111To John Adams from Joseph Adams, 24 April 1809 (Adams Papers)
these from your friend and cusen Joseph Adams that went from Braintree to Uxbridge in the year 1755 in february— to Mr John Adams Esq and former president of the united States Sir these lines may inform you that I am as well as can be expected for an old man in the 79th yare of my age through the goodness of god I am contineued to this day hoping these Lines will find you and your family well...
112From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 12 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
I recieved your letter my dear Child only a few days since and am charmed to find that George and you are such good boys I am sure you are much obliged to Cousin Abby for your letters. and I you will soon learn to write them yourself I hope as they will afford me double pleasure George is now near ten years old and is I am sure too much of a man to play truant any more and I am sure you never...
113From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 14 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
You cannot think what a disappointment your not writing occasion’d me! I have been weighing and reflecting upon every thing which might have caused your silence and have only been able to attribute it to that of sickness, which fills my heart with uneasiness Your Aunt Smith, being about to return to America, I take the opportunity of sending you a Watch, which I request you will use in the...
114To John Adams from Timothy Alden, 1 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
I hope you will excuse the liberty I have taken in dedicating the first volume of my biographical and historical Collection to you. Taught from my earliest years to cherish an exalted opinion of the distinguished services which, under Providence, you have rendered to our beloved country, I took a peculiar pleasure in prefixing your name to a work, which is the fruit of much patient...
115To John Adams from Timothy Alden, 10 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
As my American Biography will contain sundry genealogical lists, executed with considerable minuteness, it will afford me pleasure and gratification to many to see the list of your ancestors and family in the same work—. If agreeable to you to cause the enclosed to be filled up so far as may be practicable and transmitted to me, at the city of New York, I shall then be able to execute my...
116To John Adams from American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
At the request of several Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and by the permission of the Vice President Dr. Kirkland I have notified the Member s of the Council to meet at the Academy’s room in Boston on Thursday next at 12 o clock A.M. I am, Sir, with great / respect your hume sert MHi : Adams Papers.
117To John Adams from American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 26 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have the pleasure to announce to you, that at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences May 25th. 1813 it was the unanimous wish of the Members as expressed by ballot, that you would continue their President. Very respectfully / your humble Servant MHi : Adams Papers.
118To John Adams from Anonymous, August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Your communication in the late Chonacle has capt all your other transactions—not content with plunging the Provinces in a wicked and unjust Rebellion against the mother Country—not content with hagging with the vilest Nation on Earth, when Great Britain offerd every thing that we could wish, yet by the War was in —Not content after you was forgiven by the Best of Kings & all the true friends...
119To John Adams from Anonymous, 1 November 1812 (Adams Papers)
Having got a few seeds from Europe that appear deserving attention, and as some of ‘em may be adapted to a more northern climate than this, I have taken the liberty of sending some of them to Your care—if attending to them will not be convenient for yourself I have no doubt you will put them into the hands of some friend who takes an interest in improving the productions of the country— It is...
120To John Adams from D.C. Ballard, 10 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
At so interesting a period as the present, when our country is contending for the re-establishment of it’s most essential rights, the labors of gentlemen of political weight and literary acquirement are peculiarly desirable and important. Having purchased the respectable and extensive establishment of the Boston Patriot of it’s late proprietors, it is my earnest desire that its columns should...