1John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in giving this Letter to the Gentleman who requests it. The Rev d David Edward Everett , the Successor of M r Buckminster and Thatcher and
2Edward Everett to Thomas Jefferson, 14 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer You a Volume, lately written by my brother Alexander H. Everett , Chargé d’Affaires in Holland .The Prefatory letter gives the true account of its origin viz: in of my Request to him last Summer to furnish me With an acc’t of the present State of national polit s in Europe .—I hope, therefore, it will meet Your indulgence, as a Work of hasty preparation.— Edward Everett ....
3To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 9 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received the letter which You did me the honor near a Year ago to address me on the subject of my brother’s work on the Political State of Europe.—I should have thanked You for it at the time, but that I felt myself unauthorized to intrude on so slight occasion upon Your leisure. Permit me now to forward You a pamphlet which my brother has just published in reply to a Notice of his work...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to an intimation in a note, which I wrote You sometime ago I now beg leave to offer to Your Acceptance a copy of a school book, which I have lately published.—The appearance of this work has been long delayed, by accidental Causes beyond my control, and the few observations, which I designed respectfully to offer to You, in reply to a portion of Your letter of February 23. of the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 10 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Allow me to ask your acceptance of an address lately pronounced by me, and to renew to you the assurance of my profound Respect.— P.S. I have lately seen in our Newspapers your letter to Major Cartwright, on the question “whether Christianity be a part of the Common Law.” I am ashamed to say the whole Enquiry was new to me, & that I know nothing of the subject but what I learn from your...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
By order of the Standing Committee of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, I beg leave to inform you, that you were this day elected an honorary member of that institution. Its object is, by the erection of a permanent monument, to commemorate an event highly interesting in its consequences to the cause of American freedom. Should it, as is hoped, be agreeable to you to be thus united with...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 6 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor duly to receive Your interesting letter, in further illustration of Your views, As expressed in that to Major Cartwright. I should seasonably have acknowledged it, & expressed My entire conviction of the Soundness of y’r exposition of the passage in the Year books (which I own, I did not at first entirely see my Way to adopt) had I not felt some tenderness of pursuing My...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 29 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to ask Your acceptance of a speech lately delivered by me, on a motion to Amend the Constitution.—Some of the doctrines, I fear, will not meet your approbation, particularly those on the subject of slavery: which, while my Countrymen in New England are severely attacking them, are also at Variance with those, so powerfully expressed in Your Notes on Virginia. I also take the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Everett, 16 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with Your letters of the 8th and 10th of this Month. I feel very proud, that my Speech should in any degree receive your Approbation. On the subject of Slavery, I do not mean to maintain that in the Abstract , One man has a right “to appropriate to himself the faculties of Another with-out his Consent.”—But it is Another question, whether, taking things as they Are,...