1From John Adams to Patrick Henry, 3 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
I had this Morning the Pleasure of yours of 20 May. The little Pamphlet you mention is nullius Filius, and if I should be obliged to maintain it, the World will not expect that I should own it. My Motive for inclosing it to you, was not the Value of the Present, but as a Token of Friendship—and more for the Sake of inviting your Attention to the Subject, than because there was any Thing in it...
2From John Adams to Patrick Henry, 9 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
Passy, 9 July 1778. printed : JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John Adams , ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. , 4:153–154 . Adams stated that Lee had attended to Henry’s requests contained in a letter of 5 March (above). He wrote that the ratified Franco-American treaties had been received, approved the actions of the congress, reported the...
3From John Adams to Patrick Henry, 8 December 1778 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Le Maire, writes me that he is about returning. I wrote you on the 9 July a long Letter in Answer to the one he brought, which is the only one I have received from you, altho by a Letter from Lisbon, from a Master of a Vessell taken by the English and carried in there, I learn that he had Letters for me which he sunk. I wish, I would give you hopes of Peace. And I would not excite a...