1From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 2 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
This morning I received your kind letter of Febry: 19, and I thank you for the handsome charge to the Jury in the Newspaper inclosed. With sincere pleasure I learn from you, that Rhode Island is become in heart as well as voice one of the family again. Nothing gives me so much satisfaction as the prospect of peace and harmony among ourselves. The accession of Vermont & Kentucky are in my...
2From John Adams to Hannah Adams, 10 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have this day received your obliging Letter of the twenty first of February, inclosing a Copy of a proposed Dedication. Your request of my permission to dedicate to me, the Second Edition of your View of Religion is very flattering to me: because, although I am ash to acknowledge I have never seen the Book, I know its reputation to be very respectable, not only in country but in Europe....
3From John Adams to Perez Morton, 10 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have received this day the letter you did me the honor to write on the 23 of Feb, with a Letter from Miss Hannah Adams. It has very oddly happened that I have never seen Miss Adams’s works, tho I frequently heard it mentioned in England with great respect and applause by Gentlemen of Letters, who had read it. Her request to me is the more flattering, because tho’ personally unknown, she is a...
4From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 15 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
Thank you for yours of Feb. 27. You seem to threaten me with a Place in the Pages of some Tory Historian. If the Party “to a man supposed me the most energetic Plotter and intrepid Projector of all the Authors of the Revolution” I shall no doubt have it. The Papers signed Novanglus, and the Controversy with Brattle about the Independence of the Judges they could be no strangers to. Nor could...
5From John Adams to Charles Storer, 16 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The letter to your Counsel at Boston, inclosed in yours of the fifth of March is gone on by the Post. Your reflections on the day of the date of your Letter are natural and just. It is a day that I have more reason to remember than any one of my Life. It is a day that has occasioned me more obloquy and slander, than any other, or all the other days I have beheld. It is a day that brought me...
6From John Adams to Samuel Allyne Otis, 28 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
I believe you may with propriety deliver to Mr Macpherson all his Papers except the Petition which was read in Senate, and a Copy of that if he desires it. I am Sir, with great regard / your most obedient OFH .
7From John Adams to John Trumbull, 31 March 1791 (Adams Papers)
The Secy. of the Treasury is so able and has done so well that I have Scarcely permitted myself to think very closely whether he could or could not have done better. I may venture however to Say to you, that I have always been of your Opinion, that a System a little bolder would have been more Safe: and that it would have been better to have begun at once with a small direct Tax, a pretty...
8From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 9 April 1791 (Adams Papers)
I have received the Letter you did me the honor to write me this morning and as the Secretary of State accidentally fell in before I had opportunity to answer it, we agreed to propose a meeting at his House at two o’Clock on Monday next. If that time and place are agreable to you, and the Secretary at War, they will be particularly so to me, who have the honor to be with great regard, Sir your...
9From John Adams to Alexander Hamilton, 25 April 1791 (Adams Papers)
I do my self the honour to transmit to you my Accounts which remain unsettled, for the last two years and Eight months of my Administrations abroad in the service of the United States. I have left a Blank for my Salary. In my own opinion it is but Justice that it should be filled up with the sum of two thousand five hundred Pounds sterling a year, because this was the contract under which I...
10From John Adams to Tench Coxe, 19 June 1791 (Adams Papers)
I am under obligations to you, for two kind Letters, in one of which was inclosed Observations on Lord Sheffield, made with So much Candour, Politeness, and Force as must command the Attention and Esteem of all Men. The Trouble you have taken to inform me of the two hundred Dollars paid to my Steward has my best Thanks. Unfortunately I am obliged to give you a little more trouble. The Bill for...