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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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3651 | Adams, John | July 22. Fryday. | 1796-07-22 | Billings sober and steady, persevering in his declaration that he will not drink, these 12... | |
3652 | Adams, John | Woodward, Augustus Elias Brevoort | From John Adams to Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward, 17 … | 1824-11-17 | The formidable invasion of my ninetieth year must be my apology for neglecting, and so... |
3653 | Adams, John | Marshall, John | From John Adams to John Marshall, 17 July 1806 | 1806-07-17 | Yesterday I received from the Post Office your obliging Letter of the Sixth of this month. It is... |
3654 | Adams, John | Boylston, Ward Nicholas | From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 7 October … | 1816-10-07 | Your kind favour of the 27th. of Septr. has greatly obliged me. The Will of your Uncle has not... |
3655 | Adams, John | Luzac, Jean | From John Adams to Jean Luzac, 5 September 1780 | 1780-09-05 | Inclosed is an Abridgment of a Pamphlet, published in London last Winter. I beg your Attentive... |
3656 | Adams, John | [July 1766] | ≈1766-07-01 | Monday after Commencement. Last Saturday, I accidentally found a curious Volume, which Oaks... | |
3657 | Adams, John | November 5. Tuesday. | 1782-11-05 | Mr. Jay likes Frenchmen as little as Mr. Lee and Mr. Izard did. He says they are not a Moral... | |
3658 | Adams, John | Digges, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Digges, 6 – 7 June 1780 | ≈1780-06-06 | Yours of 26 ultimo is before me. That of 9th. have received. I have received the Box of Books... |
3659 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1780 | 1780-02-16 | I have the Honour to be lodged here with no less a Personage than the Prince of Hesse Castle... |
3660 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 | 1813-06-28 | It is very true, that “the denunciations of the Priesthood are fulminated against every Advocate... |
3661 | Adams, John | Farrar, John | From John Adams to John Farrar, 4 June 1813 | 1813-06-04 | Your Letter of May 17th, notifying a Meeting of The Accademy on the 20th. did not arrive till the... |
3662 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 November … | 1821-11-12 | I thank you for your letter of the 4 Nov. I am very glad you have got so far through Hallams... |
3663 | Adams, John | Warren, Joseph | From John Adams to Joseph Warren, 21 June 1775 | 1775-06-21 | This Letter I presume will be delivered into your own Hand by the General. He proposes to set... |
3664 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 10 August 1798 | 1798-08-10 | I received yesterday your favor of the 2d. I have considered the petition of Warrall and return... |
3665 | Adams, John | 1774 Thursday. Octr. 13. | 1774-10-13 | Dined with Mr. Dickenson with Chase, Paca, Low, Mifflin, Mr. Penn and General Lee, at six O... | |
3666 | Adams, John | August 1. 1796. Monday. | 1796-08-01 | Hands all gone to finish our Equinoctial Line of Wall as Billings calls it.—Hot, sultry, muggy... | |
3667 | Adams, John | Quincy, Josiah, III | From John Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 9 February 1811 | 1811-02-09 | I have received with much pleasure your favor of the 29th of January. Before I proceed, let me... |
3668 | Adams, John | Dumas, C. W. F. | From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 28 November 1783 | 1783-11-28 | I have been So taken up with Royal Societies and Royal Accademies, with British Musæums and Sir... |
3669 | Adams, John | Septr. 20. Saturday. | 1777-09-20 | Breakfasted at Mrs. J. B. Smiths. The old Gentleman, his Son Thomas the Loan Officer, were here,... | |
3670 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 March 1815 | 1815-03-24 | I know not whether you are acquainted with the Bearer of this Letter Samuel G. Perkins Esqr, or... |
3671 | Adams, John | Jay, John | From John Adams to John Jay, 28 May 1786 | 1786-05-28 | An Agent from South America, was not long Since arrested, at Rouen in France, and has not Since... |
3672 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 | 1819-05-27 | I have transmitted you a letter to Samuel Adams Welles Esqr. in Boston as you desire This... |
3673 | Adams, John | Gerry, Elbridge | From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry: Secret as the … | 1779-10-18 | Looking over your Letter again, I find several Things unanswered. I should be Sorry to think that... |
3674 | Adams, John | Lloyd, James | From John Adams to James Lloyd, 14 February 1815 | 1815-02-14 | The Quakers, as I said in my last, were in Principle against all Wars, and moreover greatly... |
