1To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 6 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
your long silence gave me much uneasiness but I endeavour’d, to assign a thousand reasons which must have prevented you & some of them most natural at last however your favor restored my calm. I should have been surprised indeed, had Cato’s house stood uninjured in the general conflict for Existence life & liberty. remember the glorious contest the Anxious fears the painful doubts the dreadful...
2To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 29 March 1790 (Adams Papers)
I ought to have acknowledged the receipt of your favour before this but indeed it is not easy to get letters conveyd to you. if by private hands they often miscarry & the publick conveyance I do not much like.— The National assembly have regulated the post only one sou for a sheet of paper by this means intellects are not taxed & the produce not applied to support pride & Luxury but a free...
3To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 28 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
Having an opportunity of writing by M r Rutledge I embrace it with great pleasure to convey to you a few lines & some tracts & to convince you that you are often in my memory & could I find conveyances easy you would hear often from me being interested in the progress that Novi homines new men make in virtue & knowledge. The state of the publick in general is astonishingly changed since we...
4To 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...
5To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 12 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
M r Brand Hollis having met with this second volume of the History of Bologna by Ghiradacci requests M r Adams to accept of it from gratitude to him for having produced to the publick the act of the 3 of June 1257 by which all the Slaves & villains were manumitted. The book containing it is intitled The Paradise of pleasure. 1605. Ghirardacci lib VI. p. 194 con Licenza de Superiori. There has...
6To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 3 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I am much in your debt for letters by mr Knox General Mansell & Mr Broome who seems an excellent citizen we had an American dinner all rejoiced in the welfare of America & remember’d our friend & the Patriots of that country. I have just recd intelligence of the Boxes of Books for cambridge have been recd. the former letter not coming to hand yesterday the 2 of march I sent on board the Apollo...
7To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 26 October 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have waited with impatience to hear from you as the begining of Feb: I sent a Box containing the 2d. vol Gerradaccis History of Bologna. you have been in search after it for some time; I met with it by accident in the city & am pleased to complete your copy you deserve it more than any having brought it into light Paradisum Voluptatis a real fact. what a pleasing article it would make in the...
8To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed when I look at the date of your last letter but knowing how much you are engaged & the little entertainment I can avoid you by detailing the publick occurrences wch you have by the Frence papers, many of which are very good being wrote by men of the first talents who do not scorn to instruct & inform their fellow citizens , knowing that truth is always productive of good. but a...
9To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 18 February 1793 (Adams Papers)
The bearer of ths letter is the reverend Mr Toulmyn of Devonshire a worthy dissenting minister & an excellent and good man & of abilities loved & esteemed by his congregation in so much that many of them accompany him, in this banishment from his country, from attachment and regard to his principles & upright conduct. his Situation is render’d disagreeable inconvient & dangerous from the...
10To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 22 June 1794 (Adams Papers)
I recd your letter with the correspondence of Gennet for wch am much obliged to you but being put into the post it cost 19S which the captains often do as soon as they come to Land— how mine was delayed know not beleive it was by a private hand. The communication by letters is exceeding dangerous the habeas corpus bill being suspended, wch gives power equal to lettres de cachet & it is used...