181To John Adams from the Abbés Chalut and Arnoux, 13 September 1790 (Adams Papers)
Les abbés Chalut et Arnoux ont l’honneur de faire leurs sinceres Compliments à Monsieur Adams et de l’assurer de leur estime et de leur amitié; ils lui envoyent un exemplaire de deux ouvrages posthumes de M. l’abbé de Mably. ces deux ouvrages sont en deux volumes. il en paroitra encore Cinq on aura soin de les lui faire parvenir à mesure qu’ils paroitront Les abbés Chalut et Arnoux presentent...
182To John Adams from Cotton Tufts, 18 September 1790 (Adams Papers)
Accounts have been exhibited to me by several Dep y. Sheriffs for Service of Writs committed to them by You while in the Practice of Law. I have found myself embarrassed with Respect to the Payment of them not being fully acquainted with your Mode of transacting Business with them. I have found it necessary to examine Your Writ Execution & Account Books; in some Cases where the Minutes in them...
183John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 21 September 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have received within a few days three Letters with which you have favoured me, and shall pay to their contents all the attention which I can command. The scheme which you have traced out in the last of them is so extensive, that I am apprehensive it will require much time, as well as very constant enquiries, to obtain the information of the several kinds which you mention. I shall endeavour...
184To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 4 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
With pleasure I received your Letter of Sept r. 12 th ; and as our good friend, to whom I dictated my last is yet in Town; I have requested of him a second favour— You ask what the World is about to become? and, Is the Millenium commencing? I have not studied the Prophesies, and cannot even conjecture. The Golden Age so finely pictured by Poets, I beleive has never yet existed; but in their...
185To John Adams from Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst & Nicolaas Hubbard, 11 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
We beg leave to introduce to your Excellency’s acquaintance, the Bearer M r. Joseph Ceracchi Native of Rome & an eminent Sculptor, requesting your Excellency to render him every Service and civility in your Power, under our assurance of his being well worthy of them, and that your Excellency will thereby particularly oblige those who on similar & all other occasions are with great regard &...
186To John Adams from William Temple Franklin, 13 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to inform your Excellency, that in consequence of pressing Letters from my Friends in England and France, urging me to go over immediately with my Grandfathers Papers, in order to derive that Advantage in the Publication of them, which, they say, delay would diminish;—& having likewise some other private Business to transact; I have concluded to go in the Pigou, which will sail for...
187John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 19 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have a Letter from you which has called forth the few remaining sparks of my attenion to politics— Were my own mind at ease, I should at the present time enter more than ever into the spirit of speculation upon public affairs. The prospect is really glorious; but it is perhaps impossible, at least for a man whose patriotism is not tinctured with more heroism than mine, to consider the...
188To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 19 October 1790 (Adams Papers)
amidst the numerous & important concerns in which you are engaged, & for which I rejoice that you should sometimes think of me gives me a heartfelt satisfaction & I trust to have some claim to the continuance of your friendship & correspondence, if being conscious, my regard for you was always sincere & interested from principle, in the cause of your country. I begun this letter on a pleasing...
189To John Adams from Samuel Adams, 25 November 1790 (Adams Papers)
I lately received your Letter of the 18 th: of October.— The Sentiment, and observations contained in it demand my attention. A Republic, you tell me, is a Government in which “the People have an essential share in the Sovereignty”; Is not the whole sovereignty, my friend, essentially in the People? Is not Government designed for the Welfare, and happiness of all the People? and is it not the...
190To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 26 November 1790 (Adams Papers)
From a letter received from the President mr̃ Lear is satisfied he cannot be here to-day and doubts even the possibility of his arrival tomorrow. of course our expedition of to-day would be certainly fruitless, and is therefore laid aside agreeably to a message I have received from Gen l. Knox & the attorney Gen l. Your’s affectionately & respectfully RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “The...