501From John Adams to Joshua Cushman, 16 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Speech upon the great question—which I have read with at least as much...
502From John Adams to Gerry Fairbanks, 16 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for an ingenious and pleasing Oration, pronounced by you on the fourth of July—The...
503From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your journal to the 21st. ult—has given me much amusement and much pleasure I want to touch upon...
504From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1 June 1824 (Adams Papers)
I owe you a letter, but have not been able, and am not still able to acknowledge it—I am very...
505From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 21 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of the 15th. and the Pamphlet inclosed. Lord Bollingbrook says and every...
506From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 28 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received eleven Volumes of your Register, well bound and in good order, for which I have...
507From John Adams to Thomas Greenleaf, 15 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
The resolutions of the Town of Quincy passed on the same day and presented to me by you in their...
508From John Adams to William Vaughan, 5 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
A Reminiscence, as the French phrase it, of Civilities received from you and your Brothers,...
509From John Adams to William Taylor Barry, 21 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I know not that I ever received a letter with more pleasure than yours of the 30 June last except...
510From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, Jr., 31 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
Long before the death of Mr Tudor I had a design to address to you a few Letters upon Subjects...
511From John Adams to Jonathan Mason, 3 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter—And will proceed with my abrupt narrative— The practice of the...
512From John Adams to Mr. Thomas, 5 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a valuable present of the transactions and Collections of the American...
513To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 24 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Benjamin Parker Richardson, a Grandson of a neighbour of mine, who has lived in harmony with...
514From John Adams to Abraham Holmes, 14 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 8. Oct & I thank you for your civilities. It is a comfort in...
515From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice in all your Felicities described in your favour of 29th. Nov. What a Contrast between...
516From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Liberty Tree in Boston, was a very aged and a very large Elm—in the front yard of Deacon Elliot...
517From John Adams to J. H. Tiffany, 30 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
Of Republicks the Varieties are infinite—or at least as numerous, as the tunes and changes, that...
518From John Adams to Benjamin Russell, 7 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
As I have all my Life, professed to be a very sincere friend to the promotion of knowledge—and a...
519From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 22 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. is a reviving cordial in which I have languished for a fortnight—But I...
520From John Adams to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, 8 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
David Hinckley Esqr of Boston a Gentleman of ample Fortune & respectable Character is about to...
521From John Adams to Moses Lloyd Hill, 21 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your first Ancestor in America lies buried in Quincy under a rough North Common Granite. I lament...
522From John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, 26 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
You have always been too good to me & I regret that I have never been able to make you any...
523From John Adams to Allen Danforth, 18 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony memorial; and so perfectly satisfied with the...
524John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
If I am not humble I ought to be, when I find myself under the necessity of borrowing a juvenile...
525From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
One trouble never comes alone! At our Ages We may expect more and more of them every day in...
526From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 21 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
How deeply I thank you. Our Quincy Library will be honord with the name of Vanderkemp. Virgil and...
527From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 12 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your frankness in relating the manners and customs of your School—talking...
528From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 21 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
Dr Jarvis in his Seventh page has truely observed that “the Indians can not communication in...
529From John Adams to Alexander Coffin, 13 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letters and copies of the papers inclosed & immediately transmitted them to...
530From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 5th. instant full of wise reflections philosophical and moral....
531From John Adams to Edward Cruft, 7 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
When I left your hospitable Mansion last december, I entertained a hope of seeing you again in a...
532From John Adams to Leslie Combs, 12 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received “the history of the late war in the western country by Mr Robert B McAffe” and...
533From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will you accept a curious Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Chatechism for the...
534From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 4 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
Mr Greanleaf and his Colleague in our Quincy Town Meeting thoght fitt to recommend all the...
535From John Adams to Wilkes Allen, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your obliging favour of October 1st. In my former letter I forgot to mention that...
536To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Watchman! what of the night!! Is darkness that may be felt to prevail over the whole world? Or...
537From John Adams to Francis James Jackson, 19 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your most interesting letter of October 16th—My honble and...
538From John Adams to James Thacher, 11 September 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have had read to me, your valuable Journal of your Campaigns in the American revolutionary war,...
539From John Adams to Thomas Loring, Jr., 3 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you kindly for your present of Dr. Gays Sermon. Such has been my veneration for that...
540From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 9 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
In one of your letters—you ask me whether I can give you the names of the Mohawk’s who were...
541From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I received this Morning your No 18—It is a universal complaint that the english Language...
542From John Adams to Alden Bradford, 12 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
There has been some misunderstanding between us. I fear the mistake was originally mine; the...
543From John Adams to William Bentley, 28 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
The Essex Register, its Editors, and Printers are not only Innocent but meritorious for...
544From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 7 March 1818 (Adams Papers)
I here Send you three great Authorities, James Otis Oxenbridge Thatcher and Samuel Adams, all...
545From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
In your last letter you request copies of my letters to Dr Price. They are inclosed. These...
546From John Adams to Caleb Cushing, 26 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
Although unfortunately my eyes have been so ill that I could not read, yet I have had the...
547From John Adams to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 5 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of 28th. June has given me more pleasure than you can imagin; I am delighted to find...
548To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long entertained scruples about writing this letter, upon a subject of some delicacy. But...
549From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 25 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
your letter of the 6th. of January gave me much pleasure, to which was added was that of your...
550From John Adams to Harriet Welsh, 23 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Bill—you will please to purchase me Dugal’s Philosophy of the Human Mind—By what I...