1From John Adams to Alexander Hill Everett, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4 1814
2From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 4 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Quincy July 4th. 1814
3From John Adams to John Thornton Kirkland, 10 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have written to my Son and enclosed your Letter of the 4th. which will be the best recommendation of mr Bigalow that can be written.
4From John Adams to Richard Rush, 22 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
4. “Not Ingratitude but too much Love is the constant Fault of the People..... Look in the Journal of Congress 1774 for the Declaration of the Rights of the Colonies, and in the Journal of 1776. Month of May for a Resolution of Independence. Then consider Whether the Declaration of Independence of 4. July 1776 is any thing more than a juvenile declamation founded on those two Documents, Yet...
5From John Adams to Richard Rush, 31 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of the 18th of this month with your Oration on the 4th.
6John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Nov. 4. 1803; at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Aug. 1813 and so recorded in
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
...the complaint in the preface to the first volume of my defence. While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a Stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than 3 or 4 thousand years ago. What is the Reason? I say Parties and Factions will not Suffer, or permit Improvements to be made. As Soon as one Man hints at an improvement his Rival opposes it....
8John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 21 July 1813 and so recorded in letter of 24 July 1775 (not : Adams is quoting the Bible, 2 Corinthians 4.17, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
9John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
); at foot of text: “President Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 28 July 1813 and so recorded in : Adams Papers); dated 17 July 1813., 4th ed. (1848), 427–72, with the originals in
10From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 27 July 1809 (Adams Papers)
On the 27th of July, I sat out from Paris on a journey
to Amsterdam. I left Mr. Dana and Mr. Thaxter at Paris, who will regularly transmit to Congress, whatever
shall occur of importance to the United States to know....The remainder of this letter was filled with the declaration of the king of Sweden, of the 30th of July, and that
of the king of Denmark of the 8th of July, in favor of the...