1From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Have you read certain Strictures upon Painters and Paintings in the Newspapers? What do you think...
2From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
Can you prescribe rules for painting, a perception? A reminiscens,? a judgment? a ratiocination?...
3From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
The great question was “Whether Writs of Assistants, were legal, or illegal; constitutional or...
4From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your pathetic Letter of the 2d. has filled my heart with Sympathy and Grief. Your Son, by all...
5From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
I return the letter of JQ, which you lent me. You know his is a painter. And which of Hogarths is...
6From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th of June. That of the 8th: of August, I certainly...
7From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
I fear I have not answered your letter of 20th. of June. That of the 8th. of August I certainly...
8From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Oh! that I had Eyes and Fingers for a little Badinage! When you cannot keep your Chin above...
9From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of the 13th. has touched my feelings. Deeply infected with a dangerous distemper you...
10From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
It was not friendly in you to involve me in your domestic & family Controversies Major Pierce...
11From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
In your Letter of the 21st. of October you Say that Mrs Knox said to you that “her husband was...
12From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
As “the accurate Jefferson” has made the Revolution a Game of Billiards, I will make it a Game of...
13From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
Clarks History of the Navy is the Same with Mathew Careys. Wilkinsons History I have not Seen. I...
14From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
you ought to tell me the name of that animal, who “faced you down” against dates and Otis. he...
15From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am really grieved at your Misfortune, if it were only on the Principle of Rochefaucault and...
16From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of 20th: of two sheets of paper would require eight sheets at least to answer it and...
17From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I sincerely and cordially pity you. But why are you not candid & explicit with me? If you expect...
18From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
Enclosed is your letter to me of Feb’y 10th wh’ I return to you as you request— I wrote to the...
19From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have heard friend Lancaster with pleasure, he is an excellent scholastic and accedemical...
20From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have heard Friend Lancaster, with pleasure, he is an excellent scholastic and academical...
21From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Though my letter to you has the air of a Redimentack Eulogium—on friend Lancasters lecture—yet it...
22From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 June 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for Dr Ware’s letter to Dr Mc Load which I have read with pleasure, they are worthy...
23From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
24From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
I will not envy you but congratulate you on the pleasure you have had in your excursion to...
25From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 September 1820 (Adams Papers)
Captain Phillips’s letter is a Volume of News to me—That he Sailed without a Commission was never...
26From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 November 1820 (Adams Papers)
I return you Captain Phillips’s sensible letter, I wish I could converse with you upon the...
27From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
Your letter dear Waterhouse, is a precious lecture in Piety Religion and morality according to...
28From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
You must have much pleasure in watching the Opining mind of your Grandchild; for, being half...
29From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have made my Cantabridgians read your Letter to all my family at Breakfast. We all recognized...
30From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I am glad I forgot to return your Son’s beautiful morsel on Industry with my last Letter; because...
31From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your favour of the 22nd and will begin at the end of it you must not utter a...
32From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
The ha rare happiness we have injoyed in the society of J Q A and his family, the consiquent...
33From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 November 1821 (Adams Papers)
I sympathise with Alexipharmacus in his resentment of the indignities offered to Richardson,...
34From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 June 1822 (Adams Papers)
Thanks for your letter of 5th. June and smoaking lecture but as I have not read the lecture I...
35From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 12th I am extremely sorry to hear that Genll Miller has lost...
36From Thomas Boylston Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 January 1823 (Adams Papers)
By request of My Father I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
37From James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, [ca. 16] March 1817 (Madison Papers)
On a long list of epistolary debts which I could not attend to, during the period of my public...
38From James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 June 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of the 9th. with a copy of your Lecture on Tobacco & ardent spirits. It...
39From James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 December 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have received your favor of the 12th. instant, and with it the “Botanist,” and the Sheets...
40From James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 July 1825 (Madison Papers)
I have recd your friendly letter of June 30. and congratulate you on your safe return from so...
41James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 March 1829 (Madison Papers)
I recd in due time, with your favor of the 14th. Ult: a copy of your Inaugural Discourse prepared...
42James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 May 1831 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your letter of the 9th. and with it the Vol. on the authorship of "Junius"....
43James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 June 1833 (Madison Papers)
Your letter of the 30th. Ult was duly recd. with the little volume to which it refers. The facts...
44James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 1834 (Madison Papers)
private I have recd. your favor of the 20th. Ult. with a copy of your "Public Lecture". We...
45James Madison to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 November 1835 (Madison Papers)
Your letter on the subject of Mr. Pemberton has not passed into oblivion; but I am sensible that...
46Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 March 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of Feb. 20. in which you observe that mr Wirt , in pa. 47. of his...
47Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th was recieved on the 27 th and I am glad to find the name and character of...
48Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved and read with thankfulness & pleasure your denunciation of the abuses of tobacco...
49Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
An antiently dislocated, and now stiffening wrist makes writing an operation so slow and painful...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to the rainy morning at Newport for your acceptable letter of Sep. 14. it...