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...been really remarkable on several occasions. it would seem as if the state of the air, or state of the times, or some other unknown cause produced a sympathetic effect on our mutual recollections. I had set down to answer your letters of all I recollect of him is that he was one of the deputies sent to arrest of his report to the National Institute on the subject of the Bollandists ...to the...
in which he sais ‘I have several times mentioned to you the unhappy state of the poor old sisters of . referring you to former letters, I will only add to what I have before said, my prayers for your aid to the interests of these poor & distressed old women.’On recurring to our former correspondence on this subject I observe you had sent me a letter containing a ...me to...
Having occasion to make you a remittance in August last
of one to you from to me in the fall of 1809. but it was not until the spring of 1810. that I could engage the translating & printing of it. to
This letter will be of Politics only. for altho’ I do not often permit myself to think on that subject, it sometimes obtrudes itself and suggests ideas which I am tempted to pursue. some of these relating to the business of finance, I will hazard to you, It is a wise rule, and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish it’s credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it...to
Altho’ fortune has never so far befriended me as to procure me the advantage of a personal acquaintance with you, yet a harmony in political pursuits has not left us altogether strangers. on this unassuming ground I take the liberty of presenting to you a friend. proposing a tour to the North, wishes particularly to have the benefit of being made known to you. he has been engaged in his...
...first rank, and his name would set our institution above all rivalship. I had long ago cast my eyes on him, but was told that his birth at the head of the Mathematical school of Woolwich was too good to expect him.I have undertaken to make out a catalogue of books for our library, being encouraged to it by the possession of a collection of excellent catalogues, and knowing no one, capable,
I have just made up two boxes of pamphlets which I send to to be forwarded to you by the boats of that place so soon as the state of the river will permit. these contain 39 volumes of which 38. are to be half bound only, moderately gilt on the backs, lettered according to and their leaves to be trimmed. I am particular in my bindings, and have hitherto been obliged to send my choice books to
letter of Sep. 24. came inclosed to me in , which did not get to my hands until the 15 how the present answer will get to you I do not yet know but I shall confide it to the , to be forwarded with his despatches either to
to myself to settle, recieve, recover E from myself to you, and the letters which have heretofore passed between it, and on that sum whatever it was, seems just: your letter supposes this was about 2. years; I think from his letters to me it would seem to have been 3. or 4. years. but during the rest of the period, he certainly would not think it just. ...not always ready to pay that I...