1751From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
If you are possessed by any Demon, whether ghost, of Hero, Sage, Saint, heathen Deity, Head Ache,...
1752From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
Do you think Basanistes, would bear Publication in this Country? Would an Edition of it, do good...
1753From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 13 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have read D’Argens’s Ocellus, Timæus and Julian. Instead of being Sincere he appears to me to...
1754From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Bad health ever Since last Christmas! the last month worse than ever! Head loaded, Eyes almost...
1755From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 4 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
Mr Elliot had informed me, by a kind Letter, of your Arrival at Barneveldt, before I recd. yours...
1756From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 February 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of 24th. Janry. is received. Inclosed is your Basanister and a Monthly Repository,...
1757From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
You have in your late Excursion made So many Conquests among the learned, the Scientifical, the...
1758From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your’s of the tenth has been longer than usual on the Way, This Vault of Air, this congregated...
1759From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 18 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
A Jacobine Clubb, or a Washington benevolent Society, has a Right to discard, and exclude a...
1760From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
I want to see, that “triffling wreath” the Castigation of Mr Dow.” and the “sketches of Calvin...
1761From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
If with blind Eyes and paralytical Hands, I could enfanter des in Folio, like De Wolf, Priestley...
1762From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
If you were in any spot between New Orleans and Passamaquaddy, I should write you every day If I...
1763From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
On the 5th. your mind was relieved from its Uncertainty; and your Anxiety must have been...
1764From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 5 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of the 12th of last month. The momentous Information is Since confirmed....
1765From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 7 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 23 Novr. I am very Sensible that “many wise and good Men,”...
1766From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 15 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon our former acquaintance, and Correspondence as an apology for this Letter. The...
1767From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 9 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
With much pleasure have I read your favour of January 23d. I have thought that Nature, which has...
1768From John Adams to John Vaughan, 25 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
I know not by what right or colour of right, I address you: but as the World agrees that you are...
1769From John Adams to John Vaughan, 23 November 1813 (Adams Papers)
I regret that your kind Letter of Oct. 11. has been so long unanswered. Mr Colman needed no...
1770From John Adams to John Vaughan, 24 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Not to honour Mr Colman, for I know he needs none from me to you; but to gratify myself and bring...
1771From John Adams to John Vaughan, 26 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Not to honor Mr Colman, for I know he needs none from me to you: but to gratify myself, and bring...
1772From John Adams to William Vaughan, 13 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
My Friend Mr Thaddeus Mason Harris who has for many years been Ordained Minister of Dorchester...
1773From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 24 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 13th came seasonably to my hand. Your approbation of my communications to the...
1774From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 31 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
If I had not been blind to my own Interest I should have Sooner acknowledged your favor of 23d of...
1775From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 15 April 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the tenth and read Some of the printed Papers inclosed and intend...
1776From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 8 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I agree with you in your favor of the 1st. that our National concerns are extreamly perplexed....
1777From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 14 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 2 n d is, like all your other letters, a cordial to me. I seem to be...
1778From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 6 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I recd in Season your interesting favor of the 10th of May: but have not had Opportunity to...
1779From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 14 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I must, though much against my Inclination agree in your opinion expressed in your kind Letter of...
1780From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 27 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters are a Cordial to me. I am glad to know that one Man of Sense has read my...
1781From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 4 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I am astonished! Looking in a Bundle of Letters, I found one from Col. Ward, unanswered, dated...
1782From John Adams to Henry Warren, 24 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
Though I had been prepared, by your friend Dr Freeman to apprehend the melancholy information in...
1783From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 2 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I send you a curiosity. Mr M Kean, is mistaken in a day or two, the final vote of Independence,...
1784From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 1 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Permit one to enclose to you a Packet from my old Friend Governor M Kean: and a dialogue of the...
1785From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 17 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have certified in the book in the Atheneum that to my certain Knowledge, The Group was written...
1786From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 24 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
If weak Eyes and weaker fingers had not requird more time to write a Line than was once necessary...
1787From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 24 November 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have been much to blame for neglecting to acknowledge your obliging favour of Sept 12th. I am...
1788From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 15 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I thank you Madam for your obliging Letter of the 10th whether my life shall be Spared to se the...
1789From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Other parts of your letter of yesterday may be remembered hereafter; but “ Brimborion ” must not...
1790From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
You made that Westphalian Couplet yourself, Sleeping or waking, nobody but you could have dreamed...
1791From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February 1817 (Adams Papers)
Are the works of Apuileus in Harvard College Library or in any other collection in America Have...
1792From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 March 1813 (Adams Papers)
“The History” is of no value, except on account of its date. It was written and printed in Edes...
1793From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
You are So waggish and roguish with your Woofs and your Warps and your Webs, that I am almost...
1794From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
The Talents and qualities of the Tumble Bugg, are Strength Industry, Patience, Foresight of...
1795From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
The report that John Quincy Adams has written to his father, or any one else that “the war which...
1796From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The History of Queen Ann’s reign and of the Treaty of Utrecht is So instructive, that it is worth...
1797From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 10th is too delicious, to be disgraced by Ceremonies and Apologies in my...
1798From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to sympathize with you and your Children on the loss of your amiable and excellent...
1799From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your Letter of the Eighth I can only say that Societies Since as I have never been...
1800From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I receive no Letters with So much pleasure as yours and Rushes. The Shortest of them always...