Letters about Diplomacy

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John Adams to James Lloyd, January 28, 1815

From John Adams

To James Lloyd

January 28, 1815

Quincy January 28th. 1815 Dear Sir Although I have no recollection, that I ever met you more than once in Society; and that I presume was the instance that you…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Hendrick W Gordon to John Adams, January 17, 1815

From Hendrick W Gordon

To John Adams

January 17, 1815

Merrimack N.H. January 17th. 1815. Dear Sir It having been the will of divine providence that I should be visited with a severe fit of sickness last winter, I was…

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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,…

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John Adams to James Monroe, December 21, 1814

From John Adams

To James Monroe

December 21, 1814

Quincy Decr 21. 1814 Respected Sir As you have many Years to live, and are likely to have Buissness enough to do with your Countrymen as long as you live:…

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John Adams to James Madison, December 21, 1814

From John Adams

To James Madison

December 21, 1814

Quincy December 21st 1814 Respected Sir Knowing the immense weight of your cares, it gives me pain to interrupt you a moment. But when a young Scholar, Lawyer and amiable…

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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1814

From 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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