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.
St: Petersburg 25 Septr: 1811. The flood of our letters from America, as well as of vessels arriving from the United States has almost entirely subsided. From the last week…
St: Petersburg 29. September 1811. My Dear Son The second general point of view, in which I propose to you to consider the Bible, to the great end that it…
St: Petersburg 6. November 1811. Since I wrote you last (which the enclosed will shew you was very lately) though I have not have had the pleasure of hearing from…
St: Petersburg 1. January 1812. I will not suffer the first day of this new year to pass over, without renewing to my dear Mother the expression of my fervent…
St. Petersburg 4. March 1812. I have not forgotten the engagement which I voluntarily undertook, at the beginning of the last year, not to suffer any month to pass over…
St: Petersburg 28. April 1812. The only notice of existence directly from yourself that I have received since your letter of 2. June 1811. is by a scrap of half…
St: Petersburg 30 April 1812. The enclosed is a copy of a letter, which was written near a Month, before an opportunity occurred of sending it, on its way to…
St: Petersburg 22 May 1812. Your N 19/10 dated 10 Septr: 7. Decr: 1811. and 3. Jany: 1812 was forwarded to me from Gothenburg, and received by me the 8th:…
St: Petersburg 4 July 1812 Since the original of my last letter was written, I have received no letters from America, but there are newspaper Accounts and letters to other…
St: Petersburg 12 July 1812 The political Condition of the World, not only engrosses all our thoughts, but absorbs all our faculties. A new War is just blazing out in…
St: Petersburg 13 < , Start deletion, April , End, > July 1812. My Dear Sir. I was closing up a letter, which I wrote yesterday to my dear Mother…
St: Petersburg 14 July 1812 Although I wrote you not more than ten days ago, having yesterday received your letter of 18. March, and having now an excellent opportunity to…
St. Petersburg 23 July 1812. My Dear Sister. I received a very few days ago, your kind favour of 1. March last, which gave me great pleasure as a token…
St: Petersburg 29. July 1812 My dear Aunt— I received with the liveliest pleasure your kind favour of 26. February, as independent of the joy which it always gives me…
St: Petersburg 21. September 1812 My dearly beloved Mother. During the last two years, the unwelcome task has too often been allotted to you, to communicate to my dear wife…
St: Petersburg 27. September 1812 My Dear Son. I wrote a few days ago to your Grandmama, and desired her to inform you, and your brother John, of the heavy…
St: Petersburg 28. September 1812. My dear Son. Since I wrote you last, which was on the 23d: of June, we have received your letter to your mother, dated 2.…
St: Petersburg 29. September 1812 My dear Brother. A War between the United States and Great-Britain, and a War between France and Russia, having commenced on the same Week in…
St: Petersburg 4 October 1812 My Dear Sir “Why was that fair flower blasted so soon”?—The last letter which I have had the consolation of receiving from you, in mentioning…
St. Petersburg, 5. October 1812. My Dear Sir, I received so early, early as last January your obliging favour of 18. Novr. to which Notwithstanding the difficulty amounting almost to…
St: Petersburg 31. December 1812 As another Year is closing upon time, and joining “the years beyond the flood,” I cannot employ its last moments more satisfactorily to myself, or…
St: Petersburg 15 February 1813. My Dear Sir. Although the Wars, which broke out in the course of one Week, last Summer, both in Europe and America, appear to have…
St: Petersburg 18. February 1813. As I shall probably not have an opportunity of dispatching letters for America, after that of which I now avail myself, at least before the…
St: Petersburg 27 February 1813. At length, after another interval of nearly seven Months since I had been favoured with the sight of a line from any of my friends…