7801From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
By some thoughtlessness I dated my journal wrong the last time I wrote, and only anticipated my congratulations on the anniversary of Charles’s birth—My Brother is not so well to day, and suffers much from the heat. Indeed the changes are so frequent, and so great, in his complaint, that I vibrate incessantly between hope and despair—The Doctor is thought infallible and when his opinion is...
7802Thomas Skidmore to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
To know how to achieve the grandest object that the mind of man can contemplate, and not to have the means of achievement; to speculate on the sublimest spectacle as a mathematical certainty, & to want the aid that can make it a physical one, appreciable by the grosser senses of our race, as well as by those persons of refined intellect; such a situation is, surely, not to be envied, if,...
7803From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 17 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
An interval of three days without a Letter from you had me, and I find by your Journal to the 15th. yesterday received that it was not without reason—I hope your health will not suffer by a Summer residence in Philadelphia Mr and Mrs. Smith arrived here, the Evening before last from Pensacola—Johnson Hellen left us on Wednesday Morning to return to Rockville I wrote you last Monday Morning...
7804From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 17 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
August 17 Mr. Cook called to inform me he intended to return to Washington tomorrow; and while he was sitting with me the Doctor again went through the operation on my brother again which was as in the former case attended with complete success. For two hours after he suffered great anguish, but I gave him a small dose of laudanum which soothed the irritation of his nerves; and he was much...
7805From James Madison to Robert C. Foster, 17 August 1822 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Robert C. Foster. Letter not found. 17 August 1822 . Acknowledged in Foster to JM, 6 Jan. 1824, ViU : Madison Papers, Special Collections. In his letter JM provided a transcript from the Virginia Supreme Court: “Mrs. Mary Porter conveyed to John. S. Wood by deed dated, 12. of April 1809 and recorded in the supreme Court three Negroes Charity & her two Children, Eliza, & Levinia Signed, &c.”
7806From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
I forgot when I closed my last to answer your question concerning my brothers baggage—He wishes it to be put into some safe place until it can be reshiped to New Orleans; to which place he intends returning as soon as his health is reestablished, unless he could exchange the situation he holds there for something which would be an occupation, one an equivalent in point of pecuniary matters...
7807Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 16 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
My last notes for renewal were sent June 14. and the inclosed I presume will be in time. In the last account recieved from you I am properly charged 1822. May. 28. my note at Virg a bank discounted 330.D. but I see no Credit for that sum recieved at the bank . is this an omission in the account, or a proof of my ignorance. ever and affectionately yours PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address...
7808From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
The last budget from Europe was indeed a fruitful one according to Walsh’s paper—They appear to suffer every horror beginning with Fires, Plagues, Pestilence, Famine, Massacre’s, civil War, and tremendous Storms—All these are to be found in the different news—We have also a slight share of calamity, as the Country fever is said to rage again, and New York is violently afflicted by the Yellow...
7809To John Adams from Timothy Pickering, 13 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
I duly received, and am greatly obliged by your interesting letter of the 6th in answer to mine of the 2d inst. Should any other questions occur on of importance enough to authorize me to interrupt your repose, I shall use the liberty you allow me, to propose them. In recurring to the early opposition to British taxation of the Colonies, you some two or three years since mentioned your own...
7810From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 13 August 1822 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 9 th . Inst. from your Acc t . of the Fever there was Reason to hope that it would soon cease. We have since heard that several new Cases had occurred, and that it would probably become more general— Perhaps this Information may be incorrect. If the Fever is spreading and cases multiplying, I think it would be prudent for Mary and the Children who are with...
7811From James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 13 August 1822 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of Aug 7 is so full & satisfactory an answer to my request of July 2. that I ought not to withold my thanks for it. The delay was immaterial. But I lament most sincerely the afflicting causes of it. With much esteem & friendly respects The Enquirer of the 6th. very properly animadverts on the attempts to pervert the historical circumstances relating to the Draught of the Declaration...
7812From John Adams to William Thomas, 12 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Let me add a few hints to my former letter. Please to search in the publications after the Treaty of Peace for a letter of Monsieur de Marbois, Secretary of Legation to the Chevalier de la Luzern—and records and files of Congress during that period; and an Octavo Volume in french entitled, “Politique de touf les Cabineto del Europe” published by the French Government during the Revolution; in...
7813From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 12 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Badinage Avaunt!!! I must now be very serious. I have recollected all I can of Homer Virgil and Shakespear—for you know I can read neither and I can recollect nothing comparable to your idea of a stone edifice on the top of Waychusetts Hill as an asylum for men and women in despair—it is in Milton only that I can find any thing approaching it, in sublimity. In humanity it has no competitor...
7814From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 12 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your Journals to the inclusive have been regularly received, and have become a sort of necessary of life to George and me—Whatever the Cause of the Confidence which you say you have but recently acquired of writing to me whatever comes into your head, as I am the principal gainer by the acquisition—hope it will be permanent—Your advice is always acceptable, and if I do not always profit by it,...
7815Thomas Jefferson to Bernard Peyton, 12 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 5 th is recieved announcing the sales of 5. hhds of my tob o . my confidence in you always satisfies me that the sales have been as good as the market would admit. this is one third of the crop, the whole being 15. hhds, and these having netted 8083 ℔ we may presume the whole will nett about 24,000 and will be down without delay . I was obliged to draw on you on the 10 9 th in...
