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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 September … | 1823-09-16 | I thank you for your letter of the 12th I am extremely sorry to hear that Genll Miller has lost... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 June 1822 | 1822-06-10 | Thanks for your letter of 5th. June and smoaking lecture but as I have not read the lecture I... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 November … | 1821-11-25 | I sympathise with Alexipharmacus in his resentment of the indignities offered to Richardson,... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 October 1821 | 1821-10-21 | The ha rare happiness we have injoyed in the society of J Q A and his family, the consiquent... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 May 1821 | 1821-05-25 | I received yesterday your favour of the 22nd and will begin at the end of it you must not utter a... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 May 1821 | 1821-05-21 | I am glad I forgot to return your Son’s beautiful morsel on Industry with my last Letter; because... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 May 1821 | 1821-05-18 | I have made my Cantabridgians read your Letter to all my family at Breakfast. We all recognized... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 May 1821 | 1821-05-08 | You must have much pleasure in watching the Opining mind of your Grandchild; for, being half... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 May 1821 | 1821-05-02 | Your letter dear Waterhouse, is a precious lecture in Piety Religion and morality according to... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 November 1820 | 1820-11-07 | I return you Captain Phillips’s sensible letter, I wish I could converse with you upon the... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 September … | 1820-09-07 | Captain Phillips’s letter is a Volume of News to me—That he Sailed without a Commission was never... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1820 | 1820-07-27 | I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1820 | 1820-07-25 | I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 June 1820 | 1820-06-16 | I thank you for Dr Ware’s letter to Dr Mc Load which I have read with pleasure, they are worthy... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1819 | 1819-07-27 | Though my letter to you has the air of a Redimentack Eulogium—on friend Lancasters lecture—yet it... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 July 1819 | 1819-07-19 | I have heard Friend Lancaster, with pleasure, he is an excellent scholastic and academical... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 July 1819 | 1819-07-18 | I have heard friend Lancaster with pleasure, he is an excellent scholastic and accedemical... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 February … | 1819-02-23 | Enclosed is your letter to me of Feb’y 10th wh’ I return to you as you request— I wrote to the... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 February … | 1819-02-17 | I sincerely and cordially pity you. But why are you not candid & explicit with me? If you expect... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 February … | 1819-02-14 | Your letter of 20th: of two sheets of paper would require eight sheets at least to answer it and... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 October 1818 | 1818-10-11 | I am really grieved at your Misfortune, if it were only on the Principle of Rochefaucault and... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 February 1818 | 1818-02-06 | you ought to tell me the name of that animal, who “faced you down” against dates and Otis. he... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 February 1818 | 1818-02-05 | Clarks History of the Navy is the Same with Mathew Careys. Wilkinsons History I have not Seen. I... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 January 1818 | 1818-01-30 | As “the accurate Jefferson” has made the Revolution a Game of Billiards, I will make it a Game of... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1818 | 1818-01-12 | In your Letter of the 21st. of October you Say that Mrs Knox said to you that “her husband was... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December … | 1817-12-25 | It was not friendly in you to involve me in your domestic & family Controversies Major Pierce... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 December … | 1817-12-19 | Your Letter of the 13th. has touched my feelings. Deeply infected with a dangerous distemper you... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 December 1817 | 1817-12-09 | Oh! that I had Eyes and Fingers for a little Badinage! When you cannot keep your Chin above... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 August 1817 | 1817-08-17 | I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th. of June. That of the 8th. of August I certainly... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 August 1817 | 1817-08-14 | I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th of June. That of the 8th: of August, I certainly... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 June 1817 | 1817-06-18 | I return the letter of JQ, which you lent me. You know his is a painter. And which of Hogarths is... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 June 1817 | 1817-06-04 | Your pathetic Letter of the 2d. has filled my heart with Sympathy and Grief. Your Son, by all... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 March 1817 | 1817-03-25 | The great question was “Whether Writs of Assistants, were legal, or illegal; constitutional or... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 March 1817 | 1817-03-19 | Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a ratiocination?... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 March 1817 | 1817-03-17 | Have you read certain Strictures upon Painters and Paintings in the Newspapers? What do you think... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February … | 1817-02-27 | Are the works of Apuileus in Harvard College Library or in any other collection in America Have... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 February … | 1817-02-26 | Where the Fine Arts are Studied or practiced there Should be a Trybunal of Criticism always in... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 February … | 1817-02-22 | Graüs Ingenium dedit Musa. the Greeks refined and polished every thing. The Competition between... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 February … | 1817-02-17 | Have you read certain Strictures upon Painters and Paintings, in the Newspapers? what do you... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 June 1816 | 1816-06-25 | In the style of John and Jonathan Bull, I give you a thousand thanks for your letter of the 18th... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 December … | 1815-12-18 | Permit me to sympathize with you and your Children on the loss of your amiable and excellent... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 May 1815 | 1815-05-30 | You made that Westphalian Couplet yourself, Sleeping or waking, nobody but you could have dreamed... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 May 1815 | 1815-05-22 | Your favr is recd. Gallia changefull as a Child at play “now calls in Princes; now drives away,”... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 April 1815 | 1815-04-03 | I have written to the President on your Subject. I know not what Weight my opinion has or whether... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 December 1814 | 1814-12-02 | Gerry! Gerry! Gerry! You was the last of my Colleagues! I am left alone! It cannot be long before... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 October 1814 | 1814-10-28 | Your Letter of the 10th is too delicious, to be disgraced by Ceremonies and Apologies in my... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 October 1813 | 1813-10-19 | Little did I think when I last wrote you, what a monument was erected to me. I have since... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 September … | 1813-09-17 | I receive with pleasure, the News of your removal to Cambridge and establishment in Office, in... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 August 1813 | 1813-08-06 | The Talents and qualities of the Tumble Bugg, are Strength Industry, Patience, Foresight of... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1813 | 1813-07-25 | Mine Eyes are better. I am angry with you for calling our Navy little. It is the greatest Navy in... |