Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 22, 1814
Ghent 22. July 1814. My Dearest Friend. As I am reduced to the necessity of copying all my own Letters, and as one of the duties the most indispensable to…
Author
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.
Source: Wikipedia
507 letters
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 12, 1814
Ghent 12. August 1814. My dearest friend. I wrote you some weeks ago that after the arrival of the British Commissioners, I should probably find it impracticable to write you…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 16, 1814
Ghent 16. August 1814 My Beloved wife. American News presses upon us with an interest still increasing, and which will soon be but too powerful. It is impossible that the…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, August 18, 1814
Ghent 18 August 1814. The John Adams is to sail from the Texel on the 25th: of this Month, and Mr Dallas, who is to be the bearer of our…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 19, 1814
Ghent 19. August 1814 My dearest Wife. At last, I have the satisfaction of knowing that there is no positive obstacle to the passage of Letters directly by the Post,…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, August 19, 1814
Ghent 19 August 1814. My Dear Brother. I have now barely time to enclose you a Press-Copy of my last Letter; the original of which I sent to England, to…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to John Adams, August 20, 1814
Ghent 20. August 1814. My Dear Sir. Mr Dallas goes off with our Dispatches at three O’Clock to-morrow morning; and the John Adams is to sail from the Texel; if…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to William Steuben Smith, September 7, 1814
Ghent 7. September 1814. Dear Sir, I am rejoiced at learning, at last, your safe arrival with your family at Amsterdam—I have twice written to you—once, by Mr. Dallas, a…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, September 9, 1814
Ghent 9. September 1814 My dearest friend. Mr Smith and his family have arrived at Amsterdam; I have received a Letter from him dated on the 5th: instt: and have…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, September 10, 1814
Ghent 10. September 1814. When I wrote you my last Letter, a press copy of which, is enclosed, I had little or no expectation that I should at this day…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, September 13, 1814
Ghent 13. September 1814 My Dear Charles. It was so long since I had received a Letter from you that I began to be quite impatient; and then your Mama,…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, September 13, 1814
Ghent 13. September 1814 My dear wife. Your Letters of 13 and 15 August, which I received both together on Saturday last have fully ascertained that the Post directly between…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 7, 1814
Ghent 7. October 1814. My dearest friend. Captain Bates arrived here yesterday morning, from Amsterdam, and has lent me a number of American Newspapers, of the month of August, and…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 11, 1814
Ghent 11. October 1814. My dearest friend. No letter from you, since that of 10. September, which I received, this day week—The next Post-day was Saturday, when there came one…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 14, 1814
Ghent 14. October 1814. My dearest wife, Mr Boyd returned last Evening from Amsterdam, and is to proceed in the course of two or three days to Paris—As you are…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 18, 1814
Ghent 18. October 1814. My dearest wife. First for the news from America. I had not closed my last Friday’s Letter to you, when the Times , of the 10th.…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 21, 1814
Ghent 21. October 1814. My dearest Louisa. Nothing from you since your Letter of 13. September, from which I conclude that you ceased writing, after receiving mine of 23. August.…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, November 4, 1814
Ghent 4. November 1814 My dearest wife. Your favour of 30. September is still the latest that I have received from you, and it has left me in a solicitude…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, November 8, 1814
Ghent 8. November 1814. My dearest friend. The Evening before last, Mr Russell received, enclosed in a letter from Mr Beasley a scrap of an English Newspaper, containing the President’s…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, November 11, 1814
Ghent 11. November 1814. My dear Son. After I had written you in my last Letter that you needed not to answer it, because I expected to be half way…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, November 23, 1814
Ghent 23. November. 1814. My dear Mother. In my Letter of 22. of last Month, I mentioned to you my disappointment at having received no Letters from Quincy or from…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, November 25, 1814
Ghent 25. November 1814. My dear wife. The Evening before last Coll: Milligan arrived here from England. He had left London on Saturday Morning the 19th: and came by the…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, November 29, 1814
Ghent 29 November 1814 My dearest wife. My letter of Friday last informed you of the arrival of the Fingal at Havre, and of the dispatches from the Government, brought…
Letter
John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, December 2, 1814
Ghent 2. December 1814. My beloved wife. Yesterday morning your Letter of 6. November, which I mark number 41 was delivered to me—Why it had been so long on the…