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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, November 6, 1804
Quincy Nov. 6. 1804 My dear Sir I thank you for my Letter from N.Y and the Pamplet inclosed. Commodore Morris’s Defence contains Information which appears to be wanted by…
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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 Quincy Adams, November 9, 1804
Quincy Nov. 9. 1804 My dear Son The Republicans have exerted their Energies, and propagated their lying Pamphlets so secretly, and with such effect as to make Federalists almost doubt…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 6, 1804
Quincy December 6. 1804. Dear Sir In your Letter of the 26 of November, to your Brother, you express a “Wish that I could See the course of Things with…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 14, 1804
Quincy December 14. 1804 Dear Sir In my Letter of the 14th Ult. I believe I misunderstood the Presidents Position. His Expression that the Judges ought to hang American Citizens…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 27, 1805
Quincy Jan. 27. 1805 Dear Sir Your favour of the fourteenth, with its ample Enclosures of Documents, has arrived in good order….I deliver all the Journals of Senate and House,…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, January 31, 1805
Quincy January 31st. 1805 Dear Sir I have, after so long a time, been favored with a loan of four Volumes of Captain Joseph Ingraham’s Journals of his voyage to…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, February 7, 1805
Quincy Feb. 7. 1805 Dear Sir I received your favour of the 24 of Jan. this morning. I must repeat to you that I neither expect nor desire that you…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, April 11, 1805
Quincy April 11. 1805 Dear Sir I am highly gratified, to possess So authentic an Account of the Several rising branches of your numerous and amiable Family, in whose Welfare…
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John Adams to James Sullivan, April 26, 1805
Quincy April 26, 1805 Sir In the Biographical Sketch, which you published, of his late Excellency Governor Adams, you have inadvertently admitted Some Errors of Fact in relating the Mission…
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John Adams to John Sinclair, May 24, 1805
Mount Wollaston, near Boston, May 24. 1805. Sir John Sinclair, A natural history of this country has been long desired, by every inquisitive mind. Although the calls of my profession,…
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John Adams to Jean Luzac, May 24, 1805
Mount Wollaston, near Boston Dear Sir May 24. 1805 William Dandridge Peck Esqr, a Professor of natural History in our University of Cambridge bound on a voyage to Europe, merely…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, July 7, 1805
Quincy July 7th. 1805. Your Letter, my dear Friend, of the 29th. of June, Suggets enough of Serious reflections, to compose a longer reply, than I am, at present disposed…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, September 30, 1805
Quincy September 30. 1805 Dear Sir Although it is a gratification to my feelings to write to you and a much greater pleasure to receive a Letter from you: Yet…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, October 3, 1805
Quincy October 3. 1805 Dear Sir I duly recd your favour of the 21. Sept.—I Sent you two pretty large Packetts the first of Six sheets of Paper, another of…
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John Adams to John Trumbull, October 4, 1805
Quincy < , Start deletion, September , End, > October 4th. 1805 Dear Sir I thank you for the Information and conjecture, in your favour of the 16th which I…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, October 29, 1805
Quincy October 29. 1805 Dear Sir, I have heard, as you insinuate, that Sterne was a wicked Man; and there are traits of a false Character, in his Writings: yet…
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John Adams to John Trumbull, November 18, 1805
Quincy November 18. 1805 Dear Sir I had indeed no doubt of the Truth of the Letter relative to the Capture of Cornwallis. My Confidence in the honor of the…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, December 4, 1805
Quincy December 4. 1805 Dear Sir I am half inclined to be very angry with you for destroying the Anecdotes and documents you had collected for private Memoirs of the…
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John Adams to Josiah Parker, December 5, 1805
Quincy December 5th: 1805: Sir I thank you for introducing to me Mr: Robinson, whom I found to be a gentleman of good information and agreeable manners. I should have…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 23, 1805
Quincy December 23 1805 Dear Sir I ought, before now, to have acknowledged the Receipt of your favours and even now I can do no more than acknowledge them, for…
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John Adams to Martinus Van Marum, December 24, 1805
Quincy December 24th. 1805 Sir I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me in July 1805 inclosing a Diploma by which I have the honor…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, December 26, 1805
Quincy December 26. 1805 Dear Sir, In a former Letter I expressed a doubt, whether the Barilla of Spain, were the Same Plant as the Soda or Kali: but have…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, February 26, 1806
Quincy Feb. 26 1806 My Exordium must inform you that George is and has been a long time in perfect health. John has been as plump and gay and hardy…
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John Adams to Benjamin Hall, March 28, 1806
Quincy March 28.—1806 Dear Sir I have received your favour of March 14th. and have not sent you an answer. It is not from any feelings of resentment or disaffection…