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 22 CORRESPONDKNCE. cate it in Louisiana. Locations can be found adjacent to the city of New Orleans, in the island of New Orleans and in its vicinity, the value of which cannot be calculated. I hope it will induce him to come over and settle there with his family. Mr. Livings- ton having asked leave to return, General Armstrong, his brother- in-law, goes in his place : he is of the first order of talents.

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Remarkable deaths lately, are, Samuel Adams, Edmund Pen- dleton, Alexander Hamilton, Stephens Thompson Mason, Mann Page, Bellini, and Parson Andrews. To these I have the inex- pressible grief of adding the name of my youngest daughter, who had married a son of Mr. Eppes, and has left two children. My eldest daughter alone remains to me, and has six children. This loss has increased my anxiety to retire, while it has dreadfully lessened the comfort of doing it. Wythe, Dickinson, and Charles Thomson are all living, and are firm republicans. You informed me formerly of your marriage, and your having a daughter, but have said nothing in you late letters on that subject. Yet what- ever concerns your happiness is sincerely interesting to me, and is a subject of anxiety, retaining, as I do, cordial sentiments of es- teem and affection for you. Accept, I pray you, my sincere as- surances of this, with my most friendly salutations.

LETTER XV.

TO MRS. ADAMS. Washington, July 22, 1804.

Your favor of the 1st instant was duly received, and I would not again have intruded on you, but to rectify certain facts which seem not to have been presented to you under their true aspect. My charities to Callendar are considered as rewards for his cal- umnies. As early, I think, as 1796, I was told in Philadelphia, that Callendar, the author of the ' Political Progress of Britain,' was in that city, a fugitive from persecution for having written that book, and in distress. I had read and approved the book ; I con- sidered him as a man of genius, unjustly persecuted. I knew nothing of his private character, and immediately expressed my readiness to contribute to his relief, and to serve him. It was a Letter XV to Mrs. Adams