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Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, October 25, 1804
Quincy october 25 1804 Sir Sickness for three weeks past, has prevented my acknowledging the receipt of Your Letter of Sep’ br th 11 th. when I first addrest You…
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Letters to Thomas Jefferson
B. 1743 · D. 1826
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, and a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism and natural rights.
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, February 3, 1812
Quincy February 3. 1812 Dear Sir Sitting at My Fireside, with my Daughter Smith, on the first of February My Servant brought me a Bundle of Letters and Newspapers from…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, October 12, 1812
Quincy October 12. 1812 Dear Sir I have a Curiosity to learn Something of the Character Life and death of a Gentleman, whose name was Wollaston, who came from England…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 10, 1813
Quincy June 10. 1813. Dear Sir In your Letter to Dr Priestley of March 21. 1801, You ask “What an Effort, of Bigotry in politics and religion have We gone…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 11, 1813
Quincy June 11. 1813 Dear Sir I recd. yesterday your favour of May 27th. I lament with you the loss of Rush. I know of no Character living or dead…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 30, 1813
Quincy June 30th. 1813 Dear Sir Before I proceed to the order of the day, which is the terrorism of a former day: I beg leave to correct an Idea…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 15, 1813
Quincy July 15th 1813 Never mind it, my dear Sir, if I write four Letters to your one: your one is worth more than my four. It is true that…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 16, 1813
Quincy July 16. 1813 Dear Sir Your Letters to Priestley, have encreased my Grief if that were possible, for the loss of Rush. Had he lived, I would have Stimulated…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1813
Quincy July 18th. 1813 Dear Sir I have more to Say, on Religion. For more than Sixty Years I have been attentive to this great Subject. Controversies, between Calvinists and…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 22, 1813
Quincy July 22 1813 Dear Sir Dr Priestley, in a letter to Mr Lindsey Northumberland Nov. 4. 1803 Says “As you were pleased with my comparison of Socrates and Jesus,…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 1, 1813
Quincy Sept 1813 σὲ γὰρ πάντεσσι θέμις θνητοῖσι προσαυδᾶn. “It is not only permitted but enjoined upon all Mortals to address you.” Why should not our Divines translate it “It…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813
Quincy Sept. 2. 1813 Οὐδὲ γυνὴ κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀναίνεται εἶναι ἄκοιτις πλουσίου· ἀλλ’ ἀφνεὸν βούλεται ἀντ’ ἀγαθοῦ. Χρήματὰ γὰρ τιμῶσι, καὶ ἐκ κακοῦ ἐσθλὸς ἔγημε, καὶ κακὸς ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ. πλοῦτος…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 12, 1813
Quincy November. 12. 1813 Dear Sir As I owe you more for your Letters of Oct. 12. and 28 than I Shall be able to pay. I Shall begin with…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 14, 1813
Quincy Nov. 14: 1813 Dear Sir Accept my thanks for the comprehensive Syllabus, in your favour of Oct. 12. The Psalms of David, in Sublimity beauty, pathos and Originality, or…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813
Quincy November 15. 13 Dear Sir I cannot appease my melancholly commiseration for our Armies in this furious Snow Storm, in any way So well as by Studying your Letter…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 25, 1813
Quincy Decr 25th. 1813 Dear Sir Answer my Letters at your Leisure. Give yourself no concern. I write as for a refuge and protection against Ennui. The fundamental Principle of…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 16, 1814
Quincy July 16. 1814 Dear Sir I recd, this morning your favour of the 5th. and as I can never let a Sheet of your’s rest I Sit down immediately…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1814
Quincy December 20. 1814 Dear Sir The most exalted of our young Genius’s in Boston have an Ambition to See Montecello, its Library and Sage. I lately gave a Line…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 19, 1815
Quincy June 19. 1815 Dear sir Education, which you brought into View in one of your Letters; is a subject so vast, and the systems of Writers are, So various…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 20, 1815
Quincy June 20. 1815 Dear Sir The fit of recollection came upon both of Us, so nearly at the same time that I may, Sometime or other, begin to think…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, June 22, 1815
Quincy June 22d 15 Dr Sir Can you give me any Information, concerning A. G. Camus? Is he a Chateaubriand? Or a Marquis D’Argens? Does he mean to abolish Christianity?…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815
Quincy Aug. 24. 15 Dear Sir If I am neither deceived by the little Information I have, or by my Wishes for its truth, I Should Say that France is…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1815
Quincy Nov. 13 1815 Dear sir The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the same in a Majority of a…
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, March 2, 1816
Quincy March 2. 16 Dear Sir I cannot be Serious.! I am about to write you, the most frivolous letter you ever read. Would you go back to your Cradle…