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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 June 1813 | 1813-06-09 | I enclose you sketches of Naval history and a letter from the Author Make what use of them you... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 April 1813 | 1813-04-06 | Other parts of your letter of yesterday may be remembered hereafter; but “ Brimborion ” must not... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 May 1815 | 1815-05-30 | You made that Westphalian Couplet yourself, Sleeping or waking, nobody but you could have dreamed... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1820 | 1820-07-27 | I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December … | 1817-12-25 | It was not friendly in you to involve me in your domestic & family Controversies Major Pierce... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February … | 1817-02-27 | Are the works of Apuileus in Harvard College Library or in any other collection in America Have... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 March 1813 | 1813-03-31 | “The History” is of no value, except on account of its date. It was written and printed in Edes... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 December … | 1817-12-19 | Your Letter of the 13th. has touched my feelings. Deeply infected with a dangerous distemper you... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 August 1817 | 1817-08-14 | I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th of June. That of the 8th: of August, I certainly... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 June 1806 | 1806-06-29 | I rejoice to find by your Letter of the 26. and by my Sons Conversation, that his commencement of... |
| 11 | 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... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 July 1813 | 1813-07-01 | The report that John Quincy Adams has written to his father, or any one else that “the war which... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 October 1805 | 1805-10-03 | I duly recd your favour of the 21. Sept.—I Sent you two pretty large Packetts the first of Six... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 June 1817 | 1817-06-04 | Your pathetic Letter of the 2d. has filled my heart with Sympathy and Grief. Your Son, by all... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 October 1814 | 1814-10-28 | Your Letter of the 10th is too delicious, to be disgraced by Ceremonies and Apologies in my... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1818 | 1818-01-12 | In your Letter of the 21st. of October you Say that Mrs Knox said to you that “her husband was... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 June 1820 | 1820-06-16 | I thank you for Dr Ware’s letter to Dr Mc Load which I have read with pleasure, they are worthy... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February … | 1812-02-11 | In answer to your Letter of the Eighth I can only say that Societies Since as I have never been... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 January 1818 | 1818-01-30 | As “the accurate Jefferson” has made the Revolution a Game of Billiards, I will make it a Game of... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September … | 1811-09-15 | I receive no Letters with So much pleasure as yours and Rushes. The Shortest of them always... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 September … | 1820-09-07 | Captain Phillips’s letter is a Volume of News to me—That he Sailed without a Commission was never... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 February 1818 | 1818-02-05 | Clarks History of the Navy is the Same with Mathew Careys. Wilkinsons History I have not Seen. I... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 May 1813 | 1813-05-09 | Our Boston Rulers must be acknowledged to be profound Politicians. They appear to have Studied... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 January 1813 | 1813-01-25 | I will join with Vice President Gerry and Lt. Governor Gray in any reasonable representation. But... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 March 1813 | 1813-03-16 | I have just recd your Favour of Yesterday. It has been a Rule of the Government from 1789 to this... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 January 1806 | 1806-01-03 | I have derived as much consolation in Life, from Horace as from Epictetus. I say Buvons,... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 December 1817 | 1817-12-09 | Oh! that I had Eyes and Fingers for a little Badinage! When you cannot keep your Chin above... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September … | 1812-09-15 | You ask my Opinion, (if I understand you) whether Duane or General Hull, be the fittest Man for... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 January 1807 | 1807-01-08 | I received your favour of the Second of this month, yesterday. I dont do not understand your... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 January 1807 | 1807-01-21 | Robinson was not only a Man of Sense and learning but Piety and Virtue but of a Catholic tolerant... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 June 1816 | 1816-06-25 | In the style of John and Jonathan Bull, I give you a thousand thanks for your letter of the 18th... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 December 1814 | 1814-12-02 | Gerry! Gerry! Gerry! You was the last of my Colleagues! I am left alone! It cannot be long before... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 August 1805 | 1805-08-11 | Many thanks for your favour of the 9th: and the copy of your Memorial to the Corporation. I... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 May 1821 | 1821-05-08 | You must have much pleasure in watching the Opining mind of your Grandchild; for, being half... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 December … | 1812-12-31 | I cannot take leave of the Year, without confession of my fault and begging Pardon, A Letter so... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 May 1813 | 1813-05-28 | You know not the Feeling I have for you. I wish Mr Cutts and Mr Seaver, may guess right: but you... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 October 1813 | 1813-10-19 | Little did I think when I last wrote you, what a monument was erected to me. I have since... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 September … | 1800-09-10 | I have received and will communicate to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, your Prospect... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 May 1821 | 1821-05-18 | I have made my Cantabridgians read your Letter to all my family at Breakfast. We all recognized... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 April 1813 | 1813-04-09 | Since there is nothing in human life but Brimborians, that is maginificent nothings, pompous... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 September … | 1810-09-17 | I know that Mother Harvard had Power to make D.D. M.D. and LLD as well as Batchelors and Masters:... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1813 | 1813-07-25 | Mine Eyes are better. I am angry with you for calling our Navy little. It is the greatest Navy in... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 June 1822 | 1822-06-10 | Thanks for your letter of 5th. June and smoaking lecture but as I have not read the lecture I... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 September … | 1813-09-17 | I receive with pleasure, the News of your removal to Cambridge and establishment in Office, in... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 August 1817 | 1817-08-17 | I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th. of June. That of the 8th. of August I certainly... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 March 1817 | 1817-03-19 | Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a ratiocination?... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 January 1810 | 1810-01-10 | I thank you for your favour of Decr 25 And the Extracts inclosed. I regret the loss of your Visit... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 November 1820 | 1820-11-07 | I return you Captain Phillips’s sensible letter, I wish I could converse with you upon the... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 November … | 1821-11-25 | I sympathise with Alexipharmacus in his resentment of the indignities offered to Richardson,... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 May 1821 | 1821-05-25 | I received yesterday your favour of the 22nd and will begin at the end of it you must not utter a... |