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John Adams to Alden Bradford, March 12, 1819
Quincy March 12th 1819 Dear Sir There has been some misunderstanding between us. I fear the mistake was originally mine; the “Appeal to the world” was not the pamphlet I…
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Letters from John Adams
B. 1735 · D. 1826
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the Continental Congress of the United States as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with contemporaries, including his wife and advisor Abigail Adams and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
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John Adams to John Taylor, March 12, 1819
Quincy March 12—1819 Worthy Sir— The painful difficulty of holding a pen which has been—growing upon me for many years & now in the middle of the 84th year of…
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John Adams to Mordecai M Noah, March 15, 1819
March 15th. 1819 Dear Sir I have to thank you for another valuable publication your travels in “Europe & Africa” which though I cannot see well enough to read I…
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John Adams to John Rhea, March 31, 1819
Quincy March 31st. 1819 Sir I have received with great pleasure, your favour of March 9th. with the inclosed < , Start deletion, of , End, > Copy of a…
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John Adams to J. H Tiffany, March 31, 1819
Quincy March 31st 1819 Sir Your Political Chart is a happy thought—and an invention as useful as it is ingenious, accept my best thanks for the present you have made…
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John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, April 2, 1819
Quincy April 2d. 1819. My dear Daughter Your three last journals are three Pearls—I have not been able to thank you for either—untill now, they bear the form and impression…
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John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, April 4, 1819
Quincy April 4th 1819 my dear daughter your journals grow more and more entertaining and instructive—you ask my Opinion of General Jackson—and you shall have it—Hero and a Conqueror I…
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John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, April 8, 1819
Quincy April 8th 1819 my dear daughter your Journal interesting to me like all the former, has been received up to the 29th of March.— The people of this Country…
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John Adams to William, Jr Tudor, April 28, 1819
Quincy April 28th 1819. Dear Sir In answer to your favour of the 25th. I must refer you to one of those letters—I wrote to your Father—in which I have…
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John Adams to Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, April 28, 1819
Quincy 28th 1819 my dear Madam Your letter of Yesterday reached me < , Start deletion, yesterday , End, > me last night— I cannot express in terms strong enough,…
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John Adams to J. H Tiffany, April 30, 1819
Quincy April 30th [ , Start insertion, 1819 , End, ] dear Sir Of Republicks the Varieties are infinite—or at least as numerous, as the tunes and changes, that can…
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John Adams to Thomas Goodsell, May 4, 1819
Quincy May 4th 1819 Dear Sir— Be pleased to accept my thanks—for an address from the Agricultural Society of the County of Oneida by Alexander Coventry Esqr.— Tho I have…
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John Adams to Robert, Jr Walsh, May 5, 1819
Quincy May 5th 1819 Dear Sir < , Start deletion, For , End, > every Man of Letters and reputation is dear to me—altho an entire stranger in Person—your name…
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John Adams to Samuel Adams Wells, May 7, 1819
Quincy May 7th 1819 dear Sir Your letter of the 3d. has distressed me—It will compel me to disclose truths which will be disagreeable to you—and very unpleasant to me—…
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John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, May 9, 1819
Quincy May 9. 1819 Mr Niles. In one of your letters—you ask me whether I can give you the names of the Mohawk’s who were concerned in the Noyade of…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 18, 1819
Quincy May 18. 1819 My dear Son I am anxious for Susan.— I wish to be informed, whether Mr Clark has left any and what Property? And whether any public…
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John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, May 19, 1819
Montezillo May 19th. 1819 my dear Caroline Thank Mr De Wint for his Box of New york Cider Grove champaigne—Accept my thanks for the two Newspapers—my Introduction or rather presentations…
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John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, May 20, 1819
Quincy May 20th 1819 dear Sir, your favour of the 7th from Princeton has given me Comfort by giving me good hopes and full assurance of the Continuence of your…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 21, 1819
Quincy May 21st 1819 my dear Son— The Revnd. Mr Greenwood the successor of Mr Thatcher and Dr Kirkland in the Church in Summer Street Boston; will deliver you this…
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John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 25, 1819
Quincy May 25th. 1819 my dear Daughter Human Life has been to me a State of trial from my Cradle to this seventh month of my Eaighty fourth year.— I…
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John Adams to Robert J Evans, June 8, 1819
Quincy June 8th 1819 Sir I respect the Sentiments and motives which have prompted you to engage in your present occupation so much that I feel an Esteem and affection…
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John Adams to J. H Tiffany, June 9, 1819
Quincy June 9th 1819 Dear Sir Please to accept the third Voloum of the “Defence” the first you will please to return when you have made all the use of…
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John Adams to William Plumer, June 16, 1819
Quincy June 16th. 1819 Dear Sir I thank you for your favour of the 8th and for your Valedictory Address—I have read it with pleasure it appears to be an…
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John Adams to Samuel Adams Wells, June 19, 1819
Quincy June 19—1819 dear Sir I return you the papers relative to the Gaspee—I long to see them in print you ought to publish them in the first News paper…