501To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friend Professor Ticknor is bound upon a Tour in Virginia, though he needs no introduction...
502To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 21 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I was highly gratified with your affectionate Letter, and answer it directly, not to...
503From John Adams to David Sewall, 10 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 5th. has given me great pleasure off those which St Paul calls, light...
504To John Adams from Nathaniel Bowditch, 30 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the liberty to forward to you a pamphlet containing a few papers prepared for the...
505From John Adams to James Hyman Causten, Sr., 2 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your polite letter of the 20th. of February. It would be a pleasure to me to...
506To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 21 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
The past week has scarcely been marked by any occurrence worth relating in a letter, the weather...
507From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 21 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
There is in Boston, a Lemmon-tree of a peculiar kind, called the Sweet Lemmon, Sent to your...
508From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 3 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter my dear John gave us great uneasiness on your Grandfathers account and we feel very...
509From John Adams to Thomas Perkins, 16 September 1825 (Adams Papers)
I am deeply indebted to you for a polite and friendly letter and for a noble basket of Grapes,...
510From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 13th. has touched my feelings. Deeply infected with a dangerous distemper you...
511From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter of the 21st. has given me great satisfaction, indeed you have been very good I...
512To John Adams from David Sewall, 26 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
We are about commencing the 87th. year of our pilgrimage. And by the last Catalogue of H.C. among...
513To John Adams from Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Habituated as I have long been to consider your judgement as infallible, I have not found it...
514From John Adams to Charles Thomson, 6 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Col: Pickering has sent me in your name your Synopsis of the four Evangelists, The whole of which...
515To John Adams from Horatio Gates Spafford, 28 October 1824 (Adams Papers)
This ‘ Baby ’ of mine, the little Book sent herewith, is truly a very small Book; but thou wilt...
516From John Adams to Mathew Carey, 9 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I had not sufficiently thanked you for your great Work—The Vindicie Hybernice, when I received...
517From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 6 May 1820 (Adams Papers)
The Emperiour of China quoted the precept of Confucius, give much, and take but little—but you...
518To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 31 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
Tho’ you have not indulged me with the pleasure of hearing from you, since your return to Quincy,...
519From John Adams to Dummer Sewall, 12 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have your favour of the 3d of May your Name has been familiar to me for fifty or Sixty years,...
520To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 27 March 1826 (Adams Papers)
Your kind concern for me, fills me with deep feelings of gratitude—I am as yet confined to my...
521From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 19 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
To say how much I was affected at not seeing you the day I left Boston would indeed be impossible...
522From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 12 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
It is now I suppose nearly a vacation time with you and you will take your flight to Quincy for a...
523To John Adams from Hezekiah Niles, July 1817 (Adams Papers)
After revolving upon some suitable apology for intruding myself with the following statement and...
524From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 28 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
your kind Letter of July 4th. ought to have been answered sooner. my apology would be long and...
525To John Adams from J. H. Tiffany, 18 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
Will you be pleased to accept of the accompanying political charts of 6 tables or sheets; & may I...
526To John Adams from Jacob Engelbrecht, 2 June 1824 (Adams Papers)
On the 15th. of March last I wrote unto you, requesting the favour of a Letter in your Own Hand...
527From John Adams to Clarkson Crolius, 9 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received the favour of your an obliging letter which you did me the honor to write me on...
528From John Adams to George A. Otis, 16 January 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letters, and for the second–Volume of Botta—And now I have read both...
529To John Adams from Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, 4 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
It was the wish of my lamented Husband, that after his death, small tokens of his affection &...
530From John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, 22 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have your letter of the 9th. is received—your packet from the Meditaranean is safe and shall...
531To John Adams from Charles Francis Adams, 25 December 1825 (Adams Papers)
On this day, one which in this part of the country is considered much as Thanksgiving day is in...
532From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 22 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
This day two hundred years our adventurous Ancestors landed at Plymouth—and two years hence will...
533From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge volumes of...
534To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of Oct. 20. had...
535To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 29 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have found since I had the honour of writing to you last, a book among my Fathers papers...
536From John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr., 20 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received much satisfaction from the reports of your conduct since you left me. I have...
537To John Adams from Richard Rush, 26 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I must insist upon it, notwithstanding the authority of your veto, that the subject is truly a...
538From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
I Sincerely condole with you in the loss of your Friends Walker Wislar and Bray. I Sincerely...
539To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 26 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I return you my sincere thanks for the kind opinions reiterated in your letter of the 17th. inst....
540To John Adams from Henry Dearborn, 16 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
In behalf of a numerous body of Citizens of Boston, we request your consent; to set for a Bust ,...
541From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 28 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
In your last Letter you requested copies of my Letters to Dr. Price. They are inclosed— These...
542From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 February 1825 (Adams Papers)
The events of this month, have been to me almost overwhelming. They have excited my sensibility...
543From John Adams to Isaac Gomez, 10 April 1820 (Adams Papers)
your selection of a father for the use of his Children, are worthy to be presented by every...
544To John Adams from Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein, 21 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
To address so distinguished a personage is in a stranger a liberty perhaps unpardonable, but it...
545From John Adams to Abiel Holmes, 1 May 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 29th. April with much pleasure—When I received the favour...
546To John Adams from Harriet Welsh, 10 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
As Louisa informs me you choose to have my request addressed directly to yourself respecting a...
547From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 4 August 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious, entertaining and valuable oration,...
548From John Adams to Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein, 29 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write on the 21st. of October, for which I...
549From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am well pleased with your No’s: 31. 32 & hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing on...
550From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
yours of the 26th. January is received. I pray you to attend as much as possible, to every Court,...