1To John Adams from William Plumer, 27 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to request you to accept my cordial thanks for the list of your works, obligingly communicated by your letter of the 9th. I hope I shall profit by the hints you give respecting the origen of the constitutions of several of the States & that of the United States, should I live to bring my history up to that period. Let me entreat you, whenever you write your son in Russia, to mention...
2To John Adams from William Plumer, 6 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to enclose you a copy of my speech this day delivered to our Legislature; & to assure you that there is a decided majority of Republicans in each branch of our government. I am with much respect & esteem / your friend & humble servant, MHi : Adams Papers.
3To John Adams from William Plumer, 21 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have for sometime neglected writing to my friend your son at St. Petersburg, because I expected his return early the approaching summer; but I now perceive he is appointed minster plenipotentiary to the court of St. James’s. My object in this Address is to enquire whether he will accept that mission or return to his native country? If he accepts that appointment, the son may terminate his...
4To John Adams from William Plumer, 12 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to request you to accept of the enclosed address to the Clergy. Their systematic opposition to our government evinces a spirit equally hostile to Christianity and the real interests of their country. How far I have succeeded in exposing their misconduct you will judge. I wish some abler pen, and one more at leisure, had undertaken & more fully investigated the subject. What is your...
5To John Adams from William Plumer, 28 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Although I have never had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you, yet to your real character & to the great services you have rendered our common country, I am no stranger. With your worthy son, now on a mission to St. Petersburg, I served three years in the Senate of the United States, & contracted a friendship with him that I hope will terminate but with life. You no doubt will...
6To John Adams from William Plumer, 30 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on this your natal day —& to express my sincere wishes, that a life that has been so greatly important and so highly useful to his country, may yet experience the return of many revolving seasons, accompanied with sound health, the zest of life. We have reports that the American Minister at St. Petersburg does not enjoy good health—and that he will soon return to...
7To John Adams from William Plumer, 5 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is sometime since I have had any information from my much esteemed friend, your worthy son, the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg. There is a report that he has not accepted the office of Judge, but will still remain at that court in the character of minister—permit me therefore to ask the favor of informing me per mail when you last heard from him—when you expect his return...
8To John Adams from William Plumer, 14 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
By the last mail I received your favour of the 7th instant, informing me that your son has declined the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, & that he will remain at Russia, at the least another winter. In the course of the present week I shall address myself to him, by letter, in that distant country. I think your invaluable correspondence, published in the Boston...
9To John Adams from William Plumer, 22 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I owe you a thousand apologies for not sooner acknowledging your obliging letter of the fourth of November; but it would be more than useless to trouble you with the enumeration. With respect to my intended history, my design is to commence with the discovery of America by Columbus, & bring it down to as late a period as my time & health will permit. I have commenced, but am very far from...
10To John Adams from William Plumer, 2 January 1813 (Adams Papers)
I received by the last mail your obliging letter of the 16th December; & be assured I am highly gratified by the information that my late speech merited your approbation. You observe that you are unable to account for the change in the sentiments of the New England states, & New York & New Jersey, as exprest in their recent elections; & request my opinion thereon. I regret that I have not the...