79201From Charles Francis Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Mama presented me your kind Letter of the 20th. of June, No 2, which I read with great pleasure, particularly that part of it which tells of the dress, of the Boys and Girls; in Holland. I laughed very much at the large breeches, and Umbrella petticoats, and wished very much I could be with you, to see all these droll things. I have come home for a Vacation of three weeks, but Mr Fishwick has...
79202From Thomas Jefferson to John George Jackson, 22 February 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in Nov. a petition from some Wiandot Indians praying for a grant of the reservation of 2. miles square at the lower rapids of Sandusky, part to themselves, & part to some missionaries; and lately I have recieved a counterpetition from other Indians: but neither coming through our agent, we have no proper means of knowing that they are genuine, or have been fairly obtained. they will...
79203To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 7 September 1765 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Public Record Office Having just heard that there is a Vessel to sail for Bristol Tomorrow Morning from Philadelphia, I embrace the Opportunity to send you a Copy of a Letter I this Week receiv’d from Mr. Coxe, with my Answer, and a Letter from our Speaker to the Speaker of Massachusets Bay. Mr. Coxe never consulted me on his Resignation, but on the contrary told me about 10 Days ago...
79204From Francis Dana to John Adams, 27 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have the satisfaction to inform you that I have at last receiv’d from the Secretary of the Treasury the money which Congress granted me for my expences for a private Secretary while at the Court of S t: Petersbourg: and can now refund you the whole expence you have been put to on John’s account while with me there, as well as upon his return to Holland— In pursuance of your letter of the 4...
79205[Diary entry: 16 January 1773] (Washington Papers)
16. Ground very hard froze—but calm and moderate after the Morning.
79206V. “Letters from a Distinguished American,” No. 6, 2 February 1782 (Adams Papers)
IF “we receive from the West India Islands certain commodities necessary to manufactures,” as the cool reasoner on the consequences of American Independence pretends, “which we can procure from no other country;” is not this a motive for France to continue the war, as forcible as for us? The rivalry, and the enmity, between England and France, is so ancient, and so deeply rooted in the hearts...
79207To James Madison from David Airth, 1 January 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
1 January 1805, Gothenburg. “I had the Honour of addressing you last on the 2nd. Janry last year transmitting an Account of the Shipping of the United States which had visited this Port the preceeding year and I make no doubt it has duly come to your hands. According to your general Instructions I have now the Honour to wait on you with a Statement of the shipping for last Season [not found]...
79208To Thomas Jefferson from Wilson Cary Nicholas, 31 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I had not the pleasure of receiving your favour of the 22d. of Apl. until the day before yesterday. Be pleased Sir to accept my most cordial thanks for the very friendly attention that you have paid to my letter, asking an appointment for the son of my brother and be assured that I wou’d not in his case, or any other propose any person to you for an office, where I believed there was a...
79209To James Madison from James Rush, 2 May 1813 (Madison Papers)
I beg leave, respectfully, to be allowed an expression of the great sense of obligation I feel for the distinguished mark of confidence and favour with which you have been pleased to honor me, by the appointment under the government of the United States lately received at your hands. In tendering you my profound and most respectful acknowledgments for so flattering a notice I have only to add,...
79210From John Adams to United States Congress, 19 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Joshua Sands of New york to be collector of the District of New york, vice John Lamb dismissed DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
79211To James Madison from Henry Lawrence Waddell, 26 January 1809 (Madison Papers)
When I had the honor to write to you ten days since I was uncertain whether Family circumstances would admit my embracing the present opportunity for France. Having since made my arrangements to embark in this Vessel I must solicit you to forward me a passport certifying in the customary form that I am an American Citizen & intend embarking in the Mentor for L’Orient; should I leave this...
79212From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 14 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 9th. is at hand. mr Randolph informs me he has sent you an order for the hogshead of tobo. but lest the inspection in my name should render his order insufficient I inclose you one from myself, to be used or not as you shall find necessary. [I also] observe that ‘you have not yet heard any thing of the order which I mentioned having sent you [by] mr Hopkins.’ This must relate...
79213Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Brown, 3 November 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this is the son of mr James Maury an antient class-mate of mine, & the only one now living. I am not personally acquainted with this gentleman; but I love the father, and cannot be indifferent to the wishes of the son to be made known to the good of your state which he is about to visit. I commit him therefore to your kind attentions & good offices, and, from what all say of him...
79214John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 19 September 1780 (Adams Papers)
A few days since I had the honor of a letter from Mr. A., who I have the pleasure to inform You is well with his two Sons. Mr. Dana is gone also to Amsterdam—he left Paris the 12th instant. What his Object is I know not—his determination was sudden and unexpected, and occasioned by the Arrival of Mr. Searle, but this by the bye. I am left here of Course a miserable, solitary lonely Being,...
79215To James Madison from André Limozin, 26 January 1788 (Madison Papers)
Mr Thoms Jefferson Ambassadr of the US at the Court of Versailles forwarded me the Letter your Excellency was so Kind as to honor me with the 8th Ulto, inclosing me Captain Fournier’s Bill of Lading for 2 Barrlls apples. } which were deliverd. in the most 2 dto cranberries pityfull Condition, the fruit being intirely rotten 1 Box containing Fruit trees which I have forwarded to Mr Jefferson in...
