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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1787 | 1787-12-18 | Last night I received your Letter of the 12. M r Jarvis and Commodore Jones are arrived here from... |
| 52 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1787 | 1787-12-25 | By the last Post I answered your Letter of the 12, and Yesterday received yours of the 16.— Com.... |
| 53 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1788 | 1788-02-12 | I have received your Letter of the 6 th. and had before received the Same Information from... |
| 54 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1789 | 1789-01-02 | Give me leave to introduce to you John Coffin Jones Esq r , an eminent Merchant of Boston and a... |
| 55 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 March 1789 | 1789-03-01 | The inclosed Letter from The Hon. Stephen Higginson Esq r , is upon a Subject of so much... |
| 56 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 July 1791 | 1791-07-29 | Yesterday, at Boston, I received your friendly Letter of July 17th. with great pleasure. I give... |
| 57 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1794 | 1794-04-04 | The inclosed Volume was lately sent in to me by a Servant—I have Since heard that the Author of... |
| 58 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 May 1794 | 1794-05-11 | Your favour of the 25th of last month, came to my hands Yesterday and I am glad to find you so... |
| 59 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 November 1794 | 1794-11-21 | I am desired by our old Acquaintance Mr D’Ivernois to transmit you the inclosed Papers for your... |
| 60 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1795 | 1795-02-05 | The inclosed Pamphlet and Papers I have received this Week from the Author, with his request to... |
| 61 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 31 January 1796 | 1796-01-31 | I have received from our old Acquaintance D’Ivernois the inclosed volume for you in the course of... |
| 62 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1796 | 1796-04-06 | Since my Receipt of your favour of the 28 of February I have call’d on the Auditor and had some... |
| 63 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1801 | 1801-02-20 | In order to save you the trouble and expence of purchasing horses & carriages, which will not be... |
| 64 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 March 1801 | 1801-03-24 | I have recd your favour of March 8 with the Letter inclosed, for which I thank you. Inclosed is a... |
| 65 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1812 | 1812-01-01 | As you are a Friend to American Manufactures under proper restrictions, especially Manufactures... |
| 66 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1812 | 1812-02-03 | Sitting at My Fireside, with my Daughter Smith, on the first of February My Servant brought me a... |
| 67 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1812 | 1812-02-10 | I have received with great pleasure your favour of the 23 of January. I suspected that the Sample... |
| 68 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1812 | 1812-05-01 | Yesterday, I received from the Post Office, under an envellope inscribed with your hand, but... |
| 69 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1812 | 1812-05-03 | I wrote you on the first of this month acknowledging the receipt of your “Proceedings” &c and now... |
| 70 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1812 | 1812-05-21 | Samuel B. Malcom Esqr, is not wholly a Stranger to you. He was three years in my family in the... |
| 71 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1812 | 1812-06-28 | I know not what, unless it were the Prophet of Tippacanoe had turned my Curiosity to inquiries... |
| 72 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 | 1812-10-12 | I have a Curiosity to learn Something of the Character Life and death of a Gentleman, whose name... |
| 73 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1813 | 1813-01-26 | I thank you for your rich present of Dec. 28th. The Pettifogger of Furnivals Inn, or of Cliffords... |
| 74 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 February 1813 | 1813-02-02 | I will not wait for regular answers to my Letters, while I am engaged in this important... |
| 75 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1813 | 1813-05-29 | To leave the Pettifogger of Funivals Inn, or Cliffords Inn, his Archbishop Laud, and his... |
| 76 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1813 | 1813-06-10 | In your Letter to Dr Priestley of March 21. 1801, You ask “What an Effort, of Bigotry in politics... |
| 77 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1813 | 1813-06-11 | I recd. yesterday your favour of May 27th. I lament with you the loss of Rush. I know of no... |
| 78 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1813 | 1813-06-14 | In your Letter to Dr. Priestley of March 21. 1801, you “tender him, the protection of those laws... |
| 79 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1813 | 1813-06-25 | Your favour of the 15th came to me Yesterday, and it is a pleasure to discover that We are only 9... |
| 80 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 | 1813-06-28 | It is very true that “the denunciations of the Priesthood are fulminated against every Advocate... |
| 81 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1813 | 1813-06-30 | Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to... |
| 82 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 5 July 1813 | 1813-07-05 | Correspondences! The Letters of Bernard and Hutchinson, and Oliver and Paxton &c were detected... |
| 83 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813 | 1813-07-09 | Lord! Lord! What can I do, with so much Greek? When I was of your Age, young Man, i.e. 7 or 8 or... |
| 84 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1813 | 1813-07-12 | I forgot in my last to remark, a very trifling Inaccuracy in yours of June 27th. The Letter... |
| 85 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1813 | 1813-07-13 | Let me allude, to one circumstance more, in one of your Letters to me, before I touch upon the... |
| 86 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1813 | 1813-07-16 | Your Letters to Priestley, have encreased my Grief if that were possible, for the loss of Rush.... |
| 87 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1813 | 1813-07-18 | I have more to Say, on Religion. For more than Sixty Years I have been attentive to this great... |
| 88 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 | 1813-07-22 | Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says “As you were pleased... |
| 89 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1813 | 1813-08-09 | I believe I told you in my last, that I had given you all in Lindseys Memoirs, that interested... |
| 90 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 August 1813 | 1813-08-16 | Κριοùς μὲν ὄνοuς διζήμεθα, Κúρνε, καὶ ἵππους εὐγενέας· καί τις βούλεται ἐξ ἀγαθῶν κτήσασθαι.... |
| 91 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 September 1813 | 1813-09-02 | Οὐδὲ γυνὴ κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀναίνεται εἶναι ἄκοιτις πλουσίου· ἀλλ’ ἀφνεὸν βούλεται ἀντ’ ἀγαθοῦ.... |
| 92 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1813 | 1813-09-14 | I owe you a thousand thanks for your favour of Aug. 22 and its Enclosures, and for Dr Priestley’s... |
| 93 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 September 1813 | 1813-09-15 | My last Sheet, would not admit an Observation that was material to my design. Dr Price was... |
| 94 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 September 1813 | 1813-09-22 | Considering all things, I admire Dr Priestleys last Effort for which I am entirely indebted to... |
| 95 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 1813 | ≈1813-09-01 | σὲ γὰρ πάντεσσι θέμις θνητοῖσι προσαυδᾶn. “It is not only permitted but enjoined upon all Mortals... |
| 96 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1813 | 1813-11-12 | As I owe you more for your Letters of Oct. 12. and 28 than I Shall be able to pay. I Shall begin... |
| 97 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 November 1813 | 1813-11-14 | Accept my thanks for the comprehensive Syllabus, in your favour of Oct. 12. The Psalms of David,... |
| 98 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 November 1813 | 1813-11-15 | I cannot appease my melancholly commiseration for our Armies in this furious Snow Storm, in any... |
| 99 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 December 1813 | 1813-12-03 | The Proverbs of the old greek Poets, are as Short and pithy as any of Solomon or Franklin. Hesiod... |
| 100 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1813 | 1813-12-19 | Ridento dicere Verum, quid vetat. I must make you and myself merry or melancholly, by a little... |