20241From John Adams to James Monroe, 3 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Will you please to accept a morsel of rusty Antiquity, which I know you cannot and ought not to be read, because your time is imperiously demanded for occupations more important to your Country and Mankind, as well as to yourself. Your learned, and Ingenious Son-in Law Mr Hay, may possibly have a curiosity to look into it—to him I pray you to present my Respectful Complements.— And believe me...
20242From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 5 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your congratulations and kind wishes, the accomplishment of them is on high where I rejoice that it is— Dennis de Brett was a Merchant in London and a dessenter Esteemed among the Protestant Dessenters for which reason I suppose he was appointed Agent - he never gave any proofs of talents or influence - indeed he had none of the latter at Court, nor with the public, nor any...
20243To John Adams from John Marston, 5 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
To receive the approbation of the wise and the good.—To know that we are beloved and esteemed by those whom we respect and regard, are among the sweetest intellectual blessings, the human heart and mind are capable of enjoying. What then must have been my feelings my dear and venerable friend when Lieut Govr Phillips read to me, your excellent letter to him, in which you so kindly, & so...
20244To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 7 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Three long and dangerous illnesses within the last 12. months must apologise for my long silence towards you. The paper bubble is then burst. this is what you & I, and every reasoning man, seduced by no obliquity of mind, or interest, have long foreseen. yet it’s disastrous effects are not the less for having been foreseen. we were laboring under a dropsical fulness of circulating medium....
20245To John Adams from Thomas Herttell, 11 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Though I have not the pleasure of being personally acquainted with you, my knowledge of your exalted character, leads me to believe, you will pardon the liberty I have taken to request your acceptance of the accompanying pamphlet entitled “An expose of the causes of intemperate drinking, and the means by which it may be obviated”—Should it hereafter be deemed worthy of a second edition, I will...
20246To John Adams from David Sewall, 13 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your Communication of the 11th. ultimo (altho’ by an amanuensis) was very gratifying.—I was led to suppose, & stil think it probable that our classmate Whittemore has some time since passed off the stage of human life; as I read in a News Paper a year or two since, among Obituary Notices, that of William Whittemore of Cambridge Æ. 80.—and also in the last University Cattaloge of H.C. a Strar...
20247From John Adams to John Farmer, 17 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I regret extremely the loss of your Memoire’s of Billerica which must have failed in the Post Office—because I have a great curiosity to see some what of the History of that Colony—the Thompson’s Bracketts and Adams’s which Migrated so early from Mount Wollaston to Billerica Chelmsford and New-hamsphire—I have a Strong ambition to Support a claim for Mount Wollaston for the honor of being the...
20248From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 17 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I inclose you a letter from Judge Sewall-and an anecdote of your Hero—He had intervals of Sound reason, and strong memory—his Paroxysm’s of Insanity appeared principally at the full, and change of the Moon—at least so it appeared to me and many others—and if we were not deceived by a Book of Dr Mead’s upon the Influence of those luminary’s upon the human mind and body which were then...
20249From John Adams to Robert Walsh, Jr., 17 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have now read, and have heard read, the whole of your Volume—and I cannot refrain from repeating my thanks, not only for the Present—but for the great public Nationall service you have performed, in the Compilation and Composition of it.—it is the most able, the most faithful, and the most ample apology for the United States—at the same time the gravest and best supported indictment against...
20250From John Adams to Thomas Hertell, 18 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I pray you to accept of my best thanks for your kind letter of November 11th—And for a most precious present—your Expose of the Causes of Intemperate drinking, and the means by which it may be obviated, is one of the best Pamphlets I ever read, with a knowledge of the World, an accuracy of observation, and a sagacity in Estimating Men, and things.—You have developed the causes of National...