7816From John Adams to William Thomas, 11 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Let me add a few hints to my former letter. Please to search in the publications after the treaty of peace for a letter of monsieur de Marbois, secretary of the legation, to the Chevalier de la Luzerne, and records and files of congress during that period; and an ’octavo volume in French, entitled, "Politique de tous les cabinets de 1’ Europe," published by the French government during the...
7817From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
I enclose the Letter just received I cannot guess why it was written to me— MHi : Adams Papers.
7818From John Adams to William Thomas, 10 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
The grounds and principles on which the “3third article of the Treaty of 83. was contended for on our part and finally yielded on the part of the British” were these. First, that the Americans and the adventurers to America were the first discoverers and the first practisers of the fisheries. 2dly That New England and especially Massachusetts, had done more in defence of them, than all the...
7819To John Adams from Abraham Holmes, 10 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
You will pardon (I hope) the freedom I take in introducing to your Notice the bearer of this, who has a strong desire (from respectable motives) to have the satisfaction of conversing a few moments with the man who took so large a share in the important and arduous business of our Revolution and to whose exertions (under God) we are in a great measure indebted for the blessings of...
7820From John Adams to MA Town of Quincy, 10 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
KNOW all Men by these Presents, That I, John Adams, of Quincy, in the County of Norfolk, Esquire, in further consideration of the motives and reasons enumerated in my two former Deeds, do hereby give, grant convey and confirm to the inhabitants of the town of Quincy in their corporate capacity, and their successors, the fragments of my Library, which still remain in my possession, excepting a...
7821From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
August 10. Mr. Joanoff and Baron Maltitz and Mr & Mrs. Pederson and Mrs. Markoe called—I had gone out to visit Mrs. Lowndes who I understood had arrived; but I found that Mr. Lowndes had come alone to consult Physicians—He came down to see me, and I was shocked at his appearance—if the Doctors even set him on his legs again, they will have performed a miracle—I also called on General Brown who...
7822From James Madison to George Joy, 10 August 1822 (Madison Papers)
On the rect of your letters of Jany. 2 & 9. last I searched for & found that of Apl. 16. 1804. and gave information thereof to yr brother B. I sent him at the same time your copy of that letter, with an intimation, that the original, wd. be disposed of as might best answer your purpose. Owing to his absence it was some time before I heard from him. Our correspondence resulted in his informing...
7823From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 9 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
You seem by the facetious tone of your Letters when you honour me with any to imagine that I have a very high opinion of your conduct and the steadiness of your character and take wonderful pains to assure me that you are not exempt from human frailty—do not be uneasy on this score! In the first place you are my Son and have a little of the Mother in you. In the second your very demure people...
7824From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
August 9 The Boston papers announce the death of one of our Grandees James Perkins—I think I recollect him many years ago; but I am not sure that I was acquainted with him. Was he not brother to S. H. Perkins? They tell a ridiculous story here about Mrs. S. Perkins She came to consult Dr Physick concerning a desease to which she is subject in her throat, and which will finally destroy her—When...
7825Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Garland, 9 August 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 1 st is duly recieved. on reciept of a letter of Feb. 6. of the last year from mr William Barrett of Richmond informing me that he was in possession of my bond to Robertson & co. I stated to him that I believed I could make him semi-annual payments of 750.D. each until a full discharge of the debt. I made him two payments amounting to 1250.D., but failed entirely in my third...
7826To John Adams from William Thomas, 8 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
I hope you will not think me impertinent in making some enquiries on a subject very interesting to our section of the Country. I have been recently particularly desirous to make myself acquainted, that I might communicate correct information to others, on what ground or principles, the third article of the Treaty of ‘83 was contended for on our part, and finally yielded on the part of the...
7827To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Although I hear no more of Montezillo than of Boston—Yet I trust, that it is not unacceptable to receive again a—few lines—and the N. papers tell us—from time to time—that He—whom we love and respect—continues to enjoy health and happiness—and yet Sometimes—from a foul mouth ed an adders tongue endeavours to poison those who are less acquainted with them whom we respect and admire—and it may...
7828From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Oh! that I could visit Philadelphia! and run about as I did Forty Eight years ago—to Roman Catholic Churches, Quaker meetings Anabaptist Churches, Methodistical Churches, Swedenborgian Churches—and Presbyterian Churches Not one Congregational Church could I find. Nor of a Unitarian Church was the possibility conceived by any one in that City. Tell Mrs Powell however, that I would now visit her...
7829From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
August 8 Towards evening my brother became much better. To keep his thoughts from his immediate sufferings and to amuse him with conversation is the best remedy, and produces the most wonderful change both in his spirits and countenance; and the most difficult part of the business will be to wean him from the isolated habits he has acquired by his unfortunate mode of living; which made him...
7830From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 August 1822 (letter not found) (Madison Papers)
¶ To Thomas Jefferson. Letter not found. 8 August 1822 . Enclosed in Dolley Madison to Lewis J. Cist, 4 July 1842 ( DLC : Dolley Madison Papers). Acknowledged by Jefferson as received on 9 Aug. 1822 in his Epistolary Record ( DLC : Jefferson Papers), with his note: “Hite & Baldwin.”