Letter from Lemuel Shaw to Charles Bulfinch, August 28, 1800

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Letter from Lemuel Shaw to Charles Bulfinch,
August 28, 1800

Lemuel Shaw

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[Letter 1: 28 August 1800 from Shaw to Charles Bulfinch]

Boston August 28 1800.

To Charles Bulfinch Esq. chairman of the
school committee.

Sir a vacancy in the ushership
of the south reading school having some time since
taken place, agreeably to a previous engagement with
Mr. Bullard I undertook to supply this vacancy. But
late arrangements, made by the school committee in the
appointment of ushers, have rendered this engage-
ment insufficient. Being pleased with the business,
highly gratified with the present preceptor's mode
of government and instruction as well, as with the
improvement and manners of the school, I hereby so-
licit a permanent establishment as usher in said
school. Should this favor be granted, I assure the gen-
tlemen of the school committee that no exertion shall
be wanting on my part, either to comply with the reg-
ulations established for the management of the
school and the conduct of its usher, or to satisfy the
rational expectations of those parents, whose children
may hereafter attend said school. By communicating this
request to the gentlemen of the school committee, you will
confer a great obligation on, Sir, your obedient servant

Lemuel Shaw

Back of letter:

October 30, 1800

The celebration of President Adams's birth day, while it evinces the grateful [venerations] of Americans,
insensibly leads them to a review of the brilliant abilities, eminent services, & distinguished patriotism,
which induced them to repose in him the greatest confidence, & confer the greatest, in the power
of a free people to bestow as well, as to [command] the motives, the tendency & effects of the leading
measures of his administration.