1Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of June 20th with one for mrs Adams which I shall forward in a few day’s. I am Sorry to learn that your Health & spirits are depressed. I know well that want of Health mars every other enjoyment. You must Call Reason & Philosophy to your Aid, nor let the untoward occurrences of Life too much depress you. “Man wants but little here below, nor want that little long” are...
2Abigail Adams to William Smith, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Since writing to You, respecting Thomas Welch, I have received last week a Letter from mr Adams which wholy discourages me from Sending any person abroad. he states certain difficulties which I do not see can be surmounted, certainely not, as it respects Thomas I cannot but regreet that I did not receive the Letter which is dated the last of Feb’ ry sooner, that I might not have proposed the...
3Rebecca Leppington Hurd to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
If, Madam, I still retain a Place in your esteem, (and I am not conscious that I have ever forfeited it) let me Solicit your kind interposition in behalf of an Application made by M r Hurd in a letter to the President for the loan Office now Vacant by the decease of M r Appleton. Shoud M r H be thought properly qualified, by the President, for this Office, he wou’d endeavor to merit it by a...
4From John Adams to United States Senate, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate William McGuire of Virginia to be Chief Justice of the Mississippi Territory— William Henry Harrison Esqr: of Virginia to be Secretary of the Territory, north west of the River Ohio— Josiah Blakely of New York to be Consul of the United States in St. Jago in the Island of Cuba— DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
5From John Adams to John C. Herbert, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
An Address so respectful to me and so faithful to the Nation and true to its Government from so honourable a Portion of the Young Men of Richmond, cannot fail to be very acceptable to me.— You will not take offence, I hope at my freedom, however if I say that if you had been taught to cherish in your hearts an Esteem and Friendship for France, it would have been enough: very well. more than...
6To John Adams from Henry Downes, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
At a meeting of a number of respectable citizens of Caroline County in the State of Maryland at Denton in the said County on the twenty sixth day of June Seventeen hundred and ninety eight, Henry Downes Esquire was unanimously appointed Chairman and Joseph Richardson Secretary, when the following resolutions were proposed and agreed to. First, Resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting...
7To John Adams from John Hurd, 26 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
When I had the honour of writing you so long ago as March 1790 soliciting your Assistance for an Appointment to some public Office that might afford me a decent Support in the Decline of Life—You were pleas’d Sir, in yr. Answer of 5th Aprl. following, to say—That you shou’d be happy to have an Opportunity of serving me both from a Regard to my Services & early Attachment to the Cause of my...
8[Diary entry: 26 June 1798] (Washington Papers)
26. Morning Cloudy, & contd. so all day with the wind at So. Mer. 70 in the Morng. 75 at Noon and 72 at Night. Mr. Law & two French Gentn.—viz. Mr. La Guin & Mr. Clarmont. Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton wrote in her diary on 24 June 1798 that “Mr. La Guin & Mr. Flamand two French Gentlemen from New York came” ( DLC : William Thornton Papers). Nelly Custis recorded that they were “old friends” of...
9From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
Mr Anderson requesting that the boy who was going to the Post Office yesterday, might call & deliver a letter to you, from him, concerning flour—Availing myself of that conveyance, I sat down, and was in the act of writing the hasty lines you received from me by him, when I was summoned to dinner. In my hurry to close and Seal it, I omitted the enclosure then refered to, and which is now...
10To George Washington from James McHenry, 26 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
(Confidential) Dear Sir. Philad[elphia] 26 June 1798 I have received your letter of the 2 2d by to-days mail. If you could know how much I have had to do, and how much I have been compelled to neglect to do, since I received your letter inclosing one to Parker, and the other of the 6th of May, you would most heartily and readily pity and forgive me, had I utterly overlooked the several matters...