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1 | Madison, James | Taylor, John | From James Madison to John Taylor and James Garnett, 10 … | 1819-09-10 | I am requested by Mr. Elkanah Watson of Albany to forward to each of the Presidents of... |
2 | Washington, George | Hayes, Samuel | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-10-10 | It is yet a matter of uncertainty whether His Excellency the Count D’Estaing will come to the... |
3 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 23 December 1797 | 1797-12-23 | Your favor of Novemb.—did not come to my hands till Dec. 13. It had awaited my arrival here: and... |
4 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 24 January 1815 | 1815-01-24 | That the first Want of Man is his Dinner, and the second his Girl, were truths well known to... |
5 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 March 1819 | 1819-03-12 | The painful difficulty of holding a pen which has been—growing upon me for many years & now in... |
6 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 21 January 1815 | 1815-01-21 | You remember I have reserved a right of employing twenty years to answer your Book, because you... |
7 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1 May 1794 | 1794-05-01 | In my new occupation of a farmer I find a good drilling machine indispensably necessary. I... |
8 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 13 April 1795 | 1795-04-13 | This is not the long letter I intend to write in answer to yours of the 5th. Ult. That must await... |
9 | Washington, George | Taylor, John | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-09-19 | I have recd your favr of the 17th and am exceedingly obliged to you for the intelligence it... |
10 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 | 1814-12-14 | Mr Adams’s System is that of Pope, in his Essay on Criticism; “First follow Nature and your... |
11 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 15 April 1795 | 1795-04-15 | We have tried the drill with Lucerne seed, and found it shed a great deal too much, so that we... |
12 | Washington, George | Taylor, John | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-09-08 | I have this morning recd yours of the 5th with the News papers and the counterfeit Bill inclosed.... |
13 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 December 1814 | 1814-12-12 | In this fourth page you say, that “Mr. Adams’s System tells Us that the Art of Government can... |
14 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 7 June 1814 | 1814-06-07 | In the third page of your “Inquiry”, is an Assertion, which Mr. Adams has a right to regret as a... |
15 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 14 February 1821 | 1821-02-14 | I recieved three days ago your favor of the 3 d with it’s benevolent proposition respecting our... |
16 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 4 June 1814 | 1814-06-04 | When your new Democratical Republick meets, you will find half a dozen Men of independent... |
17 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 December 1814 | 1814-12-18 | I hope my last Letter convinced you, that Democracy is as restles as ambitious as warlike and... |
18 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 June 1814 | 1814-06-17 | What Shall I Say, of the “Resemblance, of our House of Representatives to a legislating Nation.”?... |
19 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 June 1814 | 1814-06-18 | Observation fourth. “By modifying our temporary, elective, responsible Governors, into Monarchs.”... |
20 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 14 March 1821 | 1821-03-14 | Your favor of Feb. 25. was recieved the last night only, having been 16. days on it’s passage. I... |
21 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 25 December 1814 | 1814-12-25 | The Corporeal Inequalities among Mankind, from the Cradle, and from the Womb, to the Age of... |
22 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 8 June 1795 | 1795-06-08 | I inclose you a few seed of the Rutabaga, or Swedish winter turnep. This is the plant which the... |
23 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 24 February 1815 | 1815-02-24 | The Correction in your favour of the 10th is exact. I pray you to restore No. 24 to its place No.... |
24 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 21 November 1814 | 1814-11-21 | In my last, I ventured to Say, that I would hint, in this, at a principal Misconception that had... |
25 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 6 January 1805 | 1805-01-06 | Your favor of Dec. 26. has been duly recieved, and was recieved as a proof of your friendly... |
26 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 7 January 1815 | 1815-01-07 | I have not yet finished what the Poets call an Episode, and Prosemen a digression. Can you... |
27 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 15 April 1814 | 1814-04-15 | I have received your Inquiry in a large Volume, neatly bound. Though I have not read it in... |
28 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 April 1814 | 1814-04-19 | I believe that none but Helvetius will affirm that all Children are born with equal Genius. None... |
29 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 December 1813 | 1813-12-12 | By a great favour and a mere Accident, I have lately obtained for a few hours, the loan of A... |
30 | Washington, George | Taylor, John | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-08-10 | I have been duly favored with your letter of the 6th inst. The plan you have laid for obtaining... |
31 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 20 August 1808 | 1808-08-20 | Your favor of the 8th. came to hand only two days ago & I hasten to say I shall be glad to... |
32 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 3 August 1821 | 1821-08-03 | Your favor of the 24 h came to hand on the 29 th ins t , but I have not been able to See my... |
33 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 13 January 1815 | 1815-01-13 | In page 10. You Say, “Mr Adams, has omitted a Cause of Aristocracy in the quotation, which he... |
34 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 29 July 1814 | 1814-07-29 | “Whether the terms ‘Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy,’ or the one, the few, and the many, are... |
35 | Washington, George | Taylor, John | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-08-28 | The period is now come (in the arrival of the enemy’s reinforcement ) when intelligence is... |
36 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 April 1824 | 1824-04-12 | I have received with kindness and thank fullness, your learned work upon the Constitution—I have... |
37 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 30 November 1814 | 1814-11-30 | In your 4th page, you give Us your Opinion “that the moral Efforts of Mankind, towards political... |
38 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 8 October 1797 | 1797-10-08 | We have heard much here of an improvement made in the Scotch threshing machine by Mr. Martin, and... |
39 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 6 May 1814 | 1814-05-06 | I chearfully interrupt the series of Letters, I was writing to you, to acknowledge the Receipt of... |
40 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1 August 1807 | 1807-08-01 | I recieved two days ago your letter recommendatory of mr Woodford. I knew his father well and can... |
41 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 April 1824 | 1824-04-14 | While I was prepareing to send to the Post office a letter to you, written on the 12th. I... |
42 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 29 December 1794 | 1794-12-29 | I have long owed you a letter, for which my conscience would not have let me rest in quiet but on... |
43 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 January 1815 | 1815-01-19 | Suppose Congress Should at one Vote, or by one Act, declare all the Negroes in the United States,... |
44 | Washington, George | Taylor, John | From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John … | 1779-07-27 | I have rec’d your letter of the 20th & am much obliged to you for the intelligence it contains.... |
45 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 26 November 1799 | 1799-11-26 | Mr. Wirt, who is of my neighborhood, offers himself a candidate for the clerkship of the H. of... |
46 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 23 August 1814 | 1814-08-23 | You “are unable to discover in our form of Government any resemblance of Aristocracy.” As every... |
47 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814 | 1814-12-17 | In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous... |
48 | Jefferson, Thomas | Taylor, John | From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 24 January 1799 | 1799-01-24 | Mr. Tazewell died about noon this day after an illness of about 36. hours. on this event, so... |
49 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 3 June 1814 | 1814-06-03 | I have recd your favour of May. 20, with the thoughts on Government, returned in good condition.... |
50 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 | 1814-12-14 | In this Number I have to hint at some causes, which impede the course of investigation in will... |