1From John Adams to Charles Storer, 16 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The letter to your Counsel at Boston, inclosed in yours of the fifth of March is gone on by the Post. Your reflections on the day of the date of your Letter are natural and just. It is a day that I have more reason to remember than any one of my Life. It is a day that has occasioned me more obloquy and slander, than any other, or all the other days I have beheld. It is a day that brought me...
2From John Adams to Charles Storer, 20 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
There is nothing improper in your application of the 23 d of Feb y nor should I find fault with your seeking honor or emolument. Every man has a right to seek both. M r Remsen has been many years in the office of foreign affairs and has qualifications and merits which preclude all competition: M r Alden is another in a similar predicament, so that there is not a possibility of your success in...