Fully impess’d with a sense of your Goodness and Candor, I am induced to observe that having taken the liberty to express my thoughts to the President of the United States, on the appointment of a Consul to the Island of St. Domingo, and to solicit the appointment, (having resided in this country seven years and having been two years establish’d in business here) I have to request your interest in procuring me the above appointment;1 with assurances of my every exertion to prove myself worthy of the confidence reposed in me, and of the honor of subscribing myself with the utmost Respect, / Sir, / Your very respectful / and / very huml Servt:

The Selectmen present their most respectful Compliments to the Vice President of the United States and ask the honor of his Company at the Visitation of the public Schools on Monday the 8h. of July Inst— The Company proceed from the Selectmens Chamber at 8–o’-Clock in the Morning, and dine at Faneuil Hall at 2. o’-Clock—1

Mr Morse presents his most respectful compliments to the Vice President of the United States, & begs him to accept of a Sett of his American Universal Geography, as a small testimony of that high & sincere esteem & veneration he has for his character—& of the grateful sense he entertains of his obligations to the V. President, as among the principal instruments, of the great national prosperity & happiness, whh distinguishes this country from all other parts of the World.1