14341Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Following the favorable reception of his 1787–1788 work, A Defence of the Constitutions of...
14342John Adams’ Discourses on Davila, No. 33, [ca. 16 March 1791] (Adams Papers)
Discourses on Davila. N. 33. It seems by the Discourse of Boetius, that there was a strong...
14343To John Adams from Amicus, 29 April 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have ever considered the Assumption of the State Debts by Congress, as a measure necessarily...
14344To John Adams from Eliphalet Fitch, 10 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
Since writing you, on the 7 h. Instant, by this Conveyance I have delivered to Capt n. Peters, of...
14345To John Adams from Joseph Hague, 13 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
I hope you will pardon me for my presunption to you, but the Subject being so Interesting to the...
14346To John Adams from Thomas Crafts, Jr., 17 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
I recieved yours of april 4 th and should have wrote sooner but thought it best to wait sometime...
14347From John Adams to Oliver Whipple, 18 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
With much pleasure I received your favour of the 26. of April: it brought fresh to my Memory the...
14348From John Adams to William Ellery, 19 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favor of the 13 th , as I did that of march in due season— One wishes to be...
14349From John Adams to Benjamin Lincoln, 19 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have duly received but not duly answered your favor of April 3 d . It is a misfortune that a...
14350From John Adams to William Smith, 20 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your agreable favour of the 24 th of April, was brought to me in season and I thank you for it;...
14351From John Adams to Thomas Crafts, Jr., 25 [May] 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have received with a mixture of pleasure and gloomy melancholy your favour of the 17 th. What...
14352To John Adams from Thomas Brand Hollis, 28 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
Having an opportunity of writing by M r Rutledge I embrace it with great pleasure to convey to...
14353To John Adams from Bartholomew Burges, 29 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
Sir, You did me the honor the winter before last to subscribe to a little Astronomical essay of...
14354To John Adams from Henry Marchant, 29 May 1790 (Adams Papers)
’tis done,—’tis done— The Constitution this Day was adopted by Our State Convention, by a...
14355From John Adams to Thomas Brand Hollis, 1 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Nothing mortifies me more than the difficulty I find to maintain that correspondence with you...
14356From John Adams to Alexander Jardine, 1 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I take the opportunity by General Mansell to acknowledge the receipt of your polite letter of the...
14357From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 1 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your obliging Letter of the 29. Ult. was brought to me Yesterday at my house, and as there...
14358To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 3 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I inclosed You a few days ago a parcel of printed papers some of which I conceived might contain...
14359To John Adams from John Trumbull, 5 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Since I had the honor of receiving yours of April 25 th. , my time has been wholly taken up in...
14360To John Adams from Joseph Willard, 8 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing a petition to the National Legislature, from the Convention of...
14361From John Adams to Thomas Brand Hollis, 11 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of March 29 th and the packet of pamphlets, and I pray you to...
14362To John Adams from William Smith, 12 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Rec t. of your esteem’d favor of the 20 Ult o. Our Gen l. Assembly are...
14363To John Adams from Jabez Bowen, 14 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I most sincearly Congratulate you on The accession of Rhode Island to the Union. by this event...
14364To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 14 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
By a vessel that sails for Boston tomorrow I inclose You the british king’s speech on the...
14365To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 16 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
I write this note just to inclose you a couple of newspapers. Such is the variable & distracted...
14366To John Adams from François D’Ivernois, 18 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Votre patience à lire le premier volume de l’histoire dont j’ai l’honneur de vous envoyer la...
14367To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 19 June 1790 (Adams Papers)
Your Excellencÿ’s favour of March 27. I received the 17̈ apr.—and was it not for a particularity...
14368To John Adams from Alexander Hamilton, 23 June [1790] (Adams Papers)
M r. Hamilton will have the honor of Dineing with the Vice President on the 30 th. of June...
14369To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 5 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
There are so many rumours concerning the present state of the dispute between Spain and Britain...
14370To John Adams from Alexander Hamilton, 5 July [1790] (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform the Vice President of the United States and to request him to inform...
14371To John Adams from David Humphreys, 8 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
On Saturday next, the President proposes to go, with M rs Washington and his family, to view the...
14372To John Adams from George Joy, 12 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
M r: Joy presents respectful Compliments to the Vice-President and takes the liberty to hand him...
14373To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 17 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
I embrace the opportunity afforded me by a vessel that sails to day for Philadelphia to send you...
14374From John Adams to Eliphalet Fitch, 18 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have received the polite and obliging Letter, you did me the honour to write me, on the Seventh...
14375To John Adams from Peter Delivet, 21 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
The first cause that the federall Court of anapolis had on there dockett, To Judge, Since Its...
14376To John Adams from Richard Varick, 21 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
The Corporation of this City have applied to the President of the United States to permit Col o....
14377From John Adams to Richard Varick, 22 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
I received Yesterday the Letter you did me the honour to write me, Soliciting Permission for M r...
14378To John Adams from C.W.F. Dumas, 23 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
Quoique je puisse & doive être certain que V e. Exc e. a régulierement connoissance de mes...
14379To John Adams from George Walton, 23 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
By some intelligencies lately from Europe, it is said that Great-Britain is zealously endeavoring...
14380From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 25 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d your favour of the 19 th — I presume your answer to M r Jefferson will be...
14381To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 26 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
As you were so obliging on saturday last as to inform me of your design to recommend my brother...
14382To John Adams from Jeremiah Allen, 29 July 1790 (Adams Papers)
When I had the Honor of being with you, a Conversation turn’d upon the Consul for Russia, I...
14383To John Adams from William Cushing, 7 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
I intended myself the pleasure of calling to pay my respects to you before leaving the city, &...
14384To John Adams from John Brown Cutting, 11 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
If ever there was a time when the volunteer exertions of a citizen of America became a duty...
14385From John Adams to Richard Varick, 12 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
It is with great pleasure, that, in obedience to an order of the Senate of the United States, I...
14386To John Adams from Sylvanus Bourne, 15 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
Observing by the Papers that you are one of the Comm rs: appointed for purchasing part of the...
14387From John Adams to Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, 19 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Ducher, a French gentleman, whom you did me the Honor to introduce to me formerly by letter,...
14388To John Adams from John Codman Jr., 27 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
Enclosed is an Account of the Cost of your two Casks of Wine & the charges which I have paid upon...
14389To John Adams from George Washington, 27 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
Being very desireous of obtaining such aids and information as will enable me to form a just...
14390From John Adams to George Washington, 29 August 1790 (Adams Papers)
That New Orleans, and the Spanish Posts on the Missisippi, will be among the first attempts of...