1To John Adams from John Murray, 27 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I am not happy enough to be master of language calculated to express the grateful sense I feel for every instance of your condescending kindness vouchsafed towards me ever since divine goodness favored me with the knowledge of, and an acquaintance with, the justly revered Head of our Nation—But at no time have I injoyed this inestimable blessing with greater pleasure, or with a more lively...
2To John Adams from Robert Treat Paine, 27 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed Oration I have taken the liberty to inscribe to “ the man, whom his country loves & honors, because he loves & honors his country ,” in the hope (perhaps a presumptuous one,) that, as it was written in a period too circumscribed to acquire a correct knowledge of documents, & printed in a manner too hasty to permit revision either of style or sentiment, it may escape censure from...