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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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6201 | Adams, John | Herbert, John C. | From John Adams to John C. Herbert, 10 June 1798 | 1798-06-10 | I receive your patriotic Address with great Pleasure. I rejoice that you highly appreciate the... |
6202 | Adams, John | Tufts, Cotton | From John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 28 June 1789 | 1789-06-28 | I have received your favour of the 22.— M rs Adams, M r Charles and Miss Louisa, arrived on... |
6203 | Adams, John | Gerry, Elbridge | From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 17 April 1813 | 1813-04-17 | Since I have read again your Line “for encouraging the fitting out armed Vessels,” printed in... |
6204 | Adams, John | [April 30. Thursday. 1778.] | 1778-04-30 | April 30. Thursday. 1778. Dined with the Marshall Duke de Mouchy, with the Duke and Dutchess... | |
6205 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 1 May 1799 | 1799-05-01 | I received your favor of the 23d & have read all the papers inclosed with attention & much... |
6206 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 July 1798 | 1798-07-19 | I nominate William North of New York to be Adjutant General of the Army with the Rank of... |
6207 | Adams, John | Sunday. Jany. 5th. 1766. | 1766-01-05 | Heard Mr. Wibird all Day. A Sacramental Sermon on “It is finished.—” | |
6208 | Adams, John | Lotter, Christian | From John Adams to Christian Lotter, 10 June 1785 | 1785-06-10 | I am sorry to have given M r: or Mad e: Dumas any trouble about my little affairs at the Hotel.... |
6209 | Adams, John | 25 [i.e. 26] Wednesday. | 1756-05-26 | Election Day. I have spent all this Day at Home reading a little and eating a little Election Cake. | |
6210 | Adams, John | Sarsfield, Guy Claude, Comte de | From John Adams to the Comte de Sarsfield, 11 September … | 1783-09-11 | I have been honoured with your two friendly Letters from Rennes, and altho’ a multiplicity of... |
6211 | Adams, John | [Wednesday. July 24. 1776.] | 1776-07-24 | Wednesday. July 24. 1776. A Letter from Lieutenant Colonel William Allen was laid before Congress... | |
6212 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 January 1797 | 1797-01-05 | M rs Swan and her Daughters, conducted by M rs Otis came into the Senate Chamber this morning to... |
6213 | Adams, John | Franklin, Benjamin | John Adams to Franklin and Jefferson, 29 May 1785 | 1785-05-29 | Our Secretary of State for foreign affairs, in a Letter of 13. Ap. informs me, that he wrote Us a... |
6214 | Adams, John | Holyoke, Edward Augustus | From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 3 April … | 1786-04-03 | I now do myself the Honour of inclosing to you, as President of the Medical Society, the original... |
6215 | Adams, John | Marshall, John | From John Adams to John Marshall, 5 September 1800 | 1800-09-05 | I should rather have waited till nominations could be made to the Senate, when we might have had... |
6216 | Adams, John | Boylston, Ward Nicholas | From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1 June 1824 | 1824-06-01 | I owe you a letter, but have not been able, and am not still able to acknowledge it—I am very... |
6217 | Adams, John | Pickering, Timothy | From John Adams to Timothy Pickering, 2 August 1799 | 1799-08-02 | Mr Cunnington has been at Quincy & exhibited to me a model of the machinery represented by the... |
6218 | Adams, John | [Draft of a Letter to the Boston Gazette, May 1761.] | ≈1761-05-01 | I am myself an Inhabitant of Boston, and have I think an honest affection for the Town, and a... | |
6219 | Adams, John | [4 February–21 March 1780] | ≈1780-02-04 | 1780 Feb. 4. Fryday We arrived at Coué. We passed by Angouleme and encircled almost the whole... | |
6220 | Adams, John | Smith, John Adams | From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 7 January 1813 | 1813-01-07 | I congratulate you on the elections but hesitate on the causes you assign: I know not what is... |
6221 | Adams, John | [July 1760] | ≈1760-07-01 | Went to Town. Mr. Thatcher . You have read a great deal, Mr. Adams, in the Roman History,... | |
6222 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 July 1816 | 1816-07-22 | “Chain’d to his Throne, a Volume lies, With all the Fates of Men: With every Angels form and Size... |
6223 | Adams, John | Austin, James Trecothick | From John Adams to James Trecothick Austin, 17 July … | 1811-07-17 | I thank you for Leolin which is a morsel of exquisite Taste in composition, and a model of... |
6224 | Adams, John | Saturday. 7th. | 1760-06-07 | Arose late, again. When shall I shake off the shackells of morning slumbers, and arise with the... | |
6225 | Adams, John | Bancroft, Aaron | From John Adams to Aaron Bancroft, 27 July 1801 | 1801-07-27 | I have recd your favour of the first of this Month with a copy of your Election sermon. That... |
