9631From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 27 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
The splendid account we receive from you and others of the dinners parties and balls from...
9632Monday May 26th. 1766. (Adams Papers)
I have been very unfortunate, in running the Gauntlet, thro all the Rejoicings, for the Repeal of...
9633From John Adams to Theodore Foster, 6 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Last night I received your favour of the first of this month., from the hand of Dr Solomon...
9634From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 11 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
I received Yesterday your favour of the 3 d . The Letters you Sent me from America I have...
9635From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 14 April 1783 (Adams Papers)
You may easily imagine our Anxiety to hear from America, when You know that We have no News to...
9636From John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 27 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
Your Favour of July 1. ought not to have lain by me, so long unanswered. But the old Apology of...
9637From John Adams to U.S. Cabinet, 16 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
The President of the U.S. requests the heads of Departments to take the charge of the property of...
9638To George Washington from John Adams, 29 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
That New Orleans, and the Spanish Posts on the Missisippi, will be among the first attempts of...
9639John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
We arrived on the 10 th. I, much oppressed by one of my great Colds, which is now going Off.— I...
9640From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas and William Short, 11 September 1785 (Adams Papers)
I have rec d. from M r: Jefferson a copy of his letter to you of the 1 st. ins t: & agree fully...
9641From John Adams to Nathaniel Kezer, 5 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Address adopted at a legal Town Meeting on the 20. of September. which is...
9642From John Adams to James Monroe, 27 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
Another application has been made to me by Mr Elbridge Gerry, the oldest Son of the late Vice...
96431780. January 19. Wednesday. (Adams Papers)
Went down the River, on a Visit to the Rambler a Letter of Mark, of 18 Guns, belonging to Mr....
9644From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 22 September 1809 (Adams Papers)
ALL the gentlemen in Holland who were the most friendly to the American cause, were excessively...
9645John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 14 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I shall not entertain you with public affairs, because you will learn the state of them from the...
9646From John Adams to Alexander Coffin, 14 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice to learn, from your letter of the 9th Instant, that you still live; sand I hope in...
9647From John Adams to Samuel Dexter, 4 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
I inclose a letter from Mr. Baldwin the Senator of this days date & a printed report with some...
9648[February 1763] (Adams Papers)
Last Thurdsday afternoon, rode to Germantown, and there stayed at my friend Cs. till the last...
9649From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I sincerely and cordially pity you. But why are you not candid & explicit with me? If you expect...
96502. To Hendrik Calkoen, 5 October 1780 (Adams Papers)
Your first Proposition is to prove by Striking Facts, “that an implacable Hatred and Aversion...
9651From John Adams to Richard Rush, 29 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
After this Letter was written and erroneously inclosed I recd yours of 23d which is merry and...
9652From John Adams to Boston Patriot, 7 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Hague, September 17, 1782—Wrote to secretary Livingston—“You will naturally inquire, whether...
9653From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 11 March 1824 (Adams Papers)
I sincerely sympathise & condole with you in the Death of your Daughter in Law, such losses are...
9654John 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...
9655From 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...
96561779. Feb. 8. (Adams Papers)
In Conversation with Dr. Franklin, in the Morning I gave him my Opinion, of Mr. Deanes Address to...
9657John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 May 1779 (Adams Papers)
I left Paris on the Eighth of March, expecting to find the Alliance, at Nantes and embark...
9658From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 15 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
You ask me whether “an armed Vessel of a belligerent Nation has a right to search a vessel of a...
9659From John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, 31 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter of the 21st, and for the three Magazines inclosed, of December...
9660From John Adams to Henry Guest, 30 September 1808 (Adams Papers)
I agree with you in your obliging letter of the eighth of this month that the new England states...
9661Literary Commonplace Book, 1755 – 1756 (Adams Papers)
Harvard College(?) and Worcester, mainly compiled in 1755–1756 , with some possibly earlier...
9662From John Adams to Richard Peters, 2 April 1822 (Adams Papers)
If you have brought upon yourself the garrulity of old age you must blame yourself for it....
9663From John Adams to Samuel Elliot, 1 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
As I have lost Children and Grand Children, in infancy and a Son and daughter grown up and...
9664From John Adams to Edmund Jenings, 28 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
I have recd your Favour with the Slip from the Gen Adr I dread the Sight of the Thing it was so...
9665From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry?, 27 August 1779 (Adams Papers)
I have written, many Times to you, Since I left you, but have never received one Line, except...
9666John Adams to the president of Congress, 22 June 1784 (Adams Papers)
If my Memory does not deceive me, I have heretofore transmitted to Congress, the Advice of some...
9667From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 2 May 1824 (Adams Papers)
You see I have taken the same liberty with your last which you did with mine & what is worse I...
9668From John Adams to David Sewall, 12 January 1803 (Adams Papers)
I recd last night yours of the 6th.—I read the Account of the Small Globe rolling in a little...
9669John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 September 1801 (Adams Papers)
The 11 th. of September is reckoned among the happiest days of my Life: The Navy officers who...
9670From John Adams to William Tudor, Jr., 20 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I Shall not pause to consider whether my Opinion will be popular or unpopular with the Slave...
96711775. Septr. 21. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
The famous Partisan Major Rogers came to our Lodgings to make Us a Visit. He has been in...
9672John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 August 1777 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Favour of July 23, came by the Post, this Morning. It revives me, to hear of your...
9673From John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 45, 15 April 1780 (Adams Papers)
Paris, 15 April 1780. RC in John Thaxter’s hand ( PCC , No. 84, I, f. 455–461). printed :...
9674John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 March 1785 (Adams Papers)
You will See, by our joint Dispatches, that The Pope, Sardinia and Naples, by their Answers, have...
9675From John Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 5 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind letter of the 16th I rejoice to hear of your comfortable Health—and...
9676To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 28 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Daniel Parker will have the Honour to deliver you this. He is an intelligent American, and...
96771772 Decr. 31. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
It is so long since I received your obliging Favour, that I am now almost ashamed to acknowledge...
9678[Tuesday March 5. 1776.] (Adams Papers)
Tuesday March 5. 1776. Congress resolved itself into a Committee of the whole to take into their...
9679From John Adams to Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, 3 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
The unexpected Honour of your Obliging Letter of the 30th of September and the rich presents it...
9680[Personal Expenditures, February–July 1780.] (Adams Papers)
1780 £ s d Feby. 13th. Joseph Stevens for three Month Wages. 30 Dolls. 150: 0: 0 15th. John...