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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas … | 1785-05-29 | Our Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, in a Letter of 13. Ap. informs me, that he wrote Us a... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Franklin and Jefferson, 20 June 1785 | 1785-06-20 | Let me request of you, to turn your Attention as soon as possible to the Subject of a Treaty of... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Franklin and Jefferson, 29 May 1785 | 1785-05-29 | Our Secretary of State for foreign affairs, in a Letter of 13. Ap. informs me, that he wrote Us a... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Franklin and Jefferson, 20 March 1785 | 1785-03-20 | According to your desire I went early this morning to Versailles and finding the Ct. de Vergennes... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas … | 1785-06-03 | I have now the honour to inform you that having shewn my Commission to the Right Honourable the... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Franklin and Jefferson, 20 June 1785 | 1785-06-20 | Westminster, London, 20 June 1785 . Acknowledges their letter of 15 June; agrees “entirely … in... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson … | 1785-03-20 | According to your desire, I went early this Morning to Versailles, and finding the Count de... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1787 | 1787-09-06 | I am Sorry to give you the trouble of this Commission: but I fear it will not be effectually done... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 August 1813 | 1813-08-09 | I believe I told you in my last , that I had given you all in Lindseys Memoirs, than that... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 1 December 1825 | 1825-12-01 | I ought not to have neglected so long to write you an account of the delightful visit I received... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December 1813 | 1813-12-25 | Answer my Letters at your Leisure. Give yourself no concern. I write as for a refuge and... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 December 1816 | 1816-12-12 | I return the Analysis of Dupuis with my thanks for the loan of it. It is but a faint Miniature of... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1820 | 1820-02-21 | Was you ever acquainted with Dugald Stuart —before I left France I received a letter from... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 May 1786 | 1786-05-23 | I am honoured with yours of the 11 th. with the enclosures from M r Lamb, M r Carmichael and M r... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 25 June 1813 | 1813-06-25 | your favour of the 15 th came to me yesterday, and it is a pleasure to discover that We are only... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 | 1816-05-06 | Neither Eyes Fingers or Paper held out, to dispatch all the Trifles I wished to write in my last... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1785 | 1785-05-27 | I found that either the Duke of Dorsetts Letter to the Premier, had produced an order at Dover or... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1815 | 1815-11-13 | The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 January 1787 | 1787-01-25 | I have received your Letters of December 20. and Jan. 11. by Coll. Franks. The whole of the... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1814 | 1814-12-11 | The Bearer of this Letter, after an Education at our Cambridge, travelled with J. Q. A. to... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 March 1823 | 1823-03-10 | The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 22 July 1813 | 1813-07-22 | Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says “As you were pleased... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 | 1819-07-28 | I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 December 1787 | 1787-12-06 | The Project of a new Constitution, has Objections against it, to which I find it difficult to... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1813 | 1813-06-28 | It is very true that “the denunciations of the Priesthood are fulminated against every Advocate... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 11 September 1785 | 1785-09-11 | In answer to your enquiry in your letter of the 4th. inst. I can only say that I knew Mr. Matzei... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1826 | 1826-01-14 | Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance, a young Lawyer by the name of Josiah Quincy, and... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 June 1812 | 1812-06-28 | I know not what, unless it were the Prophet of Tippacanoe , had turned my Curiosity to inquiries... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1819 | 1819-01-29 | If I am not humble I ought to be, when I find myself under the necessity of borrowing a juvenile... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 7 August 1785 | 1785-08-07 | As to the Cask of Wine at Auteuil, it is not paid for. If you will pay for it and take it, you... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 November 1824 | 1824-11-15 | Your friend Professor Ticknor is bound upon a Tour in Virginia, though he needs no introduction... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 September 1813 | 1813-09-14 | I owe you a thousand thanks for your favour of Aug. 22 and its Enclosures, and for Dr Priestley’s... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 February 1786 | 1786-02-25 | Give me Leave to introduce to you Mr. Samuel Hartley a Relation of the late Minister at Paris. He... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1785 | 1785-12-13 | I have received a Letter from my Friend General Warren of Milton Hill near Boston, acquainting... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1786 | 1786-07-03 | Yours of the 23 of June is come to hand, with a Copy of M r Lamb’s of 6 June from Aranjuez. There... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 | 1819-07-21 | I am greatly obliged to you for your Letter of the 9 th It has entirely convinced me that the... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 4 November 1785 | 1785-11-04 | Mr. Preston has at last found and sent me your Letter. Dr. Bancroft spoke to me, about Commodore... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1813 | 1813-05-29 | To leave the Pettifogger of Funivals Inn, or Cliffords Inn, his Archbishop Laud, and his... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1818 | 1818-12-08 | Your Letter of Nov. 13 gave me great delight not only by the divine Consolation it afforded me... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 5 November 1785 | 1785-11-05 | The Chevalier de Pinto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, from Portugal, after a... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1820 | 1820-01-20 | When Harris was returned a Member of Parliament a Friend introduced him to Chesterfield whom he... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 1813 | 1813-06-10 | In your Letter to D r Priestley of March 21. 1801 , you ask “What an Effort, of Bigotry in... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 6 June 1786 | 1786-06-06 | Yesterday I received your Favour of 30. May with its Inclosures. You have Since that day no doubt... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1821 | 1821-02-03 | I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge volumes of... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1812 | 1812-05-01 | Yesterday, I received from the Post Office, under an envellope inscribed with your hand, but... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1785 | 1785-07-24 | I have a Letter from the Baron D e Thulemeier of the 19 th. and a Copy of his Letter to you of... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1812 | 1812-05-03 | I wrote you on the first of this month acknowledging the receipt of your “Proceedings” &c and now... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 1814 to 3 … | ≈1814-02-01 | I was nibbling my pen and brushing my Faculties, to write a polite Letter of Thanks to Mr... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 3 June 1785 | 1785-06-03 | I have now the Honour to inform you, that having shewn my Commission to the Right Honourable the... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 16 September 1787 | 1787-09-16 | Give me Leave to introduce to you Mr. John Brown Cutting, who will need no other Recommendation,... |