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1 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 | 1815-05-06 | Hence forward I Shall adress you all three at once. Yesterday was one of the happiest days of my... |
2 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 September … | 1815-09-01 | I have received Letters from you all, and you know not how gratifying they have been to my heart.... |
3 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 September … | 1816-09-09 | I have now gone through Terence, and noted a few Lines for you to consider. Many perhaps have... |
4 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 | 1815-05-06 | I know not where your Father is, or I should write directly to him. As Soon as you See him, pray... |
5 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 May 1815 | 1815-05-03 | I adress myself to both of you as equally dear to me and because the difficulty with which I... |
6 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 | 1815-05-06 | I know not where your Father is, or I Should write directly to him. As Soon as you See him, pray... |
7 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 April … | 1820-04-03 | If you can obtain leave of absence I wish for the pleasure of your Company here on the twelfth of... |
8 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 31 July 1816 | 1816-07-31 | I find upon my table this morning your favour of the 7. March; and I know not whether I have ever... |
9 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 18 November 1823 | 1823-11-18 | Your account of the first part of your journey, is quite as entertaining and instructive as is... |
10 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1824 | 1824-10-16 | Your frolicsome letter of the 10th of October has come to hand this morning and amidst the... |
11 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 25 October 1822 | 1822-10-25 | In the reign of Charles 1st of England, Henry Adams came to America from Devonshire and settled... |
12 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, April 1815 | ≈1815-04-01 | I am much pleased with your Translation. The Character of Anacreon is one of the many Mysteries... |
13 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 2 February 1812 | 1812-02-02 | I have received two pretty Letters from you, and know not how to account for my own delay in... |
14 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 28 November 1824 | 1824-11-28 | Your letter, of the 21st. sprightly and entertaining like all the rest, has been recieved. I... |
15 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 5 April 1816 | 1816-04-05 | “Learn Patience of a Friend”! You think you must go to sea. Well, I have no great Objection;... |
16 | Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr. | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., 5 April 1792 | 1792-04-05 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in... |
17 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 12 January 1824 | 1824-01-12 | Your letter of the 28th: Decr. is an epistle of a sage. I will tell you a story, of ancient days.... |
18 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 26 May 1816 | 1816-05-26 | It gives me much pleasure, to hear that you have a Taste for Numbers, because this quality or... |
19 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 2 November 1823 | 1823-11-02 | I thank you for two letters written at two notable periods of your life one at the happy meeting... |
20 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 1 February 1824 | 1824-02-01 | Your letter of the 18th of January is full of candid, temperate and accurate criticism I know not... |
21 | Adams, John | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Adams, 4 October 1815 | 1815-10-04 | Ego recepi tua epistolam a te scriptam Vigesimo tribus mensis Julii. ubi nuntius te a bombardâ... |
22 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 3 October 1815 | 1815-10-03 | I know not whether you have read Tristram Shandy, or The Sentimental Journey or the Sermons or... |
23 | Adams, John | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Adams, 21 October 1822 | 1822-10-21 | In compliance with your request in your condescending favr. of the 30th. Ulto. that I should... |
24 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 7 March 1824 | 1824-03-07 | Your kind letter of the 22d: February No 15 is as pleasing to me as the former numbers. I have... |
25 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 27 December 1797 | 1797-12-27 | I nominate James Blake of Pensilvania to be Consul of the United States in the City of St.... |
26 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 19 February 1825 | 1825-02-19 | I recieved, as usual with great delight your letter of the 12th inst. Your account of all things... |
27 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 10 August 1816 | 1816-08-10 | I culled a Few Flowers for George from The Andrian. I have done the Same for you here from the... |
28 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 22 October 1815 | 1815-10-22 | Your capacity is as Smart and quick and ready, and retentive as any bodies. I Should not... |
29 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1821 | 1821-11-26 | I also am an advocate first for universal suffrage 2dly. for universal emancipation 3dly for... |
30 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 20 November 1824 | 1824-11-20 | Your No 42 has given me pleasure like the rest. I ought to thank you for your assiduity in giving... |
31 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 27 June 1816 | 1816-06-27 | I know not whether I can ever consent to your being a Sailor Boy. I have already prescribed to... |
32 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 21 March 1817 | 1817-03-21 | Nothing from your Family gives me more pleasure than to hear as I do, that you are a diligent... |
33 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 11 September 1815 | 1815-09-11 | You cannot imagine, how much pleasure, your Letter of July 24th gave me. Your Father and Mother... |
34 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, April 1818 | ≈1818-04-01 | I am much pleased with your Translation The Character of Anacreon is one of the many Mysteries of... |
35 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 30 September 1822 | 1822-09-30 | I thank you for a pretty volume of Poetic effusions; for want of sight I have not read them, but... |
36 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 2 January 1820 | 1820-01-02 | Your letter of the 27th. of December has given me great pleasure—though I shuddered at the idea... |
37 | Adams, John | Adams, John | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1783 | 1783-05-18 | You may well Suppose that I am not very easy when you are informed that We have no News from... |
38 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 11 December 1825 | 1825-12-11 | I thank you for your kind Letter—and your Father still more for his permission in permiting you... |
39 | Hawley, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, with Notation by John … | 1775-11-14 | En passant. As Church said in his letter to the Regulars, Remember I Never deceived you. If your... |
40 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 22 April 1825 | 1825-04-22 | You have been the most punctual correspondent that I ever had except your Brother—but for four... |
41 | Laurens, Henry | Adams, John | From Henry Laurens, with Appended Note of John Adams to … | 1778-01-05 | I had the honour of Addressing you on the 28th. November and 3d. Ultimo in Official Letters from... |
42 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 14 December 1815 | 1815-12-14 | Your classical letter of the 4th. of Octr, does you honour, upon every Supposition that I can... |
43 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 24 January 1825 | 1825-01-24 | Your account of the Death and Character of General R. G. Harper gave me a great deal of pain, he... |
44 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to the Committee for Foreign Affairs … | 1779-02-13 | I had Yesterday, the Honour of your Favour of the 28 Octr. inclosing a Resolution of Congress of... |
45 | Adams, John | Adams, John | John Adams’ Reconstructed Draft and Translation of the … | ≈1782-04-23 | A Treaty of Amity and Commerce between their High Mightinesses, the States General (1) of the... |
46 | Adams, John | Adams, John | From John Adams to John Adams, 18 November 1815 | 1815-11-18 | I am charmed with the Chirography of your Letter of the Eleventh of September to your... |
47 | Adams, John | Adams, John | Dutch Translation of John Adams’ Draft of a … | ≈1782-04-23 | Een Tractaat Van Vriendschap en Commercie, tusschen haar Hoog Mogende, de Staaten Generaal (1)... |
48 | Smith, Isaac Sr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, with Adams’ Letter of … | 1776-01-19 | I had wrote you several posts before my hearing you was returned. I should be very glad if you... |