11James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 22 March 1828 (Madison Papers)
Your favour of the 29th. Ult: accompanying the little packet for Mrs. Madison from Mr. Hughes, was duly recd., and she wishes you to be assured of her particular sensibility to your polite attention. The article in question did not, according to any suggestions of her memory, merit the friendly solicitude felt by Mr. Hughes: but the obligations to him are not the less on that account. As you...
12From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 9 December 1827 (Madison Papers)
I return my thanks for the copy of your Message to Congress on the 3d. instant. Its very able view of blessings which distinguish our favored country is very gratifying: And the feelings inspired by our own condition find an expanded scope in the meliorations infused into that of all other people, by a progress of reason & truth, in the merit of which we may justly claim a share. With the...
13From John Quincy Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 1826 (Adams Papers)
Pay to J. Q. Adams or Bearer Order, Two hundred and ninety Dolls. 20 cts. 290 Dolls. 20 cts. MHi : Adams Papers.
14From John Quincy Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 1826 (Adams Papers)
Received of the Executors of the Will of John Adams, the sum of two hundred and ninety dollars and 20 Cents, by a Check of the said Executors, on the Cashier of the U.S. Branch Bank here, being the amount of an Order of W. S. Smith, one of the Devisees, named in said Will, in favour of Benjamin L. Lear, Attorney to the Baron Hyde de Neuville, and by the said Lear endorsed payable to my Order....
15From James Madison to John Quincy Adams, 20 December 1826 (Madison Papers)
The copy of your Message to Congress transmitted under your cover, having arrived during an absence at our University from which I am but just returned, a regretted delay has taken place in acknowledging the favor. I now offer my thanks for it, with an expression of the due sense I have of the increased interest given to the topics embraced in the Communication, by the eloquent and impressive...
16From Josiah, III Quincy to John Quincy Adams, 13 December 1826 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to subjoin a transcript of our account as exion closed by me at the United States Bank, on the 1st. Inst. conformably to the terms acceded to in your last letter. The balance, which I have drawn out as below by virtue of the authority above specified, I hold myself responsible to pay to the Executors, at three days notice, on demand, either in the whole, or in part, with...
17From Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 November 1826 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed letter from President Kirkland to me was received yesterday, though dated the 20th. A letter from the City of Washington might have reached me in nearly the same time. My reply to the President is enclosed for your perusal, and approbation if you think it entitled, and for your correction if you think it requires any. Having been present when the address was delivered, before the...
18From John Quincy Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 November 1826 (Adams Papers)
Received of the Executors of the last Will of John Adams, by an order, on the Cashier of the United States Branch Bank, Boston, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and nine dollars eighty cents, being the amount of three Orders, from William S. Smith, one of the Devisees, named in the said last Will—of which orders, one for 1488 dollars three Cents is in my favour, for payment of dues due...
19From Thomas Greenleaf to John Quincy Adams, 6 November 1826 (Adams Papers)
Voted, in compliance with a proposition made by President Adams, that the Supervisors of the Adams Temple and School Fund, be a Committee, authorised and empowered, in behalf of the Parish, to conclude with President Adams, an agreement in writing, by Indenture or otherwise, whereby at his expense, a Vault or Tomb may be constructed under the Stone Temple to be erected for the use of the...
20From Lemuel Brackett to John Quincy Adams, 6 November 1826 (Adams Papers)
Voted unanimously That the town in their corporate capacity acceed to the proposition made by President Adams through the Supervisors of the Adams Temple & School Fund. Voted That Hon Thomas Greenleaf, Hon Josiah Quincy, Hon Thomas Boylston Adams, Edward Miller Esqr. & George W Beale Esqr. Supervisors of the Adams Temple & School Fund, be fully authorised & impowered in behalf of the town, to...