1001From John Adams to James Brackett, 15 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am informed that Mr Pratt and Mr Hunt are cutting wood upon my land by your order that they cut...
1002From John Adams to Justin Griswold, 3 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I was born on the nineteenth of October 1735, and consequently was eighty two years of age, on...
1003From John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, 29 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Voltaire at eighty, raved Tradgey; And I fear that you will think that I, at eighty seven and a...
1004From John Adams to Anonymous, April 1825 (Adams Papers)
I am almost most ashamed to acknowledge to you my tardy obligation, for your handsom Edition of...
1005From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Oh! that I could visit Philadelphia! and run about as I did Forty Eight years ago—to Roman...
1006From John Adams to Samuel Miller, 7 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
You know not the gratification you have given me, by your kind; frank; and Candid letter—I must...
1007From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 12 inst. Hope springs eternal. Eight Millions of Jews hope for...
1008From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your Letter of the 9th. It has entirely convinced me that the...
1009From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 15 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your letter of the 15th. december—and am deeply affected with...
1010From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a letter, and an account from Mr. Gales for the National Intelligencer— I am very...
1011From John Adams to John Peter De Windt, 8 September 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment received the Joyful News in your Letter of the 3d. Say to Caroline “Macte...
1012From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 30 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your journal which has become a necessary of life to me has failed me for so a long a time but I...
1013From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 28 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your favour of the 25th. I must refer you to one of those letters—I wrote to your...
1014From John Adams to David Hosack, 28 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I am greatly indebted to you for the honour you have done me by sending me your Biographical...
1015From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 11 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
The “Defence of the New England Charters” by Jer. “Dummer” is, both for Style and matter, one of...
1016From John Adams to George Washington Adams, January 1822 (Adams Papers)
Tell your Father that I have found the old circular pedigree which looks like so many wheels...
1017From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 30 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
The oldest Statesman in North America is no more.—Vixit. McKean, for whose services, and indeed...
1018From John Adams to John Adams, 30 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a pretty volume of Poetic effusions; for want of sight I have not read them, but...
1019From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 16 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
We cannot yet dismiss this precious statute of the 6th of George the second. Chapter 13. The...
1020From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 24 April 1822 (Adams Papers)
Portraits, or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old age which as Ossian says, and says truly is...
1021From John Adams to David Sewall, 23 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
By your account which I believe is correct—Wentworth and Sewall are all that is left of my Class...
1022From John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, 16 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of October 7th. has given me pleasure—by the information of your safe arrival at...
1023From John Adams to John Davis, 2 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for introducing to me Mr Lewis Weld, an Instructor in the Asylum for the deaf & Dumb...
1024From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 20 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
your favour of the 7th from Princeton has given me Comfort by giving me good hopes and full...
1025From 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...
1026From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am really grieved at your Misfortune, if it were only on the Principle of Rochefaucault and...
1027From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 22 March 1825 (Adams Papers)
Is not your lively imagination a little exalted, you certainly have exalted my name to a greater...
1028From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your Virginia Ladies have always been represented to me, and I have always believed it, are among...
1029From John Adams to John Thornton Kirkland, 17 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received the honor of your Circular of February 1823. The System of regulations contained...
1030From John Adams to James Monroe, 19 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
For the last twenty years I have made it a rule to interfere as little as possible with public...
1031From John Adams to James Monroe, 8 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I ought not to have delaid an acknowledgement of your favour of February 20th. and the Volume of...
1032John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Lyman was mortified that he could not visit Monticello . He is gone to Europe a Second time. I...
1033From John Adams to John Jay, 19 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind favour of the 11th. which I have this moment received, and Soon...
1034From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
Pray tell me how you apply the sublimate murcury for the cure external’y and internally of weak...
1035From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 December 1824 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Alexander Townsend, bound to Washington has called to see if I have any Packages to send,...
1036From John Adams to John Adams, 2 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 27th. of December has given me great pleasure—though I shuddered at the idea...
1037From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 November 1817 (Adams Papers)
The disapointment of the Anglomaniacs and the Antigallicans, who are the same persons, on one...
1038From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 29 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
Will you be so good as to print in your Register, the inclosed Original Letter from Mr Rodney and...
1039From 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...
1040From John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, 28 May 1822 (Adams Papers)
Give my thanks & a kiss to Miss Susan for reminding her mother to write to her Grandfather. Your...
1041From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 14 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Wonderful Woman, wife of a wonderful Man, How it is possible for you with your delicate...
1042From John Adams to Richard Sharp, 27 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr Theodore Lyman Junr. a Gentleman of a Studious, inquisitive and irreproachable Character, is...
1043From John Adams to Andrew Dunlap, 13 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Oration of the fourth of July 1822. It is so intelligent, eloquent, and...
1044From John Adams to DeWitt Clinton, 18 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received with great pleasure your kind letter of the 6th: inst with your discourse before...
1045From John Adams to William Temple Franklin, 5 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
The Volume of Dr Franklins Correspondence has Seemed to make me live over again my Life at Passy...
1046From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 14 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Otis, to Show the Spirit of the Acts of Trade, those I have already quoted as well as those I...
1047From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 12th I am extremely sorry to hear that Genll Miller has lost...
1048From John Adams to William Bentley, 30 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
The Mecklenboug Declaration of Independence is “en bon train.” Vive la Verite. But this letter...
1049From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 13 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Extract. I was not able to accept the condescending invitation of the Government of the State and...
1050To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure—but your kind...