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Wilhem & Jan (business) Willink to John Adams, December 8, 1789
Amsterdam 8, Decem r: 1789.— Sir.— Shortly after we had the pleasure of paying you our respects under date of the 30 April, we were honor’d with your Letter of…
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Hendrik Fagel to John Adams, November 30, 1789
a la Haÿe ce 30 novembre 1789 Monsieúr. La lettre, dont voús m’avés honoré le 26 de Maÿ m’est bien parvenúe dans son temps, avec le second, et troisieme tome…
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Mary Palmer to John Adams, November 25, 1789
Braintree Nov r 25 th 1789 Sir I beg leave to inform you that Princes Chronology is now in the office, unless the same fairy who bro’t it has carried…
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John Bondfield to John Adams, November 20, 1789
Bordeaux 20 Nov 1789 Sir I am this day honor’d with your favor of the 16 September I am happy to find that the affairs of America are in a…
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John Adams to James Sullivan, September 17, 1789
New York Sept r 17, 89 Sir In your letter of the 18 th of August, you ask why we may not have as much paper in circulation in proportion…
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John Adams to Henry Marchant, September 17, 1789
New York Sept r. 17. 1789 Dear sir Your kind Letter of Aug. 29, gave me much pleasure. There is more Confinement, in my present Situation than in any, that…
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John Adams to Cotton Tufts, September 16, 1789
New Yo[rk Se]pt. 16. 1789 My dear Friend I have rec d all your Letters, and the Post Office is very faithful. 1 The Heat has been excessive and my…
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John Adams to Guy Claude, Comte de Sarsfield, September 16, 1789
New York Sept r 16 1789 My dear Count Your friendly letter of the 23 of April, has laid me under obligations to you which it shall be my endeavour…
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John Adams to John Bondfield, September 16, 1789
New York Sept r 16, 89 Sir I have received the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 15 of May. and take this opportunity to…
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John Adams to John C. Brown, September 15, 1789
New York Sept r: 15. 89 Sir I received in due time your favor of August 24, the subject of which has since been under the deliberation of both houses.…
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Nicolaas & Jacob Van Staphorst to John Adams, September 14, 1789
Amsterdam 14 September 1789 sir On the 26 th: last Month only, we received your respected favor of 2 Decbr to our Predecessors, accompanying the Second and Third Volumes of…
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John Adams to John Lowell, September 14, 1789
New York Sept r. 14. 1789 Dear Sir I received your Letter of the 7 th in due Season and have delayed my Answer, in hopes it might be more…
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John Adams to William Cushing, September 14, 1789
New York sept r 14, 89 Dear Sir I have not yet acknowledged my obligation to you for your favor of Aug t 22. if my hasty scrawls written in…
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Sylvanus Bourne to John Adams, September 8, 1789
Boston Sept 8 th 1789— My respected Sir— I was honoured by the due Receipt of your obliging fav r. of Aug t 30 th for which you have my…
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William Maclay to John Adams, September 1, 1789
Sep r. 1st 1789 M r Maclay’s Compliments wait on the Vice President of the united States, begs leave to inform him, That he is in so ill a State…
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John Adams to Joseph Hardy, August 6, 1789
Richmond hill Aug t 6 1789 Sir In 1779 at Bilbao I was solicited for releif by a number of American seamen who had been captured by the English and…
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Francis Dana to John Adams, July 31, 1789
Cambridge July 31 st: 1789 Dear Sir I did not receive your very obliging favour of the 10 th: inst: till yesterday, when I returned from the eastern Circuit. I…
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John Adams to Benjamin Rush, July 28, 1789
Richmond Hill July 28. 1789 Dear Sir “The Characters, I So much admire among the ancients,” were not “formed wholly by Republican forms of Government”— 1 I admire, Phillip and…
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William Tudor to John Adams, July 27, 1789
Boston 27 July 1789. Dear Sir Our Citizens here disapprobate the Compensations, as they are called, which have passed the lower House of Congress. They generally think that the Salary…
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Roger Sherman to John Adams, July 27, 1789
New York July [27] 1789 1 Sir— I received your letter of the 20th Inst. I had in mine of the Same date communicated to you my Ideas on that…