841From John Adams to Alden Bradford, 5 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
The zeal of my young friend Samuel Adams Welles for the glory of his Grandfather is natural,...
842From John Adams to William Rotch, 13 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you write me on the 10 April instant and I thank you for it because it...
843From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 25 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Human Life has been to me a State of trial from my Cradle to this seventh month of my Eaighty...
844From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 19 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
Knowing as I do the whirlwind of business, ceremony, Levee’s Drawing rooms Dinners, Parties, with...
845John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of March 21 st I will communicate to Mr Bowditch , and Pickering — You may put my...
846From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 21 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
I presume you have read the elegant life of Patrick Henry by Mr. Wirt the Attorney General of the...
847From John Adams to Littleton Dennis Teackle, 15 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received with gratitude the letter you did me the honour to write me on the 4th. instant—...
848From John Adams to Samuel L. Knapp, 26 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have too long neglected to acknowledge my thanks for yor volum of Biography—I am well pleased...
849From John Adams to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 23 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
Moriturus te Salutat! this pathetick Saluation I am sure will engage your humanity to pardon a...
850From John Adams to Jesse Torrey, Jr., 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Moral Instructor I have read the table of Contents, and turned over the...
851From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the first of the Month—We have had for some time, no subject of...
852From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 20 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
Dr Jarvis with great truth and propriety asserts that the Religion of the Indians, has not been...
853From John Adams to Charles Greely Loring, 18 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind and friendly letter of the 7th. for which I thank you—and much more for...
854From John Adams to Joseph T. Buckingham, 13 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
Accept my best thanks for your vol of collections from the public Journals. Unable to read...
855From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your letter dear Waterhouse, is a precious lecture in Piety Religion and morality according to...
856From John Adams to James Walker, 25 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
you will be surprised at receiving this Letter. But I hope you will pardon the curiosity of...
857From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 3 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I hope We have not forgotten each other! We wait with impatience for the weighty and immeasurable...
858From John Adams to Vine Utley, 10 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 2d. and having a natural disposition like the Old Frederick of...
859From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Letter of the 3d. October and the Seeds inclosed, which my Son will use to...
860From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
861From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 16 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your very kind letter of 7th. october—the friendly conspiricy between your Aunt...
862From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
The ha rare happiness we have injoyed in the society of J Q A and his family, the consiquent...
863From John Adams to Jesse Torrey, Jr., 7 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 17th. of January but as your the Copy of the Moral Instructor,...
864From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 27 April 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Journal to the 22d March—and have read them with so much delight—that I long...
865From John Adams to Stephen Mack, 10 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I should sooner have answered your letter of the 20th Ulto if I could. My disposition is very...
866From John Adams to William Elliot, 13 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your Elegant presents of a History & a Map of Washington, deserve my best thanks. The History of...
867From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 22 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 16th. My Health is that of the quivering Flame over the dying...
868From John Adams to Samuel Frothingham, 29 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
Know all men by these presents, that I John Adams of Quincy in the County of Norfolk and...
869John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As you know I have often been ambitious of introducing to your acquaintance some of our literary...
870From John Adams to Old Colony Memorial, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony Memorial and so perfectly satisfied with the...
871From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 1 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
Why should my little twine worn out as it is to a single thread, be woven into all the Political...
872From John Adams to David Sewall, 10 January 1821 (Adams Papers)
your friendly letter of December the 20th. is a Cordial to me, in my present State of retirement...
873From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 23 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I neither know any thing of the name or character of Paul Allen. What he means by Mr Otis’s being...
874From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am honored by your favor of the 20th. April with a Copy of Gov McKeans letter of 22 August...
875From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Though my letter to you has the air of a Redimentack Eulogium—on friend Lancasters lecture—yet it...
876From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Your journal which has become a necessary of life to me has failed me for a long time, but I must...
Your favour of the 20th: has given me great comfort you have learn’d the art of travelling by so...
878From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of new-years-day, and congratulate you on your arrival in the great...
879From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 23 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received a very pleasant letter from you of the 21st. of the month; your close attention...
880From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have long entertained scruples about writing this letter, upon a subject of some delicacy. But...
881From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
Some of Jobs afflictions and some peculiar to myself have rendered it impossible for me to write...
882From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 15 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr William Smith Shaw has lent me the fourth Volume of his political pamphlets, the first tract...
883From John Adams to Nathaniel Adams, 27 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 20 inst & should be glad to give you any information in...
884From John Adams to Richard Rush, 14 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have been tenderly affected by the kind expressions of your friendship in your letter of the...
885From John Adams to Samuel Sewall, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
In a Letter from the Revnd. Mr Wilkes Allen of Chelmsford of October 1st. I am informed that you...
886From John Adams to Daniel Coney, 1 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
My right arm and hand have become so enfeebled that I am under the necessity of borrowing another...
887From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 1 February 1824 (Adams Papers)
After waiting somewhat impatiently I allow for your last it came to hand on friday & delighted me...
888From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 2 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your three last journals are three Pearls—I have not been able to thank you for either—untill...
889John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Was you ever acquainted with Dugald Stuart —before I left France I received a letter from...
890From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 1 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
No Man could have written from Memory Mr Otis’s Argument of four or five hours against The Acts...