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1 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, January … | ≈1822-01-01 | Tell your Father that I have found the old circular pedigree which looks like so many wheels... |
2 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 April … | 1820-04-03 | If you can obtain leave of absence I wish for the pleasure of your Company here on the twelfth of... |
3 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 September … | 1816-09-09 | I have now gone through Terence, and noted a few Lines for you to consider. Many perhaps have... |
4 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 May 1816 | 1816-05-27 | The Accounts I receive of your Indisposition, excite much Grief. Your Father by Precept and... |
5 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 5 March … | 1822-03-05 | Did you send me a pritty address of the President of Columbia College, which I received this... |
6 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 October … | 1815-10-03 | Mr John Chipman Gray, who is to be the Bearer of this Letter is about to make the Tour of Europe,... |
7 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 June 1822 | 1822-06-03 | Some of Jobs afflictions and some of Jobs comforts have prevented my answering your letters, as... |
8 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 October … | 1821-10-27 | Your kind letter of the 21st. has given me great satisfaction, indeed you have been very good I... |
9 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 June … | 1822-06-12 | I am well pleased with your No’s: 31. 32 & hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing on... |
10 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 February … | 1823-02-03 | yours of the 26th. January is received. I pray you to attend as much as possible, to every Court,... |
11 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 November … | 1821-11-03 | Your letter of the 28th. of October has been received with pleasure—First because it is sprightly... |
12 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 31 January … | 1821-01-31 | I thank you for your letter of the 31st. as well as for that from New York—I have been reduced so... |
13 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 July … | 1822-07-27 | I have mislay’d your letter and therefore cannot refer to it. I hope Mr Russell has his fill,... |
14 | 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... |
15 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 December … | 1822-12-01 | I have received your letter of the 18th. November—your comparison of the horse race with the... |
16 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 | 1815-05-06 | I know not where your Father is, or I should write directly to him. As Soon as you See him, pray... |
17 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 21 October … | 1815-10-21 | I recd, last night your pleasing Letter of the 9th of Aug. which is the latest date We have had... |
18 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 8 September … | 1815-09-08 | I have recd. your Number 2. June 30th. Number 3 and your June 8th. without number. I am Sorry you... |
19 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 25 November … | 1821-11-25 | Thanks for your No 5. I have now finished reading and hearing read the Four volumes of Hallam’s... |
20 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, April 1813 | ≈1813-04-01 | I sent you by Mr Colman a few latin lines, with a bald translation. Cannot you render that... |
21 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 May 1819 | 1819-05-10 | You have expressed a wish—as I am told—that I would write to you—but what shall I say—we are all... |
22 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 21 March … | 1817-03-21 | I have been pleased with your Journal. I envy, or rather I wish, I could have Shared with you,... |
23 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 December … | 1821-12-09 | The information in yours of the 30 Nov. & that we have from Susan of the health & spirits of you... |
24 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 17 December … | 1822-12-17 | yours of the 9th. is received, you do not give me any account of your Studies as formerly—Mr.... |
25 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 January … | 1822-01-13 | I am glad to learn by your No. 12—that you are reading Burlamaqui and as he is sound in... |
26 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 November … | 1815-11-12 | Every one of your letters has given me great pleasure, and none more than No. 6. Aug. 15 just... |
27 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 January … | 1823-01-12 | I have received your favour of the 5th. instant full of wise reflections philosophical and moral.... |
28 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 January … | 1813-01-09 | Had I been told, my dear George, on the 28th. of December, that I Should take no notice of your... |
29 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 February … | 1822-02-26 | I received this Morning your No 18—It is a universal complaint that the english Language... |
30 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 30 May 1822 | 1822-05-30 | Some of Jobs afflictions & some of Jobs comforters have prevented my answering your letters as... |
31 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 June … | 1822-06-15 | I am well pleased with your No. 31 & 32 I hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing in... |
32 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 February … | 1822-02-22 | Do not the cannon which have thundered this morning in honour of your Namesake, in flame a holy... |
33 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 March … | 1822-03-10 | I have received your No 19, 24, Feby. When I recollect the freedom of speech, which I indulged,... |
34 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 … | 1822-09-20 | Your beautiful letter of the 8th has given me great pleasure I call it beautiful because the... |
35 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 May 1815 | 1815-05-03 | I adress myself to both of you as equally dear to me and because the difficulty with which I... |
36 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 29 August … | 1815-08-29 | I received yr last, with great pleasure and with Still more your Sensible Letter of the 17th of... |
37 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 April … | 1813-04-09 | I Send you, a few Lines from the Old Astronomical and Astrological Poet, Manilius, whom you may... |
38 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 November … | 1821-11-15 | I thank you for your letter of the 4th. November I am very glad to hear that you are so nearly... |
39 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 March … | 1822-03-26 | I am delighted with your number 22. It is not too free. It is modest enough. It is wise learned... |
40 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 16 June … | 1816-06-16 | You cannot easily imagine, how much Grief, the news of your Indisposition has given Us. our most... |
41 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 August … | 1816-08-06 | I desire to know, which of the Characters in the Andrian you was appointed to represent at the... |
42 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 1 September … | 1815-09-01 | I have received Letters from you all, and you know not how gratifying they have been to my heart.... |
43 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 February … | 1825-02-20 | Your letter has given me great pleasure, and so have those of your brother John—they are lively,... |
44 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 6 May 1815 | 1815-05-06 | I know not where your Father is, or I Should write directly to him. As Soon as you See him, pray... |
45 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 March … | 1820-03-13 | If you have a desire of a long life and a happy life I advise you to read Cicero. Your Father has... |
46 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 January … | 1822-01-27 | The splendid account we receive from you and others of the dinners parties and balls from... |
47 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 December … | 1821-12-27 | I have mourned with your mourning in your No. 9 of the 16th Dec. for the loss of Colonel Trimble,... |
48 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 11 June … | 1821-06-11 | I have finished the Sprit of the King. About 3400 pages, as romantick as any of Scotts Novels and... |
49 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 May 1822 | 1822-05-14 | I will not trouble you, to read a history of my pains and aches, as an apology for neglecting to... |
50 | Adams, John | Adams, George Washington | From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 October … | 1822-10-10 | I have received your letter of the 23d ulto. & your father’s letter & octavo volume mentioned in... |