79216Conway Whittle to James Madison, 26 January 1835 (Madison Papers)
It has been my good fortune to be selected as the channel by which to forward a package to you which appears to have come originally from Havre. A box to your address was to day delivered at this Office from on board a New York packet. On reflection I have concluded to acquit myself of the trust by sending the box to Major Gibbon the Collector of Richmond whom I have requested to send it...
79217From Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Pinckney, 21 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter of the 21st of October by duplicates (the Original lost) has recently come to hand. I have directed the Treasurer to remit you by this opportunity Six thousand Pounds Sterling, the sum you mention to be likely to be deficient for the payment of the cost of the articles procured for the frigates. The bills have Ninety days to run, but none good at a Shorter Sight were to be...
79218To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 22 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Philadelphia, 22 July 1791 . He hastens to send the enclosed letter from Montmorin which he has been directed to communicate officially to the government.—He cannot observe without surprise that even in the United States some ill-disposed persons have given credit to wholly untrue rumors concerning the intentions of the King and the probability of a counter-revolution in France. Faithful to...
79219To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Newton, 11 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I now have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your note of yesterday. You must be mistaken as to the Cyder. I recollect that at your request I had Cyder procured for you several times, but it is my firm belief that you have paid for the same. Through the assistance of a friend some mrytle wax was obtained for you, said to be 30. Ct but as I did not weigh it, I am not certain that...
79220To James Madison from Hans Rudolph Saabye, 31 August 1803 (Madison Papers)
I hope my last Respects of 12 April have reached you. This covers now the usual list of American Ships, which passed the Sound since the beginning of the Year, til the end of June last. Their number has not been inconsiderable, and it appears, that the Trade from America to the Baltic will be an object of importance this Year. Hitherto the Conduct of the belligerant Powers towards neutral...
79221To Alexander Hamilton from William Short, 22 February 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
When I had the honor of writing to you on the 17th. I expected that I should have been able to have sent you by this post a copy of the obligation which will be given on the part of the U.S. in consequence of the loan which I then announced to you. The form of the obligation having been delayed, I inclose you at present the prospectus of the loan, original & translation, as it is the basis of...
79222To George Washington from Brigadier General Edward Hand, 8 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
In compliance with your Excys Orders of the 6th Unstt I beg leave to inform you, that considering the present situation of the Southren States, & the Apparent danger of their relinquishing the Idea of farther Opposition if not effectually supported in the course of the ensuing Winter—It is my Opinion that our best plan will be to Strain every nerve to do it, & that our present preperations &...
79223From George Washington to Major General William Phillips, 6 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was favoured with your letter of the 29th Ulto by Captn Masters. The several packets which he had in charge have been sent into New York, but from recent and particular resolves of congress I could not comply with your intention respecting Captn Masters’ interview with General Clinton—He has however made his application in writing for an exchange, and waits in this neighbourhood for his...
79224From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I nominate Bartholomew D. Armistead now a 2d. Lieutent of Infantry in the 2d. regiment to be 1st. Lieutenant vice Saml. Lane resigned Aug. 12. 1802. Benjamin Wilkinson, a 2d. Lieutt. in the 2d. regiment of infantry to be 1st. Lieutt. vice G. Barde dismissed the service. Josiah Taylor now an ensign in the 2d. regimt of infantry to be 2d. Lieutt. vice B. D. Armistead promoted. William L. Chew...
7922527th. (Adams Papers)
Recite in Ferguson this week. Mr. Williams, this forenoon concluded his course of astronomical lectures, by explaining the or rery, and the cometarium. I have not received from these lectures either the entertainment or the instruction, which I expected from them. Except having acquired a clearer notion of the figures of the different planets by viewing them through the telescope, I believe I...
79226[Diary entry: 23 December 1797] (Washington Papers)
23. Wind in the same quarter but not so hard. Mer. 10 a 26.
79227To George Washington from Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer, 11 January 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer, 11 Jan. 1777. Spencer wrote GW on 30 Jan. : “I wrote to your Excellency the 11th Instant.”
79228To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President sends him a letter from Mr Short. Also a circular letter he has written to the foreign ministers at Philadelphia, in order to place his Report on commerce on safe ground as to them. Also a copy of the statement of the French debt as furnished me by mister Ternant. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s...
79229To James Madison from Camillus M. Mann, 19 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
You will I hope in the present conjuncture be pleased, magnanimously to attribute to my right motive, namely my attachment to the interests of freedom of the nation and our republican institutions as well as a very deep reverence for your eminent mental qualities, and policy in the most trying times this country has witnessed since the revolution if, waving forms of which I have not knowledge...
79230From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
The River being open at length, and the Vessels preparing for their departure, I sieze the earliest opportunity of writing, to assure you that the family are generally well, and that we have all excepting Mr Gray, suffer’d very little considering the length and severity of this tedious Winter.— I wish my dear Madam I could write any thing that would amuse you, but our lives are so uniformly...