1To 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...
2To John Adams from David Sewall, 24 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
The great the meek the learned & pious Docr. Hemmengway, has at length left us. He died on Friday...
3To John Adams from David Sewall, 13 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
This is to acknowledge and thank you for your favour of Novr. 5 . (a day anciently memorable in...
4To John Adams from David Sewall, 27 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
It is some time since, I Wrote you, and I some times think I am culpable in not doing it more...
5To John Adams from David Sewall, 26 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your first query, how do you do? altho’ I may not with propriety reply “ Athletice,...
6To John Adams from David Sewall, 13 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your Communication of the 11th. ultimo (altho’ by an amanuensis) was very gratifying.—I was led...
7To John Adams from David Sewall, 6 January 1803 (Adams Papers)
I was considerably amused by a News paper publication some few Weeks since, Which Paper I have...
8To John Adams from David Sewall, 5 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your communication of Novr. 19th. ulto. came to hand a few days before my departure to attend the...
9To John Adams from David Sewall, 8 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
By the desire of the Grand Jury for the district Court of Main at this Term, of whom Mark Langdon...
10To John Adams from David Sewall, 22 February 1803 (Adams Papers)
I have been gratified with the perusal of Mr Williams’s Observations, on the temperature of Sea...
11To John Adams from David Sewall, 18 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of the 30th. Ulto. has been recieved, and once and again perused with pleasure and...
12To John Adams from David Sewall, 18 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of Decemr. 31st. ultimo I have once & again perused with pleasure.—I did not know,...
13To John Adams from David Sewall, 20 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
It gives me real pleasure to see the tribute of esteem and respect, offered you from the...
14To John Adams from David Sewall, 24 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have a desire of knowing, (in case it will not be too troublesome for you to make the...
15To John Adams from David Sewall, 5 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
it is some time since I Wrote you, since which you have you have been bereaved of the Lady of...
16To John Adams from David Sewall, 14 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have been much gratified by your Communication of Jany 29th. ult.— When I requested the...
17To John Adams from David Sewall, 19 July 1823 (Adams Papers)
My life being yet continued, and my Scribling faculties stil remaining, I determined to address...
18To John Adams from David Sewall, 28 October 1817 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of Congratulating you on the returne of your worthy Son to America, after...
19To John Adams from David Sewall, 15 – 19 July 1776 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 15th. ultimo reached me at Watertown some few days since. Gladly would I have...
20To John Adams from David Sewall, 31 October 1815 (Adams Papers)
Various changes in the Natural, political and moral World, have occurred, since the beginning of...
21To John Adams from David Sewall, 10 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I was much gratified with the reception of yours of Novr. 4th. Current And if it were in my power...
22From 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...
23From John Adams to David Sewall, 12 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
In the Boston Gazette of the 3d. Instant, I have the Pleasure to see your Name among the...
24From John Adams to David Sewall, 26 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 13 Nov has made me laugh and cry almost or quite like an ideot. The epitaph on...
25From John Adams to David Sewall, 14 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
yours of the Novemr. 26th. ulto. came duly to hand, and gratified me, (as all your Communications...
26From John Adams to David Sewall, 23 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I beg pardon for postponeing to this time an answer to your favor of the 30th. Sept. I have run...
27From John Adams to David Sewall, 24 December 1821 (Adams Papers)
Thanks dear Sir for your favour of the 14—Let the epitaph go to oblivion with the tables In this...
28From John Adams to David Sewall, 4 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
your friendly letter of 31st October, has given me great pleasure. But if Envy were lawful I...
29From John Adams to David Sewall, 8 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
Though I cannot, read, nor write, I can feel as sensibly as ever, a friendship of seventy years...
30From John Adams to David Sewall, 19 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the fifth, and Judge Sewalls Letter to his son Samuel, have convinced me that No...
31From John Adams to David Sewall, 29 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 24th, and it revived or restored many of the sensations of my...
32From John Adams to David Sewall, 4 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of 26 Oct last Mankind seem to be children from the cradle to the grave....
33From John Adams to David Sewall, 22 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
How do you do? as we have been friends for seventy years, and are Candidates for promotion to an...
34From John Adams to David Sewall, 22 December 1802 (Adams Papers)
When I resolved, if I could, to give Peace to my Country in Opposition to the Selfish and...
35From John Adams to David Sewall, 30 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind favour of the 26th: Happy Man! profound Philosopher! Pious Christian! I...
36From John Adams to David Sewall, 16 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your address of the 4th of this month has been transmitted to me as you requested by one of my...
37From John Adams to David Sewall, 16 September 1798 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a short answer to the address of the Grand jury transmitted in your letter from...
38From John Adams to David Sewall, 12 January 1803 (Adams Papers)
I recd last night yours of the 6th.—I read the Account of the Small Globe rolling in a little...
39From John Adams to David Sewall, 23 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
By your account which I believe is correct—Wentworth and Sewall are all that is left of my Class...
40From John Adams to David Sewall, 19 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your favour of the 10th. Your political sentiments, so far as you...
41From John Adams to David Sewall, 10 January 1821 (Adams Papers)
your friendly letter of December the 20th. is a Cordial to me, in my present State of retirement...