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101 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1813 | 1813-12-25 | Answer my Letters at your Leisure. Give yourself no concern. I write as for a refuge and... |
102 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 1814 to 3 … | ≈1814-02-01 | I was nibbling my pen and brushing my Faculties, to write a polite Letter of Thanks to Mr... |
103 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1814 | 1814-07-16 | I recd, this morning your favour of the 5th. and as I can never let a Sheet of your’s rest I Sit... |
104 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1814 | 1814-10-28 | I have great pleasure in giving this Letter to the Gentleman who requests it. The Revd David... |
105 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1814 | 1814-12-11 | The Bearer of this Letter, after an Education at our Cambridge, travelled with J. Q. A. to... |
106 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1814 | 1814-12-20 | The most exalted of our young Genius’s in Boston have an Ambition to See Montecello, its Library... |
107 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1815 | 1815-06-19 | Education, which you brought into View in one of your Letters; is a subject so vast, and the... |
108 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815 | 1815-06-20 | The fit of recollection came upon both of Us, so nearly at the same time that I may, Sometime or... |
109 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1815 | 1815-06-22 | Can you give me any Information, concerning A. G. Camus? Is he a Chateaubriand? Or a Marquis... |
110 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 July 1815 | 1815-07-30 | Who shall write the History of the American Revoluion? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to... |
111 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 August 1815 | 1815-08-24 | If I am neither deceived by the little Information I have, or by my Wishes for its truth, I... |
112 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1815 | 1815-11-13 | The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or... |
113 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1816 | 1816-02-02 | I know not what to say of your Letter of the 11th of Jan. but that it is one of the most... |
114 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1816 | 1816-03-02 | I cannot be Serious.! I am about to write you, the most frivolous letter you ever read. Would you... |
115 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1816 | 1816-05-03 | Yours Ap. 8 has long Since been recd. J. “Would you agree to live your 80 years over again”? A.... |
116 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 | 1816-05-06 | Neither Eyes Fingers or Paper held out, to dispatch all the Trifles I wished to write in my last... |
117 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1816 | 1816-08-09 | The Biography of Mr Vander Kemp would require a Volume which I could not write if a Milion were... |
118 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 September 1816 | 1816-09-03 | Dr James Freeman, is a learned, ingenious, honest and benevolent Man, who wishes to see President... |
119 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 September 1816 | 1816-09-30 | The Seconds of Life, that remain to me, are So few and So Short; (and they seem to me Shorter and... |
120 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 November 1816 | 1816-11-04 | Your Letter of Oct. 14 has greatly obliged me. Tracys Analysis, I have read once; and wish to... |
121 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1816 | 1816-12-12 | I return the Analysis of Dupuis with my thanks for the loan of it. It is but a feignt Miniature... |
122 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 December 1816 | 1816-12-16 | Your Letter dear Sir of Nov. 15 from Poplar Forrest was Sent to me from the Post Office the next... |
123 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1817 | 1817-02-02 | In our good old English language of Gratitude, I owe you and give you a thousand thanks, for... |
124 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817 | 1817-04-19 | My loving and beloved Friend, Pickering, has been pleased to inform the World that I have “few... |
125 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1817 | 1817-05-18 | Lyman was mortified that he could not visit Monticello. He is gone to Europe a Second time. I... |
126 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 26 May 1817 | 1817-05-26 | Mr Leslie Combs of Kentucky has Sent me “a History of the late War, in the Western Country, by Mr... |
127 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817 | 1817-07-15 | I am impatient to See your Plan of a University and new System of Education. To assist you in... |
128 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1817 | 1817-10-10 | I thank you for your kind congratulations on the return of my little family from Europe. To... |
129 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1818 | 1818-01-28 | Permit me to introduce to you Mr Horace Holley, who is on his Way to Kentucky where he has been... |
130 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 | 1818-05-29 | As Holly is a Diamond of a Superiour water it would be crushed to pouder by Mountainous... |
131 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1818 | 1818-07-18 | Will you accept a curious Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Chatechism for the... |
132 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1818 | 1818-10-20 | One trouble never comes alone! At our Ages We may expect more and more of them every day in... |
133 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1818 | 1818-12-08 | Your Letter of Nov. 15 gave me great delight not only by the divine Consolation it afforded me... |
134 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1818 | 1818-12-30 | Late last night I received Your Report and your translation of Tracy, for both of which, tho’ I... |
135 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1819 | 1819-01-29 | If I am not humble I ought to be, when I find myself under the necessity of borrowing a juvenile... |
136 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1819 | 1819-02-13 | As you was so well acquainted with the philosophers of France I presume the name and character of... |
137 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1819 | 1819-02-19 | As you know I have often been ambitious of introducing to your acquaintance some of our literary... |
138 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1819 | 1819-02-24 | I am diligently & laboriously occupied, in reading & hearing your “political economy”—I call it... |
139 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1819 | 1819-03-02 | I have taxed my eyes with a very heavy impost to read the senator Tracy’s Political Economy &... |
140 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1819 | 1819-04-02 | Your Letter of March 21st. I will Communicate to Mr Bowditch, and Pickering— You may put my... |
141 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1819 | 1819-05-21 | All the Literary Gentlemen of this part of the Country have an Ambitious Curiosity to see the... |
142 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 | 1819-05-27 | I have transmitted you a letter to Samuel Adams Welles Esqr. in Boston as you desire This... |
143 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 June 1819 | 1819-06-22 | May I inclose you one of the greatest curiositys and one of the deepest Mysterys that ever... |
144 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 | 1819-07-21 | I am greatly obliged to you for your Letter of the 9th. It has entirely convinced me that the... |
145 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 | 1819-07-28 | I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for... |
146 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1819 | 1819-11-23 | I congratulate you and myself on your recovery from the three Illnesses that have distressed you,... |
147 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1819 | 1819-12-21 | I must answer your great question of the 10th in the Words of Dalembert to his Correspondent, who... |
148 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1820 | 1820-01-20 | When Harris was returned a Member of Parliament a Friend introduced him to Chesterfield whom he... |
149 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1820 | 1820-02-21 | Was you ever acquainted with Dugald Stuart—before I left France I received a letter from Benjamin... |
150 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1820 | 1820-05-12 | I have received with great pleasure your favour of March 14th. Mr Ticknor informes me that Dugald... |