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John Adams to Boston Patriot, April 22, 1809
Quincy, April 22, 1809. Sirs, WHEN I had received that authentic act of the sovereign authority of France, a copy of which is inserted in my last letter to you,…
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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 William Cunningham, April 24, 1809
Quincy April 24 1809 Dear Sir I received your favour of March 31 in due time: But I am become all at once and very unexpectedly a man of business…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, April 25, 1809
Quincy, April 25, 1809. Sirs, A few words more on the subject of pressing. In strictness, we have nothing to do with the question, whether impressments of seamen in England…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, April 26, 1809
Quincy, April 26, 1809. Sirs, THE gentlemen of the Senate informed me, that they came to confer with me on the subject of the nomination of Mr. Murray to France;…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, April 29, 1809
29th. Ap. 1809 My dear Son Please to convey the three inclosed Sheets to the Printers. I beg of you to come up in the Stage. I cannot come to…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, May 2, 1809
Quincy, May 2, 1809. Sirs, THE message mentioned in my last letter, was in these words: Gentlemen of the Senate , The proposition of a fresh negociation with France, in…
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John Adams to Joseph Ward, June 6, 1809
Quincy June 6 1809 Sir I recd in Season your interesting favor of the 10th of May: but have not had Opportunity to acknowledge it till now. There appears to…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 6, 1809
Quincy, June 6, 1809. Sirs, In page 28, Mr. Hamilton acknowledges that “the President had pledged himself in his speech, (he should have said in his message) to send a…
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John Adams to William Cunningham, June 7, 1809
Quincy, June 7, 1809. Dear Sir, Yours of May 6th, I have not acknowledged, and cannot particularly consider the abundance of matter in it at present. If you see the…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, June 7, 1809
Quincy June 7. 1809 Dear Sir, Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which I have recd. an Aurora…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 7, 1809
Quincy, June 7, 1809. Sirs, In page 26, Mr. Hamilton says, that the mission “could hardly fail to injure our interests with other countries.” This is another of those phantoms…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 8, 1809
Quincy, June 8, 1809. Sirs, IN page 20, Mr. Hamilton says, my “conduct in the office of President was a heterogeneous compound of right and wrong, of wisdom and error.”…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 10, 1809
Quincy, June 10, 1809 Sirs, IN page 29. Mr. Hamilton says, “when an ordinary man dreams himself to be a Frederick,” &c. To this I shall make but a short…
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John Adams to Samuel Perley, June 19, 1809
Quincy June 19th 1809 Sir I received your favour of the 12th. You propose to me an abridgement of my works. Some fifty five years ago I learned from Lord…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, July 27, 1809
Quincy, July 27, 1809. Sirs, HAVING laid together the negociations with the Comte De Vergennes, relative to that sublime machine for demolishing our independence, the mediation of the two Imperial…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, July 30, 1809
Quincy, July 30, 1809. Sirs, Though I thought I was negociating for peace , to better purpose in Holland than I could in France, yet as I could not be…
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John Adams to William Cunningham, July 31, 1809
Quincy, July 31, 1809. Dear Sir, I received in season your favour of the 30th June as well as that of July 24th, and thank you for both. The first…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, July 31, 1809
Quincy, July 31, 1809. Sirs, On the 24th of August, 1780, transmitted to Congress, by another conveyance, duplicates of the declarations of Sweden, Denmark, &c. relative to the maritime confederation.…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, August 3, 1809
Quincy, August 3, 1809. Sirs, ON the 12th of September, 1780, wrote to Mr. Dana, at Paris. “This will be delivered you by Mr. Samuel Hartley, who is recommended to…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, August 4, 1809
Quincy, August 4, 1809. Sirs, ON the 20th of September, 1780, wrote to his excellency Joseph Reed, Esq. President, and the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, in answer to a…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, August 31, 1809
Quincy August 31. 1809. My dear old Friend,— If I were not as disinterested as a Patriot, I should answer every Line from you as soon as recd. in order…
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John Adams to Joseph Ward, August 31, 1809
Quincy August 31 1809 Sir If I had not been blind to my own Interest I should have Sooner acknowledged your favor of 23d of June, as that might have…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, September 1, 1809
Quincy Sept. 1. 1809. Dear Doctor,— Thanks for yours of Aug. 25 and the Papers enclosed. They are very high and very warm. You pretend that you have outlived your…
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John Adams to Henry Guest, September 5, 1809
Quincy September 5. 1809 My Venerable Guest Your Grand Daughter writes so beautiful a hand that you need not be at a loss for an Amanuensis. I have received your…