Boston April 28. 1819

Sir,

At the kind suggestion of Mr. Thorndike Jr., I take the liberty of troubling you on a subject which now occupies my attention. I have undertaken to write the life of James Otis and am endeavoring to collect all the materials that can be obtained. His public life I can get from his printed works and from public journals, but there are so few contemporaries of his intellectual vigor and health, that private recollections are very scanty. I have to be sure a host in the letter of President Adams to my father not only those which have been published but others in manuscript. Still I hope to obtain aid from other sources. From the great attention you have paid to the history of our country, I may hope that you may be able to give me some anecdotes or facts that will throw some light on his public or private life. Should this be the case I hope I am not asking too much, in requesting you to favor me with the communication of them by doing which you will much oblige me.

I am with great respects
Your
W. Tudor Jr.