141From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 14 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Otis, to Show the Spirit of the Acts of Trade, those I have already quoted as well as those I Shall hereafter quote And as the best Commentaries upon them; produced a Number of Authors upon Trade, and read Passages from them, which I Shall recite, without pretending to remember the Order in which he read them. Sir Josiah Child “A new discourse of Trade” Let me recommend this Old Book to...
142From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 17 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr Otis proceeded to page 198 of this great Work of the great Knight Sir Josiah Child Proposition Eleventh “That New England is the most prejudicial Plantation to this Kingdom.” “I am now to write of a people whose frugality, industry, and temperance, and the happiness of whose laws and institutio ns do promise to themselves long life, with a wonderful increase of people, riches and power: and...
143From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will you accept a curious Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Chatechism for the Education a Boy of 14 Years of Age, who was destined—in the future course of his Life to dabble in So many Revolutions in America, in Holland and in France. This Doctor Mayhew had two Sisters established in Families in this Village which he often visited and where I often Saw him. He was intimate...
144From John Adams to William Wirt, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Accept a Morsell of ancient Massachusetts Letterature: and will you be pleased to compare it with Mr Henry’s Argument against the Parsons. It was preached and printed in 1749–50 and reprinted in England. It made a great Noise in New England and in old. Pray Sir will you do me the favour to point out the Errors and faults in it. Be assured you will very much oblige your real Well Wisher CSmH .
145John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you accept a curious Peace Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Catechism for The Education of a Boy of 14 Years of age, who was destined in in the future Course of his Life to dabble in so many Revolutions in America , in Holland and in France . This Doctor Mayhew
146From John Adams to Moses Lloyd Hill, 19 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your request of permission to dedicate to me, your proposed travels and Statistical views whose title promiseth both entertainment and Instruction is too flattering to be refused. Especially as you inform me that I have the honour to be distantly related to you. I shall be much obliged to you if you will inform me through what channels that relation has flowed. I am Sir though a Stranger your...
147From John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, 19 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour from Richmond of July 4 I cannot write long letters. When you visit Boston do not forget Quincy the residence of your Ancestors for almost 200 years. Your Grandmother had an elder sister who Married Mr Joshua Bracket and a brother Benjamin. I should be glad to know something of all these for I believe it is twenty years since I have any thing of any of them When you...
148From John Adams to Rev. Horace Holly, 22 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have rarely, if ever, read a Letter with more Pleasure than yours of July the 3d. you could not have fallen into Families more interesting to me than those of Carrol Jefferson and Madison.— I have always regretted that constant Employment and Res anguste domi, have limited my travels in North America to Mount–Vernon.— Mr Jefferson re t grets his misfortune in the loss of an opportunity to...
149From John Adams to William Lambert, 23 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 15th. with two printed Copies of the Abstracts &c. One Copy I shall give to William Smith Shaw Esqr, Superentendant of the Atheneum in Boston Your future Communications I shall advise you to make to that Gentleman or to the Corresponding Secretary of the American Aecademy of Arts and Sciences.—You could not have Communicated it more properly than to Mr...
150From John Adams to John T. Watson, 23 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you, for you for your favour of the 12th. You advise me to write my own Life upon a very extensive plan. But you must give me a lease of another life of 82 Years, before I can undertake it. When I read the Lives of Doctor Benjamin Franklin and Governor Patrick Henry, my own appears, upon retrospection, a dull, dreary unfruitful Waste. I Should be ashamed to read it, though Written by a...