1To John Adams from Jonathan Mason, 4 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your friendly letter, was handed to me yesterday evening by my Son, upon my return to Town from a small excursion in the Country—The proofs of friendship & good will towards me, from my youth to the present moment, so uniformly repeated by yourself, & by those, who have exchanged this World for a better, whom I can never cease to remember, but with sincere love & veneration, have as uniformly...
2To John Adams from Jonathan Mason, 4 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have yesterday recd your very friendly letter, & shall with great pleasure; attend to & execute your wishes, which have & may be from time to time expressed, respecting your communications—I have collected the pieces, written under the signature of Marcellus, in the year 1793. & have filed them with your letters—Be assured, Sir, I highly prize this unequivocal mark of your confidence & real...
3To John Adams from Jonathan Mason, 6 November 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have been highly gratified with the manner, in which your State in particular & the Continent of America at large I may Add, have received the news of your election to the approaching convention—It has been marked with the approbation of every individual & affords an unequivocal proof of the gratitude of the Town of Quincy—Tho’ you have lived into Posterity, they have not been unmindful of...