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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Cranch, Richard | Adams, John | To John Adams from Richard Cranch, October 1756 | ≈1756-10-01 | Tho’ I acknowledge that one ought never to be asham’d to speak the truth; yet I find my self much... |
2 | Sewall, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 29 September 1759 | 1759-09-29 | My Absence from home for this Week past has occasioned my delaying an Answer to your very... |
3 | Crawford, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Crawford, 13 January 1760 | 1760-01-13 | I am lately come from divine Service, if I may be allowed the Expression, performd by the Revd.... |
4 | Sewall, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 13 February 1760 | 1760-02-13 | In my last, if I rightly remember, I joined with you in your panegyric on the superior Rewards... |
5 | Crawford, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Crawford, 4 July 1763 | 1763-07-04 | I hope you enjoy mens sana in Corpore Sano: My Body for more than six months past has been in... |
6 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 | 1763-08-11 | If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon... |
7 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 | 1763-09-12 | You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure.... |
8 | Sewall, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 15 February 1764 | 1764-02-15 | You may remember we had some Confab. together about having the Small Pox in Concert. I intend... |
9 | Green, Hannah Storer | Adams, John | Hannah Storer Green to John Adams, 20 February 1764 | 1764-02-20 | I think myself greatly indebted to you, for the honor you do my judgment, in refering so... |
10 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 | 1764-04-07 | How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me... |
11 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 | 1764-04-08 | If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch... |
12 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 | 1764-04-12 | Here am I all alone, in my Chamber, a mere Nun I assure you, after professing myself thus will it... |
13 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 15 April 1764 | 1764-04-15 | Mr. Cranch informs me that Hones will go to Town tomorrow, and that I may not miss one... |
14 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 16 April 1764 | 1764-04-16 | I think I write to you every Day. Shall not I make my Letters very cheep; don’t you light your... |
15 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 | 1764-04-19 | Why my good Man, thou hast the curiosity of a Girl. Who could have believed that only a slight... |
16 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 | 1764-04-30 | Your Friendly Epistle reach’d me a fryday morning, it came like an Infernal Mesenger, thro fire... |
17 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 May 1764 | 1764-05-04 | Your desire that I would write every Opportunity is punctually observed by me, And I comply with... |
18 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 9 May 1764 | 1764-05-09 | Welcome, Welcome thrice welcome is Lysander to Braintree, but ten times more so would he be at... |
19 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 | 1764-10-04 | I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken about help. I am very willing to submit to... |
20 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 | 1764-10-13 | When I wrote you by the Doctor I was in hopes that I should have been out the next day, but my... |
21 | Palmer, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 1765 | ≈1765-01-01 | My known fondness for Agriculture and Manufactures, has given many Opportunitys, which I have... |
22 | Sewall, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 5 October 1765 | 1765-10-05 | The Bearers John Oliver and Michael Nagail are indicted of the ignominious narrow-Soul’d Crime of... |
23 | Cooper, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Cooper, 18 December 1765 | 1765-12-18 | Boston, 18 December 1765. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John... |
24 | Sons of Liberty | Adams, John | To John Adams from the Sons of Liberty, 5 February 1766 | 1766-02-05 | You doubtless and every American must be Sensible, that where there is a Union happily... |
25 | Crafts, Thomas Jr. | Adams, John | To John Adams from Thomas Crafts Jr., 15 February 1766 | 1766-02-15 | Yesterday I wrote you a few Lines by Docr. Tuffts informing you the Sons of Liberty Desired your... |
26 | Sewall, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 11 March 1767 | 1767-03-11 | 11 March 1767. Enclosed in a letter from JA to Hezekiah Niles (5 Feb. 1819, LbC , Adams Papers ).... |
