Thomas Boylston Adams was the third and youngest son of second United States president John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams. He worked as a lawyer, a secretary to his brother John Quincy Adams while the latter served as United States ambassador to the Netherlands and Prussia, the business manager of and a contributor to the political and literary journal Port Folio, and a Massachusetts chief justice.
Washington 15th: November 1818. My dear Brother Your Letter of the first instant did not come to hand until last Monday, that of the 9th: enclosing Mr Whitney’s funeral sermon,…
Washington 18 December 1818 My Dear Brother I have received your letters of 29th. Novbr.—4 and 5 Decemr. 6th. and 7th. December—numbered 5. 6. 8. 9. with the correspondence between…
Washington November 1819. My dear Brother. On the 7th. of last Month, I left at the Branch Bank, Boston, a Check payable to you, requesting it might be passed to…
Washington 12 Septr. 1820. My dear Brother. I have to reply to at least three Letters to you, the reason of which I will tell you hereafter, if it please…
Received Quincy April 3d 1822 of Thomas B Adams Esqr— the sum of Seventy-two Dollars in full for a semiannual dividend on my shares in the Massachusetts Bank— Also Twenty-Dollars…
Washington 17. January 1822 My dear Brother. I have mentioned to the Secretary of War, your wish that your Son Thomas may be admitted at the Military Academy at West–Point—His…
Washington 22. March 1824. My dear Brother. Your Letters of 29. Decr. (enclosing your annual account) and of 4. February last have been duly received, but I have not had,…
Washington 27. Novr 1824. My dear Brother I return with thanks, Mr Jarvis’s Letter, enclosed in your’s of the 6th.—The sense of the People, throughout New. England, as signified by…
Washington 2 July 1825. My dear brother In compliance with your letters of 2d and 23d ulto. I have executed a deed of my share of Land in Salem Vermont,…
Boston Wednesday July 5. 1826 Dear Sir I have received, with deep sympathy of feeling, the melancholly intelligence of the decease of your venerated Father, and beg to offer my…
Boston July 5th. 1826. Sir, Your Letter of this Morning, announcing the death of your venerable Father, was just now delivered to me. I beg leave to offer to you,…
Oldenbarneveld 10 July 1826 My Dear Sir! This morning I did See in a N.Y. paper—the announced death of your Revered Father—my beloved and respected Frend—during more than forty years—alas!…