- Todsen George B.
- Towle D
r - Harrison Thomas
- Babcock Joseph.
- Mayo D
rRobert - M
rsElliot - Bell John
Dr
Todsen came to urge his application for some office, under
the Department of State, and to ingratiate himself with me, asked me if
I could lend him my Letters on Silesia—which he said were so favourably
noticed in the last Edition of the German Conversations Lexicon that he
wished very much to see them— Dr Towle called and said that
Mrs
Towle had now sufficiently recovered her health to resume
her plan of painting a gallery of Portraits, and wished to take that of
the President; to whom he therefore
requested me to give him a Letter of Introduction— This I declined upon
my general rule, which he did not take amiss.— He asked to borrow
Stewart’s last Portrait of
my father, to which I consented—
Another visit from Mr Thomas Harrison to remind me
of his application for the appointment of surveyor of the Port of
Boston. Mr
Babcock lives at Marietta, Ohio, to which his father emigrated from Massachusetts, he came to see
me from the sole motive of curiosity. Dr Mayo brought and read to me
the answers to his interrogatories, of Mr Westcott Secretary of
Florida, upon Dr. Mayo’s libel suit against
Blair and Rives. The endorsement by President Jackson upon his
confidential Letter of Decr. 1830 to
W. Fulton the Secretary of
the Territory of Arkansas was that a copy of the same Letters should be
addressed to the Secretary of the Territory of Florida— Westcott answers
that he never did receive such a Letter from President Jackson; but that
he knew every thing about Houston’s project for liberating Texas from the tyranny
of Mexico not only in 1830. but as early as 1829. was himself ardently
favourable to it; urgently recommended to many of his friends to embark
in it, as no small number of them whom he names actually did; and if
President Jackson had written to him for information concerning it he
could and cheerfully would have given him all that he could have
desired— Mrs
Elliot visited also here— I took my Letter and pamphlets
relating to the Smithsonian fund to the Secretary of the Treasury, and left them with him; with
an earnest request that he would lay the subject before the President—
Next I went before the Postmaster
General and left with him nine several Letters of
applications for Post-Offices or Mail Agencies— Then to the Secretary of State with whom I
conversed about the Rev’d Charles
Sewells claim to a devise in Germany.— I mentioned to him
the names and claims of Hodgson
Homer, Todson, and Offley— Mr Bell spent the Evening with me, in a long
conversation, upon political affairs—