351From John Adams to Charles Jared Ingersoll, 17 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 10th: of this month with your oration on our anniversary...
352From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 8th, my dear Friend is pleasing and it is painfull to me, in a high degree....
353From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 19 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your delightful Letter of the 13th received Yesterday now in turn must receive my grateful...
354From John Adams to Richard Rush, 31 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of the 18th of this month with your Oration on the 4th. Your...
355From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 1 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
We have been in such hurry of late that if I have mentioned your Letter of 18th of June, I have...
356From John Adams to Samuel B. Malcom, 6 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of July 18 was duely received. Your Resolution to Subjugate yourself to the controul...
357From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 8 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice, with joy unspeakable, in the news I hear of the open Part you have taken with no less...
358From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 10 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of July 19th is yet unacknowledged. The first page of it, or rather the first part of...
359From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 11 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Our country is in a high fever. So in all Europe—so are the four quarters of the globe. Who first...
360From John Adams to William Bentley, 13 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Mr Knox, a Son of General Knox, the Bearer of this Letter, was appointed a Midshipman on Board...
361From John Adams to Ebenezer Seaver, 14 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have the honour of your Letter of the 11th. It is all over with me. I can recollect an Old...
362From John Adams to Joseph Bemis, 15 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The last Evening I received the favour of your polite and obliging Letter of the eleventh of this...
363From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
You are So waggish and roguish with your Woofs and your Warps and your Webs, that I am almost...
364From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 17 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the Eighth, is another Monument to virtue and Piety, I would rather have your...
365From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
The History of Queen Ann’s reign and of the Treaty of Utrecht is So instructive, that it is worth...
366From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
If you are possessed by any Demon, whether ghost, of Hero, Sage, Saint, heathen Deity, Head Ache,...
367From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 4 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Little can be added to your distinctions of Principles and delineation of Parties, in your Letter...
368From John Adams to Arnold Welles, 5 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind and obliging Letter of the second of this month encloseing a polite...
369From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 6 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Will your tranquilizing Chair, exorcise Demoniacks? Will it cure the Hydrophobia? I am Sure Our...
370From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 6 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
My heart is one day as light as air and the next as heavy as lead. The Name of Hull, at one hour...
371From John Adams to Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, 11 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I duly received your polite letter of the 7th of this month inclosing valuable communications...
372From John Adams to John Giles, 14 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Be pleased to accept my thanks for two ingenious discourses on the national Fast. They are in a...
373From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 15 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I take my pen to acknowledge your favour of the 10th. almost in the moment when I received it Of...
374From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
You ask my Opinion, (if I understand you) whether Duane or General Hull, be the fittest Man for...
375From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 16 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Inter Arma Silent leges, is what We call an old Saying. I hope that Scientiæ will not be added....
376From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 18 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
In the good old English Phrase, I give you ten thousand Thanks for the Muscat Wine of Samos,...
377From John Adams to Josiah Quincy Guild, 22 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I am very sorry I was not absent, when your excellent Mother left me your Letter of the 12th of...
378From John Adams to Paul Hamilton, 24 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
Having never had the honour of any personal acquaintance with you I may commit an indiscretion,...
379From John Adams to Henry Colman, 10 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Thanksgiving Fast Sermon which I have repeatedly read, with much pleasure....
380From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have a Curiosity to learn Something of the Character Life and death of a Gentleman, whose name...
381John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I have a Curiosity to learn Something of the Character Life and death of a Gentleman, whose name...
382From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 15 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received, and read with—Sensations of grief and joy and Reflections of, (what shall I say...
383From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 22 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
If you had investigated the Question, concerning Possessions or that about matter and Spirit, in...
384From John Adams to Edward Killeran, 23 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind Letter of the 19th. of this month and am much obliged to you for your...
385From John Adams to Seth Sprague, 26 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received the polite and obliging Letter, you did me the honour to write me, on the twenty...
386From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 28 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Letter of 26. Septr…. It does not Signify! Van der kemp! It will not do, in...
387From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 7 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I am in great perplexity, Every day something Occurs to puzzle my feeble intellect. To whom can I...
388From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 12 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 4th has given me much pleasure. I rejoice that you have been admitted a...
389From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 14 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your Volume will not produce Answers or Examinations or reflections: but probably Reproaches,...
390From John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, 15 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I presume upon our former acquaintance, and Correspondence as an apology for this Letter. The...
391From John Adams to William Branch Giles, 17 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Having in ancient days had much experience of the frankness and candor of your disposition I feel...
392To James Madison from John Adams, 17 November 1812 (Madison Papers)
My Election to the Presidents office, was but by a majority of one or at most two votes. Mr...
393From John Adams to James Madison, 19 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
My Election to the Presidents Office was but by a majority of one, or at most of two Votes. Mr...
394From John Adams to James Monroe, 23 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Does History or Experience, afford an Example, of Such a Phenomenon, as this, now exhibited to...
395From John Adams to William Keteltas, 25 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have received your polite letter of the 6th of the month and your present of “The Crisis.” You...
396From John Adams to John Binns, 26 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Some Gentleman in Philadelphia, has lately Sent me a polite letter, Subscribed “A Friend,” with a...
397From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 29 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have recd. your valuable Volume, on the diseases of the mind; which will run Mankind still...
398From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
I am not about to write you much upon War or peace. You must have enough upon those Subjects in...
399From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 5 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your favour of the 16th of last month. It is of no other use to ruminate...
400From John Adams to William Plumer, 6 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your eloquent and Masterly Speech which I read with much Satisfaction.— There...