651From John Adams to Emma Willard, 16 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received Mr Southwicks address to the Apprentice of Albany and have read it three times...
652From John Adams to Edward Livingston, 1 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have feel myself highly honored by your polite & obliging letter of the 19th. of May which I...
653From John Adams to Henry Channing, 29 January 1819 (Adams Papers)
Accept my thanks for your present of a register and much more for your affectionate and...
654From John Adams to Joseph E. Worcester, 17 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received the honour of your letter of the 5th. together with your Elements of Geography,...
655From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Lieutenant John Percival of the Navy of The United States is about to embark for London, and from...
656From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
your journals grow more and more entertaining and instructive—you ask my Opinion of General...
657From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 10 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have two kind letters from you to answer—the last—of August 7th.—has filled me with deep sorrow...
658From John Adams to John Sanderson, 27 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I return you Hancock, with some Notes—partly by the Secretary of the Common Wea l th and partly...
659John Adams, Inventory of Estate, 5 September 1826 (Adams Papers)
Norfolk, ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to Daniel Greenleaf Esquire, Josiah Bass, Gentleman,...
660From John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, 24 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Copy of the declaration of Independence for which I thank you. It is...
661From John Adams to John Marshall, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
The extreme imbecility of old age must be my apology for neglecting to write, and thank you for...
662From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 12 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
Badinage Avaunt!!! I must now be very serious. I have recollected all I can of Homer Virgil and...
663From John Adams to A. & J.W. Picket, 20 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 8th.—As I have neither strength of mind or body to persue...
664From John Adams to Alden Bradford, 26 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter of the 24th. has exerted a thousand conjectures in my Mind, and as many...
665From John Adams to John Coffin, 4 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
Better late than never, to acknowledge your discourse on Medical Education, which I read in the...
666From John Adams to Robert Walsh, Jr., 5 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
For every Man of Letters and reputation is dear to me—altho an entire stranger in Person—your...
667From John Adams to Benjamin Russell, 10 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have very particular reasons for requesting of you a favor— it is that you would inform...
668From John Adams to William Cranch, 8 October 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have seen your two Daughters—with great pleasure—and they are every thing I could wish them to...
669From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
It is a custom on the Demise of Princes for all classes of Men in Society to present to the...
670From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 27 March 1826 (Adams Papers)
My anxiety for you is greater than, that for myself, I long to know the state of your Health, and...
671From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 13 April 1826 (Adams Papers)
A thousand thanks to my ever dear Cousin, for his unbounded benevolence to me. The barrel of...
672From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
Do not the cannon which have thundered this morning in honour of your Namesake, in flame a holy...
673From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 12 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of the 7th. December last. The subject of it is of great and...
674From John Adams to George Washington Jeffreys, 29 July 1817 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 15th: and rejoice in the establishment of your Society for the...
675From John Adams to John Thornton Kirkland, 28 August 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have had no Opportunity, till this hour to acknowledge your kind Letter of the 12th I had...
676From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received your No 19, 24, Feby. When I recollect the freedom of speech, which I indulged,...
677To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th has revived me—It is true, that my hearing has been very good, but the...
678From John Adams to Mordecai M. Noah, 15 March 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have to thank you for another valuable publication your travels in “Europe & Africa” which...
679From John Adams to Emma Willard, 8 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am deeply indebted to you for your polite and obliging letter— and much more for the elegant,...
680From John Adams to Charles Carroll, 9 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 26th April—You are entirely mistaken in supposing that the...
681From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received yours of the 3d.—I can only say if Susan will return to me with her Child and...
682From 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...
683From John Adams to Henry Colman, 11 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 2d is among the dearest of my Consolations. The whole World Sympathises with...
684From John Adams to James Brackett, 29 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed are two letters from a Mr Farmer of Billerica; a Gentlemen whom I never saw, or heard...
685From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 20 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your beautiful letter of the 8th has given me great pleasure I call it beautiful because the...
686From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 3 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your journals and pray you to continue them for they are a refreshing amusement...
687To John Jay from John Adams, 19 June 1821 (Jay Papers)
I thank you for your kind favour of the 11 th , which I have this moment received, and soon...
688From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 28 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
M I sent you some years ago an original short letter to me dated in ’74 from Major Hawley which...
689From John Adams to William Willis, 4 April 1820 (Adams Papers)
your appointment to a Consulate in Spain was a full proof that you was then Esteemed to be a...
690From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 30 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious entertaining & valuable oration pronounced...
691To John Adams from John Adams, 21 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with your request in your condescending favr. of the 30th. Ulto. that I should...
692From John Adams to Joseph Milligan, 5 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
In exchange for the Gold and Silver which you have repeatedly sent me as presents I have nothing...
693From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 1 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received your last Journal, and thank you for it. When the Lady asked you which you...
694From John Adams to Samuel L. Knapp, 26 January 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have too long neglected to acknowledge my thanks for your volume of Biography. I am well...
695From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 24 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your No 33. has pleased me much and I beg you to continue your observations on the cavilling and...
696From John Adams to Rev. Horace Holly, 22 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have rarely, if ever, read a Letter with more Pleasure than yours of July the 3d. you could not...
697From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have made my Cantabridgians read your Letter to all my family at Breakfast. We all recognized...
698From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 26 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Mr Leslie Combs of Kentucky has Sent me “a History of the late War, in the Western Country, by Mr...
699From John Adams to James Madison, 25 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to present you, what I think a Curiosity. Dr Mayhews Thirtieth of January Sermon,...
700From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 17 November 1823 (Adams Papers)
With real pleasure I received your kind letter of July 28th. though I received it but a few days...