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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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4751 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 … | 1802-01-26 | I have recd your favors of the third, and am much obliged to you and to Mr. Mappa for your... |
4752 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 | 1774-07-01 | I am so idle, that I have not an easy Moment, without my Pen in my Hand. My Time might have been... |
4753 | Adams, John | Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. | From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 12 October 1797 | 1797-10-12 | Last night I arrived at Col. Smiths, and my Family will probably make this House their home till... |
4754 | Adams, John | [Wednesday April 17. 1776. Thursday April 18.] | ≈1776-04-17 | Wednesday April 17. 1776. Thursday April 18. No Committee of the whole. | |
4755 | Adams, John | Welles, Arnold | From John Adams to Arnold Welles, 5 September 1812 | 1812-09-05 | I have received your kind and obliging Letter of the second of this month encloseing a polite... |
4756 | Adams, John | Paca, William | From John Adams to William Paca, 9 September 1785 | 1785-09-09 | I rec d. soon after my arrival in London the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 29... |
4757 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 March 1781 | 1781-03-11 | My Letters by Davis, Mr. Guild &c. are lost.—Pray did you get the Goods by Davis? This goes by... |
4758 | Adams, John | McHenry, James | From John Adams to James McHenry, 4 October 1798 | 1798-10-04 | Inclosed are recommendations for the Army of a Major McFarland, and two Mr Eatons whose names... |
4759 | Adams, John | Monroe, James | From John Adams to James Monroe, 19 June 1817 | 1817-06-19 | From the tenderness of Friendship and the Weakness of Compassion and humanity, I have promised... |
4760 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 February 1797 | 1797-02-04 | I hope you will not communicate to any body the hints I give you about our Prospects: but they... |
4761 | Adams, John | [November 24 1779.] | 1779-11-24 | November 24 1779. We were on the Grand Bank of Newfound Land, and about this time, We spoke with... | |
4762 | Adams, John | Quincy, Norton | John Adams to Norton Quincy, 28 August 1782 | 1782-08-28 | I Sigh every day, in whatever Scaene I am in for a walk down to your House and a Day by your... |
4763 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 December … | 1798-12-19 | I nominate Archibald Richardson of Virginia to be collector for the district of South Quay.... |
4764 | Adams, John | [17? March 1754.] | 1754-03-17 | Kept sabath at Cambridge. March about the middle. | |
4765 | Adams, John | Seventy-Six Association | From John Adams to Seventy-Six Association, 8 August … | 1818-08-08 | I thank you for your favour of 24th: July & the oration enclosed. The respected name of the... |
4766 | Adams, John | Gerry, Elbridge | From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 14 December 1782 | 1782-12-14 | Thanks be to God, my dear Gerry, that our Tom Cod are Safe, in Spight of the Malice of Ennemies... |
4767 | Adams, John | Sharp, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Sharp, 27 February 1811 | 1811-02-27 | Through the favor of Mr Russel Sturgis I have received the original and a Duplicate of your kind... |
4768 | Adams, John | President of Congress | From John Adams to the President of Congress, 12 June … | 1781-06-12 | Amsterdam, 12 June 1781. RC in John Thaxter’s hand PCC , No. 84, III, f. 209–217. printed :... |
4769 | Adams, John | Bigelow, Tyler | From John Adams to Tyler Bigelow, 1 February 1824 | 1824-02-01 | I thank you for your address to the Peace Society. I have heard it with great pleasure It is... |
4770 | Adams, John | Hanson, John | From John Adams to the President of Congress, 29 … | 1781-12-29 | Amsterdam, 29 December 1781. RC in John Thaxter’s hand ( PCC , No. 84, III, f. 446–450). printed... |
4771 | Adams, John | Sunday. May 18th. 1766. | 1766-05-18 | Mem. to write some Speculations, upon the Union of Legislative and Executive Powers—and upon the... | |
4772 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 December 1794 | 1794-12-10 | Entre nous M r sheerjashub Bourne called upon me the other Morning to ask me some Questions about... |
4773 | Adams, John | Dayton, Elias | From John Adams to Elias Dayton, 6 July 1798 | 1798-07-06 | I thank you for this Address. It was impossible for you to assemble on the 4th. of July for the... |
4774 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 | 1763-04-20 | Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity... |
4775 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 14 … | 1805-03-14 | Your favor of Feb. 25th. is recd.—Ingraham, I think, must be no further North than the 56th:... |
