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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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4851 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 March 1797 | 1797-03-11 | Yesterday only I rec d yours of March 1.— am surprized you should have rec d none from me from... |
4852 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 … | 1813-01-23 | Your favour of Dec. 7 is not lost nor forgotten. Oh! that my Situation in Life would permit me to... |
4853 | Adams, John | Stoddert, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Stoddert, 6 August 1800 | 1800-08-06 | Inclosed is a letter from Capt Seymour Potter of Boston with recommendations from several... |
4854 | Adams, John | Sunday. Ap. 23. | 1786-04-23 | Heard Dr. Priestley at Mr. Linseys in Essex Street. Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808) , minister of... | |
4855 | Adams, John | Burtsell, Peter | From John Adams to Peter Burtsell, 12 December 1821 | 1821-12-12 | It is my duty to thank you for Lucon—it is entertaining and instructive enough to be an Antidote... |
4856 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1800 | 1800-06-13 | I rec d your favour of the 2 d by M r Dexter and this morning from M r Gerry an account of your... |
4857 | Adams, John | Wednesday June 26th: 1771. | 1771-06-26 | Yesterday I had a good deal of Conversation with Judge Trowbridge. He seems alarmed about the... | |
4858 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 20 April 1798 | 1798-04-20 | I nominate Hugh West of Virginia to be Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of... |
4859 | Adams, John | Sunday [8 October]. | 1758-10-08 | Read a few Leaves in Baxters Enquiry into the Nature of the human Soul. He has explaind with... | |
4860 | Adams, John | Neufville, Jean de, & Fils (business) | From John Adams to Jean de Neufville & Fils, 24 March … | 1781-03-24 | I received last night your favour of the 22d., inclosing three Bills of Exchange which I have... |
4861 | Adams, John | Tudor, William, Jr. | From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 1 February 1823 | 1823-02-01 | From the moment when I received the your Life of James Otis, I have held in requisition my... |
4862 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 4 October 1781 | 1781-10-04 | Your Excellencys Letter of June 11. is yet unanswered. I have the Honour to agree with your... |
4863 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 2 February 1783 | 1783-02-02 | Mr Adams having Something of Consequence to communicate to the American Ministers... |
4864 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 June 1815 | 1815-06-30 | Where Shall the Begining, the Middle or the End of an oration be when the orator has nothing to... |
4865 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 31 March 1800 | 1800-03-31 | I nominate John Brooks of Massachusetts to be a Major General in the army in the place of Henry... |
4866 | Adams, John | July 28. 1796. Thursday. | 1796-07-28 | Billings and Sullivan are gone to the Beech for a Load of Seaweed to put into their Hill of... | |
4867 | Adams, John | [John Adams’ Diary resumes.] | 1789-07-15 | Mr. Carrol. The Executive Power is commensurate with the Legislative and Judicial Powers. The... | |
4868 | Adams, John | Forrest, Uriah | From John Adams to Uriah Forrest, 13 May 1799 | 1799-05-13 | I received on Saturday, your friendly letter of the 28th of April and I thank you for it. &... |
4869 | Adams, John | Barclay, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Barclay, 8 January 1785 | 1785-01-08 | In answer to your favour from Rochfort of the 25 th Ult: I may inform you, entre nous that if I... |
4870 | Adams, John | Lee, Richard Henry | From John Adams to Richard Henry Lee, 5 August 1778 | 1778-08-05 | Your Letter of the 20 June, by Captain Ayrs from Boston had a quick Passage. She Sailed on the 4... |
4871 | Adams, John | Eustis, William | From John Adams to William Eustis, 18 February 1812 | 1812-02-18 | Give me leave to enclose to you a Letter from a Gentleman whom I knew in former Life but have not... |
4872 | Adams, John | Gerry, Elbridge | From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 6 July 1785 | 1785-07-06 | The inclosed Letters I Sent to M r Jay in Cypher, but as the Conversations with the King and... |
4873 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 23 … | 1806-08-23 | In your Letter of the seventh of July, you flatter me, with very high Eulogies, and compleat the... |
4874 | Adams, John | Jenings, Edmund | From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 7 June 1780 | 1780-06-07 | I threatened you with a great deal of Egotism for the public good. I was chosen by my native Town... |
