31From John Adams to John Adams, 5 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
“Learn Patience of a Friend”! You think you must go to sea. Well, I have no great Objection;...
32From John Adams to John Adams, 26 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
It gives me much pleasure, to hear that you have a Taste for Numbers, because this quality or...
33To John Adams from John Taylor, 20 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
I return you with regret your pamphlet printed in 1776, in the form of a letter to a friend. The...
34To John Adams from John Taylor, 24 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
Orator, and the printed Sheets you speak of in your letter of the 12th. instant, were, as you...
35To John Adams from John Trumbull, 3 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
You will forgive my having so long delay’d to reply to your very kind letter of January 1st.,...
36From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 23 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
It is several months since your Mama and I have received a letter from you, or since I wrote one...
37To John Adams from John Adams, 4 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Ego recepi tua epistolam a te scriptam Vigesimo tribus mensis Julii. ubi nuntius te a bombardâ...
38To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 24 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
Col. Aspinwall who arrived here a few days since, and delivered to me your two kind favours of...
39To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 3 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Mr Cobbett whose political opinions, as you know have undergone some changes since he was...
40From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 5 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
A few days ago I received letters from your Grandmama, and your Uncle, which rejoyced me very...
41From John Adams to John Adams, 3 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether you have read Tristram Shandy, or The Sentimental Journey or the Sermons or...
42To John Adams from John Fothergill Waterhouse, 22 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Knowing the friendship which existed between you & our Late Illustrious Prof. Rush & the exalted...
43To John Adams from John Mitchell, 1 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
A few Days since in Converseing With His Exclcy. Sir John C. Sherbrooke, He Mentioned to Me Some...
44To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 19 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
On my arrival here I received from my Sons George and John, several important Letters from you....
45To John Adams from John Taylor, 10 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
I drop you a line to apprise you of an error in numbering your letters. Numbers 23 & 25 have been...
46To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 27 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
Since my arrival in this City I have received your kind favour of 16. October—I have now been...
47From John Adams to John Adams, 22 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your capacity is as Smart and quick and ready, and retentive as any bodies. I Should not...
48From John Adams to John Adams, 27 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether I can ever consent to your being a Sailor Boy. I have already prescribed to...
49To John Adams from John Wilson, June 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty of requesting your acceptance of the enclosed volume. When you see me...
50To John Adams from John Farrar, 27 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
An unfortunate accident preventing the insertion in the Newpapers of last week of the...
51From John Adams to John Adams, 11 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
You cannot imagine, how much pleasure, your Letter of July 24th gave me. Your Father and Mother...
52From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 31 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
When Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard arrived here, they brought us letters from many of our friends,...
53To John Adams from John Langdon, 3 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I am honor’d with your letter of the 27th Ult. which has awakened many pleasing sensations in my...
54To John Adams from John Trumbull, 26 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
Twenty Eight years ago, I had the honor of painting in London your portrait in my picture of the...
55To John Adams from John Taylor, 24 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
Lest any letter of December the 24th. last, in answer to yours of the 12th. of the same month,...
56To John Adams from John Holmes, 7 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
You may perhaps deem it evidence of my vanity, that I have ventured to submit the enclosed to...
57To John Adams from John Adams Harper, 30 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 20th. of this month, for which you will be...
58To John Adams from John Vaughan, 11 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
Mr Colman’s visit, highly acceptable in itself, to us all, has been the more So to me as he...
59From John Adams to John Adams, 14 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your classical letter of the 4th. of Octr, does you honour, upon every Supposition that I can...
60From John Adams to John Adams, 18 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I am charmed with the Chirography of your Letter of the Eleventh of September to your...