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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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Letters from 1817
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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…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 19, 1817
Quincy March 19th. 1817 Dear Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a ratiocination? Do you think there will ever arise an original Genius who…
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John Adams to John Trumbull, March 18, 1817
Quincy, March 18th. 1817. Dear Sir I thank you for your favour of the 3d. and congratulate you on your success; which I hope and believe will be an honourable…
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John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 17, 1817
Quincy Mar. 17. [ , Start insertion, 1817 , End, ] Dear Sir Have you read certain Strictures upon Painters and Paintings in the Newspapers? What do you think of…
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John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, March 16, 1817
Quincy March 16 1817 Dear Sir The information you gave me in your favour of the fifth of this month; for which I kindly thank you, has given me great…
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John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, March 14, 1817
Quincy March 14th 1817 Sir I am obliged to you for your favour of the 5th. the eleven volumes of your Register, shall be paid to your order in Boston…
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John Adams to Charles Cushing, March 13, 1817
Quincy March 13 1817 Dear Sir Though the publication of my juvenile Letters to your Father, especially in a Nantucket Gazette is a riddle, a mystery beyon[ , Start insertion,…
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Charles Cushing to John Adams, March 10, 1817
Roxbury March 10th: 1817 Dear Sir To my very great surprise and mortification, I saw in the daily Advertizer a week or ten days since, letters written by you in…
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John Adams to William, Sr Tudor, March 8, 1817
Quincy March 8th. 1817. Dear Sir “Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity!” The French have a distinction, between Eulogy and Apology. I know not under which of these heads to…