1John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I have great pleasure in giving this Letter to the Gentleman who requests it. The Rev d David Edward Everett , the Successor of M r Buckminster and Thatcher and
2John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The Bearer of this Letter, after an Education at our Cambridge , travelled with J.Q.A. to Russia , Spent two years in looking at parts of Europe , returned to Boston , read Law with one of our first Professors in Boston , is admitted to the Bar, and now Wishes to have the honour of Seeing Montecello and paying his respects to President Jefferson
3John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
The most exalted of our young Genius’s in Boston have an Ambition to See Montecello , its Library and its Sage. I lately gave a Line of Introduction to M r Everett , our most celebrated Youth: But his Calls at home, forced him back from Washington . George Ticknor Esquire who will have the Honour to present this to you, has a reputation here, equal to the Character given him in the enclosed...
4John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Education, which you brought into View in one of your Letters ; is a Subject So vast, and the Systems of Writers are So various and So contradictory: that human Life is too Short to examine it; and a Man must die before he can learn to bring up his Children. The Phylosophers, Divines, Politicians and Pædagogues, who have published their Theories and Practices, in this department are without...
5John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, with postscript by Abigail Adams, 20 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The fit of recollection came upon both of Us, So nearly at the same time that I may, Sometime or other, begin to think there is Some thing in Priestleys and Hartleys vibrations. The day before Yesterday I Sent to the Post office a letter to you and last night I received your kind favour of the 10 th . The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature Shall govern the World by...
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Can you give me any Information, concerning A. G. Camus ? Is he a Chateaubriand ? or a Marquis D’Argens ? Does he mean to abolish Christianity? or to restore the Inquisition, the Jesuits, the Pope and the Devil? Within a few days, I have received a thing as unexpected to me as an Apparition from the dead; “Rapport a L’Institut National, Par A. G. Camus, imprime par ordre de L’Institut,...
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Who shall write the history of the American revolution? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to write it? The most essential documents, the debates & deliberations in Congress from 1774 to 1783 were all in secret, and are now lost forever. Mr Dickinson printed a speech, which he said he made in Congress against the Declaration of Independence; but it appeared to me very different from that,...
8John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
If I am neither deceived by the little Information I have, or by my Wishes for its truth, I Should Say that France is the most Protestant Country of Europe at this time, though I cannot think it the most reformed . In consequence of these Reveries I have imagined that Camus and the Institute , meant, by the revival and continuance of the Acta Sanctorum, to destroy the Pope and the Catholic...