27 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 September 1767 | 1767-09-13 | The Doctor talks of Setting out tomorrow for New Braintree. I did not know but that he might... |
28 | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 21 February 1771 | 1771-02-21 | I have very little of a political, or of any other kind of entertainment to give you. Yet I... |
29 | Macaulay, Catharine | Adams, John | To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 19 July 1771 | 1771-07-19 | A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe... |
30 | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 3 September 1771 | 1771-09-03 | I have just returned from an agreable excursion, in the course of which I had the pleasure of... |
31 | Whipple, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Whipple, 13 February 1772 | 1772-02-13 | Portsmouth, 13 February 1772. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr. at Boston... |
32 | Freeman, Nathaniel | Adams, John | To John Adams from Nathaniel Freeman, 4 October 1772 | 1772-10-04 | Sandwich, 4 October 1772. RC ( MiU-C ); addressed to John Adams in Boston; endorsed. Freeman... |
33 | Adams, Samuel | Adams, John | II. Samuel Adams to John Adams, 22 February 1773 | 1773-02-22 | If you have had Leisure to commit your Thoughts to writing agreable to my Request I shall be... |
34 | Hawley, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 30 June 1773 | 1773-06-30 | The letter inclosed herewith contains My Answer to the young Gentn. you was pleased recommend Me... |
35 | Macaulay, Catharine | Adams, John | To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, August 1773 | ≈1773-08-01 | I was very sorry to find by your favor of the 19 of Aprill that you had so many good reasons to... |
36 | Wilson, Thomas | Adams, John | Adams Elected to Membership in Supporters of the Bill … | 1773-09-21 | In pursuance of a Resolution of this Society, I am to signify to you that you have this Day been... |
37 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, John | To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 11 October 1773 | 1773-10-11 | MS ( Adams Papers ) in the hand of Mercy (Otis) Warren. This unsigned poem was doubtless an... |
38 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 December 1773 | 1773-12-30 | Alass! How many snow banks devide thee and me and my warmest wishes to see thee will not melt one... |
39 | Warren, James | Adams, John | To John Adams from James Warren, 3 January 1774 | 1774-01-03 | I Received your last and am to Acknowledge that the Contents of it gave me great pleasure. I have... |
40 | Dilly, Edward | Adams, John | To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 4 March 1774 | 1774-03-04 | The Letters you sent for Mrs. Macaulay directed, under Cover, for me, were put into the Post... |
41 | Woodfall, William | Adams, John | To John Adams from William Woodfall, 12 March 1774 | 1774-03-12 | As the Affairs of AMERICA are now agitating in both Houses of the English Parliament, and as it... |
42 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, John | Mercy Otis Warren to John and Abigail Adams, 17 May … | 1774-05-17 | Mr. Warren being prevented by many Avocations from writing this Morning, has put the pen into the... |
43 | Nicolson, Mary | Adams, John | To John Adams from Mary Nicolson, 26 May 1774 | 1774-05-26 | I have this moment been enformd that You and a Number of Worthy Gentlemen, have been Honorably... |
44 | Williams, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 28 June 1774 | 1774-06-28 | We yesterday received your Letter directed to us, with those for Braintree, immediately on the... |
45 | Warren, James | Adams, John | To John Adams from James and Mercy Otis Warren, 14 July … | 1774-07-14 | Yours of the 25th. of last month never reached me, till yesterday. It would have given me great... |
46 | Hill, Edward | Adams, John | To John Adams from Edward Hill, 19 July 1774 | 1774-07-19 | This may serve to apologize for so ungenteel a piece of Conduct as the carrying away a Sum of... |
47 | Hawley, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 25 July 1774 | 1774-07-25 | I never recd. nor heard of your letter of the 27th June last, Wrote at Ipswich until the 22d... |
48 | Williams, Jonathan | Adams, John | To John Adams from Jonathan Williams, 25 July 1774 | 1774-07-25 | Your Letter was this Day delivered to me in the office. Your obliging thanks for my duty gives me... |
49 | Hill, Edward | Adams, John | To John Adams from Edward Hill, 29 July 1774 | 1774-07-29 | Nothing could induce me to keep alive the remembrance of an affair which you will easily believe... |
50 | Hawley, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, August 1774 | ≈1774-08-01 | “We must fight , if we can’t otherwise rid ourselves of British taxation, all revenues, and the... |