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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, March 10, 1822
Montezillo 10 March 1822 My dear Son Contrary to my established habit for many years I must now become an intercessor for a candidate. You must remember a virtuous &…
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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 George Washington Adams, March 26, 1822
March 26 22 [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ] Dr G. I am delighted with your number 22. It is not too free. It is modest enough. It…
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John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, April 23, 1822
Montezillo April 23d 1822 Sir Portraits or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old Age, which as Ossean says, and says truly is dark and unlovely are always disagreeable;…
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John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, April 23, 1822
Montezillo April 23d 1822 dear Cousin Boylston Not a word at present about your delicious Cider and flounders. Miss Farnam a Grand Daughter of my Ancient acquaintance of Sixty years…
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John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, April 24, 1822
Montezillo April 24th. 1822 Sir Portraits, or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old age which as Ossian says, and says truly is dark and unlovely, are always disagreeable,…
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John Adams to Ann Hinckley, April 29, 1822
Montezillo 29th. Apl 1822 dear Miss Hinckley I pray you to accept my thanks for a very elegant present, which delicious as it is in itself is rendered still more…
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John Adams to John Williams, April 30, 1822
Montezillo April 30th. 1822 Sir. I pray you to accept my kind thanks for sending me the Mecklenberg declaration of Independence. Although these papers have been familiar to me for…
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John Adams to John Davis, May 2, 1822
montezillo May 2. 1822 dear Sir. I thank you for introducing to me Mr Lewis Weld, an Instructor in the Asylum for the deaf & Dumb at Hartford, in whom…
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John Adams to Allen Danforth, May 18, 1822
Montezillo May 18th. 1822 Sir I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony memorial; and so perfectly satisfied with the design and execution of the first number…
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John Adams to Old Colony Memorial, May 18, 1822
Quincy Montezillo May 18th. 1822 Sir, I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony Memorial and so perfectly satisfied with the design and execution of the first…
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John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, May 30, 1822
Montezillo May 30 1822. My dear Cousin Some of Jobs afflictions and some peculiar to myself have rendered it impossible for me to write to you even a bare acknowledgement…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, May 30, 1822
Montizillo May 30, 1822— My dear Grandson— Some of Jobs afflictions & some of Jobs comforters have prevented my answering your letters as far as No 30. I hope you…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, June 3, 1822
Montezillo June 3d. 1822— my dear Grand son— Some of Jobs afflictions and some of Jobs comforts have prevented my answering your letters, as far as no 30. I hope…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, June 12, 1822
Montizillo 12 June 1822. My dear Grandson I am well pleased with your No’s: 31. 32 & hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing on the quarterly review…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, June 15, 1822
Montezillo June 15th. 1822— my dear Grandson I am well pleased with your No. 31 & 32 I hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing in the quarterly…
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John Adams to Samuel L Knapp, June 24, 1822
Montezillo 24th June 1822. Dear Sir, I thank you for the Vol. you sent me containing the trial of Lt Abbot. I am too blind to read it myself and…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, June 24, 1822
Montezillo 24th. June. 1822. My Dear Grandson. Your No 33. has pleased me much and I beg you to continue your observations on the cavilling and chicanery of the quarterly…
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John Adams to Samuel B.H Judah, June 25, 1822
Montezillo 25th June 1822 Sir— I have heard read your horrible Odofriede; although there are marks of genius and talents, which in so young a man, if hereafter carefully cultivated…
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John Adams to William, Jr Tudor, June 30, 1822
Montezillo 30th. June 1822 dear Sir In answer to yours, of the 15. June and to the first question in it, I am not able from memory to satisfy your…
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John Adams to George Washington Adams, July 11, 1822
Quincy July 11th. 1822 my dear George I agree with you in your number 34. that the quarterly is guilty of damning Stuart, and Reid, with faint praise, or rather…
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John Adams to Edward Livingston, August 1, 1822
August 1st. 1822 Sir I < , Start deletion, have , End, > feel myself highly honored by your polite & obliging letter of the 19th. of May which I…
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John Adams to Timothy Pickering, August 6, 1822
Montezillo August 6th: 1822. Sir Your favour of the 2d instant has prescribed a dismal plan, which I was never very well calculated to execute, but am now wholly incapable.…
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John Adams to William Thomas, August 10, 1822
Montezillo August 10th. 1822 Dear Sir, The grounds and principles on which the “3third article of the Treaty of 83. was contended for on our part and finally yielded on…
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John Adams to William Thomas, August 11, 1822
Montezillo, Aug. 11, 1822. Dear sir— Let me add a few hints to my former letter. Please to search in the publications after the treaty of peace for a letter…