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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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3931 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 August 1812 | 1812-08-19 | The History of Queen Ann’s reign and of the Treaty of Utrecht is So instructive, that it is worth... |
3932 | Adams, John | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 … | 1823-03-06 | As I consider y’r ladyship as always imprison’d during a session of Congress I congratulate you... |
3933 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 29 June 1799 | 1799-06-29 | Last night I received your favor of the 22d. and rejoice to find you have received dispatches... |
3934 | Adams, John | Sunday April 27th. 1766. | 1766-04-27 | Heard Mr. Smith. In the Evening, I had a great deal of Conversation with Ezekiel Price, Yesterday... | |
3935 | Adams, John | Hosack, David | From John Adams to David Hosack, 23 May 1821 | 1821-05-23 | I have received the letter you did me the honour to write me on the 17th: of this month. I am... |
3936 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 February 1781 | 1781-02-12 | I received to day, your Favour of 11. You may purchase L’Art Dramatique, alone if you please. But... |
3937 | Adams, John | Jay, John | From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 27 … | 1779-02-27 | By the new Arrangement, which was brought by the Marquis de la Fayette I find myself restored to... |
3938 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 June 1817 | 1817-06-04 | Your pathetic Letter of the 2d. has filled my heart with Sympathy and Grief. Your Son, by all... |
3939 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 January 1797 | 1797-01-28 | It is now determined what the President has to depend on after the 4 th March. The Committee... |
3940 | Adams, John | [Fragmentary Draft of a Dissertation on Canon and … | ≈1765-02-01 | This Sodality has given rise to the following Speculation of my own, which I commit to writing,... | |
3941 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 April 1776 | 1776-04-18 | I thank you for your agreable Letter of the Twenty fourth of March. I rejoice with you that our... |
3942 | Adams, John | United States Congress | From John Adams to United States Congress, 12 February … | 1798-02-12 | In obedience to the Law, I now present to both Houses of Congress, my annual account of... |
3943 | Adams, John | Cranch, Richard | John Adams to Richard Cranch, 24 March 1786 | 1786-03-24 | In yours of the 10th. of Novr. you desire me to give you the Connection between the Premises and... |
3944 | Adams, John | Tudor, William, Sr. | From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 30 July 1818 | 1818-07-30 | Another Passage, which Mr Otis read from Ashley gave Occasion, as I suppose, to another memorable... |
3945 | Adams, John | Adams, Charles | John Adams to Charles Adams, 12 October 1792 | 1792-10-12 | I congratulate you on your Admission to the Bar and your taking Possession of an Office in So... |
3946 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy, Jr. | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, Jr., 29 January … | 1800-01-29 | The President of the United States refers the inclosed law of Tennessee, and letter from the... |
3947 | Adams, John | Hobart, Aaron | From John Adams to Aaron Hobart, 25 December 1823 | 1823-12-25 | I am under great obligation to you for the Presidents message, & for the Documents of the War... |
3948 | Adams, John | [February 21. Saturday. 22. Sunday, and 23. Monday] | ≈1778-02-21 | February 21. Saturday. 22. Sunday, and 23. Monday Monday exhibited such Scaenes as were new to... | |
3949 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1794 | 1794-12-02 | I have rec d your favour of Nov. 23.— M r Cooper The Friend of our Diplomatic at the Hague, I... |
3950 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 4 … | 1811-09-04 | I have Sent to The Post Office this Morning, your Diploma, as Member of our Accademy. How many... |
3951 | Adams, John | Jay, John | From John Adams to John Jay, 4 May 1785 | 1785-05-04 | The day before Yesterday I received the Letter you did me the Honour to write me on the... |
3952 | Adams, John | [August 1762] | 1762-08-15 | Reading, Thinking, Writing—have I totally renounced all three? Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur... | |
3953 | Adams, John | Trumbull, John | From John Adams to John Trumbull, 6 February 1805 | 1805-02-06 | Colonel Humphreys and Col Tudor did me the honor of a Visit on Saturday and We had much... |
3954 | Adams, John | Guild, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Guild, 9 April 1783 | 1783-04-09 | I have rec d. your favor of Dec r. 3 d , & thank You for the Register, Catalogue & Pamphlet,... |
3955 | Adams, John | William V, Prince of Orange and Stadholder of the … | Memorial to William V, Prince of Orange, 25 January … | 1788-01-25 | The subscriber, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United states of America has the Honour to... |
