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John Adams to William Cunningham, July 31, 1809
Quincy, July 31, 1809. Dear Sir, I received in season your favour of the 30th June as well as that of July 24th, and thank you for both. The first…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, July 30, 1809
Quincy, July 30, 1809. Sirs, Though I thought I was negociating for peace , to better purpose in Holland than I could in France, yet as I could not be…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, July 27, 1809
Quincy, July 27, 1809. Sirs, HAVING laid together the negociations with the Comte De Vergennes, relative to that sublime machine for demolishing our independence, the mediation of the two Imperial…
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Benjamin Rush to John Adams, July 26, 1809
Philadelphia July 26th: 1809. [. . .] nd, I enclose you three numbers of Duane’s papers that you may see in what manner the late news from St James’s has…
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William Cunningham to John Adams, July 24, 1809
Fitchburg. July 24.th. 1809. Dear Sir. To my letter of the 30th. ult. I have not been favoured with an answer. I feel an uncertainty, from which I wish to…
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John Adams to Samuel Perley, June 19, 1809
Quincy June 19th 1809 Sir I received your favour of the 12th. You propose to me an abridgement of my works. Some fifty five years ago I learned from Lord…
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Pseudonym: “76” to John Adams, June 15, 1809
Maryd. 15 June 1809. Anne Arundel Co. “Oh Shame, Shame! where is thy blush” that thou shouldst thus dare prophane the manes of the immortal Hamilton “a Spirit pure as…
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Benjamin Rush to John Adams, June 14, 1809
Philad[ , Start insertion, el , End, ]phia June 14. 1809. My Dear sir My son Richard who has been a customer for the Aurora ever since he lived at…
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William Cunningham to John Adams, June 14, 1809
Fitchburg, June 14. 1809. Dear Sir. I am favoured with yours of the 7th. inst. After telling me that the employment of your thoughts upon your public essays precludes your…
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Samuel Perley to John Adams, June 12, 1809
Gray June, 12th. 1809. Honored Sir, Your Letter of April, 18th. 1809, came safe to my Hand. + It was soon read by our Lawyer in Gray. He < ,…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 10, 1809
Quincy, June 10, 1809 Sirs, IN page 29. Mr. Hamilton says, “when an ordinary man dreams himself to be a Frederick,” &c. To this I shall make but a short…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 8, 1809
Quincy, June 8, 1809. Sirs, IN page 20, Mr. Hamilton says, my “conduct in the office of President was a heterogeneous compound of right and wrong, of wisdom and error.”…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 7, 1809
Quincy, June 7, 1809. Sirs, In page 26, Mr. Hamilton says, that the mission “could hardly fail to injure our interests with other countries.” This is another of those phantoms…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, June 7, 1809
Quincy June 7. 1809 Dear Sir, Your Letters are not apt to lie a month unacknowledged. That of May 5th. is before me since which I have recd. an Aurora…
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John Adams to William Cunningham, June 7, 1809
Quincy, June 7, 1809. Dear Sir, Yours of May 6th, I have not acknowledged, and cannot particularly consider the abundance of matter in it at present. If you see the…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, June 6, 1809
Quincy, June 6, 1809. Sirs, In page 28, Mr. Hamilton acknowledges that “the President had pledged himself in his speech, (he should have said in his message) to send a…
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John Adams to Joseph Ward, June 6, 1809
Quincy June 6 1809 Sir I recd in Season your interesting favor of the 10th of May: but have not had Opportunity to acknowledge it till now. There appears to…
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John Adams to Boston Patriot, May 2, 1809
Quincy, May 2, 1809. Sirs, THE message mentioned in my last letter, was in these words: Gentlemen of the Senate , The proposition of a fresh negociation with France, in…
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Chester Wright to John Adams, May 2, 1809
Montpelier Vermont May 2d. 1809— Sir, An individual, obscure, & to yourself unknown, begs leave to address you. May I be permitted, Sir, to suggest, that a love for that…
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William Lyman to John Adams, May 1, 1809
American Consulate, London, May 1. 1809. Sir I have the honour at this time to address you for the purpose of requesting your acceptance of the Report of the Examination…