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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, May 18, 1817
Quincy May 18th. 1817 I pretend not to preserve any order, in my Letters to you. I give you hints, as they accidently occur to me, which, an hundred years…
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Letters about Diplomacy
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, May 18, 1817
Quincy May 18. 1817 Dear Sir Lyman was mortified that he could not visit Monticello. He is gone to Europe a Second time. I regret that he did not See…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, May 15, 1817
Quincy May 15th. 1817 Dear Sir Mr William Smith Shaw has lent me the fourth Volume of his political pamphlets, the first tract of which is the Controversy between Governor…
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John Adams to Leslie Combs, May 12, 1817
Quincy May 12th. 1817 Sir I have received “the history of the late war in the western country by Mr Robert B McAffe” and “the philosophy of human nature by…
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, May 5, 1817
Monticello. May 5. 17. Dear Sir Absences and avocations had prevented my acknoleging your favor of Feb. 2. when that of Apr. 19. arrived. I had not the pleasure of…
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John Adams to William Vaughan, May 5, 1817
Quincy May 5th 1817 Dear Sir A Reminiscence, as the French phrase it, of Civilities received from you and your Brothers, whenever I have met them in France England or…
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John Adams to William Temple Franklin, May 5, 1817
Quincy May 5. 1817 Dear Sir The Volume of Dr Franklins Correspondence has Seemed to make me live over again my Life at Passy I rejoice that the Public are…
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Hezekiah Niles to John Adams, March 26, 1817
Baltimore, March 5. 1817 Sir, I am, indeed, gratified by the receipt of your letter of the 27th ulto. The approbation of those we ourselves reverence for their virtues, is,…
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William, Jr Tudor to John Adams, March 25, 1817
Boston March 25th 1817. Dear Sir, I set out the first of next week on the journey to the South in execution of a State commission to examine the various…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 25, 1817
Quincy March 25. 1817 Dr Sir The great question was “Whether Writs of Assistants, were legal, or illegal; constitutional or unconstitutional”? “Writs of Assistants”! You will indignantly say. “What are…