651From John Adams to Samuel Adams, 10 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
We were very happy to have the definitive Treaty signed, altho’ We could obtain no Improvement...
652From John Adams to Granville Sharp, 8 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
I took the first opportunity to send your Present of Books to my friend the Marquis de la Fayette...
653From John Adams to John Jay, 17 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
It has been the general Sense of our Country, Since the Peace, that it was their Duty and their...
654John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, 11 July 1784 (Adams Papers)
Is there no News from Egberts our Express? What can have happened to him? or become of him? Is he...
655To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 19 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
I am favoured with yours of 27. Decr. and am obliged to you for what you said to the Count De...
656From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 6 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
After much anxiety on your account and many ineffectual Inquiries after your health & welfare, I...
657John Adams to William Smith, 19 July 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have rec’d your’s of the 13 th and 16 th: the last contains the most agreeable News I have...
658From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 April 1785 (Adams Papers)
This Letter will be delivered you, by your old Acquaintance, John Quincy Adams, whom I beg Leave...
659John Adams to Richard Cranch, 20 July 1787 (Adams Papers)
I have only the time to inform you, that this morning I am to Sett out, with My Wife and...
660From John Adams to the Comte de Sarsfield, 3 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
In your kind Letter of the 26. of Jan y. You ask an explanation of that expression of the...
661John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 8 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I am to take with me to Paris, a Quantity of Bills of Exchange, formerly accepted by me, in...
662From John Adams to John Jay, 3 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
An Event has taken Place, of too much Importance to the United States, to be omitted, in...
663John Adams to Franklin and John Jay, 20 April 1784 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Columbia University Library; copy: Massachusetts Historical Society I have just now...
664[Orders Drawn on Messrs. Van Den Yver for Personal and Family Expenses, September 1784–May 1785.] (Adams Papers)
£ s d Auteuil Sept. 10. 1784. Drew an order on M.M. Van den Yvers in favour of my son J.Q.A. for...
665From John Adams to the Marquis of Carmarthen, 6 February 1786 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour of transmitting to your Lordship a Copy of a Letter of the twenty first of...
666[May 1785] (Adams Papers)
Tuesday. At Versailles, the C. de Vergennes said he had many Felicitations to give me upon my...
667From John Adams to Thomas Bulfinch, 13 October 1786 (Adams Papers)
The Day before yesterday, I received the Letter you did me the honour to write me in January...
668From John Adams to Nathaniel Barrett, 2 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Last Night I received your Letter of Nov. 29. inclosing another written at sea give me Leave to...
669To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 11 September 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
On my Return from Holland on the Sixth instant I found your Favours of the 8. and 13. Aug. On my...
670John Adams to George Clinton, 1 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
M r C. W. Schubert, de Rawitz, in Poland, proposes to embark in march for New York, and there to...
671From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 11 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
I received Yesterday your favour of the 3 d . The Letters you Sent me from America I have...
672From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas and William Short, 11 September 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d. from M r: Jefferson a copy of his letter to you of the 1 st. ins t: & agree fully...
673John Adams to the president of Congress, 22 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
If my Memory does not deceive me, I have heretofore transmitted to Congress, the Advice of some...
674John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 March 1785 (Adams Papers)
You will See, by our joint Dispatches, that The Pope, Sardinia and Naples, by their Answers, have...
675To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 28 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Daniel Parker will have the Honour to deliver you this. He is an intelligent American, and...
676To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 16 September 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
At the desire of the Baron De Poellnitz, I do myself the Honour to introduce him to you. This...
677John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 21 February 1787 (Adams Papers)
Having determined to return to Pens hill, I begin to think in what a pitiful Condition I shall...
678From John Adams to Richard Henry Lee, 26 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
This letter will be delivered you by M r: C. S. of Boston, who has lived much in my family & done...
679Monday [24 April.] (Adams Papers)
Viewed the British Musaeum. Dr. Grey who attended Us spoke very slightly of Buffon. Said “he was...
680John Adams to the president of Congress, 10 January 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have the Satisfaction, to inform Congress that by Letters from our Bankers, in Amsterdam, I am...
681London June 26. 1786. (Adams Papers)
On Saturday night returned from a Tour to Portsmouth, in which We viewed Paines Hill in Surry, as...
682From John Adams to John Jay, 7 December 1783 (Adams Papers)
The night before last, Commodore Jones arrived, with Dispatches from Congress. Two Packets were...
683From John Adams to Rufus King, 14 June 1786 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, arrived by the Post your Favours of the 2. 4. & 5. of May. Every Day will furnish...
684John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 3 June 1786 (Adams Papers)
Dr Gordon brought me your Letter of the 2d. of April, which gave me, great Pleasure. In order to...
685January 31. 1785. Monday. (Adams Papers)
Last Evening the Marquis de la Fayette, lately returned from America, called upon me, in his Way...
686From John Adams to Samuel Cooper, 10 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
I congratulate you upon the Ratification of the Provisional & the Signature of the definitive...
687From John Adams to John Jay, 15 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the Honour to write me the 6. Sept r . The Act of Congress...
688From John Adams to Isaac Smith Sr., 12 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
The Terror in the Minds of our Sailors, of the Barbary Rovers, is an immense Loss to our Country,...
689From John Adams to James Warren, 10 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
I received with great Pleasure yours of 24. June. The Approbation of my Countrymen is a great...
690From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 25 April 1785 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of 14. Feb. I have received of M r Jarvis, full, as usual, of important Information....
691From John Adams to John Jay, 16 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
Two Days ago, I received the Letter, you did me the Honour to write me, on the 16. of Oct r. with...
692From John Adams to John Jay, 29 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
The United States began their Career upon the most liberal System of Policy Commerce: France met...
693John Adams to Thomas Barclay, 11 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I have this Moment rec’d your Letter of the 6 th: and have now only to say, that if you have not...
694John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 31 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
I hope Mr. Storer, when he delivers this Letter, will find you a Student in the University, or...
695John Adams to Thomas Barclay, 12 May 1784 (Adams Papers)
I am Sorry to have given you, So much Trouble about the House, to no purpose: But I am weary of...
696From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday our Friend M r Short arrived. M r Dumas had never any Commission from Congress, and...
697From John Adams to John Jay, 2 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are Copies of private Letters, which have passed between Lord Carmarthen and me relative...
698From John Adams to Arthur Lee, 18 July 1788 (Adams Papers)
I am much obliged to you, for your kind Congratulations on my Arrival, and M rs Adams returns you...
699From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, 22 May 1787 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment received your Letter of the 18 th. — That Congress will most chearfully allow...
700To John Jay from John Adams, 9 October 1787 (Jay Papers)
France appears at this Moment, in the Light of a Simple People Sincerely disposed to Peace,...