51To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 September 1825 (Adams Papers)
It is a very long time my dear venerated father since I have written to you; but the events of yesterday were altogether so interesting I cannot refrain from giving you an account of them— The genl in his travels through this Country has been so much the publick idol, and the devotion of the people has been continued with so much fervour until the last moment of his residence among us, he...
52To John Adams from John Brennan, 4 September 1825 (Adams Papers)
Were it not that I am well acquainted with the illustrious place you deservedly hold, in the annals of your Country; and that I know also, that your whole life; in its dawn; meridian; and (according to the limited age of man) your matured days, were devoted, and most usefully devoted, to the best interests of your Country; I should not trouble you with this letter:—I have addressed more than...
53To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 4 September 1825 (Adams Papers)
It was an unexpected pleasure which I received in your letter of the 17th. of last month, as I had not calculated upon your making such an exertion merely for me. If by writing I can do aught to amuse you a moment I shall think that I am well repaid but my vanity was not so great as to desire an answer, however gratified I may have been at receiving one. The General La Fayette is near on his...
54To John Adams from Captain Ryk, 2 September 1825 (Adams Papers)
Captain Ryk takes his leave and presents the Expression of his Veneration to His Excellency President Adams. Among all the pleasant recollections his stay in Boston never will fail to give him. certainly he allways will remember with the greatest interest that he had the honour to be introduced to the Veteran of the American liberty, ones the first Magistrate now the father of the first...
55To John Adams from Henry Clay, 27 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Rabello being about to visit Boston and your residence, and being very desirous of the honor of your acquaintance, I take particular satisfaction in introducing him to you as the Chargé des Affaires of the Emperor of Brazil and as a gentleman whose official and private intercourse with me has inspired me with high respect for him. I have the honor to be / with great respect / Your obedient...
56To John Adams from Gurdon S. Mumford, 25 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
As a Member of the French benevolent Society established in this City more than 20 years ago for charitable purposes, and feeling for suffering humanity and desirous to contribute my mite towards aiding their benevolent intentions I have been induced to compose a brief view of the Honor’s render’d to General LaFayette by the People of this State, and the Constituted Authorities both of the...
57To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 21 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
The past week has scarcely been marked by any occurrence worth relating in a letter, the weather after having been intensely warm on Sunday and Monday cooled off and we have had an Easterly storm ever since. This makes me quite dull as I prefer the Sun with all his fires. General La Fayette after having thrust his benign countenance among us; has gone to other places to make them happy for a...
58To John Adams from Joseph Delafield, 11 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
As doubts have been expressed by the Agent of His Britannic Majesty under the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent as to the position of the Long Lake mentioned in the Treaty of 1783, I have the honor to solicit any information you can give to identify that Lake, and would beg leave to submit the following questions: Upon what map did the Commissioners trace the Boundary Line described...
59To John Adams from William Charles Jarvis, 8 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
Immediately after the late celebration on Bunker-Hill the enclosed lines were written, and have since appeared in some of our news-papers, As they contain an allusion to some of the revolutionary Sages to whom this country is under lasting obligations. I hope you will at least esteem them as a testimony of my veneration for you. I am, / Most respectfully / Your Obt sert. MHi : Adams Papers.
60To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 8 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
One week has passed already since my arrival here and to us by no means a quiet one. General La Fayette arrived two days after me and has since engrossed almost all our attention. Dinner has succeeded to dinner and party to party, although the weather has been warm constantly. We now enjoy a few days of quiet as my Father and John have accompanied the General and suite and will not return for...
61To John Adams from Edward Everett, 29 July 1825 (Adams Papers)
His Serene Highness, the Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar has expressed a Strong desire of being introduced to you. He is the Second Son of the reigning Grand-Duke of Weimar, who so honorably distinguished himself in 1817, by being the first German Prince to give a Popular Constitution to his subjects. The Wife of the Duke Bernard is sister to the reigning prince of Saxe Meiningen. He is himself a...
62To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 28 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
It seems an age to me , since we parted, and have not since had any accounts from those who have visited me here what has been the state of your health since that period, the best evidence I have rec’d has been thro the medium of the public News papers, in one of wch. is given the toast you sent the charitable masonic association Dinner given to Gen. LaFayette. If I can draw an Inference from...
63To John Adams from J. Brazer Davis, 26 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
The Washington Society, desirous to evince their respect for one of the Fathers of American Liberty, have directed me to request you, in their behalf, to accept the enclosed Ticket to the Dinner, prepared by the Society on the ensuing anniversary of American Independence. With the highest respect, / I have the Honor to be, / Your most obedient servant MHi : Adams Papers.
64To John Adams from Josiah, III Quincy, 22 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
The Baron de Syon will have the honor of presenting you this letter. He has been travelling from the Western States as one of the family of Genl. La Fayette, who is desirous that he should have an opportunity of paying his respects to you, personally; he being a gentleman for whom Genl. La Fayette expressed a great affection. To gratify both Baron de Syon and La Fayette I have taken the...
65To John Adams from William Sullivan, 10 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to enclose a card for the celebration on the seventeenth ; An occasion on which your presence would add, beyond that of any other man’s, to its interest and importance.— I pray leave to take this opportunity to express my deep and lasting regret, that in the sketches of professional life, it should have been my misfortune to have omitted yourself, so distinguished an honor to...
