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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 … | 1825-12-01 | I thank you for your kind Letters I agree with you that we can never be thankful enough for the... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 … | 1825-02-24 | The events of this month, have been to me almost overwhelming. They have excited my sensibility... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 11 … | 1824-03-11 | I sincerely sympathise & condole with you in the Death of your Daughter in Law, such losses are... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 27 … | 1823-11-27 | “Where Adams from a noisy world withdrew Sick of Glory faction, power & pride Sure judge how... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 … | 1823-03-07 | In one of your letters if I remember right, you expressed a desire to see my letters to Mr.... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 28 … | 1823-02-28 | In your last Letter you requested copies of my Letters to Dr. Price. They are inclosed— These... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 … | 1823-02-24 | In your last letter you request copies of my letters to Dr Price. They are inclosed. These... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 21 … | 1823-02-21 | How deeply I thank you. Our Quincy Library will be honord with the name of Vanderkemp. Virgil and... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 4 … | 1823-02-04 | Thanks for the renewed testimony of your friendship in your kind letter of the 20th.— If JQ. or... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 … | 1823-02-01 | Thanks for the renewed testimony of your letter of the 20th frindship and your kind letter of the... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 … | 1823-01-03 | A friend in need, is a friend indeed; you must certainly have read Shakespear, and have learnt... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 … | 1822-01-02 | I have transmitted to Mr. Quincy, extracts from two of your letters, relative to the name and... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 13 … | 1821-12-13 | The unexpected Visit of Judge Smith to my Cottage, was highly interesting, and acceptable—and I... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 30 … | 1821-05-30 | In Answer to your kind favour of the 21st. I have had a very feeble Winter and am Still afflicted... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 12 … | 1821-02-12 | I owe you a letter or two I believe, and my Conscience smites me for the neglect,—and my daring... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 … | 1820-10-10 | I thank you for your Letter of the 3d. October and the Seeds inclosed, which my Son will use to... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 … | 1820-07-08 | If you may not murmur when you approach seventy, surely I ought not when I approach ninety; and... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 … | 1820-03-16 | I thank you for your favour of the first of the Month—We have had for some time, no subject of... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 … | 1820-02-15 | It is a custom on the Demise of Princes for all classes of Men in Society to present to the... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 … | 1820-02-15 | I wrote you this Morning before I received your delightful letter of the 7th. which has opened a... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 29 … | 1819-12-29 | I have two kind letters from you to acknowledge one of the 9th September, and one of the 20th.... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 25 … | 1819-09-25 | The information in your last letter, of your return to your garden and your records has given me... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 21 … | 1819-08-21 | Your favour of the Sixth of July has afflicted me. My Minister Mr Whitney lately told Us, what I... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 24 … | 1819-06-24 | Pray tell me how you apply the sublimate Murcury for the cure of externally and internally of... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 … | 1819-06-23 | Pray tell me how you apply the sublimate murcury for the cure external’y and internally of weak... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 … | 1819-05-20 | I see by your favour of May 10th that we must all grow Old—but you have not yet experienced one... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 … | 1819-04-16 | I have recd. your kind favour of the 4th. of March and thank you for your kind rememberance of... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 … | 1818-11-15 | I cannot answer your two last Letters. Of Thomas Adams I know nothing; except that a Man of that... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 … | 1818-10-02 | As Misery is Said to derive Some consolation from the Misery of others; your Letter of 18. Septr.... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 22 … | 1818-08-22 | I thank you for your favour of the 16th. My Health is that of the quivering Flame over the dying... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 … | 1818-03-10 | I Sincerely condole with you in the loss of your Friends Walker Wislar and Bray. I Sincerely... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 … | 1818-02-10 | James Otis Counsellor, Colonel &c &c &c Said to me Some fifty or Sixty years ago “John; when I... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 … | 1817-12-10 | I rejoice in all your Felicities described in your favour of 29th. Nov. What a Contrast between... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 … | 1817-10-01 | Mr J. A Smiths appointment was not by J. Q. A but by the President “Sancte Socrate ora pro nobis”... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 … | 1817-06-23 | Your kind Letter of the 8th. and the enclosed Biography have been read with all the interest... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 … | 1817-02-07 | Your favour of 24th. Janry. is received. Inclosed is your Basanister and a Monthly Repository,... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 27 … | 1816-12-27 | I do declare that I can write Greek better than you do, though I cannot Say, So well as you can,... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 … | 1816-11-20 | I believe I must endorse you over, or rather bequeath you as a Legacy to The Philosopher of... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 … | 1816-10-23 | Your Letter of the 16th. would occupy me for 12 months, when I know not that I have 12 days to... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 … | 1816-09-16 | Do you think Basanistes, would bear Publication in this Country? Would an Edition of it, do good... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 14 … | 1816-08-14 | Thanks for your third of Aug.—Griefs upon Griefs! Disappointments upon Disappointments! All is... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 16 … | 1816-07-16 | The Old Folk, returning last Evening from an Airing which has become daily necessary for both, to... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 … | 1816-05-26 | As I stand in great need of a Casuist in Phylosophy, Morality and Christianity; to whom Should I... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 … | 1816-03-02 | At the hazard of the little Vision that is left me I have read your Travels in the Wilderness... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 … | 1816-02-05 | Your favours of November and January have not been acknowledged. The Politiques de Pous les... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 10 … | 1815-11-10 | May your anticipations of another Visit to Quincy be reallised! Much good may your Theological... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 … | 1815-09-03 | Your affecting favour of 16. Aug. is before me. The natural bent of my mind has the honour to... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 13 … | 1815-07-13 | I have read D’Argens’s Ocellus, Timæus and Julian. Instead of being Sincere he appears to me to... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 20 … | 1815-05-20 | Can you and will you be So good as to give me any information concerning a Work intitled “Le... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 … | 1815-04-08 | I forgot in my last the most brilliant Topick, of all that splendid Phenomenon in the female... |