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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, January 27, 1807
Washington 27. Jany: 1807. My dear Sir I received nearly ten days since your very kind letter, which has hitherto remained unanswered owing to the very sudden transition we made,…
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Letters from John Quincy Adams
B. 1767 · D. 1848
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; minister to Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia; and senator for Massachusetts. After his presidency, Adams uniquely returned to Congress as a member of the lower house, where he died in 1848. He was the eldest son of John Adams, the second president, and First Lady Abigail Adams. Among his children were Charles Francis Adams Sr. Initially a Federalist like his father, Adams spent his presidency as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and later, in the mid-1830s, became affiliated with the Whig Party.
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, February 19, 1807
Washington 19. Feby: 1807. My dear Louisa. Since I wrote you last I have been a little affected with the rhumatism in my shoulder, so that I did not attend…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, February 27, 1807
Washington 27. Feby: 1807. My dear Louisa. I received yesterday your letter of the 15th: and this morning that of the 17th: enclosing in the former a letter < ,…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, March 8, 1807
Philadelphia Sunday 8. March 1807. My dear Louisa My project of coming from Washington to this place, by the way of Annapolis was disappointed, by the badness of the roads,…
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John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, November 7, 1807
Washington 7. Novr: 1807. Dear Sir. I have not yet had the pleasure of receiving a line from you, which I presume is owing to the multiplicity of your occupations—I…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, November 30, 1807
Washington 30. Novr: 1807. My dear Sir I received a few days since your very kind letter which I am ashamed of answering by a few lines; but by some…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, December 14, 1807
Washington 14. Decr: 1807. Your’s of the 3d: instt: came to hand the night before last; I am perfectly satisfied with your sales of my wood—I had a little kindness…
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John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, December 18, 1807
Washington 18. Decr: 1807. My dear Sir. I received some days since, your letter of the 18th: of last Month—But it was longer in coming than the time usually taken…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, December 27, 1807
Washington 27. Decr: 1807 My dear Sir, Your favour of the 14th: instt: came to my hands just at a moment to renew and to strengthen impressions which had been…
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John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, March 7, 1808
Washington 7. March 1808. Dear Sir. I will thank you to pay to my father, for me, on or before the 22d: of this month eleven hundred and seventy two…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, March 12, 1808
Washington 12. March 1808. My dear Brother. I begin by congratulating you upon the birth of your daughter Elizabeth, of which I had never heard, untill I received your letter…
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John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, March 25, 1808
Washington 25. March 1808. My Dear Sir. Your favour of the 5th: instt: never came to my hands untill yesterday—I have long noticed the characters of the factions which were…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, January 29, 1809
New York Sunday noon 29. Jany: 1809. My dear wife, I write you a line from the Stage–Office: having just this moment arrived, and intending in half an hour to…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, February 1, 1809
Baltimore 1. Feby: 1809. My dear Wife. On leaving Boston I had formed the Resolution of travelling only in the day-time, but at the close of the second day, arriving…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, February 5, 1809
Washington City 5. Feby: 1809. My dearest Louisa The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place; though in the…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, February 8, 1809
Washington 8. February 1809. My dear wife. I thank you for your letter, and Kitty for her watch paper— I had like to have had no watch-case to put it…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, March 9, 1809
Washington 9. March 1809. My dear Louisa. I wrote you on Sunday, and the same Evening I received yours of 26. Feby:—Yesterday yours of the 1st: instt: came to hand—I…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, March 12, 1809
Washington 12. March 1809. My dear Louisa. Last night I received your kind favour of the 4th: instt: with the information the most delightful to my feelings, that my mother…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, August 7, 1809
At Sea. 7. August 1809—Monday My Dear Brother. About 9. O’Clock this Morning we spoke a fishing Schooner from the Grand Bank, belonging and bound to Plymouth—We were in the…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, August 9, 1809
At Sea—500 Miles from you 9. Augt: 1809. Wednesday. My dearest Mother. Often as it has been my fortune in the course of my life, to be parted from my…
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John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, August 21, 1809
21. Augt: 1809. It is related of Augustus Caesar, that being upon his death-bed, he turned just before he expired to the friends who were standing around, and asked them…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, September 24, 1809
24. September 1809. The original of which the within is a duplicate, was dispatched to you on the 16th: of August, by the Dove, a fishing vessel belonging to Plymouth,…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, January 8, 1810
[ 8 Jan. 1810 ] The cypher consists of two parts—a Lock and a Key. The Lock is a sheet of paper, with four columns of letters at the left,…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, April 21, 1810
St: Petersburg 21. April 1810. I have already drawn for three hundred pounds Sterling, of the credit, for which Mr: Gray gave me a letter upon his correspondents here. He…