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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, April 7, 1813
St: Petersburg 7. April 1813 I know not whether it was generosity, or any other virtue, or merely a disposition to receive the postage, that induced the transmission of your…
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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 John Adams, April 19, 1813
St: Petersburg 19. April 1813. Dear Sir. I intended in my last Letter to have mentioned to you the Circumstances which procured me somewhat unexpectedly the pleasure of an acquaintance…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, June 21, 1813
St: Petersburg 21. June 1813. The duplicate of your Account for the year 1811. has at length reached me; but without comment or explanation—Part of it I therefore cannot fully…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, July 19, 1813
St: Petersburg 19 July 1813 Mr: Gallatin and Mr Bayard reached Gothenburg Roads, on the 20th: of June. A Russian Gentlemen who had come as passenger in the same vessel…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, August 23, 1813
St: Petersburg 23 August 1813. Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard have been here a complete Month. They had arrived at Reval, a Port just at the entrance of the Gulph…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, August 31, 1813
St: Petersburg 31. August 1813 My Dear Son. When Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard arrived here, they brought us letters from many of our friends, and among them one from…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, September 3, 1813
St: Petersburg 3. September 1813. Dear Sir. This day thirty Years ago, you signed a definitive Treaty of Peace, between the United States of America, and Great-Britain; and here am…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, October 14, 1813
St. Petersburg 14. October 1813. I have just this moment returned from attending the funeral obsequies of the late general Moreau; which have been solemnized with suitable splendour at the…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, October 15, 1813
St: Petersburg 15. October 1813. My Dear Sir. I wrote yesterday to my dear Mother by a Gentleman, who is going to Gothenburg, intending to embark there directly for the…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, October 23, 1813
St. Petersburg 23. October 1813 Mr. W. Story, arrived at Gothenburg on the 28th: of last Month, and forwarded to me from that place several Letters from Quincy, among which…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, October 25, 1813
St: Petersburg 25. October 1813. If I could have omitted to welcome the return of this day, and to renew my prayers for many happy repetitions of it to my…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, December 30, 1813
St: Petersburg 30. December 1813. As the time is approaching for the departure of Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard, and as the Month and year are drawing to a close,…
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John Quincy Adams to John Adams, January 2, 1814
St Petersburg 2. January 1814. My Dear Sir. The last Letters I have had the pleasure of receiving from you are those of 1. and 2. July, and excepting them…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, March 30, 1814
St: Petersburg 30. March 1814. Since I wrote you last, 1. February I have had no opportunity of putting a Letter even on its way, to reach you, when it…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 9, 1814
Reval 9. May 1814. My dearest friend. Mr Rodde informs me that before he left St: Petersburg the twenty-five English Mails had arrived, from which I conclude that the Gulph…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, May 12, 1814
Reval 12. May 1814. I left St: Petersburg on the 28th. of last Month, as in the Letter of which I now enclose a press-Copy, I mentioned to you was…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 13, 1814
Reval 1/13 May 1814. What can I say to my beloved friend, but that I am still the prisoner of the ice and the winds?—It is a poor Consolation, but…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 14, 1814
Reval. Saturday Evening 14. May 1814. My dear Wife After I had closed my Letter for you which is to go by this night’s Post, I received a Letter from…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, June 12, 1814
United States Corvette John Adams. Below Wingo. Sunday 12 June 1814— The wind, which had been blowing for ten days to the Westward having yesterday become fair, Captain Angus went…
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John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, June 20, 1814
Amsterdam, 20 June 1814. My dear Son. I received your second Letter, dated 23. May, just as I was coming on board the ship at Gothenburg, so that I had…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, June 24, 1814
Ghent 24 June 1814. My dearest Friend. At length I may indulge the hope of having reached the remotest bound of the distance which separates me from you, and that…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 15, 1814
Ghent 15. July 1814. My dear wife. The stream of high and mighty travellers from London, through this place has been incessant since the passage of the Emperor Alexander—The two…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 19, 1814
Ghent 19. July 1814. My beloved friend. The false alarm, that I gave you in my last Letter, of the arrival of the British Commissioners, came to us from no…
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John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, July 22, 1814
Ghent 22. July 1814. My Dear Charles. Your third Letter, dated 11. June, came to me the day before yesterday Morning, and gave me so much pleasure that I take…