3956 | Adams, John | Stoddert, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 5 June 1799 | 1799-06-05 | Inclosed are recommendations of Joseph Williston & Habijah Savage, to be midshipman to whom I... |
3957 | Adams, John | Lee, Arthur | From John Adams to Arthur Lee, 6 September 1785 | 1785-09-06 | I received Yesterday your Favour of 27. July. and wish it were in my Power to relieve your... |
3958 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 15 … | 1808-08-15 | You have puzzled and confounded me, by your Letter of the 3 of Aug.—After allarming me with Some... |
3959 | Adams, John | Marshall, John | From John Adams to John Marshall, 13 August 1800 | 1800-08-13 | In answer to yours of the 2d I have agreed to the appointment of Major David Hopkins to be... |
3960 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 3 October 1798 | 1798-10-03 | Inclosed is a Duplicate of a Letter from Miranda with some Estimates. Read it and think of it. A... |
3961 | Adams, John | 1780 January 8. Saturday. | 1780-01-08 | Rode from San Juan Segun, to Paredese de Nava. We have passed thro a Village every League. The... | |
3962 | Adams, John | Guest, Henry | From John Adams to Henry Guest, 5 September 1809 | 1809-09-05 | Your Grand Daughter writes so beautiful a hand that you need not be at a loss for an Amanuensis.... |
3963 | Adams, John | [Shakespeare’s Characters and Figurative Language … | ≈1758-10-01 | Shakespeare, in the Character of Lady Mackbeth, and of Gertrude, the Wife of old Hamlet, and... | |
3964 | Adams, John | Binon, J.B. | From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 7 February 1819 | 1819-02-07 | I have received your polite favour of the 3d: of this month. I am afraid that you are engaged in... |
3965 | Adams, John | Phillips, William, Jr. | From John Adams to William Phillips, Jr., 1 November … | 1819-11-01 | Mr John Marston has requested me to write your Honour on a Subject in which I am very sensible I... |
3966 | Adams, John | 1772. Feby. 2d. Sunday. | 1772-02-02 | Have omitted now for 3 months almost to keep any “Note of Time or of its Loss.” Thomas Newcomb... | |
3967 | Adams, John | Warren, Mercy Otis | From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 6 May 1785 | 1785-05-06 | My Son would go home, very improperly without a Letter to M rs Warren, whose Virtues and... |
3968 | Adams, John | Vaughan, John | From John Adams to John Vaughan, 25 September 1815 | 1815-09-25 | I know not by what right or colour of right, I address you: but as the World agrees that you are... |
3969 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 | 1762-10-04 | By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give... |
3970 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 February … | 1805-02-19 | When I wrote you a line of Acknowledgment for your Lecture upon Tobacco, I kept no Copy of it,... |
3971 | Adams, John | Hitchcock, Daniel | From John Adams to Daniel Hitchcock, 24 August 1776 | 1776-08-24 | Yours of the Twenty Second is before me. You mention, the Delicacy of appointing, an Officer of... |
3972 | Adams, John | U.S. Cabinet | From John Adams to U.S. Cabinet, 15 May 1800 | 1800-05-15 | The President requests the Several heads of Departments to take the most prudent and oeconomical... |
3973 | Adams, John | Huntington, Samuel | From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 62, 8 … | 1780-05-08 | Paris, 8 May 1780. RC ( PCC , No. 84, II, f. 23–26). LbC in John Thaxter’s hand( Adams Papers ).... |
3974 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1779 | 1779-02-28 | I suppose I must write every day, in order to keep or rather to restore good Humour, whether I... |
3975 | Adams, John | De Windt, John Peter | From John Adams to John Peter De Windt, 1 May 1817 | 1817-05-01 | You would be pleased to See the pretty Figure your Peach Trees and Cherry Trees make in my... |
3976 | Adams, John | 1780. January 14. Fryday. | 1780-01-14 | Rode from Ezpexo to Orduña, four Leagues. The Road is made all the Way, at a great Expence, but... | |
3977 | Adams, John | Delaplaine, Joseph | From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 12 March 1822 | 1822-03-12 | I thank you kindly for the Portrate of Mr Jay, which I very much admire, it is a great likeness... |
3978 | Adams, John | McKean, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas McKean, 24 September 1813 | 1813-09-24 | If I am committing an indiscretion, I hope you will pardon it. The Reverend Mr Henry Colman of... |
3979 | Adams, John | Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de | Enclosure: Draft of Peace Negotiation Articles, 13 July … | 1781-07-13 | Answer of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, to the Articles to serve... |
3980 | Adams, John | Cerisier, Antoine Marie | From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 19 August … | 1782-08-19 | I dare not venture to send the Comte’s Manuscript. If You will come here, You shall have the use... |