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Thomas J. McKean to John Adams, August 20, 1813
Philadelphia. Aug. 20th. 1813. Dear Sir, I can at length furnish you with a copy of the proceedings of the Congress held at New-York in 1765; it is inclosed herewith.…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, July 26, 1813
Quincy July 26th. 1813 Our old Commodores & Captains, are not so ardent for glory as they were 35 years ago. One of the bravest of them sends me word,…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, July 25, 1813
Quincy July. 25th. 1813 Mine Eyes are better. I am angry with you for calling our Navy little. It is the greatest Navy in the World. Far greater than the…
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John Adams to William Plumer, July 25, 1813
Quincy July 25 1813 Dear Sir I have lately turned over our Historians, Ramsay Gordon, Mrs Warren, Marshall, to search for a Statistical devellopement of that most powerful Instrument and…
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John Fothergill Waterhouse to John Adams, July 22, 1813
Philadelphia July 22d. 1813 Respected Sir Knowing the friendship which existed between you & our Late Illustrious Prof. Rush & the exalted opinion which you mutually entertained of each other’s…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 22, 1813
Quincy July 22 1813 Dear Sir Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says “As you were pleased with my comparison of Socrates and Jesus,…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, July 21, 1813
Quincy July 21 1813 I have been highly gratified by your obliging letter recd Yesterday. You need not give yourself any concern about my Name in your future Edition. I…
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Mathew Carey to John Adams, July 20, 1813
[ , Start insertion, ante 20 July 1813 , End, ] Sir, Your favours of the 3d. 5th. 7th. & 8th are before me, & call for a renewal of…
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François Adriaan Van der Kemp to John Adams, July 19, 1813
Oldenbarneveld 19 July 1813— Dear and respected Sir! If I should not write, except I could Send you an interesting Letter then I would but Seldom have this opportunitÿ, but…
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John Adams to Alexander Hill Everett, July 19, 1813
Quincy July 19th 1813 Sir I am glad to find you are pleased with the sketches. The exploits of our maratime and naval Genius, are a severe Satire on our…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1813
Quincy July 18th. 1813 Dear Sir I have more to Say, on Religion. For more than Sixty Years I have been attentive to this great Subject. Controversies, between Calvinists and…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 16, 1813
Quincy July 16. 1813 Dear Sir Your Letters to Priestley, have encreased my Grief if that were possible, for the loss of Rush. Had he lived, I would have Stimulated…
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James Monroe to John Adams, July 15, 1813
Washington July 15. 1813 Dear Sir I have the pleasure to inclose you a copy of a report of the committee of the H. of Reps. on foreign relations, in…
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John Adams to John Langdon, July 3, 1813
Quincy July 3. 1813. Dear Sir Although it would do no good to excite your Tears or my own, by Allusions to your late Afflictions or mine; I Sincerely condole…
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John Adams to Mathew Carey, July 3, 1813
Quincy July 3. 1813 Sir I thank you for your favour of the 28th of June. I know your press of Business too well to need any Apology for delays…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, July 1, 1813
Quincy July 1st. 1813 Dear Sir, The report that John Quincy Adams has written to his father, or any one else that “the war which the United States has declared,…
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John Adams to Hendrick W Gordon, July 1, 1813
Quincy July 1 1813 Dear Sir Your kind letter of the 28th and 29th are before me. The report that my son, has written or said that, “The present War…
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Isaac Prince to John Adams, July 1, 1813
Philadelphia July 1st. 1813.— Sir, I beg leave to enclose you herewith a Prospectus of “The Naval Chronicle of the United States”—a Wook I intend to publish at this place.—…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1813
Quincy June 30th. 1813 Dear Sir Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to correct an Idea…
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John Adams to William Bentley, June 30, 1813
Quincy June 30th 1813 Dear Sir Well knowing your love of your Country, and your judicious discrimination in the choice of measures to promote its interest; I presume you will…