51To John Adams from William Bentley, 10 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Last evening I received with great pleasure your request for an explanation of a note left at...
52To John Adams from Benjamin Stoddert, 12 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Until within a few Days, I had only seen detached parts of your letters, published in the Boston...
53To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 13 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to receive in due time your favour of the 27th Sept. I read it with that...
54To John Adams from William Cunningham, 17 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 27th. ult. arrived when I was at Worcester attending a session of the Supreme...
55To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 17 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Who were the ancestors and posterity of Homer, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle? who were the...
56To John Adams from William Cunningham, 28 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 23d. The sentence from your Letter of the 27th. ult. which...
57To John Adams from William Plumer, 28 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
Although I have never had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with you, yet to your real...
58To John Adams from William Bentley, 1 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of Oct. 26, & am happy, if, in any degree, I have satisfied the curiosity,...
59To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 2 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
Your highly esteemed favour of the 24 ult. I had the honor to receive. I am instructed by your...
60To John Adams from Oliver Whipple, 6 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
Being at this Time at Boston, on my Way to Washington, I have a Favour to ask your Excellency,...
61To John Adams from William Cunningham, 18 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
Since my last of the 28th. ult. I have not had the pleasure to hear from you. I lately received...
62To John Adams from William Cunningham, 22 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 15th. inst. It is no more than I expected, that your...
63To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 27 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Letter of the 14th, and after reading it several times, to fasten...
64To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 28 November 1809 (Adams Papers)
I listen onlÿ to a pleasant emotion of my heart, in congratulating my Self, that among So manÿ...
65To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
Philadelphia Decemr: 5th: 1809 I picked up some time ago a magazine in which I met with a revival...
66To John Adams from Jonathan Webb, 8 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
Agreeable to your request I have considered the Substance of Mr. Dearborns letter— And hereby...
67To John Adams from William Cunningham, 9 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to you for your favour of the 29th. ult. If you will compare your Letters of the...
68To John Adams from Ignatius Thomson, 20 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter of the Sixth of September which I read with pleasure and thank you for the...
69To John Adams from William Plumer, 22 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I owe you a thousand apologies for not sooner acknowledging your obliging letter of the fourth of...
70To John Adams from Henry Dearborn, 26 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have had the honor of receiving your several communications in relation to Manufactories,...
71To John Adams from William Cunningham, 29 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote to you on the 9th. inst. I did not expect that I should again trouble you; nor did I...
72To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 1 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to receive your Favour of the 15th of December, for which I beg leave to express...
73To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 14 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I can but imperfectly express the pleasure, which I received from your kind favour of the 15th...
74To John Adams from William Cunningham, 15 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I am without an answer to my last of the 29th. ult. in which I observed, that a confession...
75To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 18 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor to receive your highly estimated Favour of the 7th Inst. Its contents afford me,...
76To John Adams from William Plumer, 27 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to request you to accept my cordial thanks for the list of your works, obligingly...
77To John Adams from William Cunningham, 28 January 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 16th. inst. After I had distinctly named the causes of a...
78To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, January 1810 (Adams Papers)
Accept of my thanks for your last letter.—I enclose you a few numbers of the Aurora. Shall we...
79To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 1 February 1810 (Adams Papers)
With this letter you will receive a bundle of Auroras, and another of the same size by the post...
80To John Adams from Hosea Hildreth, 9 March 1810 (Adams Papers)
We, whose bosoms have often glowed at the names of Washington and Adams, and who have often...
81To John Adams from William Eustis, 10 March 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have this morning a disposition to intrude upon your retirement, to save you the trouble of...
82To John Adams from Samuel Perley, 8 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote last to you, I supposed, that my Hand and Pen would have been sealed in Death,...
83To John Adams from William Bentley, 11 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
Agreably to your request, I accompanied Capt. John Endicott, senior, above seventy years of age,...
84To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 26 April 1810 (Adams Papers)
In One of my letters written some time ago, I informed you that my eldest son had killed a...
85To John Adams from William Bentley, 11 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
I could not refuse myself the pleasure of sending the inclosed view of the Tree in the Endicot...
86To John Adams from Baptist Irvine, 7 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have caused one of our papers of to-day to be forwarded to you: it contains an enquiry...
87To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 12 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
Every moment of Amusement that I am able to afford you, is an Addition to my happiness, for which...
88To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 20 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
Wealth, respect and friendship! from your grateful and affectionate friend. War with the “great...
89To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 4 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have no objection to your knowing that by the “great hammer of the earth” I meant Napoleon....
90To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 5 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In Contemplating the facility with which our Once chaste & vi mistress “American liberty” admits...
91To John Adams from Benjamin Homans, 12 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
We have the honour to address you in conformity to a vote of the general Committee of the “Bunker...
92To John Adams from Dudley A. Tyng, 21 July 1810 (Adams Papers)
In pursuance of the permission given by your very obliging favour of yesterday I have notified...
93To John Adams from Henry Guest, 20 August 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge, that I have been a long time in arriere with you for your last letter; the...
94To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
Mr Denny is the principal writer in the portfolio. He is precluded from introducing politicks...
95To John Adams from William Bentley, 28 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
I have the great pleasure of sending you a portion of the Pears, collected from the Endicott...
96To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 2 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Hate on, & call upon all the pedagouges in Massachussets to assist you with their hatred of me,...
97To John Adams from Benjamin Rush, 8 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
I enclose you a small publication which contains an account of a new auxillary or palliative...
98To John Adams from William Plumer, 30 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to congratulate you on this your natal day —& to express my sincere wishes, that a life...
99To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 November 1810 (Adams Papers)
I Know you will permit me to indulge me Self in reviving mÿ drooping Spirits in writing a few...
100To John Adams from Joseph Wheaton, 4 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
I am informed by Mr. Seaver member of Congress from Roxbury, that near your residence there is a...