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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 February 1807 | 1807-02-02 | One of the Historiographers of Johnson’s Chat, Boswell perhaps or Piozzi says that Johnson being... |
| 52 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 September … | 1800-09-10 | I have received and will communicate to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, your Prospect... |
| 53 | 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... |
| 54 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 April 1813 | 1813-04-09 | Since there is nothing in human life but Brimborians, that is maginificent nothings, pompous... |
| 55 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 September … | 1810-09-17 | I know that Mother Harvard had Power to make D.D. M.D. and LLD as well as Batchelors and Masters:... |
| 56 | 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... |
| 57 | 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... |
| 58 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 September … | 1805-09-19 | After receiving so many trifles you will not be surprised at another. I wish you to tell me... |
| 59 | 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... |
| 60 | 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... |
| 61 | 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... |
| 62 | 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?... |
| 63 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 February … | 1791-02-24 | It was not, till yesterday that I received your kind Letter, with your Discourse on Animation;... |
| 64 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 January 1810 | 1810-01-10 | I thank you for your favour of Decr 25 And the Extracts inclosed. I regret the loss of your Visit... |
| 65 | 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... |
| 66 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 January 1813 | 1813-01-16 | I am broke….I am a Bankrupt… Je n’ai rien; Je dois par tout Dans mes affaires Je Suis au but....... |
| 67 | 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,... |
| 68 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 June 1813 | 1813-06-05 | I read, within a few days an Address to General and Governor Gage, from the Barr, and the Name of... |
| 69 | 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... |
| 70 | 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... |
| 71 | 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... |
| 72 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 February … | 1805-02-13 | I thank you for your Lecture on Tobacco which I received this morning and have read with much... |
| 73 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February … | 1811-02-27 | As I read the Essays of The elegant Botanist as when they appeared in the Monthly Anthology, with... |
| 74 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1813 | 1813-01-12 | No Wonder, that the President has suffered a violent strain. I have spent nine days in the gulph... |
| 75 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 June 1811 | 1811-06-11 | In your favour of the 9th of this month, you request a Copy of the first page of your Letter to... |
| 76 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 October 1805 | 1805-10-29 | I have heard, as you insinuate, that Sterne was a wicked Man; and there are traits of a false... |
| 77 | 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... |
| 78 | 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... |
| 79 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 April 1785 | 1785-04-23 | This Letter will be delivered you, by your old Acquaintance, John Quincy Adams, whom I beg Leave... |
| 80 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 December 1811 | 1811-12-03 | A Visit from you my good Friend, would be a cordial, and if honoured by His Honour would raise my... |
| 81 | 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... |
| 82 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 December … | 1805-12-26 | In a former Letter I expressed a doubt, whether the Barilla of Spain, were the Same Plant as the... |
| 83 | 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... |
| 84 | 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... |
| 85 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 July 1811 | 1811-07-05 | The K. of modern Babilon, mentioned in your Letter of the 2d, who was become as a Beast, and... |
| 86 | 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... |
| 87 | 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... |
| 88 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 March 1811 | 1811-03-29 | Your Favour of the 25th is received. I feel much at my Ease under the Lash: as much as Epictetus... |
| 89 | 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... |
| 90 | 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... |
| 91 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 December … | 1809-12-18 | I have recd your favour of Nov. 20th and regret very much that your Employments would not allow... |
| 92 | 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... |
| 93 | 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... |
| 94 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 March 1812 | 1812-03-11 | The tumultuous Crowd of Thoughts that rushed into my head as I read your Letter of Yesterday,... |
| 95 | 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... |
| 96 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 March 1813 | 1813-03-23 | The inclosed letter from Dr Rush will give you good News of your Son. I congratulate you on the... |
| 97 | 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,”... |
| 98 | 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... |
| 99 | 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... |
| 100 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 August 1805 | 1805-08-09 | I told you before, that I had renounced the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematicks for... |