79701Wednesday [January 1759]. (Adams Papers)
Drank Tea at Coll. Quincies. Spent the Evening there, and the next morning. In the afternoon, rode out to German Town. H annah Q uincy or O. Suppose you was in your Study, engaged in the Investigation of some Point of Law, or Philosophy, and your Wife should interrupt you accidentally and break the Thread of your Thoughts, so that you never could recover it? Ego . No man, but a crooked...
79702From John Adams to James McHenry, 28 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter from His Excellency John Henry, Govonor of Maryland, dated in Council Annapolis Aug. 19th. I transmit it to you, with my request that you would Answer it, with all the respect that is due to the subject and the Authority by which the Application is made, according to that Arrangement for national Defence, which has been or may be adopted in your Office, in the faithful and...
79703Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments, 15 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
May. 15. 04 State Judge Davies’s enquiries mr Merry’s case Pichon’s memorial he hazards general assertions neither proved nor true the law of nations does not make a nation responsible for acts of individuals out of it’s limits. yet friendly nations do watch to a certain degree. does France watch the atrocities of it’s privateers men with & without commissions it to be assurd. on our part of...
79704To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 22 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your request I have sent the catalogue, which you have been so kind as to make for me. and with it Mr Bonnycastle’s, for the blotted state of which he desired me to apologise, as he has not had leisure to copy it afresh since comparing it with Mr Key’s— CSmH .
79705From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 19 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I snatch half a moment to inform you that a circumstance has occurred which will inevitably keep me a week longer or thereabouts. in the mean time my horses will wait I presume at Heron’s. my tender love to my dear Martha, & the little ones. Affectionate attachment to yourself. P.S. I do not know if there is any merit in the music inclosed. It has been sent to me. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by...
79706John A. Graham to Thomas Jefferson, 23 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me the honor of presenting you, with the Inclosed Speach—as a Specimen of my Bar=talents—my love of liberty—and humanity— Should the sentiments therein contained meet with the Approbation of the Man, whoes, dareing and luminous pen drew the decleration of American Independence—it would be more flattering to my feelings, than any one event, I have ever experinced in the whole course of a...
79707From George Washington to William Augustine Washington, 10 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 1st instant, and the Corn also in good order, has been received; the a/c of which Mr Anderson, my Manager, will render you; with a certificate from respectable Merchants in Alexa. of the Cash prices of that article at the times of delivery. It never was, nor is it my intention, to delay payment a moment longer than might suit your own convenience; of course you may draw upon...
79708From James Madison to Louis-Marie Turreau, 28 November 1806 (Madison Papers)
I have been honored with your Note communicating, by order of your Government, the change in the constitution of Germany, effected by a Treaty among certain States of the Rhine, to which H. M the Emperor & King is a part. In acknowledging this communication, which was duly laid before the Presidt I cannot better fulfil my directions than by repeating the observations made in the answer of the...
79709To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Smith, 22 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of General Smith, we have purchased, & have the honor herewith to enclose, Wm. Patterson & Sons draft on Severyn & Hauebroeck Amsterdam for two thousand five hundred Guilders, equal, at the Exchange of 40 Cents ⅌ Guilder, to One thousand dollars, & which we have paid for, in a Check for that sum, remitted by General Smith. We are with the highest respect Sir Your Obedt Servts....
79710To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Langdon, 19 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republicans of Wilmington and County of New Hanover, N.C., having understood through the Medium of the public prints, that it is your Intention voluntarily to retire from Office, after the Termination of your Appointment; and viewing the present as an important period of our political Relations, inasmuch as the violent Rage of party spirit, which at this time unhappily pervades the Union,...