Quincy 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…