Your favour of 24th. Janry. is received. Inclosed is your Basanister and a Monthly Repository,...
I do declare that I can write Greek better than you do, though I cannot Say, So well as you can,...
I believe I must endorse you over, or rather bequeath you as a Legacy to The Philosopher of...
Your Letter of the 16th. would occupy me for 12 months, when I know not that I have 12 days to...
Do you think Basanistes, would bear Publication in this Country? Would an Edition of it, do good...
6From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 14 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your third of Aug.—Griefs upon Griefs! Disappointments upon Disappointments! All is...
7From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
The Old Folk, returning last Evening from an Airing which has become daily necessary for both, to...
8From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
As I stand in great need of a Casuist in Phylosophy, Morality and Christianity; to whom Should I...
9From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
At the hazard of the little Vision that is left me I have read your Travels in the Wilderness...
10From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your favours of November and January have not been acknowledged. The Politiques de Pous les...
11From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
May your anticipations of another Visit to Quincy be reallised! Much good may your Theological...
12From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your affecting favour of 16. Aug. is before me. The natural bent of my mind has the honour to...
13From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 13 July 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have read D’Argens’s Ocellus, Timæus and Julian. Instead of being Sincere he appears to me to...
14From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
Can you and will you be So good as to give me any information concerning a Work intitled “Le...
15From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
I forgot in my last the most brilliant Topick, of all that splendid Phenomenon in the female...
16From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir for your favours of 7. and 20th. Ult. Messrs Everett and Mr Ticknor will...
17From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your favr. of Dec. 17. 1814 has lain too long unnoticed. “Votre deuil vous plait.” I have before...
18From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 22 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
Alexander Hill Everett Esquire, a Genteman of the Bar in Boston, who had his Law Education in the...
19From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your’s of the tenth has been longer than usual on the Way, This Vault of Air, this congregated...
20From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 18 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your last Letter has affected me more than any I ever received from You. The Loss of your Friend...
21From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 September 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your favr. of the 12th has revived or awakened my Pen which had fainted or Slept for many Weeks...
22From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Bad health ever Since last Christmas! the last month worse than ever! Head loaded, Eyes almost...
23From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 29 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
How Shall I? How can I express my Obligations to you? My Time, thoughts, labours are all Spent in...
24From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
If with blind Eyes and paralytical Hands, I could enfanter des in Folio, like De Wolf, Priestley...
25From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have recd Condorcet, in good order and your favour of 20th. Ult. Enfields History of...
26From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 19 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 5th. and 9th are received. My Eyes and my hands forbid every unnecessary Word. I...
27From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 30 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
Yours of 14th are here. You must take hints: I cannot write Letters. Half recovered from a former...
28From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 4 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
The Apostle Paul in the 11th. Chapter and 5th. Verse, of his Epistle to the Hebrews, Says “...
29From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 31 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
“That old Vertigo in his head Will never leave him, till he’s dead” was Said of Dr Swift. I say,...
30From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
Be not anxious. I am not jealous. Had your Packett arrived one day Sooner, I Should have...