Letters to John Taylor

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, April 9, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

April 9, 1814

Quincy April 9 1814 Sir I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any rational Expectation in my 79th. Year,…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, June 3, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

June 3, 1814

Quincy June 3. 1814 Sir I have recd your favour of May. 20, with the thoughts on Government, returned in good condition. The Outline of a Militia in the 22d…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, June 4, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

June 4, 1814

Quincy April [ , Start insertion, -4 June , End, ] 1814 Sir, When your new Democratical Republick meets, you will find half a dozen Men of independent Fortunes; half…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, June 7, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

June 7, 1814

Quincy June 7.th 1814 Sir In the third page of your “Inquiry”, is an Assertion, which Mr. Adams has a right to regret as a gross and egregious misrepresentation. He…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, June 9, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

June 9, 1814

Quincy June 9th. 1814 Sir Suppose another case which is not without examples; a family of Six daughters. Four of them are not only beautiful, but Serious and discrete Women.…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, June 17, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

June 17, 1814

Quincy June 17th. 1814 Dear Sir What Shall I Say, of the “Resemblance, of our House of Representatives to a legislating Nation.”? It is, perhaps, a miniature, which resembles the…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, July 29, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

July 29, 1814

Quincy July 29 1814 “Whether the terms ‘Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy,’ or the one, the few, and the many, are only numerical; or characteristic, like the Calyx petal and Stamina…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, August 14, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

August 14, 1814

Quincy August 14 1814 In your fourth page you “are unable to discover, In Oour form of Government, any resemblance of Monarchy, Aristocracy or Democracy.” “as defined by ancient Writers,…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, August 23, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

August 23, 1814

Quincy August 23. 1814 Dear Sir You “are unable to discover in our form of Government any resemblance of Aristocracy.” As every branch of Executive Authority committed or entrusted, exclusively…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, November 21, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

November 21, 1814

Quincy November 21st. 1814 Dear Sir In my last, I ventured to Say, that I would hint, in this, at a principal Misconception that had misled, either you or me.…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, December 14, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

December 14, 1814

Quincy [ , Start insertion, post 14 Dec. 1814 , End, ] Dear Sir Mr Adams’s System is that of Pope, in his Essay on Criticism; “First follow Nature and…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, December 17, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

December 17, 1814

Quincy December 17th 1814 Dear Sir In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous Patricians, mangled and bleeding Victims of popular…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, December 18, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

December 18, 1814

Quincy December 18. 1814 Dear sir I hope my last Letter convinced you, that Democracy is as restles as ambitious as warlike and bloody, as Aristocracy or Monarchy. You proceed…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, December 22, 1814

From John Adams

To John Taylor

December 22, 1814

Quincy December 22. 1814 Dear Sir In my Apology, if you like that Word better than “Defence” I passed over England for more reasons than One. I very well knew,…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, January 18, 1815

From John Adams

To John Taylor

January 18, 1815

Quincy January 18. 1815 Dear Sir “Knowledge” you Say invented Alienation, and became the natural Enemy of Aristocracy. This “Invention” of “Knowledge” was not very profound or ingenious. There are…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, January 19, 1815

From John Adams

To John Taylor

January 19, 1815

Quincy January 19th. 1815 Dear Sir. Suppose Congress Should at one Vote, or by one Act, declare all the Negroes in the United States, free, in imitation of that Great…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, January 21, 1815

From John Adams

To John Taylor

January 21, 1815

Quincy January 21st. 1815 Dear Sir You remember I have reserved a right of employing twenty years to answer your Book, because you consumed that number in writing it. I…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, January 24, 1815

From John Adams

To John Taylor

January 24, 1815

Quincy January 24th 1815 Dear Sir That the first Want of Man is his Dinner, and the second his Girl, were truths well known to every Democrat and Aristocrat, long…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, March 5, 1815

From John Adams

To John Taylor

March 5, 1815

Quincy < , Start deletion, January , End, > March 5th. 1815 Dear Sir A few Words more concerning the Characters of litterary Men. What Sort of Men have had…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era

Letter

John Adams to John Taylor, March 12, 1819

From John Adams

To John Taylor

March 12, 1819

Quincy March 12—1819 Worthy Sir— The painful difficulty of holding a pen which has been—growing upon me for many years & now in the middle of the 84th year of…

American RevolutionDiplomacyFounding Era