1From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 23 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter which you did me the Honour to write me on the 17th. and I thank you for the favour as well as for your Care in procuring me, the Books. This Kind of Speculations is very entertaining to me, and I wish to have every Thing new, of the Kind that comes out. I shall keep all these Books and pay Mr. Wild for them when he comes to Amsterdam. Cornwallis’s Victory, which We...
2From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 18 November 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have recieved the letter which You were so good as to write me on the 15th. of this Month. The Translation of the Narrative of Genl. Howe cannot fail to have a good Effect at this critical Moment. The final Independence of America is as certain, as a decree of the Destinies. The only Question is, how much Blood shall be shed and how long Mankind shall be unnecessarily embroiled in the...
3From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 19 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
I dare not venture to send the Comte’s Manuscript. If You will come here, You shall have the use of it as long as You please, and all the Accomodations You can desire. Pray quote the Reflections You mention from the Courier de Bas Rhin. I shall be glad to see yours in addition—there is ample Room for many. The Treaty of Commerce is not yet arranged. I have recd. a Card from the G. Pensionary,...
4II. To Antoine Marie Cerisier, 14 January 1783 (Adams Papers)
Your kind favour of the 9 th , I rec d , this day, and will give you, the best answer, which indifferent health and, various Avocations will admit of. I am pleased with your Resolution, to write the History of the whole American War, because I know you will produce Something both entertaining and instructive, whatever Subject you undertake to write upon. But I hope you will not think me guilty...
5From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 15 February 1783 (Adams Papers)
The Morceau inclosed, is translated from a Pamphlet lately published in London, in which this Piece is inserted. It is curious in itself, but considering the time and Place when and where it was first published, it is a document of History, for it was a political Machine, which had great Effects. As Such I should be obliged to you, if you would insert it at length in the Politique Hollandais,...
6From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 10 March 1783 (Adams Papers)
Pray be so good as to insert an exact Translation of the inclosed Letter in the Politique Hollandais, without my Name or that of the Abby. or if you chose it you may add it to the Essay &c It is high Time for Writers to reflect a little upon the Subject before they pretend to write an History of Such an Affair. This will put them on thinking. Mr Marmontel as Historiographer du Roi is to write...
7From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 13 May 1783 (Adams Papers)
I had not Seen for many Months, any one Number of the Politique hollandois, until Yesterday, when a Friend Sent me Several Numbers of them up to the 22 of April.— Will you be So good as to desire M r Crayenschot to Send them to me Weekly, and address them by the Post to Monsieur Mathew Ridley, Rue de Claire N o. 60.— Let him Send them every Monday as soon as they come out. I always read them...
8From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 9 June 1783 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for yours of the 2 d. ins t: The translation of my letters in the Pol: Hol: of the 2 d. June: 82, fm. Parker’s Gen l: Adver r: is very just as I believe. I have not the English to compare, but in memory. I am the more anxious ab t: those letters as I committed a great indiscretion in sending them in the year 1780 fm. Paris without keeping a Copy of a single line of them— I am...
9From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 11 September 1783 (Adams Papers)
I am extremely sorry to find by your last Letter, that your Health has been attacked again, but I hope it will not have any serious Consequences. I wish all the Success you can desire to your Application to Versailles, and if I should be called upon by the Minister, or have any other Opportunity to support it, consistent with Prudence, it will give me great pleasure to do it, because I think...
10From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 16 October 1783 (Adams Papers)
Monsieur the Abby de Mably has prepared for the Press, some Observations upon our American Constitutions, which he has done me the Honour of addressing to me: so that I am zealous to have the Work appear to Advantage in the Impression, both as it is like to be to me, in Particular a distinguished Mark of Respect with Posterity; and what is of much more Importance, it is, probably full of...
11From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 20 November 1783 (Adams Papers)
Before I left Paris I wrote you, at the Desire of the Abby De Mably, on the Subject of his Letters to me, concerning our American Constitutions,. I have heard nothing more about them. Pray be So good as to let me know what Progress you make in printing them. address your Letters to me, under Cover to M r Joshua Johnson, on great Tower Hill, or to M r John Stockdale, opposite Burlington House...
12John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 22 February 1784 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Favour, of the 21 st: and for the Communication of the Letter from my Friend the Abby de Mably. I am very Sensible of his Partiality for a Man, who he thinks has contributed, from virtuous Principles, to a great Event. his Approbation is the more precious, to me as I know his Principles to be pure, and his Spirit independent. You may be Sure my Advice to you will be, to...
13John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 12 December 1784 (Adams Papers)
A Gentleman in Boston, who is as much a Friend of Mankind, as he is of me, M r James Lovell, Naval Officer has desired me to procure him the following Books Surdus loquens, by John Conrad Amman Physician of Amsterdam, published in Octavo in 1692. Dissertatio de Loquela &c &c published in 8 vo. 1700 of which were afterwards Several Editions. The first Edition was published in English by Daniel...
14From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 12 June 1787 (Adams Papers)
I received your frindley and obliging Letter at Amsterdam and was very Sory that I could not, by returning through Leyden, have the Pleasure of an Interiew with you. I had the Stronger Motive to desire it. as I wished to see the Remarks you have made upon the Defence &c When you, calld that Work the Breviary of geneuine Republican Principels, compatible with the nature of Society and with...
15From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 6 December 1787 (Adams Papers)
After much anxiety on your account and many ineffectual Inquiries after your health & welfare, I was happy to learn by Your Letter, that you was safe at Paris, where I hope you will find friends, Employment & Satisfactions better than those you have left in Holland.— Inclosed are letters of Introduction to M r. Jefferson & the Marquis de Lafayette. The strange turn, which affairs have taken is...