John Adams to Joseph Bradley Varnum, February 9, 1813
Quincy Feb 9 1813 Respected Sir With much pleasure have I read your favour of January 23d. I have thought that Nature, which has given to the Ant & the…
Quincy Feb 9 1813 Respected Sir With much pleasure have I read your favour of January 23d. I have thought that Nature, which has given to the Ant & the…
Quincy Jan. 23. 1813 Dear Sir Your favour of Dec. 7 is not lost nor forgotten. Oh! that my Situation in Life would permit me to undertake a Pilgrimage to…
Washington January 22. 1813 Honoured Sir, I have received your Letter of the 5th. Instant, and I feel a Great degree of Consolation in learning, that you are Gratified with…
Philadelphia Jany 22nd 1813 My dear friend The letter from Col: Smith to which you have alluded was not received with yours of this day. Was it withheld,? or was…
Quincy Jan. 20. 1813 Dear Sir Answer or rather acknowledge my Letters by half a dozen at a time. I have a number of Anecdotes to write you, more for…
Quincy Jan. 17. 1812 [ 1813 ] Sir A young Gentleman, and his Father, have requested me to mention his Name to The Secretary of The Navy. I choose rather…
Quincy Jan. 16. 1812 [ , Start insertion, 1813 , End, ] Dear Sir I am broke….I am a Bankrupt… Je n’ai rien; Je dois par tout Dans mes affaires…
Quincy January 15th. 1813.— Dear Sir You have forgotten, Old Dr Shippen, Dr Franklin, and many others. I have known many Instances. Not to mention General Oglethorpe or a Mrs…
Quincy Jan. 12 1813 Dr. Sir No Wonder, that the President has suffered a violent strain. I have spent nine days in the gulph stream 3 of them in a…
Quincy Jan. 10th. 1813 Dr Sir I know not when or where I have ever received a more luminous letter, than yours of the 2nd of this month. It is…