66To John Adams from Josiah, III Quincy, 7 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
John W. Boott Esq. of this city being desirous, with his friend Mr M Cale, of Philadelphia, to pay his respects to you and has requested me to give him that opportunity. He is one of our most respectable citizens and I shall be happy to enable him to enjoy the gratification of the interview he wishes Very respectfully / Yrs MHi : Adams Papers.
67To John Adams from Minott Thayer, 30 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
It is with much pleasure that I avail myself of this occasion in Sending you an address deliver’d by the Rev’d Mr. Horrs, at the celebration of the inauguration of you highly respected and beloved Son as President of the United States. a variety of circumstances are here Combined, which fill my mind with sentiments that require a more able pen than what I hold to express. we have often heard...
68To John Adams from Anne Royall, 29 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to indulge my feelings in grateful acknowledgments for the very kind & polite rec e ption with which you sir distinguished an humble stranger—nothing but the fear of disturbing your repose could have forced me from you so soon I could have conversed with you an age—The same fear Obliged me to suppress the pleasur it would have given me to have informed you that I was present at the...
69To John Adams from Joseph Frothingham, 26 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have read with interest and admiration the history of your life—your assidious toils in gaining the boon we now enjoy—I have mourned over the ingratitud of our Republic which it is said “has become proverbial”. But I rejoice that you have outlived the enmity of your political opposers—and that the name of John Adams now stands preeminent on the reccords of integrity and fame.— For these...
70To John Adams from Mathew Carey, 22 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing you five numbers of a little work, which I have undertaken with a view to encite a spirit of liberality, generosity & patriotism. If you can furnish me with any materials for this work, I shall regard it as a favour. Respectfully Your obt. hble. Servt MHi : Adams Papers.
71From John Adams to John Adams, 22 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
You have been the most punctual correspondent that I ever had except your Brother—but for four weeks past I have been constantly disappointed, whenever I have enquired for a Letter from John—but I have constantly been compelled to make an apology by recollecting that you have been overwhelmed with business of more importance to the public, than soothing my curiosity— Yet I never can be easy...
72To John Adams from Pearson Titcomb, 12 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
May I hope that you will pardon the liberty I have taken of obtruding on your notice the enclosed trifle—being sensible that it possesses less poetry than truth , which is its only recommendation: I have indulged in the belief of your forgiveness, from the consideration, that you had the goodness, when chief Magistrate of the Union, to interest yourself in my behalf, on the following...
73To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 28 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter just rec’d is a Cordial to my spirits, in the lengthend days of my confinement to a sick room since the 22d of last January, without any exercise but that of patience, under pain and debility, or even a Rocking Chair to give releif— I am now convalesing, tho’ at one time I apprehended from the attack being similar, I was soon to follow Govr Eustis & Gen Brooks—& a multitude of...
74To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 27 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice to hear you are in better health than when I left you on Sunday Evg and earnestly hope that your approaching birth day will give a promise of greater improvement—I count with impatience the pleasure we have promised ourselves of finding our hopes confirmd— Yesterday my Nephew my Sisters only Son arrived from England by the way of Canada—with your leave, we shall bring him to pay his...
75From Peter Force to John Adams, 21 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have been requested by a gentleman, whom I am desirous of serving, to call upon the President. Not knowing, however, whether it would be convenient to him, or better for me, to do so, without first making the inquiry, I take the liberty of asking of you the favour to inform me, if I can have an interview with the President, on the subject of this request; and if so, what time would be the...
76To John Adams from John Marshall, 19 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
To the frequent inquiries which I make respecting your health I have the satisfaction to receive the general answer that you enjoy a larger share of that blessing than usually belongs to a person who is so nearly approaching the beginning of his second century. You have my best wishes for its continuance. A desire to leave be hind me a less objectionable impression of the only work I ever...
77To John Adams from William Hull, 15 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
When I first published my pamphlet, containing the memoirs of the Campaign of the northwestern Army in 1812, I desired my Agent in Boston to send a Copy to you, in my name. I supposed it had been done according to my desire, untill yesterday, when in a conversation with my friend, Mr. Marston, he informed me, it had not been received by you.—By what accident, this omission happened, I have not...
78To John Adams from Nathaniel Johnston, 15 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Permit one of your children who although in obscurity will ever feel an ardent desire for the best interests of his Country, to congratulate you on having lived to witness your amiable and worthy Son, President of the United States. I think you may now in aspirations like Simeon of old, “depart in peace.” That your last may be your best days, and when finished you may receive the reward of a...
79To John Adams from Edward Livingston, 14 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
The very friendly and encouraging manner with which you received my plan for a reform of the Penal laws of Louisiana induces me to offer you a specimen of its Execution. But for an accident which happened to my papers I could have submitted the whole system to your perusal. this is all I have yet been enabled to recompose I can not avoid seizing this occasion of congratulating you on an Event...
80To John Adams from Catherine Farnham Hay, 4 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
In this Universal Joy & celebration this day on your own Elevation to first President of the United States; I partake as much of it at my fireside. I cannot refrain to put pen to paper to congratulate you on this important event to this Country. That you have lived to see your son as Honourably situated & that he is considered decidedly the best Man for this Office, must be highly gratifying...