491From John Adams to John Sanderson, 4 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 29th. and a sketch of Mr Hancocks Life, which I am very glad...
492From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, 3 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter—And will proceed with my abrupt narrative— The practice of the...
493From John Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 2 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of the 16th. I rejoice to hear of your comfortable health and...
494From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 21 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have been as Civil to Mr Lane who brought me your letter of 26. As I could. He dined with me...
495From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 16 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
O that I had the talent at discription, of a Homer a Milton or a Walter Scot—I would give you a...
496From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 15 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
O that I had the talent at description of a Homer a Milton or a Walter Scott I would give you a...
497From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 9 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
By the last Post I received your Olive Branch—And by this days Post, your Letter—you are loading...
The circle in which I move you know is very Contracted—and when I go round regularly like a hores...
499From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
Our George has gained the first prize—and bares his honour meekly—He is a dutiful Son, for he is...
500From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
Captain Phillips’s letter is a Volume of News to me—That he Sailed without a Commission was never...
501From John Adams to Wilkes Allen, 5 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your history of Chelmsford which I have read with great pleasure and...
502From John Adams to Charles Holt, 4 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
The Universal Vanity of human Nature, must have obstructed itself on your observation in the...
503From John Adams to Edward Everett, 2 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received within this hour, the Inclosed letter from Mr. Jefferson—Which, as it is...
504From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 2 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have been as Civil to Mr Lane who brought me your letter of August 26th. as I could, he dined...
505From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, Jr., 31 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
Some time ago I requested permission, to write to you certain facts in Confidence which I wish to...
506From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 10 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have two kind letters from you to answer—the last—of August 7th.—has filled me with deep sorrow...
507From John Adams to Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, 8 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
Accept my kind thanks for your Letter of the 1st. Inst. and its inclosure. I have given a rapid...
508From John Adams to George A. Otis, 3 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of the 24th. of July—I should be very wrong to give an opinion...
509From John Adams to Charles Carroll, 2 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your friendly letter of the 24th July, I received as a precious treasure. You have in your list...
510From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
511From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the promptitude with which you paid my debt to Mrss Gales & Seaton—and...
512From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the promptitude with which you paid my debt to Mr Gales & Seaton—and discontinued...
513From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Liberty Tree in Boston, was a very aged and a very large Elm—in the front yard of Deacon Elliot...
514From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
515From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter, and an account from Mr. Gales for the National Intelligencer— I am very...
516From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 13 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Extract. I was not able to accept the condescending invitation of the Government of the State and...
517From John Adams to Charles Carroll, 12 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your kind enquiries of Dr Waterhouse concerning my health have excited in me an ardent desire to...
518From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
If you may not murmur when you approach seventy, surely I ought not when I approach ninety; and...
519From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 7 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
You know not the gratification you have given me, by your kind; frank; and Candid letter—I must...
520From John Adams to George A. Otis, 2 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your letter of the 20th. of June and for the first volume of your translation of...