1From John Adams to John Taylor, 24 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
The Correction in your favour of the 10th is exact. I pray you to restore No. 24 to its place No....
2From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
By a great favour and a mere Accident, I have lately obtained for a few hours, the loan of A...
3From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received with kindness and thank fullness, your learned work upon the Constitution—I have...
4From John Adams to John Taylor, 6 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
I chearfully interrupt the series of Letters, I was writing to you, to acknowledge the Receipt of...
5From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
While I was prepareing to send to the Post office a letter to you, written on the 12th. I...
6From John Adams to John Taylor, 3 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour of May. 20, with the thoughts on Government, returned in good condition....
7From John Adams to John Taylor, 24 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
That the first Want of Man is his Dinner, and the second his Girl, were truths well known to...
8From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
The painful difficulty of holding a pen which has been—growing upon me for many years & now in...
9From John Adams to John Taylor, 21 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
You remember I have reserved a right of employing twenty years to answer your Book, because you...
10From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
Mr Adams’s System is that of Pope, in his Essay on Criticism; “First follow Nature and your...
11From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 15 April 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
We have tried the drill with Lucerne seed, and found it shed a great deal too much, so that we...
12From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
In this fourth page you say, that “Mr. Adams’s System tells Us that the Art of Government can...
13From John Adams to John Taylor, 7 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
In the third page of your “Inquiry”, is an Assertion, which Mr. Adams has a right to regret as a...
14From John Adams to John Taylor, 4 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
When your new Democratical Republick meets, you will find half a dozen Men of independent...
15From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
I hope my last Letter convinced you, that Democracy is as restles as ambitious as warlike and...
16From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
What Shall I Say, of the “Resemblance, of our House of Representatives to a legislating Nation.”?...
17From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
Observation fourth. “By modifying our temporary, elective, responsible Governors, into Monarchs.”...
18From John Adams to John Taylor, 25 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
The Corporeal Inequalities among Mankind, from the Cradle, and from the Womb, to the Age of...
19From John Adams to John Taylor, 21 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
In my last, I ventured to Say, that I would hint, in this, at a principal Misconception that had...
20From John Adams to John Taylor, 7 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet finished what the Poets call an Episode, and Prosemen a digression. Can you...
21From John Adams to John Taylor, 15 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Inquiry in a large Volume, neatly bound. Though I have not read it in...
22From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I believe that none but Helvetius will affirm that all Children are born with equal Genius. None...
23From John Adams to John Taylor, 13 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
In page 10. You Say, “Mr Adams, has omitted a Cause of Aristocracy in the quotation, which he...
24From John Adams to John Taylor, 29 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
“Whether the terms ‘Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy,’ or the one, the few, and the many, are...
25From John Adams to John Taylor, 30 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
In your 4th page, you give Us your Opinion “that the moral Efforts of Mankind, towards political...
26From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Suppose Congress Should at one Vote, or by one Act, declare all the Negroes in the United States,...
27From John Adams to John Taylor, 23 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
You “are unable to discover in our form of Government any resemblance of Aristocracy.” As every...
28From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous...
29From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
In this Number I have to hint at some causes, which impede the course of investigation in will...
30From John Adams to John Taylor, 9 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
Suppose another case which is not without examples; a family of Six daughters. Four of them are...
31From John Adams to John Taylor, 22 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
In my Apology, if you like that Word better than “Defence” I passed over England for more reasons...
32From John Adams to John Taylor, 27 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
When Superior genius gives greater Influence in Society than is possessed by inferiour Genius or...
33From John Adams to John Taylor, 9 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any...
34From James Madison to John Taylor, ca. 1 April 1799 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. Ca. 1 April 1799. Mentioned in John Taylor to Creed Taylor, 10 Apr. 1799 (ViU:...
35From John Adams to John Taylor, 9 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
I am Still upon Birth and my Seventh Argument is. 7. It was a Custom among the Greeks and Romans;...
36From John Adams to John Taylor, 16 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
It is unnecessary to discuss, the nice distinctions, which follow in the first page of your...
37From John Adams to John Taylor, 19 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
That Aristocracies, both ancient and modern have been “variable and artificial” as well as...
38From John Adams to John Taylor, 5 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
A few Words more concerning the Characters of litterary Men. What Sort of Men have had the...
39From John Adams to John Taylor, 12 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
A Word or two more upon Birth. 10thly. Birth is naturally and necessarily, and inevitably So...
40From John Adams to John Taylor, 16 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
Give me leave to add a few Words, on this Topick. I remember the Time when three Gentlemen,...
41From John Adams to John Taylor, 18 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
“Knowledge” you Say invented Alienation, and became the natural Enemy of Aristocracy. This...
42From John Adams to John Taylor, 14 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
In your fourth page you “are unable to discover, In Oour form of Government, any resemblance of...
43From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor, 19 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your favr of the 17th and am exceedingly obliged to you for the intelligence it...
44From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor, 8 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have this morning recd yours of the 5th with the News papers and the counterfeit Bill inclosed....
45From James Madison to John Taylor and James Garnett, 10 September 1819 (Madison Papers)
I am requested by Mr. Elkanah Watson of Albany to forward to each of the Presidents of...
46From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor or Major Samuel Hayes, 10 October 1779 (Washington Papers)
It is yet a matter of uncertainty whether His Excellency the Count D’Estaing will come to the...
47From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 8 June 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a few seed of the Rutabaga, or Swedish winter turnep. This is the plant which the...
48From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 6 January 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Dec. 26. has been duly recieved, and was recieved as a proof of your friendly...
49From George Washington to Lieutenant Colonel John Taylor, 10 August 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favored with your letter of the 6th inst. The plan you have laid for obtaining...
50From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 20 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 8th. came to hand only two days ago & I hasten to say I shall be glad to...