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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, December 2, 1814
Quincy December 2d 1814 Dear Sir I thank you for your favour of the 23d.— Gerry is gone to joine his Copatriots in lamentations over the degeneracy of his 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 John Taylor, December 14, 1814
Quincy [ , Start insertion, post 14 Dec. 1814 , End, ] Dear Sir Mr Adams’s System is that of Pope, in his Essay on Criticism; “First follow Nature and…
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John Adams to John Taylor, December 17, 1814
Quincy December 17th 1814 Dear Sir In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous Patricians, mangled and bleeding Victims of popular…
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John Adams to John Taylor, December 18, 1814
Quincy December 18. 1814 Dear sir I hope my last Letter convinced you, that Democracy is as restles as ambitious as warlike and bloody, as Aristocracy or Monarchy. You proceed…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, December 20, 1814
Quincy December 20th 1814 Sir I have a great desire to read the olive branch of which you are the publisher and reputed author, I have in vain sought for…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1814
Quincy December 20. 1814 Dear Sir The most exalted of our young Genius’s in Boston have an Ambition to See Montecello, its Library and Sage. I lately gave a Line…
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John Adams to James Madison, December 21, 1814
Quincy December 21st 1814 Respected Sir Knowing the immense weight of your cares, it gives me pain to interrupt you a moment. But when a young Scholar, Lawyer and amiable…
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John Adams to James Monroe, December 21, 1814
Quincy Decr 21. 1814 Respected Sir As you have many Years to live, and are likely to have Buissness enough to do with your Countrymen as long as you live:…
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John Adams to John Taylor, December 22, 1814
Quincy December 22. 1814 Dear Sir In my Apology, if you like that Word better than “Defence” I passed over England for more reasons than One. I very well knew,…
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John Adams to James Madison, January 1, 1815
Quincy Decr. 17 1815 Dear Sir Benjamin Wells Esqr and his Lady are very ambitious of paying their respects to President Madison and his Lady. The Gentleman’s Grandfathers were two…
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John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, January 11, 1815
Quincy January 11. 1815 Dear Sir For myself and all my Family, I reciprocate to you and yours, the Compliments of the Season. At my Age, one knows not what…
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John Adams to John Taylor, January 18, 1815
Quincy January 18. 1815 Dear Sir “Knowledge” you Say invented Alienation, and became the natural Enemy of Aristocracy. This “Invention” of “Knowledge” was not very profound or ingenious. There are…
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John Adams to John Taylor, January 19, 1815
Quincy January 19th. 1815 Dear Sir. Suppose Congress Should at one Vote, or by one Act, declare all the Negroes in the United States, free, in imitation of that Great…
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John Adams to John Taylor, January 21, 1815
Quincy January 21st. 1815 Dear Sir You remember I have reserved a right of employing twenty years to answer your Book, because you consumed that number in writing it. I…
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John Adams to John Taylor, January 24, 1815
Quincy January 24th 1815 Dear Sir That the first Want of Man is his Dinner, and the second his Girl, were truths well known to every Democrat and Aristocrat, long…
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John Adams to James Lloyd, January 28, 1815
Quincy January 28th. 1815 Dear Sir Although I have no recollection, that I ever met you more than once in Society; and that I presume was the instance that you…
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John Adams to James Lloyd, February 28, 1815
Quincy Feb. 28. [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ]15 Dear Sir I was engaged this Morning in writing a Letter to you No. 7, when I recd your…
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John Adams to William Cranch, March 3, 1815
Quincy March 3, [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ]15 Dr Sir Our Fisheries have not been abandoned. They cannot be abandoned. They Shall not be abandoned. We hold…
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John Adams to Jedidiah Morse, March 4, 1815
Quincy March 4. 1815 My dear Sir, Thanks for your favour of the 1st and the Sermon. I have never Seen Trumbulls History, in print, and know nothing of it,…
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John Adams to John Taylor, March 5, 1815
Quincy < , Start deletion, January , End, > March 5th. 1815 Dear Sir A few Words more concerning the Characters of litterary Men. What Sort of Men have had…
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John Adams to James Lloyd, March 6, 1815
Quincy March 6. 1815 Dear Sir As method is of no importance, in my Letters I will deviate from the course I was in, to Speak of the Project of…
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John Adams to James Lloyd, March 9, 1815
Quincy March 9th 1815 Dear Sir With Mr Pickerings Letter and the Extract from Mr Kings, I received a huge Packett, of other Letters and Documents, of which, I will…
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John Adams to James Lloyd, March 12, 1815
Quincy March 12 1815 Dear Sir I am infinitely obliged to you for your Letter of March 8th. From 1758 to 1775 I practiced at the Bar, and Suffering under…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, April 4, 1815
Quincy April 4th 1815 Dear Smith Washington used to say Sometimes “They work me hard” Sam. Allen Otis said a day or two before his Death “They work me two…