John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the Continental Congress of the United States as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first vice president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with contemporaries, including his wife and advisor Abigail Adams and his friend and rival Thomas Jefferson.
Lahaie 13 e. Juin 1789 . Monsieur L’affection dont vous m’avez honoré pendant votre séjour en Europe, & les sentimens inaltérables de mon attachement pour Votre Excellence, m’engagent à vous…
Amsterdam ce 15 Juin 1789 Monsieur Le Vice-Président, Le tems peut sans doute avoir detruit le souvenir dont vous m’honoriez, lorsque les interêts del’Amérique vous appellerent dans differentes cours del’Europe,…
Cambridge 15 June 1789. Sir, President Willard having resigned the office of corresponding secretary to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, your goodness will pardon his successor, in diverting…
Belmont June 15. 1789 Dear Sir I am honoured with yours of the 5 th. instant I thank you for your kind & polite Offers of Hospitality. Experience has convinced…
Philad a June 15 th: 1789 Dear Sir, I have been so long accustomed to regard all your opinions upon goverment with reverence, that I was disposed upon reading your…
Providence June 16. 1789 Sir, I Returned yesterday from attending the Gen l Assembly, the great matters on which the in s. & outs differ were bro’t on. we lost…
Newbury Port July 8 th. 1789 My dear Sir— Conscious of the persecutions you would meet with, by applications for your influence in the appointment to offices, I had determined…
Boston July 9 th. 1789— Dear Sir altho’ this Letter is somewhat of a public Nature, yet I dare not address you in a consonant manner, ’till the Point is…
Boston 9 July 1789 My dear Sir However you & I may have been taught by Civilians, & however History confirms the Maxim, that an Imperium in Imperio is a…
Hingham July 14 th. 1789— Dear sir I had the pleasure a few days since of receiving your kind favor of the 19 th. ult o — When I first…
Boston 23 d July 1789 Sir I have to acknowledge the honor of receiving your Letter dated the 14th July. as to the subject respecting an opposition to the constitution…
Bordeaux 24 th July 1789 My Dear Sir By a vessel that departs from hence in half an hour bound for the Potowmack I send you some authentic papers which…
Boston July 26 th. 1789— My dear honoured Friend I had often considered your Situation, before the Receipt of your Letter of the 16 th , and I had hoped…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Boston. 14 th Dec r. 1789.— S r. By direction of the Boston Marine Society, I have the honor to forward you by the Hon ble. M r. Otis a…