1To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 23 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
With the most sincere Wishes for your Health, to enable you to discharge the ardent Duties, and all important Services intrusted to You by our dear Country, & in which, Europe & the World are so much interested, I am, / with the most grateful Attachment, / my dear Sir, Your faithful hble Servant
2To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 5 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
..., grounded on the false and contemptuous Opinion that we are a mercenary, defenceless, & divided People; it surely becomes the Duty of every Citizen, & of incorporated Bodies in particular, publicly to express Sentiments which may convince the World, as well as the French Nation, that they indignantly feel, dare resent, & hope to avenge the injured & insulted Character of our common Country.
3To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 5 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
...Peace of Paris, I have dared intrude upon your Retirement to learn from you something of the Character of a Man whose lively literary Talents have furnished so much Amusement to the reading Part of the World. And whether it was not customary with him when he aimed at either Wit or Satire to fabricate any singular Story, as a substratum for his Purpose. This assuredly was his Object when...
4To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 28 February 1817 (Adams Papers)
...of Loyola compells one to ask—What has not Fanaticism & clerical Ambition effected in all Ages, on that strange Prodigy Man “the Jest & Riddle of the World”? Different Periods have had their different Miracles, Vissions, Prophesies, Witchcrafts and Anathemas, for Credulity, whether learned or ignorant, to believe & tremble at. But I confess I have no Apprehensions about Theological,...
5To John Adams from William Tudor, Sr., 25 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
...the Honour & Advantage of being joined with Mr. Adams in a royal Proclamation, in which they were considered as the most dangerous Rebels in his Britannick Majesty’s colonial Dominions. And the World of Course supposed him the boldest of Patriots, if not the ablest of Politicians. And the American Annalist will class him among the precious few who led the primary Measures of the Revolution...