Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, January 29, 1801

Philadelphia 29 th: Jan y 1801.

Dear William

I received the letter you enclosed me from my father on
the 25 th: inst t: with a few names of members & others, for Dennie— 1 I have sent you three or four
setts already of the P— F— to be distributed and now enclose you another—
The opinion, here is pretty general, that the journal of the Silesian tour
is, by far, the most interesting of all the Contents— Indeed, whatever comes
from the pen of that writer, is finished and instructive— I wish that my
parents would furnish me with some of his private letters, written from
Holland, England and Berlin—they would continue to adorn the literary
vehicle, when the tour is exhausted— No 5— is a beautiful and elegant
letter, which displays more Classical scholarship than is possessed by any
man, that I know in this Country— You will see it in the next Number— 2

Our Lawyers are gone off to day, for the City— M r: Ingersoll will give in his resignation and I
hope M r: W m: Tilghman will be his Successor. 3

Lieut t: Parker of the Navy is
going on tomorrow and I give him a line for you together with the bundle of
Gentz—for which you must be sure to get the Cash—price 33 1/3 / 100 4

Your’s

T B A— 5