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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1531 | Adams, John | Tuesday Aug. [5 or 12] 1766. | ≈1766-08-05 | Satt out with my Wife for Salem—dined at Boston—drank Tea at Dr. Simons Tufts’s at Medford... | |
1532 | Adams, John | Adams, Charles | John Adams to Charles Adams, 11 September 1794 | 1794-09-11 | Last night I received your kind Letter of Sept r. 3 d and am sorry to find that your Books were... |
1533 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 April 1783 | 1783-04-16 | If Congress when they revoked my Commission had appointed another to make a Treaty of Commerce... |
1534 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 August 1777 | 1777-08-29 | The Newspapers enclosed, will give you, all the Intelligence, of any Consequence. General... |
1535 | Adams, John | Willink, Wilhem & Jan (business) | From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & … | 1787-11-15 | I have received the Letter, you did me the honor to write me, on the 9 th. of this month:... |
1536 | Adams, John | Tufts, Cotton | John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 3 December 1778 | 1778-12-03 | I have the Pleasure of yours of the 5th. of August, for which I am much obliged to you. It is a... |
1537 | Adams, John | 1760. Novr. 26th. Wednesday. | 1760-11-26 | Ten days are now elapsed, since I began Hale the 2d time, and all the Law I have read, for 10... | |
1538 | Adams, John | Boylston, Ward Nicholas | From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1 February … | 1821-02-01 | I have received your kind note of this afternoon. Mr De Wint and his family are all in Boston and... |
1539 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, September 1807 | ≈1807-09-01 | I want to write an Essay.—Whom Shall I choose for a Model?—Plutarch, old Montaigne, Lord Bacon,... |
1540 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 27 … | 1790-02-27 | Your agreable Letter of the 9. Jan. has lain too long unanswered.—M r Mappa, I should be happy to... |
1541 | Adams, John | Fagel, Hendrik | From John Adams to Hendrik Fagel, 26 May 1789 | 1789-05-26 | M r Van berckel informs me that you were desirous of seeing the second and third Volumes of the... |
1542 | Adams, John | Jenings, Edmund | From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 14 July 1780 | 1780-07-14 | Have just received yours of the 9th and I thank you. Waynes Agreement is thus explained. Gen.... |
1543 | Adams, John | Gerry, Elbridge | From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 3 May 1797 | 1797-05-03 | There are many parts of your Letter I have omitted, indeed it requires more Leisure than I have... |
1544 | Adams, John | 29 Fryday. | 1753-06-29 | At Colledge, a Clear morning. Heard the valedictory oration, pronounced, By Oliver. 2 o Clock set... | |
1545 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 August 1813 | 1813-08-06 | The Talents and qualities of the Tumble Bugg, are Strength Industry, Patience, Foresight of... |
1546 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 October 1789 | 1789-10-14 | M r Dalton, M r Jenkes and myself are at Penfields in good health and Spirits.— My Horses perform... |
1547 | Adams, John | Adams’ Assignment of Errors: Plymouth Superior Court … | ≈1768-04-01 | In the Case of Jane Dotey vs. Manuel Essane heard and adjudged at the Court of General Sessions... | |
1548 | Adams, John | Nolet, Jacobus | From John Adams to Jacobus Nolet, 20 April 1782 | 1782-04-20 | I received, to day the Letter you did me the honor to write to me yesterday, and am exceedingly... |
1549 | Adams, John | Jenings, Edmund | From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 20 July 1782 | 1782-07-20 | The more I reflect upon the late Revolution in the British Ministry the more I am Struck, with... |
1550 | Adams, John | [April 6. 1776.] | 1776-04-06 | April 6. 1776. Congress resumed the consideration of the Report, from the Committee of the whole,... | |
1551 | Adams, John | McHenry, James | From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 August 1798 | 1798-08-23 | Inclosed are letters from David Hobbs, Richard Bland Lee, Wm. Mason, H. G. Otis, Lt. Gov. Gill,... |
1552 | Adams, John | Aug. 4. | 1784-08-04 | Sett off, for London, had a tedious Passage from Helvoet, of near two days. Obliged to put in at... | |
1553 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 June 1814 | 1814-06-17 | What Shall I Say, of the “Resemblance, of our House of Representatives to a legislating Nation.”?... |
1554 | Adams, John | Decr. 6th. 1760. | 1760-12-06 | Talked with Zab about Newton, Bacon, Lock, Martin, Chambers, Rowning, Desaguliers, S’Gravesende... | |
1555 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 October 1776 | 1776-10-04 | I send you, all the News. When I do not write I suffer more Pain than you do, when you dont... |
