1To John Adams from Alexander Hill Everett, 31 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I return you the pamphlets you were so good as to send me with many thanks. I have derived much pleasure from reading them. Mr. Hay has said every thing, that need be said upon the subject.—I think there cannot be much doubt of a citizen’s right under the law of nature, to quit his country at pleasure and in a case of pure self-defence, (which is really the only case of justifiable war) to...
2To John Adams from Alexander Hill Everett, 15 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I beg you to accept my grateful acknowledgments for the very polite notice you were pleased to take of my pamphlet in your letter of the 14th.—Philosophy itself allows us to feel some little pride in the lauderi a laudato viro . I have not read either of the pamphlets you mention and should be very happy to avail myself of your kind offer to lend them to me. I have read the review of Mr. Hay’s...
3To John Adams from Alexander Hill Everett, 9 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you a republication in the pamphlet form, of a series of papers essays that were published in one of the papers in this town during the Session of the legislature. They were prompted by a sincere conviction that the tranquillity and Union of the Country were really in danger and that every good citizen was bound to make such efforts as lay in his power, however...
4To John Adams from Alexander Hill Everett, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to express to you my ackowledgments for the politeness, with which you were pleased to speak of my Address in your letter of the 4th. I hope you received it as a mark of respect: in any other point of view it was not worth offering. I beg you, Sir, to accept my grateful thanks for the Naval History with which you did me the honor to accompany the letter. I have read it with great...