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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, 6 April 1813 | 1813-04-06 | Other parts of your letter of yesterday may be remembered hereafter; but “ Brimborion ” must not... |
| 2 | 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... |
| 3 | 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... |
| 4 | 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... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 April 1806 | 1806-04-02 | Your favour of March 30th I received last Evening. The Subject of it is of great importance I... |
| 6 | 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... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 March 1813 | 1813-03-31 | “The History” is of no value, except on account of its date. It was written and printed in Edes... |
| 8 | 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... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 September … | 1805-09-04 | De la Marre, tells us, that in the North of Holland they make use of Fucus to support their... |
| 10 | 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... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 September … | 1805-09-13 | (To be added to those on Sea Weeds) If the gentleman from the Isle of Fromme mentioned in your... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 August 1812 | 1812-08-16 | You are So waggish and roguish with your Woofs and your Warps and your Webs, that I am almost... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 June 1806 | 1806-06-29 | I rejoice to find by your Letter of the 26. and by my Sons Conversation, that his commencement of... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 September 1784 | 1784-09-08 | I received your friendly Letter of the 19. June, by my dear M rs Adams, with great Pleasure and... |
| 15 | 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... |
| 16 | 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... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 July 1813 | 1813-07-01 | The report that John Quincy Adams has written to his father, or any one else that “the war which... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 October 1805 | 1805-10-03 | I duly recd your favour of the 21. Sept.—I Sent you two pretty large Packetts the first of Six... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 August 1812 | 1812-08-19 | The History of Queen Ann’s reign and of the Treaty of Utrecht is So instructive, that it is worth... |
| 20 | 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... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 February … | 1805-02-19 | When I wrote you a line of Acknowledgment for your Lecture upon Tobacco, I kept no Copy of it,... |
| 22 | 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... |
| 23 | 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... |
| 24 | 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... |
| 25 | 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... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February … | 1812-02-11 | In answer to your Letter of the Eighth I can only say that Societies Since as I have never been... |
| 27 | 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... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September … | 1811-09-15 | I receive no Letters with So much pleasure as yours and Rushes. The Shortest of them always... |
| 29 | 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... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 June 1813 | 1813-06-09 | I enclose you sketches of Naval history and a letter from the Author Make what use of them you... |