201From John Adams to Andrew Nichols, 23 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for your favour of the 15th. and espicially for your address which abounds...
202From John Adams to Peter Force, 17 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
The Dr. handed me this morning Mr Websters address delivered at Bunker’s Hill, upon condition...
203From John Adams to Robert Hallowell Gardiner, 16 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 1 March inst. and the valuable pamphlets inclosed. The...
204From John Adams to William Bayard, 29 December 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your circular of the 12 inst & I thank you for the honour you have done me in...
205From John Adams to James Monroe, 3 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Will you please to accept a morsel of rusty Antiquity, which I know you cannot and ought not to...
206From John Adams to Joseph Adams, 29 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of the 28th and the terse and nervous pamphlet inclosed My...
207From John Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I also am an advocate first for universal suffrage 2dly. for universal emancipation 3dly for...
208From John Adams to Benjamin Russell, 3 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I send you a Box of Books, which I pray you to present for me to the Apprentices’ Library—with my...
209From John Adams to Virginia Patiot, 17 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the copy of Decius’s letters &c. And I pray you, accept a Sermon of Dr Mayhew in...
210From John Adams to Charles Holt, 22 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
I am much affected with your kind letter of the 4th. You are not alone Sir, in your change of...
211From John Adams to Peter Force, 5 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
I have placed your Note in the hands of my father who has this minute returned home & he directs...
212From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 31 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 21 has excited my Sympathies, visible and irascible. I never had the Shadow of...
213From John Adams to Samuel L. Southard, 1826 (Adams Papers)
Mr J. Adams presents his compliments to Mr Southard, and will be much obliged if he will inform...
214From John Adams to Maria Sophia Quincy, 14 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
You have much better advisers than I can be—but I will venture suggest one line. As Nature will...
215From John Adams to James Brackett, 15 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am informed that Mr Pratt and Mr Hunt are cutting wood upon my land by your order that they cut...
216From John Adams to Justin Griswold, 3 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I was born on the nineteenth of October 1735, and consequently was eighty two years of age, on...
217From John Adams to Anonymous, April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I am almost most ashamed to acknowledge to you my tardy obligation, for your handsom Edition of...
218From John Adams to George Washington Adams, January 1822 (Adams Papers)
Tell your Father that I have found the old circular pedigree which looks like so many wheels...
219From John Adams to Andrew Dunlap, 13 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Oration of the fourth of July 1822. It is so intelligent, eloquent, and...
220From John Adams to Perez Morton, 7 August 1824 (Adams Papers)
I am very glad you have employed your leisure houres, in so honorable & useful a service, as the...
221From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 11 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed letter you may show to whom you please—there is not an individual in the havana with...
222From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 3 April 1820 (Adams Papers)
If you can obtain leave of absence I wish for the pleasure of your Company here on the twelfth of...
223From John Adams to Peter Force, 2 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
General Lafayette arrived in this City yesterday afternoon and agreeably to the Presidents...
224From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 29 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 17 Dec You may do what you please with my letter of 20 Dec The...
225From John Adams to Joseph Milligan, 21 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I beg you will accept my thanks for your obliging letter of the 10th & that you will present the...
226From John Adams to Anonymous, 4 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
Our friend Mr Shaw will furnish you with the printed correspondence between Gen G Brattle & me in...
227From John Adams to Mrs. Derby, 23 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
Mr Adams’s Compliments to Mrs Derby and thanks her for the lone of Mr Coffins Journal, which has...
228From John Adams to William Wirt, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Accept a Morsell of ancient Massachusetts Letterature: and will you be pleased to compare it with...
229From John Adams to J. H. Tiffany, 15 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 24th August—and the return of the fourth Volum of my...
230From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 25 September 1819 (Adams Papers)
The information in your last letter, of your return to your garden and your records has given me...
231From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a very pleasant letter, and I supplicate a continuance of them—I have given up...
232To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 1 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought not to have neglected so long to write you an account of the delightful visit I received...
233From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
234From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
It was not friendly in you to involve me in your domestic & family Controversies Major Pierce...
235From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
A friend in need, is a friend indeed; you must certainly have read Shakespear, and have learnt...
236From John Adams to Thomas Goodsell, 4 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Be pleased to accept my thanks—for an address from the Agricultural Society of the County of...
237From John Adams to L. M. Sargent, 8 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have read over the Poem you did me the honour to inclose to me—but a very sudden illness has...
238From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 22 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I admire your checks and bridles which you call maxims. To allude to Bolingbrokes figure, Man is...
239From John Adams to Robert J. Evans, 14 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
As the Anecdote of Mr Paine seemes to be have given you some amusement, I will give you another...
240From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 5 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
Did you send me a pritty address of the President of Columbia College, which I received this...
241From John Adams to Rufus King, 7 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received, and read with Avidity and pleasure your Eloquence and Ratiocination, on the...
242From John Adams to Henry Channing, 27 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favor of the 22 inst & the two Connecticut gazettes which I have given to...
243From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 10 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you kindly for sending me Cen the Centinel containing the pieces upon Neutrality signed...
244To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great...
I long to hear again from you, having received but one letter, concerning Mr Clarks your own or...
246From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for...
247From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 7 November 1823 (Adams Papers)
The very great despatch with which you have answered my last not only proves to me that you are...
248From John Adams to P. S. Townsend, 3 April 1820 (Adams Papers)
Be pleased to accept my best thanks for your Anniversary discourse before the Lyceum of natural...
249From John Adams to Thomas Dawes, 28 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I am informed by your Brother G, that you wish to know from me some Account of my Education! The...
250From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 24 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
This year compleats a Century Since my Uncle Boylston introduced the practise of Inoculation into...