4776 | Adams, John | Warren, James | From John Adams to James Warren, 13 April 1783 | 1783-04-13 | I have in some late Letters opened to You in Confidence the Dangers, which our most important... |
4777 | Adams, John | Knox, Henry | From John Adams to Henry Knox, 25 August 1776 | 1776-08-25 | Your Favour of the 21. is before me. I agree that We ought to have an hundred more of Mortars,... |
4778 | Adams, John | Lee, Charles | From John Adams to Charles Lee, 16 May 1800 | 1800-05-16 | I transmit you a copy of a resolution of the Senate of the United States, passed in Congress, on... |
4779 | Adams, John | Jay, John | From John Adams to John Jay, 14 February 1788 | 1788-02-14 | I Yesterday received M r Remsens Letter of the 14. of December, with the Journals and Gazettes... |
4780 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 January 1799 | 1799-01-01 | I rec d to day your fav r of 24 and it made the day more tolerable. Your health and Spirits... |
4781 | Adams, John | Marshall, John | From John Adams to John Marshall, 16 August 1800 | 1800-08-16 | The inclosed letter from Cotton Tufts Esqr one of the most respectable men in our State I pray... |
4782 | Adams, John | 1780. January. 18. Tuesday. | 1780-01-18 | Spent the Day in Walking about the Town. Walked round the Wharf upon the River, through the... | |
4783 | Adams, John | White, William | From John Adams to William White, 24 September 1813 | 1813-09-24 | I rely entirely on the long and agreeable acquaintance between us and the knowledge I have had... |
4784 | Adams, John | Boston Patriot | From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 19 September 1809 | 1809-09-19 | 1781, January 18—wrote to Mr. Mazzei, at Florence: “Yesterday I received yours, of the 19th of... |
4785 | Adams, John | Metcalf, Theron | From John Adams to Theron Metcalf, 8 September 1822 | 1822-09-08 | I wish I could give you a satisfactory answer to your obliging favour of August 31 but from the... |
4786 | Adams, John | Dawes, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Dawes, 16 February 1819 | 1819-02-16 | Inclosed are copies of two letters written by me to my Wife one in the morning, and the other in... |
4787 | Adams, John | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, 25 April 1791 | 1791-04-25 | I do my self the honour to transmit to you my Accounts which remain unsettled, for the last two... |
4788 | Adams, John | Calkoen, Hendrik | 1. To Hendrik Calkoen, 4 October 1780 | 1780-10-04 | You desire an exact and authentic Information of the present Situation of American Affairs, with... |
4789 | Adams, John | White, William | From John Adams to William White, 29 October 1814 | 1814-10-29 | From your very kind reception of Mr Colman I am encouraged to introduce to you another of our... |
4790 | Adams, John | November 18th. 1755. | 1755-11-18 | We had a severe Shock of an Earthquake. It continued near four minutes. I was then at my Fathers... | |
4791 | Adams, John | Tudor, William, Jr. | From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 17 November 1819 | 1819-11-17 | I inclose you a letter from Judge Sewall-and an anecdote of your Hero—He had intervals of Sound... |
4792 | Adams, John | Rush, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Rush, 9 October 1815 | 1815-10-09 | Thanks for your favour of the 2nd. & the valuable pamphlet “America Jurisprudence” With no less... |
4793 | Adams, John | Sullivan, James | From John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 April 1805 | 1805-04-26 | In the Biographical Sketch, which you published, of his late Excellency Governor Adams, you have... |
4794 | Adams, John | Feb. 5. Fryday. | 1779-02-05 | The Duke de Rochefoucault, Mr. Turgot, Abbe Rochon and De la Roche, dined here. | |
4795 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 April 1808 | 1808-04-12 | In your favour of March 25th. you express a hope that nothing like a distribution of Money, among... |
4796 | Adams, John | Webb, Nathan | From John Adams to Nathan Webb, with Comments by the … | 1755-10-12 | All that part of Creation that lies within our observation is liable to Change. Even mighty... |
4797 | Adams, John | Watson, Elkanah | From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 29 March 1822 | 1822-03-29 | I have recieved your favr of the 17th. Decr. Your favour of the 17th Decr. You may do what you... |
4798 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 1813 | ≈1813-09-01 | σὲ γὰρ πάντεσσι θέμις θνητοῖσι προσαυδᾶn. “It is not only permitted but enjoined upon all Mortals... |
4799 | Adams, John | Livingston, Robert R. | From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 31 October … | 1782-10-31 | Having executed the Treaty of Commerce, at the Hague and dispatched four Copies of it, by four... |
4800 | Adams, John | Ludlow, Peter, Jr. | From John Adams to Peter Ludlow, Jr., 20 February 1819 | 1819-02-20 | I have recd your polite favour of the 11th. of this month. You request my opinion upon a variety... |