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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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14301 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 16 December 1815 | 1815-12-16 | Mr. J. A. Smith, Secretary to the Legation of the United States at the Court of Great Britain,... |
14302 | Adams, John Quincy | Thursday July 26th 1781. | 1781-07-26 | Nothing remarkable this day. | |
14303 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1785-12-24 | Eliza, spent the day here. Received some books from Braintree. Studied Watts’s logic, in the... | |
14304 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1786-09-17 | Mr. Hilliard preach’d in the forenoon from Isaiah V. 12. But they regard not the work of the... | |
14305 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1786-08-31 | Charles went to Boston in the morning. I began upon Trigonometry in my mathematical manuscript.... | |
14306 | Adams, John Quincy | 17th. | 1785-05-17 | Immediately after breakfast I went to Mr. Barclay’s. The wind has changed, so that we shall not... | |
14307 | Adams, John Quincy | Cranch, William | John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 17 March 1780 | 1780-03-17 | As there is a very good opportunity of writing to you by a Gentleman from South carolina who is... |
14308 | Adams, John Quincy | 7th. | 1786-10-07 | I have been studying almost all day what to write for a Forensic; the subject is so copious, that... | |
14309 | Adams, John Quincy | 21st. | 1786-09-21 | I really do not know what I have done this day. I am always sensible, that what with one trifle... | |
14310 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1785-06-18 | Our wind is still good but is almost all gone, and we have not run more than 20 or 25 leagues,... | |
14311 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 … | 1807-02-03 | I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had... |
14312 | Adams, John Quincy | Saturday May 21st. 1785. | 1785-05-21 | At 6 o’clock in the morning a person came from the Captain, to inform me that the wind was fair,... | |
14313 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August … | 1809-08-09 | Often as it has been my fortune in the course of my life, to be parted from my Parents, and... |
14314 | Adams, John Quincy | 18th. | 1788-01-18 | This afternoon I wrote a couple of letters to send by Mr. Atkins, who goes to Boston to’morrow.... | |
14315 | Adams, John Quincy | 11th. | 1786-10-11 | The Class from 9 to near twelve were reading their forensic; I read in the affirmative as... | |
14316 | Adams, John Quincy | Cranch, William | John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, 7 April 1790 | 1790-04-07 | As you were somewhat in my debt in the article of Letters, when I left Boston, I expected ere... |
14317 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Thomas Boylston | From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 5 … | 1817-12-05 | Yours of the 24th. ulto. with the draft on the Branch Bank for 3000 Dollars in received.—Messrs:... |
14318 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 24 April 1815 | 1815-04-24 | I wrote you by Mr Storrow, and by Mr Smith who left this City, with the intention of embarking in... |
14319 | Adams, John Quincy | 30th. | 1785-06-30 | The weather is very good, but the winds begin to be very variable as we approach to the term of... | |
14320 | Adams, John Quincy | 8th. | 1788-02-08 | This afternoon the delegates from Newbury, and from this town, returned home from Convention. A... | |
14321 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1807-02-06 | Your letter of 26. Jany: enclosing one to your Mamma, reached me the same day that I wrote you... |
14322 | Adams, John Quincy | 5. | 1788-10-05 | Weymouth at meeting. Dr. Tufts’s. | |
14323 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday 14. | 1780-01-14 | This morning we set away at about sun rise. We came two leagues and then went a league up hill... | |
14324 | Adams, John Quincy | 22d. | 1788-01-22 | This afternoon, Leonard White called on me; and sat about half an hour. He came from Haverhill,... | |
14325 | Adams, John Quincy | Friday July 1st. 1785. | 1785-07-01 | Calm weather all day. In the evening it began to lighten, and our thunder spire was fix’d; this... | |
