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John Adams to James Monroe, April 20, 1813
Quincy April 20. 1813. Dear Sir Your favour of the 10th. of this month has laid me under very great Obligations to you. No intelligence could be more agreable to…
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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 James Rush, April 21, 1813
Quincy April 21, 1813 Dear Sir I now Send you a Copy of the Law of Massachusetts in 13 Nov. 1775, taken from Edis’s Boston Gazette printed at Watertown, the…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, April 22, 1813
Quincy April 22 1813 My dear Son I have Official Information that Mr Bayard and Mr Gallatin are joined with you in a Negotiation of great importance and no little…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, April 23, 1813
Quincy April 23 1813 My dear Son This Line is intended to go by Mr Bayard or Mr Gallatin, who are associated with you, or you with them in a…
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John Adams to Albert Gallatin, April 24, 1813
Quincy April 24, 1813 Gentlemen I do myself the Honour to enclose a few Letters from my Family here to that part of Us who are at St. Petersburg; and…
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John Adams to James Jervey, May 13, 1813
Quincy May 13 1813 Gentlemen I received yesterday the letter with which you honoured me on the 26 April inclosing Mr Elliots Oration on the inauguration of the Federal constitution.…
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John Adams to Gideon Granger, May 13, 1813
Quincy May 13th 1813 Sir Permit me to enclose to you a letter from my neighbour Mr Mottram Vesey and to add my Testimony to the truth of his representations.…
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John Adams to James Madison, May 14, 1813
Quincy May 14 1813 Dear Sir I was yesterday honoured with the favour of the 5 inclosing Dr Waterhouses letter to me of the 23 of April announcing to me…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, May 20, 1813
Quincy May 20 1813. Sir I received your favor of the 15 with great pleasure and the volume attending it with gratitude.—When I received from our excellent friend Dr Rush,…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, May 20, 1813
Quincy May 20. 1813 My dear and respected Van der Kemp. The promised Anecdote of Quaker Benevolence is this. In June 1775, The British Man of War Asia, took Prisoner…
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John Adams to Samuel Dexter, May 25, 1813
Quincy May 25. 1813 Dear Sir It is not with any enviable, or eligible Feelings that I find myself, under a necessity of addressing you, at this Time, and in…
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John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, June 8, 1813
Quincy June 8th 1813 Sir There are several things abroad which are reported to have been intended as pictures of me; some of them drawn by persons who never saw…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, June 9, 1813
Quincy May [ , Start insertion, June , End, ] 9. 1813 Mr Carey I have received your kind letter of the 3d instant with two Copies of the Sketches…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, June 9, 1813
Quincy June 9th 1813 Dear Sir I enclose you sketches of Naval history and a letter from the Author Make what use of them you think probono publico. John Adams
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 10, 1813
Quincy June 10. 1813. Dear Sir In your Letter to Dr Priestley of March 21. 1801, You ask “What an Effort, of Bigotry in politics and religion have We gone…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 11, 1813
Quincy June 11. 1813 Dear Sir I recd. yesterday your favour of May 27th. I lament with you the loss of Rush. I know of no Character living or dead…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, June 12, 1813
Quincy June 12. 1813— Dear Sir We were happy to find by your Letter 22d of May that you had arrived safe at Baltimore on your way to the great…
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John Adams to Robert Fulton, June 13, 1813
Quincy June 13th 1813 Sir The letters and Documents inclosed with other letters from our Minister in Russia to his father, his mother, his brother, and his Sons have been…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, June 13, 1813
Quincy < , Start deletion, May , End, > June 13th. 1813 Dear Sir Your kind Letter of the 6th has interested me more than any one I have received…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, June 18, 1813
Quincy June 18th 1813 Dear Sir I cannot forget the loss I have sustained in the death of Dr Rush. Since your departure his correspondence has been a kind of…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, June 29, 1813
Quincy June 29th 1813 Sir I have this day received from the Post Office, three copies of the sketches which with twelve received before amount to fifteen copies. I did…
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John Adams to William Bentley, June 30, 1813
Quincy June 30th 1813 Dear Sir Well knowing your love of your Country, and your judicious discrimination in the choice of measures to promote its interest; I presume you will…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1813
Quincy June 30th. 1813 Dear Sir Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to correct an Idea…
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John Adams to Hendrick W Gordon, July 1, 1813
Quincy July 1 1813 Dear Sir Your kind letter of the 28th and 29th are before me. The report that my son, has written or said that, “The present War…