Lists Latest Business; Sends Greetings to Friends
Document 1797Encloses letter to Mr. J. Mentions the Mr. Scolten, brother of a friend who acts as the Danish legislative secretary. Requests meeting with young friend John W. Henry. European reactions to Congress. Sends greetings to Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Hindman, and Mr. Smith of Charlestown.
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[Wm J. Murray]
[1797/3 [undecipherable]]
[undecipherable: Mc McHenry]
[from [undecipherable: William] Murray] [1797?]
The inclosed letter to Mr J. I have taken the liberty to wish you
to have put into a way of conveyance to him — It is a [undecipherable: duplicate]
of, one which I write last month upon a particular Subject —
I [undecipherable] it, by leave to decline every agency in the affair — unless
it [strikethrough: read be] is that an application should come from that —
Side to me — from the [undecipherable] friends here — Her brother —
Mr. [undecipherable: Sculten] is Secretary of Danish Legation here — a the family
of a certain [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] a inspection — lo coarto was
the word for "Son excellence"
When you next write the son of my young friend Mr. John
[undecipherable: McHenry] — his [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] nothing about returning — when [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] done, if at all, your full deliberation will be taken at your
own convenience &— I am at a great [undecipherable] depend on it for a [undecipherable: refined]
French reader as a critic of that [undecipherable: incident] language that I [undecipherable]
is to clothe every [undecipherable] (public) in Europe in its own idiom, [undecipherable]
& deep — and it I wish no body but the french — It is not half
So vulgar not to Speak [underline: Dutch] — but I do come on —
Pray remember me kindly to Mr. [undecipherable: Caldwell] — to
[undecipherable: Hindman] — ah — I dread this hot matter for [undecipherable: Hindman]!
and to Mr. Smith of [underline: Charlestown] (they ask any
[undecipherable] of nearly a whole State at a dash in the paper I
[undecipherable] M. [undecipherable: Sedgwick] — a [undecipherable: Henry] — I hear he was [undecipherable] with
[undecipherable: Tagarell] to the [undecipherable: Committee] — as to any other you please —
[undecipherable] I like — a may as to [undecipherable: Harper] —
Type
Autograph Letter fragment
Description
Encloses letter to Mr. J. Mentions the Mr. Scolten, brother of a friend who acts as the Danish legislative secretary. Requests meeting with young friend John W. Henry. European reactions to Congress. Sends greetings to Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Hindman, and Mr. Smith of Charlestown.
Date
1797
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1797999940101
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
William Murray
John W. Henry
Congress
Danish Legislature
Mr. Caldwell
Mr. Hindman
Mr. Smith
Notable locations
Europe
Denmark
Charleston