14326 | Adams, John Quincy | [June 1785] | ≈1785-06-01 | Small wind. The Season for Calm weather is coming forward, and I am afraid we shall have a long... | |
14327 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1806-06-30 | You will receive I presume at the same time with this a letter from me written yesterday at... |
14328 | Adams, John Quincy | 12th. | 1788-02-12 | In the beginning of the evening I called upon Mr. Hutchinson, and look’d over his music: he plays... | |
14329 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Thomas Boylston | John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 April … | 1803-04-02 | The House of Bird, Savage and Bird have stop’d payment, and probably the bill I drew upon them... |
14330 | Adams, John Quincy | Quincy, Josiah, III | From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 5 June … | 1822-06-05 | Conformably to the suggestion in your favour of the 24th ultimo, I have written to Mr Cruft,... |
14331 | Adams, John Quincy | [October 1785] | ≈1785-10-01 | I have been arguing with myself, whether I had best continue my Journal, or break it off at... | |
14332 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 May … | 1818-05-25 | I am ashamed to find upon my file of Letters to be answered , one from you of 29. January;... |
14333 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1788-03-02 | We had no meeting at Parson Carey’s. I was employ’d in writing all the forenoon; but after... | |
14334 | Adams, John Quincy | Smith, John Adams | From John Quincy Adams to John Adams Smith, 19 June … | 1824-06-19 | The British Government have not yet consented to admit Consuls into their West India Colonies. An... |
14335 | Adams, John Quincy | [February 1786] | ≈1786-02-01 | Slept none last Night. Felt unwell all day. Went in the evening to Mr. White’s but nobody was... | |
14336 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d, 15 March 1786 | 1786-03-15 | What shall I say to justify the date of this letter, after so many fair promises to be punctual,... |
14337 | Adams, John Quincy | [24 August–2 September] | ≈1788-08-24 | Here, this journal very abruptly breaks off. I had long doubted whether the utility attending the... | |
14338 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 … | 1811-01-30 | I wrote you on the last day of the old year, Old-Style, and sent my letter under cover to Mr:... |
14339 | Adams, John Quincy | Tuesday Novr. 4th. | 1783-11-04 | This forenoon we went with Messrs. Jay, Bingham, and W. Vaughan, to see the Holophusicon, or Sir... | |
14340 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1787-12-27 | St John’s Day. An entertainment for the Society of free-Masons. In consequence of Stacey’s... | |
14341 | Adams, John Quincy | Sunday Septr. 13th. [i.e. 14th]. | 1788-09-14 | I did not sleep a wink the whole night. My nerves are in a very disagreeable state of irritation.... | |
14342 | Adams, John Quincy | 2d. | 1787-01-02 | I pass’d the evening with Mr. Andrews, at Professor Pearson’s. He is fond of music, to... | |
14343 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, John | To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 28 March 1806 | 1806-03-28 | I have two letters from you which ought to have been answered some time since, but I have only... |
14344 | Adams, John Quincy | 31st. | 1787-12-31 | In the Evening I went with Townsend, to see Miss Cazneau, and to fulfill a promise, of playing on... | |
14345 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1779 | 1779-02-16 | I have now the pleasure to acquaint you some news which will be agreable to you. Yesterday... |
14346 | Adams, John Quincy | Majus. 1783. 20me. | 1783-05-20 | Diné à Rotterdam chés Mr. Van Berkel ancien bourguemaitre de la ville, et presentement ministre... | |
14347 | Adams, John Quincy | 24th. | 1787-06-24 | Attended meeting all day. Mr. Shuttlesworth preach’d; I was much better pleased with him, than I... | |
14348 | Adams, John Quincy | 4th. Wednesday. | 1782-09-04 | This forenoon Coll. Vallentin arriv’d from Holland and brought us, letters from my Father. Mr. D... | |
14349 | Adams, John Quincy | 27th. | 1786-12-27 | Bridge went to Boston again: in the evening we went down, with Mr. Ware, and Freeman, to Judge... | |
14350 | Adams, John Quincy | Boylston, Ward Nicholas | From John Quincy Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 14 … | 1820-08-14 | I received with much concern your kind favour of the 8th instt. particularly as it mentions your... |