1Abigail Adams to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 12 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
Accept Sir my acknowledgment to you for the very valuable present of the Medallion, and the polite Letter which accompanied it. The workmanship is too exquisite, and reflects too much honor upon the Artist, to be lodged in a Private House. Works of this kind are a Novelty in America, and were I to accept it, it would be considerd as an object of vanity. The American are not accustomed to any...
2From John Adams to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 2 December 1794 (Adams Papers)
Il Vice-Presidente degli Stati Uniti presenta i suoi complimenti a Mr. Ceracchi: ha ricevuto e trasmetterà a Mr. Adams come richiesto un medaglione in marmo in elegante cornice dorata. Mentre egli ammira la durevolezza della materia e la squisitezza dell’arte, non può che dolersi che esse non venissero piuttosto impiegate ad immortalare qualche altra testa più meritevole di esser tramandata...
3From George Washington to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 10 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States presents his Compliments to Mr Ciracchi and with many thanks for his offer of the very elegant figures sent him, begs leave to restore them again to Mr Ciracchi. His situation calling for uniformity of conduct in these cases, he relies that Mr Ciracchi will ascribe it in the presen[t] instance to its true motives, and accept the assurances the President now...
4From Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 9 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by the President of the United States to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instt and that of the present date; and to express to you his regret at your dispair of bringing your plan of a national monument to a fortunate issue. Whether there are sufficient grounds for despair, or whether more time may not be necessary to give the Subscription papers a fairer trial...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 14 November 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received the favor of your letter of May 27. from Münich, and it was not till then that I knew to what place or through what channel to direct a letter to you. The assurances you recieved that the monument of the President would be ordered at the new election, were founded in the expectation that he meant then to retire. The turbid affairs of Europe however, and the intercessions they...