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John Adams to John V. N Yates, December 13, 1822
Montezillo 13th. 1822 December Dear Sir. I have received this Morning from the Post Office by an unknown hand a slip of an Albany newspaper containing your letter to Dr…
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John Adams to John Adams, October 25, 1822
Quincy October 25th 1822 Sir In the reign of Charles 1st of England, Henry Adams came to America from Devonshire and settled at Mount Wollaston with eight sons, one of…
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Edward Livingston to John Adams, October 22, 1822
Red Hook (N York) Octr. 22 1822 Sir The honor of a communication from you would at all times have given me the highest gratification, but your letter of the…
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Johann Friedrich Daniel Lobstein to John Adams, October 21, 1822
Lebanon Pennsylvania October 21. 1822. Honourable & Respected Sir! To address so distinguished a personage is in a stranger a liberty perhaps unpardonable, but it is from a conviction that…
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John Adams to John Adams, October 21, 1822
Boston Octr 21st 1822 Much Respected Sir In compliance with your request in your condescending favr. of the 30th. Ulto. that I should transmit the Pedigree of my family. I…
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Edward Cruft to John Adams, October 19, 1822
Boston Thursday October 19. 1822 My dear Sir I have seen Mr. Stuart, and he requests me to say he is ready at any moment to give you a sitting…
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Mathew Carey to John Adams, October 15, 1822
Philada. Oct. 15. 1822 Sir, By this day’s mail, I send you a copy of the second Edition, improved & enlarged, of the “Facts & observations, illustrative of the past…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, October 15, 1822
Montezillo October 15th 1822 Dear Sir. I have long entertained scruples about writing this letter, upon a subject of some delicacy. But old age has over-come at last. You remember…
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John Adams to Alexander Coffin, October 13, 1822
Montizillo 13 Oct. 1822 Dear Sir. I have received your letters and copies of the papers inclosed & immediately transmitted them to Wm. Thomas Esqr Editor of the old colony…
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John Adams to Joseph T Buckingham, October 13, 1822
Montizillo 13 Oct 1822 Sir Accept my best thanks for your vol of collections from the public Journals. Unable to read myself, I have not found a reader for more…
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John Adams to Stephen Mack, October 10, 1822
Montezillo Oct. 10. 1822. Sir, I should sooner have answered your letter of the 20th Ulto if I could. My disposition is very good to assist as far as I…
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John Adams to Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, October 8, 1822
Quincy October 8th 1822 My Dear old Friend by the dear old titular of Marquis of La Fayette for I know nothing of your Modern Titles in France David Hinckley…
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Timothy Pickering to John Adams, August 13, 1822
Salem August 13. 1822. Sir, I duly received, and am greatly obliged by your interesting letter of the 6th in answer to mine of the 2d inst. Should any other…
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John Adams to William Thomas, August 12, 1822
Montezillo August 12th. 1822 Dear Sir Let me add a few hints to my former letter. Please to search in the publications after the Treaty of Peace for a letter…
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John Adams to William Thomas, August 11, 1822
Montezillo, Aug. 11, 1822. Dear sir— Let me add a few hints to my former letter. Please to search in the publications after the treaty of peace for a letter…
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Abraham Holmes to John Adams, August 10, 1822
Rochester Augt. 10th 1822 Sir, You will pardon (I hope) the freedom I take in introducing to your Notice the bearer of this, who has a strong desire (from respectable…
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John Adams to William Thomas, August 10, 1822
Montezillo August 10th. 1822 Dear Sir, The grounds and principles on which the “3third article of the Treaty of 83. was contended for on our part and finally yielded on…
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François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, August 8, 1822
Oldenbarneveld 8 Aug 1822. My Dear and Respected Sir! Although I hear no more of Montezillo than of Boston—Yet I trust, that it is not unacceptable to receive again a—few…
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William Thomas to John Adams, August 8, 1822
Plymouth 8th Aug 1822 Dear & Respected Sir, I hope you will not think me impertinent in making some enquiries on a subject very interesting to our section of the…
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John Adams to Timothy Pickering, August 6, 1822
Montezillo August 6th: 1822. Sir Your favour of the 2d instant has prescribed a dismal plan, which I was never very well calculated to execute, but am now wholly incapable.…