1Toast to John Adams, 4 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
July 4, 1824
2From John Adams to John Jay, 4 July 1823 (Adams Papers)
Quincy, Mass. July 4, 1823
3From John Adams to Benjamin Owen Tyler, 19 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your favour from Richmond of July 4 I cannot write long letters.
4From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 30 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious entertaining & valuable oration pronounced by you on the 4 July before the Salem charitable Mechanic association. I have read it with great pleasure as I have all the orations which have been sent me this year. I have been much affected with the remarkable uniformity of principles & sentiments...
5From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 8 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
...most amiable gentleman, whose name is Vanderkemp; another from Mr Jefferson; another from Dr Rush; and others from some other persons unnecessary to be named at present. It would have given me great pleasure to have celebrated the 4th. of July with the government and people in Boston, but palsey nerves, and purblind eyes, feeble knee
6From John Adams to Joseph E. Sprague, 4 August 1821 (Adams Papers)
I owe you many thanks for the present of an ingenious, entertaining and valuable oration, pronounced by you on the 4th of July, before the Salem Charitable Mechanic Association. I have read it with great pleasure, as 1 have all the orations which have been sent me this year. I have been much affected with the remarkable uniformity of principles and...
7John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Aug. 1819 and so recorded in , 21 July. TJ’s letter of 9 July 1819
8John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
; endorsed by TJ as received 23 July 1822 and so recorded in , 11 July. : Adams Papers); dated 10 July 1822. are killed by bears (Luke 15.16; Daniel 4.25, 32–3; 2 Kings 2.23).
9To James Madison from John Adams, 25 July 1818 (Madison Papers)
, 2d ed. (4 vols.; London, 1768).
10From John Adams to Caesar Augustus Rodney, 30 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
...incapable of Searching for Books or dates—and my memory may not be depended upon—but according to my recollection the question of the Declaration of Independence was decided in a Committee of the whole house on the 2d. of July. They made their report but that report was not decided on in Congress—Congress chose to meditate on the subject another night and made the subject the order ...July...