201From John Adams to John Taylor, 22 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
In my Apology, if you like that Word better than “Defence” I passed over England for more reasons...
202From John Adams to William Turner, 7 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 3d of this month, with the Certificate inclosed of Isaac S...
203From John Adams to William Cranch, 20 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Will you be kind enough to advance five Dollars for me to Mr Gales for a Second years...
204From John Adams to Richard Rush, 29 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
After this Letter was written and erroneously inclosed I recd yours of 23d which is merry and...
205From John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, 26 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Favour of the Second of this Month, and the Letters I lent you of Governor...
206From John Adams to John Taylor, 27 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
When Superior genius gives greater Influence in Society than is possessed by inferiour Genius or...
207From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Mr John C. Gray, Son of your Friend the once Lt. Governor will present this Letter to you. By the...
208From John Adams to Henry Colman, 14 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with your request in your favour of the 12th I have written to the President and...
209From John Adams to John Taylor, 9 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any...
210From John Adams to Samuel Perkins, 15 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
I commit my Grandsons to the Guardianship of yourself and Mrs Perkins and pray you to hold them...
211From John Adams to Samuel Smith, 13 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the first of this month, in answer to mine of the twenty fifth of...
212From John Adams to William Gray, 25 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Letter for Major Sweet. I leave it open, that he may shew it at his discretion in...
213From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I received by the Post from New York, your obliging Letter of 9. Novr.—Whether Letters...
214From John Adams to John Taylor, 9 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
I am Still upon Birth and my Seventh Argument is. 7. It was a Custom among the Greeks and Romans;...
215From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
Among a million of Things I want to Say to you, which Shall I choose. Publick affairs? What are...
216From John Adams to John Taylor, 16 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
It is unnecessary to discuss, the nice distinctions, which follow in the first page of your...
217From John Adams to James Maury, 22 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of July 30th, and the Quarterly review enclosed with it, & for...
218From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
That Aristocracies, both ancient and modern have been “variable and artificial” as well as...
219From John Adams to James Jervey, 13 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday the letter with which you honoured me on the 26 April inclosing Mr Elliots...
220From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your No. 50. 29th. May is before me. You wisely persevere in your habitual accuracy, and I hope...
221From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of Oct. 4 was Sent to me from the Post Office this morning. Although I sincerely...
222From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I send you, as I received it, a Packett from Mr Bentley of Salem. You and Mr Clark must digest...
223From John Adams to John Taylor, 5 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
A few Words more concerning the Characters of litterary Men. What Sort of Men have had the...
224From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
A Word or two more upon Birth. 10thly. Birth is naturally and necessarily, and inevitably So...
225From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
Can you give me any Account of a Translation of the New Testament with notes made by Beausobre...
226From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
I perceive you are growing Old, by the Curiosity you express to your Mother, to know Something of...
227From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have now gone through Terence, and noted a few Lines for you to consider. Many perhaps have...
228From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 15 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I duly received your letter of 22 Ult. as the merchants express it, so frugally, To be sure,...
229From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
Last night your Brother brought me your delicious Letter of 29th Octr. How do you know that Bees...
230From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Speaker Bigelow with his Son, Mr Andrew Bigelow made me a Visit Yesterday introduced by...
231From John Adams to Professor Peck, 17 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed Packet of Seeds of Wheat, Oats, Grass, and Woad, with a Billet, I Send to you, as it...
232From John Adams to John Taylor, 16 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Give me leave to add a few Words, on this Topick. I remember the Time when three Gentlemen,...
233Resumption of Correspondence with John Adams, followed by John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
As you are a Friend to American Manufactures under proper restrictions, especially Manufactures...
234From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, Jr., 26 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
The public papers have announced some sentiments of yours which have induced me to beleive that...
235From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
In the last Week I have attended the House of Mourning and the house of Feasting. on Thursday I...
236From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
“Knowledge” you Say invented Alienation, and became the natural Enemy of Aristocracy. This...
237From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
Mr Erving, our Minister destined to Copenhagen, has already a Letter for you from me and others...
238From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
In your fourth page you “are unable to discover, In Oour form of Government, any resemblance of...
239To James Madison from John Adams, 28 November 1814 (Madison Papers)
When my Son departed for Russia, I enjoined upon him to write nothing to me, which he was not...
240From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Other parts of your letter of yesterday may be remembered hereafter; but “ Brimborion ” must not...
241From John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, 15 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 10th. and the Pamphlet inclosed “American Unitarianism.” I...
242From John Adams to James Madison, 22 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Thank you for your favour of the 12th. The Anecdote mentioned in my Letter of the 4th of...
243From John Adams to William D. Williamson, 25 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
When the House of Representatives, under the Charter of Charles I “broke out” as Huchinson...
244From John Adams to William Cunningham, 22 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I most sincerely thank you for your excellent letter of the 14th.—It contains an abundance of...
245From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
You made that Westphalian Couplet yourself, Sleeping or waking, nobody but you could have dreamed...
246From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 19 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have long meditated to write you a Line. You are giving annual Bounties, for Medical Essays...
247From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 28 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of the 21, inclosing my Letter to Dr James Rush of April 30th. If you or...
248From John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, 29 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have delivered the Copy of your Gazetteer of New York, intended for the American Accademy of...
249From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 2 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have been sick a Month, and my eyes and hands incapable of writing otherise you would have...
250From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
The Accounts I receive of your Indisposition, excite much Grief. Your Father by Precept and...