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John Adams to Benjamin W Crowninshield, October 25, 1816
Quincy October 25th 1816 Sir A Lieutenant of the Navy under Commodore Bainbridge on board the Independence, is in a tender state of health, & thinks this climate is too…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, October 23, 1816
Quincy Oct. 23. [ 18 ]16 Dear Sir Your Letter of the 16th. would occupy me for 12 months, when I know not that I have 12 days to live.…
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John Adams to James Madison, October 22, 1816
Quincy October 22d 1816 Dear Sir Thank you for your favour of the 12th. The Anecdote mentioned in my Letter of the 4th of September, is of no consequence to…
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 14, 1816
Monticello Oct. 14. 16 Your letter; dear Sir, of May 6. had already well explained the Uses of grief, that of Sep. 3. with equal truth adduces instances of it’s…
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James Madison to John Adams, October 12, 1816
Washington Ocr. 12. 1816 Dear Sir Your favor of the 4th. of Sepr. was handed to me, by Docr. Freeman, at my abode in Virga. just before I left it…
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François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, October 11, 1816
11 oct. 1816. My Dear and respected Sir! I Should rather guess that Basanistes would do good—It is true it is a heroic medicine, but it would not come in…
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John Adams to James Mease, August 24, 1816
Quincy August 24th 1816 Dear Sir A letter of the 8th of August from Dr Mease has revived many recollections of conversations at Bush Hill, and at the Corner of…
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John Adams to Stephen Miller, August 23, 1816
Quincy August 23rd 1816 Sir Last Evening Mr: Apthrop put into my hand your polite Letter of the first of this Month from New York. Your civil Apology for writing…
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John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, August 14, 1816
Quincy Aug. 14. 1816 My dear Sir Thanks for your third of Aug.—Griefs upon Griefs! Disappointments upon Disappointments! All is Vanity! What then? This is a gay, merry World, notwithstanding.…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, August 9, 1816
Quincy August 9. 1816 Dear Sir The Biography of Mr Vander Kemp would require a Volume which I could not write if a Milion were offered me as a Reward…
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James Mease to John Adams, August 8, 1816
Philadelphia 8t. Augt. 1816 Dear Sir I contemplate publishing a collection of the letters of our late friend Dr Rush on political, religious & miscellaneous subjects; and as he long…
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François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, August 3, 1816
Oldenbarneveld 3 Aug. 1816. My Dear and respected friend! I intended at first to have answered your kind favour of July 16—last week—but I was everÿ daÿ So much fatigued…
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Stephen Miller to John Adams, August 1, 1816
New York 1st Augt. 1816 Respected Sir Being personally unknown to you, I fear that I am chargeable with a breach of decorum in thus addressing a letter to you…
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, August 1, 1816
Monticello Aug. 1. 16 Dear Sir Your two philosophical letters of May 4. and 6. have been too long in my Carton of “Letters to be answered.” to the question…
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John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, July 26, 1816
Quincy 7 Mo. 26, 1816 Worthy Friend I thank thee, for thy kind congratulations on my Health. There is no Man who wishes the return of my Son So much…
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John Adams to Richard Rush, July 22, 1816
Quincy July 22 1816 Dear Sir The Copy inclosed in your Letter has tenderly affected the little Sensibility that remains in me. As a Memorial of the Friendship of Dr…
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John Adams to William Bainbridge, July 17, 1816
Quincy July 17 1816 Dear Sir I thank you for your kind and obliging Invitation to me and my famility to visit the Independence. I can Scarcely imagine any thing…
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Horatio Gates Spafford to John Adams, July 16, 1816
Albany, 7 Mo. 16, 1816. Hond. and Esteemed Friend— It is with great pleasure that I have observed, of late, the continued evidences of thy health so prolonged, and habitual…
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Alexander Townsend to John Adams, May 13, 1816
Boston 13th. May 1816. Venerable Sir, I have it in contemplation to devote a portion of my leisure to Recollections of the Life of Samuel Dexter . Any facts, public…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, May 6, 1816
Quincy May 6 1816 Dear Sir Neither Eyes Fingers or Paper held out, to dispatch all the Trifles I wished to write in my last Letter. In your favour of…