301To John Adams from William A. Colman, 6 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I received from Messrs Gales & Seaton the enclosed bill due for your Subn. to the National Intelligencer from Jany 11. 1817 To Jany 11. 1821 4 years @ $6 per Annum—$24— Being their authorised Agent & they thinking it would be convenient for me to send it by the person in Boston, who is my Agent, ( Elijah Morse Esqr atty at Law,) who would be enabled to forward it, or request some person to...
302To John Adams from George Alexander Otis, 6 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
The letter you have done me the honour to address me of the 3d. inst. I have this moment receiv’d; and I am glad that you approve of my undertaking to give Mr. Botta an American dress, even although you do not find him altogether accurate. Since his faults are countenanced by all historians ancient as well as modern, I hope you will be indulgent to him for the Sake of his translator. I think...
303To John Adams from Elkanah Watson, 7 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
On my return to this pleasant Village from a peregrination in the West, I rec’d Your favor of the 22d June— The ground my friends have assumed as to my projecting—& in co’operation with Genl. Schuyler—my efficient & successful efforts in establishing the Canal policy in this State, & vigorously prosecuting the incipient Step which has led to their present gigantic State—has call’d forth all...
304To John Adams from Peter Paul Francis Degrand, 20 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Is it perfectly agreable to you, that I should put, in my Report, the statement at foot? Accept the renewed assurance of my respectful regard & esteem July 2. 1776 is the day on which the Resolve passed in Congress, declaring the U.S. a Free, Sovereign & Independent People. July 3. 1776 is the day on which John Adams wrote the far-famed letter, which has been printed as dated July 5. July 4....
305To John Adams from William Mumford, 22 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Impell’d by imperious necessity, I take the liberty once more to address you: It is just twelve months this day since I address’d a letter to you, in reply to yours of the 9th. of October, 1818. in which you observe (inter alia) “that you have no intercourse with the Government; and little to do with this world, or you might have transmitted my Letter to the President” Presuming that you never...
306To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 23 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I may be almost afraid after so long an interruption that you may have forgot a correspondent, that you have so kindly aided & encouraged. I make some progress with my biography of James Otis, and it is not wholly my fault that I go on so slow—I wish to give some account incidentally of the Liberty Tree in Boston, which was so famous, and which I presume gave growth to all the others,...
307To John Adams from Charles Carroll, 24 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your very acceptable letter of 13th. instant; with pleasure I learn, that notwithstanding the palsey your Spirits are as good as ever, that you enjoy life; that you may continue to enjoy both to its close is my sincere wish. of the 55, who subscribed the declaration of Independance three only survive, yourself, Mr. Jefferson, & myself, all of us advanced in years, &...
308To John Adams from George Alexander Otis, 24 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Altho I have already once expressed my high Sense of obligation for the very flattering terms in which you were so good as to signify your approbation of my translation of De Pradt’s Europe, yet, as I have been advised by my literary friends in this city not to withhold any longer from the world opinions at once so favourable to the work and to the Translator; which coming from such high...
309To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 29 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I should not perhaps have troubled you with my thanks particularly for your kind answers to my queries respecting Liberty trees; if you had not mentioned the “Letters on the Eastern States.” The work was published anonymously, and I wished to remain unknown as the author, but this seems to have been an absurd expectation on my part, as most of my acquaintances, insist that they detect me in...
310To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, July 1820 (Adams Papers)
As you will not wait in bestowing your kindnesses, till I arrive at Montezillo, you must permit me to give you my cordial thanks for this renewed proof of frendship—If well, then I leave my family—half of August—and hope to See you befor, the end of that month. I Shall be at mrs Eliot’s about the 21—if I come Safe as far at Cambridge.— Saturday we were unexpectedly visited by mr Dwight Miss C....