1John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
“Peace o’er the world her olive wand extends”
2From John Adams to the President of Congress, 5 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
...self-Conceit, and to lessen Us in the Opinion of the World. If We will not see, We must be the...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Mary Hewson, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...of our People, now that the Commerce of all the World is open to us, will soon repair the...
4To Benjamin Franklin from Benjamin West, 7 September 1783 (Franklin Papers)
Citizens of the
WorldCitizens of the World
5From John Adams to the President of Congress, 8 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
..., by which every thing is scattered all over the world. They are open and free, the eyes...
6To George Washington from Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 8 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
...My American Friends, who, in Any part of the world, never felt Himself So much at Home, as...
7[October 1783] (Adams Papers)
...of all his dominions in the four quarters of the world, and models of every fortress in his...
...foundation of those wars which have desolated the world and entailed misery on the human...
9Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
..., make all the wealth, power and greatness of the world appear. I have; Said my dear parent,...
10Extracts of John Baynes’s Journal, 23 September 1783–17 October 1783 (Franklin Papers)
...almost every manifesto; and that he thought the world would grow wiser, and wars become less...