1To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter with pleasure, and read it with high satisfaction. You have paid the...
2To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Accept my most cordial thanks for your truly friendly epistle. I loose not a moment in answering...
3To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Habituated as I have long been to consider your judgement as infallible, I have not found it...
4To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 April 1821 (Adams Papers)
Putting off writing is like postnoing a visit,—if you let it alone too long you know not how to...
5To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your letter justifying & glorifying the character of Junius Brutus is the most masterly apology...
6To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I cannot sufficiently thank you for the fresh instance of your friendship in writting to Prest....
7To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
Hearing that your rheumatism was no better, I hasten to say that instead of the Volatile Tincture...
8To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I hate the idea of teazing men in high office with letters of individual import, when they are...
9To James Madison from Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 June 1822 (Madison Papers)
I here send for your acceptance a copy from a new edition of my Lecture on the pernicious effects...
10To James Madison from Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have just read in one of the Boston News-papers, a paragraph to this effect—that through the...
11To James Madison from Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 June 1825 (Madison Papers)
Having reached home but a few days since, I seize the first day of leisure to express to you, and...
12Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 14 February 1829 (Madison Papers)
Here send for your acceptance a production of early life, being my inaugural oration, when...
13Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 9 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
Considering you the head of the University in your State, I send for its Library a volume I have...
14Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 30 May 1833 (Madison Papers)
It was a saying of one of the wise men of antiquity that a Great Book was a Great Evil ; thereby...
15Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 20 February 1834 (Madison Papers)
I noticed not long since in the Newspapers, that the venerable Mr Madison was elected President...
16Benjamin Waterhouse to James Madison, 17 September 1834 (Madison Papers)
Ever since certain evil minded persons entered the Navy-yard at Charlestown, and beheaded the...
17Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
A man occupying so large a space in the world’s estimation as M r Jefferson , must expect to have...
18Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 15 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Although answering of letters may have become an irksome task, the reading them may sometimes be...
19Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I here send for your acceptance a copy from my last edition of the Lecture on the pernicious...
20Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 8 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 26 th of June I have read again & again, with renewed satisfaction ; and...
21Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I read your letter of the 19 th July with pleasure, and though at first disappointed, I cannot...
22To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
To read every letter sent to you must be no small task; but to read every book which vanity may...
23To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Bearing in mind your lame wrist, and that you are a dozen years older than myself, & that you...
24To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
In reflecting on my late journey south, I found one omission to regret, and especially as I...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
The Rev. Joseph P. Bertrum, an Englishman of the established church, has an inclination to become...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I, in some measure, regret that you have no spare niche for the Rev d M r Bertrum, yet I should...
27To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 May 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
D r Waterhouse having long had “ a concern of mind “ to visit the shrine of S t James and S t...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I seize the first leisure time since my return (for I tarried more than a week in New York with...
29To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rejoice, and so will you, that I am enabled to inform you that our aged friend M r Adams has...