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Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, May 2, 1801
Philadelphia 2 d: May 1801. Dear Mother Your favor of the 22 d: ult o: has been a few days in hand. I thank you kindly for “the word intended…
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Letters from Thomas Boylston Adams
B. 1772 · D. 1832
Thomas Boylston Adams was the third and youngest son of second United States president John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams. He worked as a lawyer, a secretary to his brother John Quincy Adams while the latter served as United States ambassador to the Netherlands and Prussia, the business manager of and a contributor to the political and literary journal Port Folio, and a Massachusetts chief justice.
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110 letters
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, May 14, 1801
Philadelphia 14 th: May 1801. Dear William I enclose you a paper, which contains the Sentence referred to in my last, passed upon the troopers who flogged Duane. 1 You…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, September 20, 1801
Philadelphia 20 th: Sept r: 1801. Dear Mother. I received your favor of the 10 th: inst t: the Day before yesterday, with an enclosure for J Q A &…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 7, 1801
Philadelphia 7 th: December 1801 dear Brother. I have just now received your favor of the 28 th: ult. with the enclosures; Dennie stepp’d in a moment after, and I…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Cranch, January 30, 1802
Philadelphia 30 th: January 1802 Dear Sir. I have to acknowledge your favor of the 13 th: ult o: . 1 The principal subject in which you dwelt; viz: the…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, May 7, 1802
Philadelphia 7 th: May 1802. Dear Mother. Since the receipt of your favor of the 18 th: ult: I have been absent from the City, a few days, attending a…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 16, 1802
Philadelphia 16 th: May 1802 Dear Brother. I received, at Norristown, while attending a County Court, your favor of the 25 th: ult: with an enclosure for Old-school, which is…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, May 28, 1802
Philadelphia 28 th: May 1802 Dear Mother. I have your favor of the 23 d: inst: before me. The Country looks so pleasant and inviting in the vicinity of this…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, November 30, 1802
Philadelphia 30 th: November 1802. Dear Brother The Eastern Mail brought your letter of the 23 d: this morning. 1 The business part of it stands thus. D r: Woodhouse…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 5, 1803
Philadelphia 5 th: January 1803. Dear Brother I received, yesterday, your favor of the 27 th: ult. and thank you, for the wholesome admonitions, it contains. 1 Your advice will…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 12, 1803
12 th: January 1803— Dear Brother. Since I am embarked in a very doubtful speculation, and I am ready to own, that I am by no means sanguine as to…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, January 18, 1803
Philadelphia 18 th: January 1803. My dear Sir. I lately enclosed you a prospectus of the Rev d Doctor Smith’s works accompanied by a print of the Author, which I…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 25, 1803
25 th: January 1803— I do not intend to write you very often, though I find it impossible to refrain altogether. Your last, is of the 10 th: inst t:…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, August 31, 1803
Philadelphia 31 st: August 1803. Dear William. Your favour of the 24 th: is before me, and I most ardently hope the information respecting the prospect of my mother’s recovery…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to James Sullivan, October 23, 1804
Quincy 23 d: October 1804. Gentlemen Having waited some time in expectation of an answer to the last proposal, which I had the honor to submit to your consideration relative…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 6, 1804
[ , Start insertion, Quincy. 6 December 1804 , End, ] Your letter of the 26th: is So copiously answered that I shall reserve my fire for a future occasion,…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, September 5, 1805
5th: September 1805 Dear William Next Monday (the 9th: currt) the Court of Sessions sit at Concord for the County of Middlesex—I have made a draft of a petition to…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Meredith, July 30, 1806
Quincy July 30th: 1806. My dear Sir. Your very friendly letter of the 8th: instant came to hand on the 16th: and I have with some impatience waited the arrival…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, December 27, 1807
Quincy 27th: December 1807 Dear Brother I returned from Dedham on Friday morning, and found your letter of the 14th. The Court of Common Pleas dispatched business rather faster than…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, March 15, 1808
Quincy 15th: March 1808. Dear Brother. I have received from Messrs: Curtis & Adams to whom I sold your Wood near the Mill pond, the amount of price agreed for;…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, March 24, 1808
Quincy 24th: March 1808. Dear Brother Although I have recently written you a letter of some length, I will not therefore refrain from a prompt acknowledgment of your favour of…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Sullivan, May 6, 1809
Boston 6th May 1809. Dear Sir, Mr: Thomas Greenleaf, who read law in my Office, for the space of Two years and nine months, and who is now under your…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith Shaw, April 15, 1810
Quincy 15th: April 1810. Dear William I enclose you two advertisements, which will thank you to have printed in the Palladium of Tuesday, and the Patriot of Wednesday; and if…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, April 7, 1811
Quincy April 7th 1811 My Dear Brother. The departure of the Ship Horace, the same in which you sailed, for St Petersburg, was as sudden as her actual destination was…