6226 | Adams, John | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | From John Adams to the Marquis de Lafayette, 20 … | 1782-02-20 | Yesterday Major Porter, brought me, your kind favour of the first of this month, together with... |
6227 | Adams, John | Delaplaine, Joseph | From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 17 January 1816 | 1816-01-17 | His Excellency Samuel Adams late Governor of Massachusetts was born in Boston in 1722. His first... |
6228 | Adams, John | 29 [i.e. 30] Sunday. | 1756-05-30 | Heard Mr. Maccarty. “You who are sinners, are in continual Danger of being swallowed up quick and... | |
6229 | Adams, John | President of Congress | From John Adams to the President of Congress, 14 … | 1783-09-14 | I beg Leave to introduce to your Civilities M r: Thaxter, who goes home with the definitive... |
6230 | Adams, John | Forrest, Uriah | From John Adams to Uriah Forrest, 4 June 1800 | 1800-06-04 | I receive with much Esteem Affection and Gratitude this obliging Address. The Approbation you... |
6231 | Adams, John | Greene, Nathanael | From John Adams to Nathanael Greene, 24 May 1777 | 1777-05-24 | During the civil Wars in Rome, in the Time of Sylla, and young Marius, after the Death of the... |
6232 | Adams, John | Johnson, Alexander Bryan | From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 21 January … | 1823-01-21 | Thanks for your favour of the 15th. and the Pamphlet inclosed. Lord Bollingbrook says and every... |
6233 | Adams, John | 24 Saturday. | 1756-07-24 | Rose at 7. Wrote a little in Greek. Afternoon wrote Bolinbroke. | |
6234 | Adams, John | Niles, Hezekiah | From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 28 April 1817 | 1817-04-28 | I have received eleven Volumes of your Register, well bound and in good order, for which I have... |
6235 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 March 1776 | 1776-03-17 | Our worthy Friend Frank Dana arrived here last Evening from N. York, to which Place he came... |
6236 | Adams, John | Foster, Dwight | From John Adams to Dwight Foster, 27 January 1798 | 1798-01-27 | The President of the United States requests the pleasure of Mr. Fosters company to dine this day... |
6237 | Adams, John | Rush, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, 10 September 1779 | 1779-09-10 | I am indebted to you, for more Letters than I can repay at present. But declaring myself a... |
6238 | Adams, John | Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. | From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 6 September … | 1800-09-06 | The inclosed letter from Dr Bartleet of Charleston, offering himself a candidate for a medical... |
6239 | Adams, John | Boston Gazette (newspaper) | VI. “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” … | 1765-10-21 | WE have been afraid to think. We have felt a reluctance to examining into the grounds of our... |
6240 | Adams, John | Neufville, Jean de, & Fils (business) | Draft Contract for a Loan with Jean de Neufville & … | 1781-02-02 | Today the Apeared before me Notary Publicq the Honorable John Adams Esqr. of the City in the... |
6241 | Adams, John | Quincy, Samuel | From John Adams to Samuel Quincy, 2 January 1764 | 1764-01-02 | Braintree2 January 1764. RC ( MHi :Misc. Bound Coll.). John Adams requests “Brother Quincy” to... |
6242 | Adams, John | Greenleaf, Thomas | From John Adams to Thomas Greenleaf, 15 July 1822 | 1822-07-15 | The resolutions of the Town of Quincy passed on the same day and presented to me by you in their... |
6243 | Adams, John | Adams, John Quincy | From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 January 1811 | 1811-01-15 | We have received no Letters from you, later than the 7th of September. The obstructions in the... |
6244 | Adams, John | Murray, William | From John Adams to William Murray, 3 December 1798 | 1798-12-03 | I have received a very kind Address Subscribed with the Names of a long List of your respectable... |
6245 | Adams, John | Warren, James | From John Adams to James Warren, 29 March 1776 | 1776-03-29 | Since the joyfull News of the Reduction of Boston by the Forces of the united Colonies, my Mind... |
6246 | Adams, John | Sargent, Winthrop | From John Adams to Winthrop Sargent, 24 January 1795 | 1795-01-24 | I have received your favour of the 30 th. of November and transmitted to D r Belknap as you... |
6247 | Adams, John | United States Senate | From John Adams to United States Senate, 14 January … | 1800-01-14 | I nominate Francis Hawks of North Carolina to be collector for the District of Newbern, and... |
6248 | Adams, John | Adams’ Minutes of the Wadsworth Trial: Plymouth … | ≈1766-04-01 | Paine . Wadsworth, a Commissioner of Duxborough to take Care of the Herring Way. Q. Whether... | |
6249 | Adams, John | Taylor, John | From John Adams to John Taylor, 13 January 1815 | 1815-01-13 | In page 10. You Say, “Mr Adams, has omitted a Cause of Aristocracy in the quotation, which he... |
6250 | Adams, John | Sargent, Winthrop | From John Adams to Winthrop Sargent, 4 April 1799 | 1799-04-04 | I have received your letter of the 8th of Jany. inclosing an address from the inhabitants of the... |