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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, April 2, 1806
Quincy April 2. 1806 Dear Sir Your favour of March 30th I received last Evening. The Subject of it is of great importance I have been absent from my Country…
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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 François Adriaan Van der Kemp, April 30, 1806
Quincy April 30. 1806 Dear Sir I have always believed that the Afra Avis, was the Guinea Hen, but have lately heard it was the Turkey. You say “Alass poor…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, June 22, 1806
Quincy June 22d 1806. Dear Sir Your Letter of the tenth, like all others from your pen, notwithstanding all your apologies, was a cordial to my Spirit. I must confess…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, June 29, 1806
Quincy June 29 1806. Dr Sir I rejoice to find by your Letter of the 26. and by my Sons Conversation, that his commencement of a residence at Cambridge has…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, January 21, 1807
Quincy Jan. 21. 1807 Dear Sir Robinson was not only a Man of Sense and learning < but > Piety and Virtue but of a Catholic tolerant Spirit and remarkable…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, January 29, 1807
Quincy January 29 1807 Dear Van Der Kemp Upon my Word and honour, if I know myself, and for any Thing I know to the contrary, I am Alive, and…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, February 2, 1807
Quincy Feb. 2. 1807 My Dear Doctor You make me very happy when you Say, that you agree with me upon the Subject of the Perfectibility of Man. Let every…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, February 2, 1807
Quincy Feb. 2, 1807 Dear Sir One of the Historiographers of Johnson’s Chat, Boswell perhaps or Piozzi says that Johnson being asked which were the best sermons in the English…
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John Adams to Abel Sawyer, February 8, 1807
Quincy February 8th: 1807. Sir. Mr: Samuel Adams was called a Maltster because he kept a Malt-house; but he was a Gentleman of liberal Education; a Legislator and a Magistrate.…
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John Adams to Thomas Foxcroft, February 13, 1807
Quincy Feb 13, 1807. Dear Sir Benjamin Beale Esq. our representative, brought me last night from the General Court, a packet containing two books and a letter. But the letter…
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John Adams to William Smith Shaw, March 17, 1807
Quincy March 17. 1807 Dear Sir I have advised Messrs. Perkins to print Mr. Cremeres Letter literatim. But it ought to be accompanied with explanatory Notes, E. G. “Narrowly bound”…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, May 23, 1807
Quincy May 23d. 1807 Dr Sir I received at an Exhibition of Musick in our polite Village of Mount Woollaston, on thursday, your Letter relative to Mr Loude, and sent…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, June 23, 1807
Quincy June 23. 1807 Dear Sir I have received your favour of the ninth of this Month, and conveyed to Dr Tufts your Letter to him, who desireses me to…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, June 25, 1807
Quincy June 25. 1807 Dear Sir John Bunjan, if he had written my last Letter to you would have called it an history of Gods Judgments against Lyars and Libellers.…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 11, 1807
Quincy July 11. 1807 Dear Madam As it is neither consistent with my Principles, Disposition or habits, upon any misunderstanding with an ancient Friend, to conceive Resentment and hostility to…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 20, 1807
Quincy July 20th. 1807 Dear Madam In the 392 Page of the third Volume of your History you say that “After Mr Adams’s return from England, he was implicated, by…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 27, 1807
Quincy July 27th. 1807 Dear Madam In the 131 and 132 page of the first Volume of your History, you are pleased to say that John Adams, one of the…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 28, 1807
Quincy 28th. July 1807 Dear Madam In the 135th. Page of your Second Volume, you State that in 1778 Mr John Adams of the State of Massachusetts was chosen to…
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John Adams to Rev. John Disney, November 9, 1807
Quincy near Boston Novber. 9th. 1807. Dear Sir, I was agreably surprised, the last week on receiving a very kind and obliging letter from you, dated at the Hide near…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, November 11, 1807
Quincy November 11 1807 My dear Phylosopher and Friend I have, long before the receipt of your favour of the 31 of October, supposed that either you were gazing at…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, November 12, 1807
Quincy November 12. 1807 My dear Son I have not written to you, though I have received two kind Letters from you, Since your departure, giving me very pleasing accounts…
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John Adams to Abiel Holmes, November 14, 1807
Quincy November 14. 1807 Dear Sir I am Sorry it is not in my power to give you much information relative to General Oglethorpe in complyance with your desire in…
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John Adams to Amos J Cook, November 30, 1807
Quincy November 30th. 1807 Sir I have received the favour of your letter of the 21st. day of this month, and have complied with your request so far as to…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, December 1, 1807
Quincy December 1st. 1807.— Dear Sir, I sympathize with you in all your Expressions of grief in your favour of Nov. 1st. at the melancholly Catastrophy of so many worthy…