Daniel Putnam to John Adams, June 15, 1818
Brooklyn 15h. June1818. Sir, Words are poor, and wholly inadequate to express the grateful feelings of my heart for your excellent letter, couched in terms of no equivocal import, but…
Brooklyn 15h. June1818. Sir, Words are poor, and wholly inadequate to express the grateful feelings of my heart for your excellent letter, couched in terms of no equivocal import, but…
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 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…
Office of the Attorney General June 6th: 1818. Sir. The enclosed letter from Mr. Bache, the post-master at Philadelphia, ought, I think, to be communicated to the President of the…
Oldenbarneveld 8 May 1818. My Dear and respected Sir! Although only a few moments of day light are left me, I Shall take hold of these to indulge a pleasurable…
Quincy May 3d. 1818. Sir I was born on the nineteenth of October 1735, and consequently was eighty two years of age, on the thirtieth of October 1817. My Son…
London May 2. 1818 Dear and Respected sir. An old Scotch woman, in North-Shields, signing herself Ann Hewison, has sent me a manuscript Quarto of what she calls extracts from…
Washington City, D.C. 29 April 1818. Venerable Sir, A Stranger to you, an Apology is justly due on my part for the Liberty I take in addressing this Letter. The…
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…
Herkimer State of New York April 22nd: 1818— Honourable Sir: I am requested by the old Revolutionary Gentlemen of this vicinity, to ask the favour of your Hon. to give…