4875 | Adams, John | 1778 July 25. | 1778-07-25 | It is an Amusement among some People, here, who understand a little English, to give Samples of... | |
4876 | Adams, John | 1774 March 5th. | 1774-03-05 | Heard the oration pronounced, by Coll. Hancock, in Commemoration of the Massacre—an elegant, a... | |
4877 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 June 1813 | 1813-06-09 | I enclose you sketches of Naval history and a letter from the Author Make what use of them you... |
4878 | Adams, John | Webster, Daniel | From John Adams to Daniel Webster, 23 December 1821 | 1821-12-23 | I thank you for your discourse, delivered at Plymouth on the termination of the second century of... |
4879 | Adams, John | McHenry, James | From John Adams to James McHenry, 23 October 1798 | 1798-10-23 | Inclosed are letters from Gen. Schuyler Gen. Hull, Capt. James Cunningham which I pray you to... |
4880 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 February 1818 | 1818-02-05 | Clarks History of the Navy is the Same with Mathew Careys. Wilkinsons History I have not Seen. I... |
4881 | Adams, John | August 7. 1796. Sunday. | 1796-08-07 | I am reading a Work of Cicero that I remember not to have read before. It is intituled M. Tullii... | |
4882 | Adams, John | 1782 Oct. 27. Sunday. | 1782-10-27 | Went into the Bath, upon the Seine, not far from the Pont Royal, opposite the Tuilleries. You are... | |
4883 | Adams, John | Boston Patriot | From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 25 January 1810 | 1810-01-25 | During my absence, which was nearly through the whole month of July, the following state papers... |
4884 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 November 1813 | 1813-11-12 | As I owe you more for your Letters of Oct. 12. and 28 than I Shall be able to pay, I Shall begin... |
4885 | Adams, John | 1771. Aug. 8 [i.e. 9?]. Fryday. | 1771-08-09 | Have loitered at home the most of the past Week, gazing at my Workmen. I set ’em upon one... | |
4886 | Adams, John | Evans, Robert J. | From John Adams to Robert J. Evans, 8 June 1819 | 1819-06-08 | I respect the Sentiments and motives which have prompted you to engage in your present occupation... |
4887 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 January 1805 | 1805-01-20 | I received in Season, your kind Letter of the 5th. and have been so very busy that I have not... |
4888 | Adams, John | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 22 … | 1815-02-22 | Alexander Hill Everett Esquire, a Genteman of the Bar in Boston, who had his Law Education in the... |
4889 | Adams, John | Kent, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Kent, 22 June 1776 | 1776-06-22 | Your Letters of April 24. and May 26 are before me, both dated at Boston, a Circumstance which... |
4890 | Adams, John | [Notes on Measures to Be Taken Up by Congress … | ≈1774-09-01 | Non Importation, Non Consumption, Non Exportation to Britain, and W. Indies. Petition to the... | |
4891 | Adams, John | Jefferson, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 January 1825 | 1825-01-23 | We think ourselves possessed or at least we boast that we are so of Liberty of Conscience on all... |
4892 | Adams, John | Allen, Jeremiah | From John Adams to Jeremiah Allen, 2 April 1780 | 1780-04-02 | Last night I received yours of the 27 of March from Libourne, which gave me great Pleasure, and... |
4893 | Adams, John | Cushing, William | From John Adams to William Cushing, 14 September 1789 | 1789-09-14 | I have not yet acknowledged my obligation to you for your favor of Aug t 22. if my hasty scrawls... |
4894 | Adams, John | Dana, Francis | From John Adams to Francis Dana, 12 September 1780 | 1780-09-12 | This will be delivered you by Mr. Samuel Hartley, who is recommended to me by Mr. Digges and Mr.... |
4895 | Adams, John | Nov. 20 Wednesday. | 1782-11-20 | Dr. Franklin came in, and We fell into Conversation. From one Thing to another, We came to... | |
4896 | Adams, John | UNKNOWN | From John Adams to Unknown, 9 June 1780 | 1780-06-09 | Governor Pownal, on the 24 of May in the House of Commons, made a Motion for Leave to bring in a... |
4897 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1780 | 1780-02-28 | I have sent you, one yard of fine Cambrick, at 14 Livres an Ell, two of a coarser sort at 6... |
4898 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 June 1821 | 1821-06-06 | I have enclosed to the President a letter from Dr Waterhouse. I wish you would ask to see it.... |
4899 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 April 1809 | 1809-04-29 | Please to convey the three inclosed Sheets to the Printers. I beg of you to come up in the Stage.... |
4900 | Adams, John | Rush, Richard | From John Adams to Richard Rush, 13 June 1813 | 1813-06-13 | Your kind Letter of the 6th has interested me more than any one I have received Since my last... |