3675 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 September 1784 | 1784-09-08 | I received your friendly Letter of the 19. June, by my dear M rs Adams, with great Pleasure and... |
3676 | Adams, John | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [4 August 1792] | 1792-08-04 | [ Quincy, Massachusetts, August 4, 1792. On August 16, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Adams : “I have... |
3677 | Adams, John | Clark, Aaron | From John Adams to Aaron Clark, 23 February 1820 | 1820-02-23 | Accept my thanks—for your favour of the 16th. and for the prospectus—of a most magnificent... |
3678 | Adams, John | Rogers, John | From John Adams to John Rogers, 6 February 1801 | 1801-02-06 | I thank you for your kind letter of Jan 31st. If the judiciary bill should pass, as I hope it... |
3679 | Adams, John | 1774. Fryday. Novr. 4. | 1774-11-04 | Dined at Hartford, at Bulls, where we had the Pleasure of seeing Mr. Adams’s Minister Mr. How,... | |
3680 | Adams, John | 26 Fryday. | 1756-03-26 | A delightful morning. Rode to Grafton, dined at Josiah Rawsons. He exerted his rawsonian Talents... | |
3681 | Adams, John | Jay, John | To John Jay from John Adams, 9 January 1818 | 1818-01-09 | Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, by William Wirt of Richmond Virginia has... |
3682 | Adams, John | [April 7. Tuesday 1778.] | 1778-04-07 | April 7. Tuesday 1778. We travelled from Les Ormes, the splendid Seat of the Marquis D’Argenson,... | |
3683 | Adams, John | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 17 … | 1821-05-17 | Last night I received and read your lovely Letter of the 11th: As the three Cantabridgeans were... |
3684 | Adams, John | VI. An Examination of the Claim of New York, May 1774 | ≈1774-05-01 | 1753. In the year 1753 a Committee of the Council of N York in a Report upon the Petition of Mr.... | |
3685 | Adams, John | Carey, Mathew | From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 24 May 1821 | 1821-05-24 | On the 22d of the month I received the letter you did me the honour to write me on the 16th.—“The... |
3686 | Adams, John | Warren, James | From John Adams to James Warren, 27 June 1775 | 1775-06-27 | I am extreamly obliged to you for your Favour of the 20th. of June. The last Fall, I had a great... |
3687 | Adams, John | Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. | From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 26 October 1797 | 1797-10-26 | I have recd your favour of the 20th and thank you for your vigilant attention to the Progress or... |
3688 | Adams, John | [Monday May 27. 1776.] | 1776-05-27 | Monday May 27. 1776. Agreable to order, the Indians were admitted to an Audience. | |
3689 | Adams, John | Dumas, C. W. F. | From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 4 December 1783 | 1783-12-04 | Last Night I received your favour of the 28 th Nov r: and hope in future to hear often from you,... |
3690 | Adams, John | March 3d. 1761. | 1761-03-03 | Mem. To enquire of Tufts, Gould, Whitmarsh, Hunts, Whites, &c. about their Method of mending High... | |
3691 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 January 1794 | 1794-01-01 | I have taken a Sheet of Paper, only to wish you an happy new Year and many happy repetitions of... |
3692 | Adams, John | [December 1758] | ≈1758-12-01 | Bob Paine is conceited and pretends to more Knowledge and Genius than he has. I have heard him... | |
3693 | Adams, John | 15 [i.e. 16] Fryday. | 1756-04-16 | A Stormy Day. | |
3694 | Adams, John | Adams, Samuel | From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 2 June 1786 | 1786-06-02 | D r Gordon who is arrived with your Favour of the 13 of April, will probably be disappointed in... |
3695 | Adams, John | President of Congress | From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 20 … | 1779-10-20 | Mr. Schweighauser of Nantes, who is a Native of Switzerland, observing me, as I was, one Day at... |
3696 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1777 | 1777-03-07 | I am returned in tolerable Health to this Town—have received but one Letter from you since I left... |
3697 | Adams, John | [1780. January 2. Sunday.] | 1780-01-02 | 1780. January 2. Sunday. We rode from Villa Franca, da el Bierzo Rio P uen te, passed through... | |
3698 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 January 1799 | 1799-01-01 | I nominate Adolph C. Lent of New York to be surgeons mate in the navy. Killeair H Van Renselar of... |
3699 | Adams, John | Adams, Thomas Boylston | John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, July 1802 | ≈1802-07-01 | I am much alarmed at the Intimations in the public Prints of the appearance and prevalence of the... |
3700 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1783 | 1783-06-26 | No Letters from you Since last December. Write by the Way of England Holland, France Spain all... |