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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | [To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 October 1785] | 1785-10-10 | [ London, 10 Oct. 1785 . Entry in SJL for 15 Oct. 1785 reads: “Mr. Adams. Oct. 10. Inclosing... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 February 1801 | 1801-02-20 | In order to save you the trouble and expence of purchasing horses & carriages, which will not be... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 31 January 1788 | 1788-01-31 | Permit me to introduce to you my young Friend Mr. Alexander Edwards of South Carolina, a modest... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | [To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 December 1787] | 1787-12-06 | [ London, 6 Dec. 1787. Recorded in SJL as received 17 Dec. 1787, “recommending of Cerisier.” Not... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | [To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 23 June 1783] | 1783-06-23 | [ Paris, 23 June 1783 . There is recorded in SJL , under date of 16 Apr. 1784, the receipt of a... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | Resumption of Correspondence with John Adams, followed … | 1812-01-01 | As you are a Friend to American Manufactures under proper restrictions, especially Manufactures... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1787 | 1787-09-06 | I am Sorry to give you the trouble of this Commission: but I fear it will not be effectually done... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 1 December 1825 | 1825-12-01 | I ought not to have neglected so long to write you an account of the delightful visit I received... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1786 | 1786-05-23 | I am honoured with yours of the 11 th. with the enclosures from M r Lamb, M r Carmichael and M r... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1785 | 1785-05-27 | I found that either the Duke of Dorsetts Letter to the Premier, had produced an order at Dover or... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas … | 1785-05-29 | Our Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, in a Letter of 13. Ap. informs me, that he wrote Us a... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1814 | 1814-12-11 | The Bearer of this Letter, after an Education at our Cambridge, travelled with J. Q. A. to... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 March 1823 | 1823-03-10 | The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 | 1819-07-28 | I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 December 1787 | 1787-12-06 | The Project of a new Constitution, has Objections against it, to which I find it difficult to... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 11 September 1785 | 1785-09-11 | In answer to your enquiry in your letter of the 4th. inst. I can only say that I knew Mr. Matzei... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1826 | 1826-01-14 | Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance, a young Lawyer by the name of Josiah Quincy, and... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1819 | 1819-01-29 | If I am not humble I ought to be, when I find myself under the necessity of borrowing a juvenile... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 November 1824 | 1824-11-15 | Your friend Professor Ticknor is bound upon a Tour in Virginia, though he needs no introduction... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 February 1786 | 1786-02-25 | Give me Leave to introduce to you Mr. Samuel Hartley a Relation of the late Minister at Paris. He... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 4 November 1785 | 1785-11-04 | Mr. Preston has at last found and sent me your Letter. Dr. Bancroft spoke to me, about Commodore... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1821 | 1821-02-03 | I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge volumes of... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 3 June 1785 | 1785-06-03 | I have now the Honour to inform you, that having shewn my Commission to the Right Honourable the... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 16 September 1787 | 1787-09-16 | Give me Leave to introduce to you Mr. John Brown Cutting, who will need no other Recommendation,... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 November 1823 | 1823-11-10 | Your last letter was brought to me from the Post office when at breakfast with my family. I bade... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 May 1821 | 1821-05-19 | Must We, before We take our departure from this grand and beautiful World, Surrender all our... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 12 October 1824 | 1824-10-12 | By a resolution of the Citizens of Richmond we are authorised to make arrangement s for the... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 September 1787 | 1787-09-06 | I am Sorry to give you the trouble of this Commission: but I fear it will not be effectually done... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1787 | 1787-07-10 | I received with great Pleasure your favour of the first.— Your Excursion I dare answer for it,... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 November 1823 | 1823-11-10 | Your last letter was brought to me from the Post office when at breakfast with my family. I bade... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 29 June 1786 | 1786-06-29 | Inclosed is a Letter to Mr. Lamb and another to Mr. Randall: if you approve them please to Sign... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1819 | 1819-05-21 | All the Literary Gentlemen of this part of the Country have an Ambitious Curiosity to see the... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1822 | 1822-06-11 | Half an hour ago I received, and this moment have heard read, for the 3d. or 4th. time, the best... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 31 January 1796 | 1796-01-31 | I have received from our old Acquaintance D’Ivernois the inclosed Volume for you in the Course of... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1786 | 1786-01-28 | I have rec d yours of the 12, but Yesterday, and wish it were in my Power to order the Interest... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 17 April 1826 | 1826-04-17 | Your letter of March 25 th has been a cordial to me, and the more consoling as it was brought by... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1815 | 1815-06-19 | Education, which you brought into View in one of your Letters; is a subject so vast, and the... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 | 1819-05-27 | I have transmitted you a letter to Samuel Adams Welles Esqr. in Boston as you desire This... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 5 February 1795 | 1795-02-05 | The inclosed Pamphlet and Papers I have received this Week from the Author, with his request to... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1794 | 1794-04-04 | The inclosed Volume was lately sent in to me by a Servant—I have Since heard that the Author of... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January 1789 | 1789-01-02 | Give me leave to introduce to you John Coffin Jones Esq r , an eminent Merchant of Boston and a... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1820 | 1820-02-21 | Was you ever acquainted with Dugald Stuart—before I left France I received a letter from Benjamin... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 21 November 1794 | 1794-11-21 | I am desired by our old Acquaintance Mr. D’Ivernois to transmit you the inclosed Papers for your... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1814 | 1814-12-20 | The most exalted of our young Genius’s in Boston have an Ambition to See Montecello, its Library... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1819 | 1819-12-21 | I must answer your great question of the 10th in the Words of Dalembert to his Correspondent, who... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 24 March 1801 | 1801-03-24 | I have recd your favour of March 8 with the Letter inclosed, for which I thank you. Inclosed is a... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March 1823 | 1823-03-10 | The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 May 1812 | 1812-05-21 | Samuel B. Malcom Esqr, is not wholly a Stranger to you. He was three years in my family in the... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 December 1822 | 1822-12-02 | I have been deeply afflicted with the account of your accident—At first your Leg was broke—I... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 23 August 1785 | 1785-08-23 | Last night, I received your Favour of the 17. If both Governments are possessed of the Contéents... |