82441From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 24 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, from it’s good intentions, merits a suitable reply from me, but not being a judge of the importance of the drawings, & of course of the expressions of thankfulness, they will justify, I must ask the favor of you to have them considered, & let me know whether they offer any thing new & valuable for our gun boats. the gun carriage on the non-recoil principle is new to me—do...
82442James Madison to Matthew H. Moore, 24 April 1832 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of Feby. 17—was duly recd. under a cover from your brother in the Senate of the U.S. An examination of the papers of my Father, having furnished no light on the assigt. to him by your Grandfather Saml. Dalton of a share in the Loyal Company, the present agent of the company was written to by my brother Wm. the only acting Exr. of my Father, requesting such information as might be...
82443From George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, 5 August 1773 (Washington Papers)
I have some reasons to fear that by an unlucky mistake, my Letter of the 12th Ulto (among other things) ordering Insurance on Mr Custis’s Tobo & mine in the Rising Sun was put into the hands of Captn Peterson. If so, the Tobo, & order for Insurance on it will probably go by the same Ship; I therefore again desire (if this Letter gets to hand in time) that five hundred pounds may be Insured on...
82444From John Adams to United States Senate, 4 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the Gentlemen in the following List to fill the Offices to which they are designated in it— Cavalry. Alexander Macomb, junr: New York— Second Lieutenant First Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers. Cadet Jared Brooks Lieutenant Robert Gray Pennsylvania Ditto Cadet Lewis Landais Ditto Cadet William Murray Ditto Cadet Joseph Cross Ditto Peter Lampkin Virginia Ditto
82445To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 26 September 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Post of yesterday brought me your letter of the 21st instant, with the Proclamation enclosed, which was immediately published through the Secretary of State’s Office, in Brown’s Federal Gazette; and means will be taken to accelerate a general circulation of it. I have the honor to be with the highest respect & truest attachment, Sir, Your most Obedient and humble servant LB , DLC:GW . For...
82446[Diary entry: 25 December 1774] (Washington Papers)
25. At home all day with the above.
82447From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 16 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 10th. is recieved, and I have desired mr Barnes to credit mr Short 130. D. as recieved from you, and to place them to my account: so I must desire you to debit mr Barnes & credit me the same sum, to save the risk of actual remittance. it will serve to cover my current calls with you.—I must get the favor of you to send a hogshead of molasses for me to Monticello before the season...
82448To James Madison from Richard Peters, 9 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
From Motives of long & un altered personal Esteem, & as a small Token or Keep-sake, I send you a Collection of Admiralty Decisions, published by my Son. I consented to their Publication, to save myself Trouble, & not with any View to juridical Fame. I know not that they will give you much Information, as a Member of the Corps diplomatique . As to the Subject which now justly rouses the...
82449Henry Laurens’ Account of a Conversation with John Adams on the Peace Negotiations, 19 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
Waited on M r. Adams this Morning & after our conversation on M r. Bridgen’s affair as related in P. S. of a Letter to him. We entered upon the topic of our late preliminaries, I repeated my apprehensions of our having done wrong. M r. Adams persevered in his old opinion & in censuring Count de Vergennes upon whom he said the whole blame would fall, he had been a greater Enemy to the United...
82450From George Washington to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 1 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
It has so happened, that your letter of the first of last Month did not reach me until Saturdays Post. You know, too well, the sincere respect & regard I entertained for your venerable fathers public and private character, to require assurances of the concern I felt for his death—or of that sympathy in your feelings for the loss of him, which is prompted by friendship. Under this loss however,...