Quincy Sepr 7th. 1798.— Gentlemen I thank you for this respectfull Address. The Existence of the Independence of any Nation, cannot be more grossly attacked, the Sovereign Rights of a…
Philadelphia Feb 25th 1800 Dear Sir I have received your favor of the 17th & thank you for the information & opinion you give me respecting a dock yard which…
Washington Decr 25. 1800 Dear Sir I had last night, yours of the 24th.—The Anxiety of the two Setts of Persons you mention is eer this time relieved. Perhaps it…
Quincy Nov 5th 1816 Dear Sir Though your Son is engaged in an honourable and a laudable pursuit, I apprehend he is not quite aware of all the embarrassments in…
Quincy December 18th 1816 Dear Sir Your kind letter of the 13th contains much truth, and nothing but the truth. I may return to it hereafter, but at present, with…
Quincy Jany 24th. 1817 Dear Sir Bernard, Hutchinson, Oliver, the Commissioners of the customs, and their Satellites had an Espionage as inquisitive, as zealous, and as faithful, as that in…
Quincy March 8th. 1817. Dear Sir “Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity!” The French have a distinction, between Eulogy and Apology. I know not under which of these heads to…
Quincy May 15th. 1817 Dear Sir Mr William Smith Shaw has lent me the fourth Volume of his political pamphlets, the first tract of which is the Controversy between Governor…
Quincy May 18th. 1817 I pretend not to preserve any order, in my Letters to you. I give you hints, as they accidently occur to me, which, an hundred years…
Quincy June 24th 1817 Dear Sir As we have amused ourselves with looking at a few pictures, suppose we should add one more to the Gallery. The Artist makes the…
Quincy Febur’y 21th., 1818 Dear Sir I presume you have read the elegant life of Patrick Henry by Mr. Wirt the Attorney General of the United States. If you have…
Quincy Feb 25, 1818 Dear Sir As Mr Wirt had filled my head with James Otis; and I am well informed that the Honourable Mr Benjamin Austin alias Honestus alias…
Quincy, April 15, 1818. dear sir, I HAVE received your obliging favour of the 8th, but cannot consent to your resolution to ask no more questions. Your questions revive my…
Quincy April 23d. 1818 Dear Sir I have Seldom read so much good sense, in so few Words as in your Letter of the 5th. Your Judgment of Mr Wirts…
Quincy June 7th 1818 Dear Tudor No man could have written from memory Mr Otis’s Agument of four or five hours in length, against The Acts of Trade, considered as…
Quincy June 9th 1818 Dear Tudor I have promised you, hints, of the heads of Mr Otis’s Oration, Argument Speech, call it which you please, again the Acts of Trade…
Quincy June 17th. 1818 Dear Tudor The next Statute produced & commented by Mr Otis was the 15th. of Charles the Second, i.e. 1663, Chapter 7. “An Act for the…
Quincy June 24th. 1818. Dear Tudor Mr Otis Said Such a “Writt of Assistance” might become the Reign of Charles the Second in England, and he would not dispute the…
Quincy August 11th. 1818 Dear Sir The “Defence of the New England Charters” by Jer. “Dummer” is, both for Style and matter, one of our most classical American Productions. “The…
Quincy August 16th 1818 Dear Sir We cannot yet dismiss this precious statute of the 6th of George the second. Chapter 13. The second section I must abridge, for I…
Quincy August 20. 1818. Dear Sir Mr: Otis quoted another Author “The political & commercial Works of Charles D’Avenant LLD Vol 2 Discourse 3 on the plantation trade” I cannot…
Quincy September 13th. 1818 Dear Sir It is some consolation to find in the Paragraph of the Charter, next following the Court of Admiralty, that Nothing in it, “Shall in…
Quincy Sepbr 18th 1818 Mr. Tudor The English doctrine of Allegiance, is so mysterious, fabulous, & enigmatical, that it is difficult to decompose the Elements Of which it is compounded.…
Quincy September 23d 1818 Dear Sir If, in our Search of Principles We have not been able to investigate any moral phylosophical or rational foundation for any Claim of Dominion…