John Adams to John Taylor, April 9, 1814
Quincy April 9 1814 Sir I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any rational Expectation in my 79th. Year,…
Quincy April 9 1814 Sir I have received from Mr. John M Carter, Your “Inquiry,” in 656 Pages, neatly bound. If I had any rational Expectation in my 79th. Year,…
Olden barneveld 8 apr. 1814. My Dear and respected Sir! Now I hope, you have already perused my Oration—although I have not Seen it yet in print—I doubt not, or…
Quincy April 6th. 1814 Dear Sir As I have been, in the course of my life, 200 or 300 times in an “Agony of Embarrassment” I understand very well what…
Quincy April 3. 1814 Dear Sir I have recd Condorcet, in good order and your favour of 20th. Ult. Enfields History of Philosophy, is worth many Condorcets. This great Work…
Plymouth Ms. March 31st. 1814— I doubt not Sir, You will be pleased when I tell You that the Evening of my life is smoothed by the intercourse with a…
Boston, March. 31. 1814. Sir. I return you the pamphlets you were so good as to send me with many thanks. I have derived much pleasure from reading them. Mr.…
Albany, 8 Mo. 30, 1814. My Dear Friend— I am very sensible of thy kind condescention, & often hesitate to trouble thee so often with my Letters, which thy goodness…
Georgetown, District of Columbia, March 28th. 1814 The Hon. Mr. Adams will herewith receive a volume of Col. Taylor’s Enquiry &c. on the Government of the United States—a Bill of…
Quincy March 24. 1814 Dear Madam If weak Eyes and weaker fingers had not requird more time to write a Line than was once necessary for a page, I should…
Olden barneveld 23 March 1814 Mÿ Dear and respected Sir! At lenght I have been able to peruse Condorcet’s book—It can not be difficult to you, to conjecture, what impression…