951From John Adams to Samuel Adams Wells, 7 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 3d. has distressed me—It will compel me to disclose truths which will be...
952From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 27 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I John Adams of Quincy, in the County of Norfolk Esquire, do hereby give to my Son John Quincy...
953From John Adams to Stephen Mack, 10 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I should sooner have answered your letter of the 20th Ulto if I could. My disposition is very...
954From John Adams to Joseph Milligan, 21 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I beg you will accept my thanks for your obliging letter of the 10th & that you will present the...
955From John Adams to William Elliot, 13 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your Elegant presents of a History & a Map of Washington, deserve my best thanks. The History of...
956From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 22 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 16th. My Health is that of the quivering Flame over the dying...
957From John Adams to Samuel Frothingham, 29 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
Know all men by these presents, that I John Adams of Quincy in the County of Norfolk and...
958John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As you know I have often been ambitious of introducing to your acquaintance some of our literary...
959John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
My loving and beloved Friend, Pickering , has been pleased to inform the World that I have “few...
960From John Adams to Old Colony Memorial, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony Memorial and so perfectly satisfied with the...
961From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 7 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
On the 20 of January 1768 the House of Representatives appointed a committee to prepare a...
962From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 1 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
Why should my little twine worn out as it is to a single thread, be woven into all the Political...
963From John Adams to David Sewall, 10 January 1821 (Adams Papers)
your friendly letter of December the 20th. is a Cordial to me, in my present State of retirement...
964From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 23 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I neither know any thing of the name or character of Paul Allen. What he means by Mr Otis’s being...
965John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Must We, before We take our departure from this grand and beautiful World, Surrender all our...
966From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am honored by your favor of the 20th. April with a Copy of Gov McKeans letter of 22 August...
967From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Though my letter to you has the air of a Redimentack Eulogium—on friend Lancasters lecture—yet it...
968From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your journal which has become a necessary of life to me has failed me for a long time, but I must...
969To John Jay from John Adams, 30 April 1821 (Jay Papers)
I must beg your pardon for delay^i^ng so long the acknowledgement of your kind favour— you have...
Your favour of the 20th: has given me great comfort you have learn’d the art of travelling by so...
971From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 25 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
As Mr Wirt had filled my head with James Otis; and I am well informed that the Honourable Mr...
972From John Adams to John Adams, 22 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
You have been the most punctual correspondent that I ever had except your Brother—but for four...
973To John Jay from John Adams, 13 May 1821 (Jay Papers)
I received, last night your kind favour of the 7 th . Your design of writing to M r Duane for...
974From John Adams to Anonymous, 4 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
Our friend Mr Shaw will furnish you with the printed correspondence between Gen G Brattle & me in...
975From John Adams to William Wirt, 7 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
Be pleased to accept my cordial Thanks for the present of and elegant Copy of your Sketches of Mr...
976From John Adams to John Farmer, 26 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 12th. but I have not received the memoir.— The Brackets and...
977From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of new-years-day, and congratulate you on your arrival in the great...
978From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 23 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received a very pleasant letter from you of the 21st. of the month; your close attention...
979From John Adams to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 24 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I had I not been poison’d almost to the loss of my sight, by a rare fever or a blossom cold, I...
980From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 November 1817 (Adams Papers)
The Father of Mr George G. Barrel, Still living at 85 his Uncle Joseph and one or two more were...
981From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have long entertained scruples about writing this letter, upon a subject of some delicacy. But...
982From John Adams to John Adams, 24 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your account of the Death and Character of General R. G. Harper gave me a great deal of pain, he...
983From John Adams to John Henri Isaac Browere, 23 November 1825 (Adams Papers)
This certifies that John H. I. Browere Esq. of the City of New York has yesterday and to-day made...
984John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
May I inclose you one of the greatest curiositys and one of the deepest Mysterys that ever...
985From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
Some of Jobs afflictions and some peculiar to myself have rendered it impossible for me to write...
986From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 15 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr William Smith Shaw has lent me the fourth Volume of his political pamphlets, the first tract...
987From John Adams to Mrs. Derby, 23 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
Mr Adams’s Compliments to Mrs Derby and thanks her for the lone of Mr Coffins Journal, which has...
988From John Adams to William Wirt, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Accept a Morsell of ancient Massachusetts Letterature: and will you be pleased to compare it with...
989From John Adams to Nathaniel Adams, 27 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 20 inst & should be glad to give you any information in...
990From John Adams to Richard Rush, 14 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have been tenderly affected by the kind expressions of your friendship in your letter of the...
991John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to you M r Horace Holley who is on his Way to Kentucky where he has been...
992John Adams and other members of the Electoral College of Massachusetts, 5 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
At a meeting of the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, holden...
993From John Adams to J. H. Tiffany, 15 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 24th August—and the return of the fourth Volum of my...
994From John Adams to Samuel Sewall, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
In a Letter from the Revnd. Mr Wilkes Allen of Chelmsford of October 1st. I am informed that you...
995To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 12 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
By a resolution of the Citizens of Richmond we are authorised to make arrangement s for the...
996John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
All the Literary Gentlemen of this part of the Country have an Ambitious Curiosity to see the...
997John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your favour of March 14 th M r Ticknor informes me that...
The friendship of M Hawley is among the sweetest recollections of my life I first met him at the...
999From John Adams to Daniel Coney, 1 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
My right arm and hand have become so enfeebled that I am under the necessity of borrowing another...
1000From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 1 February 1824 (Adams Papers)
After waiting somewhat impatiently I allow for your last it came to hand on friday & delighted me...