1Charles Storer to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1786 (Adams Papers)
Dulcinea del Toboso, the heroine of Don Quixote.
2John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
...Sterne, in turn, is borrowing from Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part I, book 1, ch. vii.
3Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 15 August 1786 (Adams Papers)
...into a foreign Country again I will make Don Quixote my companion. What with reading the Lives...
4From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
...worth learning, even for the pleasure of reading Don Quixote in the original. I can no longer...
...has sent out things. Charles Gil Blas and Don Quixote are likewise found and will accompany...
6To John Adams from Richard Rush, 13 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
...reading; the bible, Pilgrims progress, and Don Quixote. But Johnson often said what he did...
7Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Don Quixote; TJ alludes to [index entry]
8To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 19 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
...I am reminded of the answer of Sancho in Don Quixote when he was asked how he liked his...
9William Jackson to John Adams, 26 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
...volume, and make them the subject of a letter. Don Quixote is the book which he reads in french
10James Monroe’s Account of a Conversation with Thomas Jefferson, [30 November 1809] (Jefferson Papers)
(Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Samuel Putnam [1998], 1083).