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46,149 lettersQuincy July 11. 1807 Dear Madam As it is neither consistent with my Principles, Disposition or habits, upon any misunderstanding with an ancient Friend, to conceive Resentment and hostility to…
Philadelphia July 9th: 1807. My dear friend, I once met Alexander Cruden the Author of the Concordance of the Scriptures at Charles Dilly’s. He was then about 70 years of…
Quincy June 25. 1807 Dear Sir John Bunjan, if he had written my last Letter to you would have called it an history of Gods Judgments against Lyars and Libellers.…
Quincy June 23. 1807 Dear Sir I have received your favour of the ninth of this Month, and conveyed to Dr Tufts your Letter to him, who desireses me to…
Philadelphia June 9th: 1807. My dear friend Permit me to trouble you with the delivery of the enclosed letter to Dr Tufts. It contains an Account of the death of…
8: June 1807 Morisania Sir tho a stranger I take the Liberty of addressing you on a subject that very much Interests me, & I hope will you—I have become…
Quincy May 23d. 1807 Dr Sir I received at an Exhibition of Musick in our polite Village of Mount Woollaston, on thursday, your Letter relative to Mr Loude, and sent…
Quincy Feb 13, 1807. Dear Sir Benjamin Beale Esq. our representative, brought me last night from the General Court, a packet containing two books and a letter. But the letter…
Quincy February 8th: 1807. Sir. Mr: Samuel Adams was called a Maltster because he kept a Malt-house; but he was a Gentleman of liberal Education; a Legislator and a Magistrate.…
Quincy Feb. 2, 1807 Dear Sir One of the Historiographers of Johnson’s Chat, Boswell perhaps or Piozzi says that Johnson being asked which were the best sermons in the English…
Quincy Feb. 2. 1807 My Dear Doctor You make me very happy when you Say, that you agree with me upon the Subject of the Perfectibility of Man. Let every…
Alfred Jannuary 29th 1807 Honrble Sir I am Possesed of A paper Executed To Samel Adams Malster of Boston & others it was Executed Decembr 1718 if it concerns you…
Quincy January 29 1807 Dear Van Der Kemp Upon my Word and honour, if I know myself, and for any Thing I know to the contrary, I am Alive, and…
Churchhill Queen Anns County. State of Maryland [ c. January 24, 1807 ] Honorable Sir. I can but confess my neglect in not letting you Know that I received your…
Philadelphia Jany 23rd. 1807. My dear friend I have been waiting like Horace’s Clown till the Stream of my business should so far lessen that I could pass over it,…
Quincy Jan. 21. 1807 Dear Sir Robinson was not only a Man of Sense and learning < but > Piety and Virtue but of a Catholic tolerant Spirit and remarkable…
Rotterdam 17 Janry 1807 Sir Narrowly bound in a DisInterested Friendship of Many Years, with Mr John Luzac Proffessor att Leyden Who often Confided Me the Marks of Esteem he…
Oldenbarnev. 12 Jan. 1807 Dear Sir! I spent two days as disagreable, as anÿ in mÿ life—tears bedewed my cheeks and reason and religion could not entirely assuage the pains…
Jany 10th. 1807. Sir, I herewith send you Asmall book, which having your Name in it I suppose it to be yours. and that I borrowd it when we ware…
Olden barneveld 7 July 1806 Dear Sir! At lenght I take again mÿ pen, to assure you of the high respect, with which I am So fortunate to feel mÿ…