Adams Papers

From Benjamin Rawle Morgan to John Adams, [ca. 6 October 1791]

From Benjamin Rawle Morgan

[ca. 6 October 1791]

Sir

Agreeably to my instructions from the Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia, I have the honor of communicating to you the following copies of their Resolutions—1

At a special Meeting of the Directors January 18th: 1791

“The Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia, desirous of shewing a respectful mark of attention to the President and Congress of the United States—Resolve that the President, and Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives of the United States shall have the free use of the Books in the Library in as full and ample a manner as if they were Members of the Company—[”]

At a Meeting of the Directors October 6th: 1791

“Resolv’d—that the Resolution of the 18th of January last be extended to the present Congress of the United States and that the Secretary be directed to furnish a Copies of the said Resolution to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the house of Representatives[”]

Benjamin R Morgan
Secretary to the Directors
of the Library Company
of Philadelphia

RC (DNA:RG 46, Records of the U.S. Senate); addressed: “John Adams Esquire / Vice President of the United / States and President of the / Senate”; docketed: “2d. Cong: Sess: 1st: / Resolution / of the Library Company / of Philadelphia offer / ing to the Senate the / use of their Books. / October 6 / 1791.”

1. Philadelphia lawyer Benjamin Rawle Morgan (1765–1840) acted as secretary of the Library Company of Philadelphia from 1792 to 1825. In 1791 the directors were Joseph Paschall, Mordecai Lewis, Josiah Hewes, Thomas Parke, Richard Wells, Benjamin Gibbs, John Kaighn, Thomas Morris, Benjamin Poultney, and Richard Wister. JA laid this notice before the Senate on 27 Oct. (Washington, Papers, Presidential Series description begins The Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series, ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Jack D. Warren, Mark A. Mastromarino, Robert F. Haggard, Christine S. Patrick, John C. Pinheiro, David R. Hoth, Jennifer Stertzer and others, Charlottesville, Va., 1987– . description ends , 17:175; George Maurice Abbot, A Short History of the Library Company of Philadelphia, Phila., 1913, p. 27, 28, 29; Pennsylvania Mercury, 7 May; U.S. Senate, Jour. description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Washington, D.C., 1789– . description ends , 2d Cong., 1st sess., p. 328).

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    Adams Papers
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    From Benjamin Rawle Morgan to John Adams, [ca. 6 October 1791]
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    Adams, John
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    6 October 1791

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    “From Benjamin Rawle Morgan to John Adams, [ca. 6 October 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0045. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, pp. 68–69.]