51From John Adams to George Mason Jr., 4 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
With great pleasure, I received your kind letter of the twenty fifth of last month, give me leave...
52From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
Without waiting for an Answer to my last, I will take a little more notice of a Sentiment in one...
53John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I thank you my dear Son, for your dutiful Letter of the 28 th. of June, and rejoice, with...
54From John Adams to Francis Dana, [10 July 1789] (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write on the 26 th of last month and am much...
55From John Adams to Stephen Higginson, 14 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I received your favor of the 4 th of this month, but not till the impost bill was enacted and...
56From John Adams to Thomas Mifflin, 14 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the third of this month, and I...
57From John Adams to James Sullivan, 14 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the second of this month. The report I mentioned to you in a former...
58[John Adams’ Diary resumes.] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Carrol. The Executive Power is commensurate with the Legislative and Judicial Powers. The...
59[Notes of Debates in the United States Senate] July 15. 1789. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Carrol. The Executive Power is commensurate with the Legislative and Judicial Powers. The...
60From John Adams to John Jenks, 15 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter of the first of this month and thank you for you kind congratulations. The...
61From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 15 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have read D r Rush, de moribus Germanorum, with pleasure. As I am a great lover of paradoxes,...
62From John Adams to William Thompson, [15 July 1789] (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the fifth of this month, and am...
63From John Adams to James Lovell, 16 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
There is no such point in dispute, as that you mention in your favour of the 9 th. The only...
64From John Adams to Theophilus Parsons, 16 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the eigth of this month, and am much obliged to you for the frank...
65To George Washington from John Adams, 16 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed letters are from two as respectable characters as any in Massachusetts, containing...
66From John Adams to Roger Sherman, 17 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have read over with Pleasure, your Observations on the new federal Constitution, and am glad of...
67From John Adams to Roger Sherman, 18 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
In my Letter of Yesterday, I think it was demonstrated that the English Constitution is a...
68From John Adams to Roger Sherman, 20 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
There is a Sense, and a degree, in which the Executive, in our Constitution, is blended with the...
69From John Adams to Peter Cunningham, 21 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the thirteenth of this month, from the hand of M r M c Guire, and...
70From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 21 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
M r Charles Adams, my Second son, the Bearer of this Letter, I beg leave to introduce to you.— He...
71To Alexander Hamilton from John Adams, [21 July 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
Mr Charles Adams, my second son, the Bearer of this Letter, I beg leave to introduce to you. He...
72From John Adams to Roger Sherman, 22 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
As the Citizens of these States, are all Legislators, or Creators of Legislators, it is, as you...
73From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 24 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have, this morning received your Letter of the 18 th. , George Chalmers, I have Seen in London....
74From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 24 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have persecuted you, too much with my Letters.— I beg you would give yourself no trouble to...
75From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 28 July 1789 (Adams Papers)
“The Characters, I So much admire among the ancients,” were not “formed wholly by Republican...
76From John Adams to Joseph Hardy, 6 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
In 1779 at Bilbao I was solicited for releif by a number of American seamen who had been captured...
77From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 18 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind and obliging letter of the 16 of July, and am sorry that the extream...
78From John Adams to Sylvanus Bourne, 30 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18 th of this month and have communicated that to the...
79From John Adams to James Lovell, 1 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet answered your letter of the 26 of July. You guess well—I find that I shall have...
80John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have this morning received your manly letter of 25 th Ult.— I had long intended to write you...
81From John Adams to William Cushing, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet acknowledged my obligation to you for your favor of Aug t 22. if my hasty scrawls...
82From John Adams to John Lowell, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of the 7 th in due Season and have delayed my Answer, in hopes it might be...
83From John Adams to John Brown, 15 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I received in due time your favor of August 24, the subject of which has since been under the...
84[September 1789] (Adams Papers)
Mr. Elsworth informed me That Governor Randolph of Virginia, opened the Convention at...
851789 Septr. 16. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Elsworth informed me That Governor Randolph of Virginia, opened the Convention at...
86From John Adams to John Bondfield, 16 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 15 of May. and take this...
87From John Adams to the Comte de Sarsfield, 16 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your friendly letter of the 23 of April, has laid me under obligations to you which it shall be...
88From John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 16 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d all your Letters, and the Post Office is very faithful. The Heat has been excessive...
89From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 17 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter of Aug. 29, gave me much pleasure. There is more Confinement, in my present...
90From John Adams to James Sullivan, 17 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
In your letter of the 18 th of August, you ask why we may not have as much paper in circulation...
91From John Adams to Jabez Bowen, 18 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I am honored with your letter of 31 of August. Your complaint against our laws was well founded...
92From John Adams to William Tudor, 18 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Yours of July 9 & 27 are unanswered. I cannot reconcile myself to the Idea of a Division of this...
93From John Adams to John Laurance, 19 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
My second son the bearer of this letter as soon as he was out of College was entered as a student...
94From John Adams to Stephen Higginson, 21 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of August 10 th was duly received and immediately communicated with several other...
95From John Adams to James Sullivan, 21 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 23 of July remains unanswered. There is in the United States and the regions...
Mr. Grayson. No Census yet taken, by which the Center of Population— We have Markets, Archives,...
Mr. Lee. Navigation of the Susquehannah. Mr. Grayson. Antwerp and the Scheld. Reasons of State...
Mr. Grayson. moves to strike out the Words, “in the State of Pensilvania.” Mr. Butler. The Center...
99From John Adams to George Walton, 25 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
The duplicate via Charlestown of your letter of the thirtieth of August, never reached my hand...
100To John Adams from John Adams To Jeremy Belknap, 26 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I received your favour of the 19 th. and learn with Pleasure your design to pursue your...