1556 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 January 1806 | 1806-01-29 | The Mail of yesterday brought, me, the Documents and in the Evening I received from Boston your... |
1557 | Adams, John | Stoddert, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 9 September 1799 | 1799-09-09 | I have signed the commission for Mr. Ebenezer Bushnell of Lebanon, & sent it on in your letter to... |
1558 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 September 1777 | 1777-09-02 | I had Yesterday the Pleasure of yours of from Boston, and am happy to find that you have been... |
1559 | Adams, John | 1779. May 9. Sunday. | 1779-05-09 | The Pilot came on Board this Morning from St. Nazare, and pronounced it unsafe to go out, with... | |
1560 | Adams, John | Sullivan, James | From John Adams to James Sullivan, 2 August 1796 | 1796-08-02 | I received; last Evening the Letter you did me the honour to write me, the 30th of July, and am... |
1561 | Adams, John | [July 1784] | 1784-07-10 | May not the Ascent of Vapours be explained, or rather accounted for upon the Principle of the Air... | |
1562 | Adams, John | [November 1791] | ≈1791-11-01 | Williamson. Great Numbers emigrate to the back parts of North and S.C. and G. for the Sake of... | |
1563 | Adams, John | Gannett, Caleb | From John Adams to the Reverend Caleb Gannett, 1 April … | 1775-04-01 | It is not easy for me to determine whether it be best, to carry the Cause before the Governor and... |
1564 | Adams, John | [Report on Boundaries, 1773–1774] | ≈1774-01-01 | In the Fall of the Year 1773, The General Court appointed Mr. Bowdoin and me to draw a State of... | |
1565 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 March 1810 | 1810-03-16 | The Opportunity by Captain Benjamin Harrod is so unexpected and the time allowed me is So Short,... |
1566 | Adams, John | Coxe, Tench | From John Adams to Tench Coxe, May 1792 | ≈1792-05-01 | The first Thing I have to communicate to you, must be an Explanation of the Date of my Letter.... |
1567 | Adams, John | Warren, James | From John Adams to James Warren, 21 March 1777 | 1777-03-21 | It is not easy to penetrate the Designs of the Enemy. What Object they have in View, cannot... |
1568 | Adams, John | Feb. 20. Fryday. | 1778-02-20 | In the Morning nothing to be seen, but soon after another Sail discovered ahead, which is... | |
1569 | Adams, John | [Notes of Debates on the Articles of Confederation … | 1776-08-01 | Hooper. N.C. is a striking Exception to the general Rule that was laid down Yesterday, that the... | |
1570 | Adams, John | Berckel, Engelbert François van | From John Adams to Engelbert François van Berckel, 23 … | 1782-07-23 | I have recd. this morning the Letter which You did me the honor to write me yesterday. All that... |
1571 | Adams, John | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | From John Adams to the Marquis de Lafayette, 31 January … | 1786-01-31 | I send you by M r. Joy, all the writings which have fallen in my way, against the slave trade— I... |
1572 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 April 1797 | 1797-04-03 | Monday Morning, the most agreable in the Week because it brings me Letters from you, has not... |
1573 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 | 1776-07-03 | Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with... |
1574 | Adams, John | Laurens, Henry | From John Adams to Henry Laurens, 4 February 1778 | 1778-02-04 | I had this Moment the Honour of yours of the 15. Ultimo and I thank you for your Kindness to Mr.... |
1575 | Adams, John | Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von | John Adams to Baron von Thulemeier, 4 May 1784 | 1784-05-04 | M r Adams presents his Compliments to the Baron De Thulemeier: He has received from Paris, the... |
1576 | Adams, John | Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. | From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 20 July 1799 | 1799-07-20 | I return the commission signed, which you sent me in your letter of the 18th. I have left it in... |
1577 | Adams, John | Fryday [15 February]. Evening. | 1771-02-15 | Going to Mr. Pitts’s, to meet the Kennebeck Company—Bowdoin, Gardiner, Hallowell, and Pitts.... | |
1578 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 May 1798 | 1798-05-02 | I wish, by the leave of the Senate, to recall my former Message containing Nominations of... |
1579 | Adams, John | President of Congress | From John Adams to the President of the Congress, No. … | 1780-02-20 | Since my Arrival in Europe I have had the Mortification to see in the public Papers a Series of... |
1580 | Adams, John | John Adams: A Translation, 11 July 1781 | 1781-07-11 | Articles to Serve, as a Foundation of the negotiation, for the Re-establishment of Peace. There... |