1From John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
In your favour of the 15th of November, you ask, in the Name of your eldest Son, the Liberty to take my Buste By Saturdays Mail I recd a Letter dated Philadelphia Decr. 6th. from Mr Joseph De la Plaine, a Gentleman whom I know not, who Says “A respectable Young Gentleman, Mr Morse, lately from London, Son of the Revd. Dr Morse is an excellent Artist I learn. I beg you to do me the honour of...
2From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to sympathize with you and your Children on the loss of your amiable and excellent Consort. As my reflections on this mournfull Event can be no other than your own I shall spare you the pain of reading them. I thank you for your Letter of the 14th and the Pamphlet inclosed. Do you know the Meaning of the Words “ Awakenings ”? and “ Revivals ”? I am old enough to have attended the...
3To John Adams from Jedidiah Morse, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you very sincerely for your two last very valuable communications, one of the 5th. inst—& the preceding one—They throw light on a very interesting period of our history—They contain many unrecorded facts, known probably to no other man living, except yourself, & whh a historian ought to know. I pray that your health may be continued, that you may be enabled to put into a State to be...
4From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your pretty little letter of October 3rd., mongrel as it is, part English, part French, has diverted me much. I have ran about here, & there, and every where, with delight especially to Auteuil. But my good boy you have many voyages & Journeys to perform, before you can trace all the residences of your vagrant Grand Father. You must go to the Rue de Richlieu to Passy, & to the place de...
5To James Madison from Jean David, 18 December 1815 (Madison Papers)
Nothing but the duty which I owe to my Country would have induced me to have intruded these Remarks, conceiving it for the interest of the United States to ad to the Strength of its government, that again upon Some other trying occation it may not be in the power of one or two States to Hamper the opperations of the General Government, or of individuals in, or out of Congress, from having it...
6Amos J. Cook to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
It is customary in this northern section of our country to connect with the more important seminaries of learning a Museum of natural and artificial curiosities. Such a connexion is deemed both pleasing and useful.—We have an Academy in this town, endowed with a capital, which affords an annual interest of about $800. out of which a Preceptor (and a Preceptress, during the summer quarters) is...
7Thomas Jefferson to Charles Massie, 18 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I had left home when your answer to my letter came and altho mr Bacon forwarded it, I have never got it. he says however that he engaged what cyder you had left and that you would either deliver it at your own house or at Charlottesville . the latter will suit me best as it would and on notice of it’s being there I can send for it immediat e ly or it may be delivered there to mr James Leitch...
8André Thoüin to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Permettez-moi de vous présenter un de nos Savans confrères, M r Lakanal , membre dela classe d’histoire et de Littérature Ancienne de notre institut ; homme recommandable par Sa moralité autant que par ses connaissances et aux quels nos institutions Scientifiques ont de grandes obligations. Il quitte notre vieille Europe , dans laquelle la civilisation va en retrogradant, pour Se fixer lui et...