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1 Adams, John Cunningham, William From John Adams to William Cunningham, 4 March 1809 1809-03-04 I have yours of Feb. 20 and 23. The inclosed five sheets are the rough draught, which I have...
2 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 March 1809 1809-03-04 If I could dream as much Wit as you, I think I should wish to go to Sleep for the rest of my...
3 Adams, John Morse, Jedidiah From John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, 9 March 1809 1809-03-09 Though it is “a terrible thing” for “eyes with reading almost blind” to go over between three and...
4 Adams, John Jones, Skelton From John Adams to Skelton Jones, 11 March 1809 1809-03-11 I rec’d yesterday your favour of the Month of August 1808 and if the following answers to your...
5 Adams, John Wright, Daniel From John Adams to Daniel Wright, 13 March 1809 1809-03-13 I have received your very civil Letter of the third of this Month with Emotions very similar to...
6 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 March 1809 1809-03-14 Your Anecdotes are always extreamly Aprospros and none of them more So than those in your Letter...
7 Adams, John Cunningham, William From John Adams to William Cunningham, 20 March 1809 1809-03-20 I have received your favours of March 11 and 14th. In answer to the first I wish to know whether...
8 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 23 March 1809 1809-03-23 I agree with Sidney as quoted in your favour of the 13th. That civil War is preferable to Slavery...
9 Adams, John Sumner, William From John Adams to William Sumner, 28 March 1809 1809-03-28 I have always cherrished an affection for you for many reasons which determine the Understanding...
10 Adams, John Morse, Jedidiah From John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, 29 March 1809 1809-03-29 I cannot pretend to any extraordinary Knowledge of the History of this Country, or of what a...
11 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 April 1809 1809-04-10 I was glad to see in your paper of the 7th of this month, the extract from the Baltimore Federal...
12 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 April 1809 1809-04-10 The institution of an Embassy to France in 1799, was made upon principle, and in conformity to a...
13 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 April 1809 1809-04-10 FROM Mr. Murray, the American Minister at the Hague, who had been appointed by President...
14 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 1809-04-12 Thank you for your favor of the 1st. I might have quoted Job as well as St Paul, as a Precedent:...
15 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 12 April 1809 1809-04-12 I rejoice to find that Pensilvania has returned to reason and Duty in the affair of the Miss...
16 Adams, John Ward, Joseph From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 15 April 1809 1809-04-15 I have received your Letter of the tenth and read Some of the printed Papers inclosed and intend...
17 Adams, John Perley, Samuel From John Adams to Samuel Perley, 18 April 1809 1809-04-18 I have received your favor of April 5th. I agree with you that our prosperity has been as great...
18 Adams, John Lyman, Joseph From John Adams to Joseph Lyman, 20 April 1809 1809-04-20 I have received your respectful letter of the 21 March. It is not now necessary for me to say any...
19 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 22 April 1809 1809-04-22 WHEN I had received that authentic act of the sovereign authority of France, a copy of which is...
20 Adams, John Cunningham, William From John Adams to William Cunningham, 24 April 1809 1809-04-24 I received your favour of March 31 in due time: But I am become all at once and very unexpectedly...
21 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 25 April 1809 1809-04-25 A few words more on the subject of pressing. In strictness, we have nothing to do with the...
22 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 26 April 1809 1809-04-26 THE gentlemen of the Senate informed me, that they came to confer with me on the subject of the...
23 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 2 May 1809 1809-05-02 THE message mentioned in my last letter, was in these words: Gentlemen of the Senate , The...
24 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 9 May 1809 1809-05-09 At first I intended to encumber your paper with no Documents but such as were absolutely...
25 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 9 May 1809 1809-05-09 Mr. Hamilton, in his famous pamphlet, page 23, says, “the conduct pursued bore sufficient marks...
26 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 May 1809 1809-05-10 On the 6th of March a letter was written by the Secretary of State by my order, in the following...
27 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 12 May 1809 1809-05-12 In a A Letter from Alexander Hamilton concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams...
28 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 17 May 1809 1809-05-17 Another of my crimes, according to my great accuser, page 28, was nominating Mr. Murray, without...
29 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 18 May 1809 1809-05-18 Mr. Hamilton, in his pamphlet, page 28, speaking of Talleyrand’s dispatches, says, “overtures so...
30 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 26 May 1809 1809-05-26 In pamphlet , page 27, it is said that the great alteration in public opinion had put it...
31 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 29 May 1809 1809-05-29 Mr. Hamilton , in his pamphlet, page 21, speaks of the anterior mission of Messieurs Pinckney,...
32 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 5 June 1809 1809-06-05 IN page 25, is a strain of flimsy rant, as silly as it is indecent. “The supplement to the...
33 Adams, John Ward, Joseph From John Adams to Joseph Ward, 6 June 1809 1809-06-06 I recd in Season your interesting favor of the 10th of May: but have not had Opportunity to...
34 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 6 June 1809 1809-06-06 In page 28, Mr. Hamilton acknowledges that "the President had pledged himself in his speech, (he...
35 Adams, John Cunningham, William From John Adams to William Cunningham, 7 June 1809 1809-06-07 Yours of May 6th, I have not acknowledged, and cannot particularly consider the abundance of...
36 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 June 1809 1809-06-07 Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which...
37 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 7 June 1809 1809-06-07 In page 26, Mr. Hamilton says, that the mission “could hardly fail to injure our interests with...
38 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 8 June 1809 1809-06-08 IN page 20, Mr. Hamilton says, my "conduct in the office of President was a heterogeneous...
39 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 June 1809 1809-06-10 IN page 29. Mr. Hamilton says, "when an ordinary man dreams himself to be a Frederick," &c. To...
40 Adams, John Perley, Samuel From John Adams to Samuel Perley, 19 June 1809 1809-06-19 I received your favour of the 12th. You propose to me an abridgement of my works. Some fifty five...
41 Adams, John Cunningham, William From John Adams to William Cunningham, 22 June 1809 1809-06-22 I most sincerely thank you for your excellent letter of the 14th.—It contains an abundance of...
42 Adams, John Rush, Benjamin From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 June 1809 1809-06-22 A thousand thanks to Richard for his Auroras and ten thousand to you for your Letter of the 14th....
43 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 22 June 1809 1809-06-22 In a former letter, it was suggested that I found myself obliged to say something of the peace of...
44 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 23 June 1809 1809-06-23 On the 17th day of November, 1779, I embarked for Europe, with the hon. Francis Dana, Esq. and...
45 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 3 July 1809 1809-07-03 On the 13th of July I wrote to the Comte De Vergennes the following letter: Paris July 13, 1781....
46 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 10 July 1809 1809-07-10 DESIROUS to inform Congress of every step of my proceedings, I wrote a letter, on the 15th in...
47 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 12 July 1809 1809-07-12 THE next day I wrote another letter to the Comte. Paris, July 19, 1781. In my letter, sir, of the...
48 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 14 July 1809 1809-07-14 I mentioned in a former letter that Congress had separated from me my friend, Mr. Dana, and sent...
49 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 14 July 1809 1809-07-14 Not long after the foregoing letter, but I know not how long, the Marquis of Verac communicated...
50 Adams, John Boston Patriot From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 18 July 1809 1809-07-18 Project of an answer to the three Belligerent Courts. Answer Mutatis Mutandis. THE courts of...