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William Thornton to John Adams, August 3, 1822
City of Washington 3rd: Augst. 1822— My dear sir When your highly respected Son the Honorable John Quincy Adams sent me the Papers which Mr. William Mellus had the honor…
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Timothy Pickering to John Adams, August 2, 1822
Salem August 2. 1822. Sir, As no act of the Congress of the Thirteen United American Colonies was so distinguished as that by which their Independence of Great Britain was…
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John Adams to Edward Livingston, August 1, 1822
August 1st. 1822 Sir I < , Start deletion, have , End, > feel myself highly honored by your polite & obliging letter of the 19th. of May which I…
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William Taylor Barry to John Adams, June 30, 1822
Lexington Kentucky 30th. June 1822 Sir A few days since I forwarded to you by Mail a printed Circular, the object of which is to gain information to enable the…
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John Adams to William, Jr Tudor, June 30, 1822
Montezillo 30th. June 1822 dear Sir In answer to yours, of the 15. June and to the first question in it, I am not able from memory to satisfy your…
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John Phillips to John Adams, June 27, 1822
Beacon Street Boston. Thursday June 27th. 1822. The Mayor of the City of Boston, most respectfully solicits the Honor of President Adams’ company, on the evening of the fourth of…
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, June 27, 1822
Monticello June 27. 22. Dear Sir Your kind letter of the 11th. has given me great satisfaction for altho’ I could not doubt but that the hand of age was…
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Charles Hood to John Adams, June 26, 1822
Boston. 26 June 1822 Sir, The approaching Anniversary of American Independence, again awakens the feelings of every American Citizen, and inspires them with a lively Sensation, in the recollection of…
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John Adams to Samuel B.H Judah, June 25, 1822
Montezillo 25th June 1822 Sir— I have heard read your horrible Odofriede; although there are marks of genius and talents, which in so young a man, if hereafter carefully cultivated…
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J. A Bingham to John Adams, June 24, 1822
Rockville, Md. June 24, 1822 Dear Sir, In presenting to the People of the United States, proposals for so important a work as the designation: of that which is here…
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John Adams to Samuel L Knapp, June 24, 1822
Montezillo 24th June 1822. Dear Sir, I thank you for the Vol. you sent me containing the trial of Lt Abbot. I am too blind to read it myself and…
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Henry Channing to John Adams, May 22, 1822
New London, Connt. 22d May, 1822. Dear Sir, I take the liberty of enclosing our two last Gazettes.—May 15th contains No 4, on dividing the State into Districts, for the…
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William, Jr Tudor to John Adams, May 21, 1822
Boston May 21st. 1822. Dear and Venerable President, I took up in a bookstore this morning a work that has just appeared in two volumes entitled “ The History of…
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Edward Livingston to John Adams, May 19, 1822
New Orleans the 19th May 1822. Sir, If you have leisure and patience to peruse the inclosed pamphlet, it will shew the efforts we are in this remote part of…
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John Adams to Old Colony Memorial, May 18, 1822
Quincy Montezillo May 18th. 1822 Sir, I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony Memorial and so perfectly satisfied with the design and execution of the first…
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John Adams to Allen Danforth, May 18, 1822
Montezillo May 18th. 1822 Sir I am so delighted with the idea of an Old Colony memorial; and so perfectly satisfied with the design and execution of the first number…
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John Adams to John Davis, May 2, 1822
montezillo May 2. 1822 dear Sir. I thank you for introducing to me Mr Lewis Weld, an Instructor in the Asylum for the deaf & Dumb at Hartford, in whom…
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John Davis to John Adams, May 1, 1822
Boston. May. 1. 1822 Dear Sir, Permit me to introduce to you Mr Lewis Weld, an instructor in the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at Hartford, who visits Boston,…
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John Adams to John Williams, April 30, 1822
Montezillo April 30th. 1822 Sir. I pray you to accept my kind thanks for sending me the Mecklenberg declaration of Independence. Although these papers have been familiar to me for…
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John Adams to Ann Hinckley, April 29, 1822
Montezillo 29th. Apl 1822 dear Miss Hinckley I pray you to accept my thanks for a very elegant present, which delicious as it is in itself is rendered still more…