive to the happiness of your Majesty and your Imperial...
58107To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Barclay, 23 February 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Gibraltar, 23 Feb. 1792. For the last three weeks news from Morocco has been various and contradictory. Reports of the dispersal of the army of Muley Ischem and the triumph of Muley Yezid have been succeeded by reports that Muley Ischem has trapped Muley Yezid’s army. The only certain news is that Muley Slema has passed safely from the sanctuary at Tetuan to the sanctuary at Mequinez, though...
58108William R. Gray to Thomas Jefferson, 22 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I anticipated the honor of delivering to you, a letter from the President of the United States; but recent information that you were absent from Monticello , and the advanced state of the season, have induced Mrs Gray and myself to defer paying our respects to you, until our return from charleston . as the letter may not be merely one of introduction, I have taken the liberty of enclosing it...
58109George Nicolson to Virginia Delegates, [ca. 25 May] 1781 (Madison Papers)
RC ( NA : PCC , No. 78, XVII, 139). Addressed to “The Honble the Delagates in Congress for the State of Virginia.” Docketed by Charles Thomson, “Letter from Geo Nicolson Read May 26. 1781 Referred to the board of War.” Articles in the Public Magazine, wanted for the State of Virginia Gentlemen Above is a List of such necessarys now in the Continental Store which are much wanted in our State...
58110From Thomas Jefferson to Brissot de Warville, 27 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I now trouble you with my packets for America, which are indeed unreasonably bulky. The larger one addressed to Mr. Jay contains chiefly newspapers, pamphlets &c. so may be disposed of as you please. That addressed to Mr. Madison is of the same nature, as are all the others except the smallest of the two addressed to Mr. Jay which contains my letters, and of which I ask your special care. The...