74711From George Washington to George Washington Parke Custis, 15 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday’s mail brought me your letter of the 12th instant, and under cover of this letter you will receive a ten-dollar bill, to purchase a gown, &c., if proper. But as the classes may be distinguished by a different insignia, I advise you not to provide these without first obtaining the approbation of your tutors; otherwise you may be distinguished more by folly, than by the dress. It...
74712To James Madison from James Monroe, 15 November 1796 (Madison Papers)
This will pass by the way of Engld. & will therefore most probably arrive safe. It is committed to Mr. Dease lately with Mr. P. in Engld. & who will deliver it to some careful person abt. departing thence for America. I enclose in it two letters from T. Pickering to me, my answer to the first, & a communication wh. finally wound up my discussion with the minister of for: affrs. upon the...
74713John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 November 1796 (Adams Papers)
I received a few days ago, your favour of August 10 th. it mentions a previous letter of July 11 th. which has not yet reached me. The latest date from you before this last is of June 10. From my father I think I have none since May.— The appointment to the mission of Portugal, I find from your Letter was as I had before concluded, unknown to my father. I have already written you upon the...
74714From George Washington to William Deakins, Jr., 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Permit me to recommend the enclosed letter to your care. And to ask if it be practicable to procure me ten or a dozen Bushels of Oats from the Glades for Seed, by the first of March next? With esteem & regard I—am Dear Sir Your Obedt Servant ALS (photostat), CSmH . GW addressed this letter to Deakins at “George Town Potomac.” Deakins replied to GW from Georgetown, D.C., on 18 Nov.: “I have...
74715From George Washington to Charles Lee, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
This letter is for your eye only—It is written for the purpose of expressing my regret for your continued absence from the Seat of the Government. Rely upon it, it is productive of unpleasant remarks, in which I must be involved. It will, indeed is, considered as making a Sinecure of the Office. To suppose there is no particular occasion for the Law-Officer of the government at the Seat of it...
74716From George Washington to William Pearce, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 6th was received (with the Reports) on Saturday; but I do not clearly understand by it, whether James Wilkes reembarked with, or without a bed, or is yet at Mount Vernon. If the latter, he had better (if his health is sufficiently restored) offer himself to Mr Law as A Coachman; for before he could get here, and be well settled, I shall be making my arrangements to return to...
74717From George Washington to Alexander Smith, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th has been duly received. When I authorised Mr Pearce to sell my flour, I limitted him to the largest credit the circumstances of my own concerns would enable me to give, consistently with my own wants, & the arrangements I had contemplated. To extend the credit ninety days longer, would not only derange my own plans—but, as the same causes will always produce the same...
74718From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 14 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 14 Nov. 1796. GW advises his nephew of a letter he received several years earlier from Isaac Heard, Garter Principal King at Arms, “enclosing our Armorial; and requesting a genealogical account of our progenitors since the first arrival of them in this country.” GW adds that he replied to Heard with the “best information” he had, and “wrote … to Lawrence Washington for an account...
74719To James Madison from Hubbard Taylor, 14 November 1796 (Madison Papers)
As this will be handed you by Mr. Brown it will be unnec[e]ssary for me to give you any information respecting what is going forward in this Legislature of this State. I acknowledged the rect. of the 40 Dollars by Mr. Brown and gave amt. into the hands of his brother and have informed him thereof. I am collecting the Meterials for our Claims against Mays And will take such steps as may be...
74720Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 13 November 1796 (Adams Papers)
I return my dear madam miss Williams letters with Lovuts memoirs— am much obliged & hope have not detained them too long— am sorry to hear by Your late short billet that You do not enjoy perfect health— was the stage driver under any mistake when he told me you Contemplated a passage to Plimouth in the stage ere long— I hope he was not: as such a Circumstance would be exceedingly gratifying to...