1From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 22 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
I admire your checks and bridles which you call maxims. To allude to Bolingbrokes figure, Man is...
2From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 12 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
Of making and reading Books, there is no end, And therefore it is hardly worth while to make a...
3From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 10 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of May 5th. The King of England has performed one noble action, and I...
4From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 10 March 1821 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter this morning of March 1st. and congratulate you on the birth of another...
5From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 13 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for the information contained in your letter of the 6th. I congratulate you and Mrs...
6From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 20 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
Cares, Sorrows, Misfortunes, and Infirmities have prevented an earlier Acknowledgment of your...
7From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 6 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of January 23d. And am very glad to learn, you have persevered to the...
8From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 4 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favor of Jan’y 23d. & am very glad to learn you have persevered to the end...
9From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 21 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your favour of the 15th. and the Pamphlet inclosed. Lord Bollingbrook says and every...
10From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 31 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have yours of the 22d. before me—your Law Grammar is undoubtedly a useful Book—In my time, we...
11From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 17 December 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 30th of November has filled me with grief, The untimely death of my dear Great...
12From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 30 November 1822 (Adams Papers)
A paroxism of ill health, which has confined me to my Chamber for several days, has prevented me...
13From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 1 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I like your philosophy very well, I will pursue an idea suggested in my last; I do sincerely wish...
14From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 14 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 7th. instant. If I agree with you that human knowledge ceases,...
15From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 26 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I begin my letter, as you end yours of March 13th. with the word Amen . I admire your liberal...
16From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 16 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 7th. If I agree with you, that human knowledge ceases where...
17From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 14 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Will you be so good as to inform me what is the plan of Study in the Law, which Mr Counsellor...
18From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 5 November 1820 (Adams Papers)
I received with pleasure your favour of October 26th. A Seat in the Convention as it is the...
19From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 26th. December just now received, has thrown me into a kind of froliksome...
20From John Quincy Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 11 June 1825 (Adams Papers)
I regret much that an usage, which has been uniformly observed since the existence of our...
As I am now favoured with a little leisure, I have been looking over my Agency Accounts for the...
Your favour of the 19th: instant I duly received with Mr: Whitelaw’s letter I have opened a...
23From Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 13 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
As it is a long time, since I have received a communication from any member of your family, and...