You cannot imagin how much pleasure I have received from your kind letter of the 15th It is perfectly beautiful, and I have given it to my Grand Daughters as a model of literary composition,—Your account of your G.F. activety and energey almost excites my envy, who have neither a manageable horse...

I have been long intending to address a few lines to you, on some of those objects of public interest, in which, it has been my good fortune in to cooperate, successfully, with you, for the common benefit, I trust, of our fellow citizens at large. It is an unquestionable fact, that the...

Mrs Nicholas arrived here yesterday at two o’clock having suffered no fatigue whatever from her journey. I am sorry that it is not in my power to announce the birth of a grandson yet, but I hope to have that pleasure in the course of a few days. Mr Godefroy will with great pleasure undertake the...

Th: Jefferson recieved yesterday Mr Mantz’s present of very handsomely dressed leather, for which he begs leave to return him his thanks, and to express the pleasure he recieves from new discoveries and advances in the ar useful arts. those who by che new processes cheapen the comforts of life...

I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. my hopes indeed sometimes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

I regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come.

a nation united can never be conquered.

what institution is insusceptible of abuse in wicked hands?

a constitution has been acquired which, tho neither of us think perfect, yet both consider as competent to render our fellow-citizens the happiest and the securest on whom the sun has ever shone.

if there be anything amiss therefore in the present state of our affairs, as the formidable deficit lately unfolded to us indicates, I ascribe it to the inattention of Congress to it’s duties, to their unwise dissipation & waste of the public contributions. they seemed, some little while ago...