1To John Adams from John Farrar, 27 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
An unfortunate accident preventing the insertion in the Newpapers of last week of the notification for the meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences it appeared only in the papers of Monday & Tuesday of this week. I came into town Monday afternoon for the purpose of sending you a note explaining the omission of seasonable public notice but had the mortification to mistake the hour of...
2From John Adams to John Farrar, 29 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received last night by the Quincy Stage, the honour of your Letter of the 27th. of this month; and am very sorry you have had so much trouble on the occasion. If on any future occurrence you should wish to convey a line to me, if you put it in the general Post office in Cambridge or Boston, it will arrive to my hand with great certainty in two days Accidents and sickness, and a general...
3From John Adams to John Farrar, 4 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of May 17th, notifying a Meeting of The Accademy on the 20th. did not arrive till the 21st. The other Letter with which you honoured me, Subsequent to the last Meeting of The American Accademy of Arts and Sciences, has Sensibly affected me. An Election to the Chair of that learned and Reverend and Honourable and every Way respectable Society, I have ever esteemed, the highest...