Quincy March 19th. 1817 Dear Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a ratiocination? Do you think there will ever arise an original Genius who…
Quincy, March 18th. 1817. Dear Sir I thank you for your favour of the 3d. and congratulate you on your success; which I hope and believe will be an honourable…
Quincy Mar. 17. [ , Start insertion, 1817 , End, ] Dear Sir Have you read certain Strictures upon Painters and Paintings in the Newspapers? What do you think of…
Quincy March 16 1817 Dear Sir The information you gave me in your favour of the fifth of this month; for which I kindly thank you, has given me great…
Quincy March 14th 1817 Sir I am obliged to you for your favour of the 5th. the eleven volumes of your Register, shall be paid to your order in Boston…
Quincy March 13 1817 Dear Sir Though the publication of my juvenile Letters to your Father, especially in a Nantucket Gazette is a riddle, a mystery beyon[ , Start insertion,…
Roxbury March 10th: 1817 Dear Sir To my very great surprise and mortification, I saw in the daily Advertizer a week or ten days since, letters written by you 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…
Boston Feby 2 1817. Dear Sir, An attack of rhumatism which has confined me to my room & kept me in such a feverish, irritable state as to be almost…
Quincy Feb. 2d. 1817 Dear Sir In our good old English language of Gratitude, I owe you and give you a thousand thanks, for Tracy’s Review of Montesquieu which Mr…