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John Adams to William White, September 24, 1813
Quincy September 24 1813 Dear Sir I rely entirely on the long and agreeable acquaintance between us and the knowledge I have had for 34 years, of the Candour &…
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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 Vaughan, September 26, 1813
Quincy Septr. 26. 1813 Dear Sir Not to honor Mr Colman, for I know he needs none from me to you: but to gratify myself, and bring me once more…
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John Adams to N. G Dufret, October 30, 1813
Quincy October 30th 1813. Sir I duely received your present from Mr Jefferson to me of Dr Priestleys Doctrines of heathen Philosophy compared with those of “Revelation:” and immediately acknowledged…
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John Adams to William White, November 1, 1813
Quincy November 1 1813 Dear Sir Almost at the moment, when I entered my 79th year I recd. your kind letter, and a valuable present of your lectures on the…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, November 5, 1813
Quincy Nov. 5. 1813 Dr Sir My most reverend Dearling presents her compliments. She highly applauds and greatly admires a complaisant Husband. Quare! Entre nous, can you divine whether this…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 12, 1813
Quincy November. 12. 1813 Dear Sir As I owe you more for your Letters of Oct. 12. and 28 than I Shall be able to pay. I Shall begin with…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 14, 1813
Quincy Nov. 14: 1813 Dear Sir Accept my thanks for the comprehensive Syllabus, in your favour of Oct. 12. The Psalms of David, in Sublimity beauty, pathos and Originality, or…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813
Quincy November 15. 13 Dear Sir I cannot appease my melancholly commiseration for our Armies in this furious Snow Storm, in any way So well as by Studying your Letter…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 25, 1813
Quincy Decr 25th. 1813 Dear Sir Answer my Letters at your Leisure. Give yourself no concern. I write as for a refuge and protection against Ennui. The fundamental Principle of…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, December 26, 1813
Quincy Dec. 26. 13 Dear Vanderkemp Be not anxious. I am not jealous. Had your Packett arrived one day Sooner, I Should have delivered it in Person to Mr and…
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John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, December 29, 1813
Quincy Dec. 29. [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ]13 Friend Spafford I have delivered the Copy of your Gazetteer of New York, intended for the American Accademy of…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, January 1, 1814
Quincy Jan. 1814 Dear Rush When I meet The beattified Spirit I Shall Say to him, with our mutual frankness, “Sir you ought to have added two Chapters to your…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, January 7, 1814
Quincy Jan 7th. 1814 Dear Sir I go farther than you in your Glooms I expect Detroit and Michigan will be again taken and all Perry fleet taken or burned…
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John Adams to Thomas Clark, January 25, 1814
Quincy January 25th 1814 Sir I thank you for your polite and obliging letter of the 17th and for the Copy in two volumes of the Naval History of the…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, January 26, 1814
Quincy Jan. 26. 1814 Dear Sir If I may judge of others by myself, Mr Hay had no cause of Apprehension that he Should be tedious: for when I had…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, January 30, 1814
Quincy Jan. 30. 14 Dr Sir Yours of 14th are here. You must take hints: I cannot write Letters. Half recovered from a former Illness, the fine sleighing tempted me…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, February 2, 1814
Quincy Feb. 2nd 1814 Dear Madam I send you a curiosity. Mr M Kean, is mistaken in a day or two, the final vote of Independence, after the last debate,…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, February 3, 1814
Quincy Feb. 3 1814 Dear Sir Your favour of Jan 26 is received, and a shower of obligations with it, before it, and after it, which demand my best Thanks,…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, March 2, 1814
Quincy March 2. 1814. Dear Sir, I have been sick a Month, and my eyes and hands incapable of writing otherise you would have heard more from me. Your favor…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, March 4, 1814
Quincy March 4 1814 Dear Sir, I know not what to say to your Letter of 23rd. There are Men whom disaster haunts through life. Sinclair was one & Wilkinson…
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John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, March 24, 1814
Quincy March 24. 1814 Dear Madam If weak Eyes and weaker fingers had not requird more time to write a Line than was once necessary for a page, I should…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, April 3, 1814
Quincy April 3. 1814 Dear Sir I have recd Condorcet, in good order and your favour of 20th. Ult. Enfields History of Philosophy, is worth many Condorcets. This great Work…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, April 6, 1814
Quincy April 6th. 1814 Dear Sir As I have been, in the course of my life, 200 or 300 times in an “Agony of Embarrassment” I understand very well what…
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John Adams to John Taylor, April 9, 1814
Quincy April 9 1814 Sir I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any rational Expectation in my 79th. Year,…