451From John Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, 28 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
Since my last letter to you fate, or fortune as Jefferson says, has thrown into my hands two...
452From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1825 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Charles Sigourney & Lady, a respectable pair in Hartford, Connecticut, the Husband a Son of...
453From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 12 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
In my Letters to you, I regard no order. And I think, I ought to make you laugh Sometimes:...
454From John Adams to John Manners, 19 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have requested my Son, to inclose to you a little Volume, and two separate printed papers, one...
455From John Adams to Robert Stockton, 23 September 1821 (Adams Papers)
Had I known that you were of the family of Stocktons of New Jersey I should have waited for a...
456From John Adams to John V. N. Yates, 15 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter you did me the honour to write me Nov 1822 which has excited emotions...
457From John Adams to John Peter De Windt, 15 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
We are under great concern here—We have written to Mrs De Wint—I have written to her myself...
458From John Adams to Charles Carroll, 12 July 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your kind enquiries of Dr Waterhouse concerning my health have excited in me an ardent desire to...
459From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 22 August 1821 (Adams Papers)
Have you the laws of Congress from 1797 to 1801-3 or the journals of the senate for that period?...
460From John Adams to Elkanah Watson, 23 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have recieved, and heard read Collo. Troups letter to Judge Livingston of the 23d Jan. 1822....
461From John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 29 March 1823 (Adams Papers)
I am much pleased with your letters, to your Parents and to your Sisters, as well as those to me,...
462From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 24 July 1824 (Adams Papers)
I still breathe in great weakness, but in my latest breath I shall wish for your health and...
463From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 20 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
Cares, Sorrows, Misfortunes, and Infirmities have prevented an earlier Acknowledgment of your...
464From John Adams to Edward Everett, 11 February 1826 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with your request, I am directed by the President to return the enclosed letter. As...
465From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 24 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
As we have amused ourselves with looking at a few pictures, suppose we should add one more to the...
466From John Adams to William Thomas, 26 September 1822 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed papers are old Colony Memorials and therefore very proper to be inserted in your...
467From John Adams to Edmund Rogers, 5 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind latter of November 20th. and with the handsom present, of your...
468From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 6 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your favour of January 23d. And am very glad to learn, you have persevered to the...
469From John Adams to Joseph Delaplaine, 23 April 1822 (Adams Papers)
Portraits or Busts, of Men or Women taken in Old Age, which as Ossean says, and says truly is...
470From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I am diligently & laboriously occupied, in reading & hearing your “political economy”—I call it...
471From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
I congratulate you and myself on your recovery from the three Illnesses that have distressed you,...
472From John Adams to Joseph Wheaton, 7 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have not Sooner answered your Letter of the 11th of July because I really knew not what to say...
473From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 19 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Thank Mr De Wint for his Box of New york Cider Grove champaigne—Accept my thanks for the two...
474From John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 2 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have transmitted to Mr. Quincy, extracts from two of your letters, relative to the name and...
475From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
grand Adams The American Revolution was not a trifling nor a common Event. It’s Effects and...
476From John Adams to David Sewall, 8 February 1823 (Adams Papers)
Though I cannot, read, nor write, I can feel as sensibly as ever, a friendship of seventy years...
477From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 13 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I am glad to learn by your No. 12—that you are reading Burlamaqui and as he is sound in...
478From John Adams to Francis Henderson, 11 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have recd. your letter from Newport of the 3d. of this month Unable to examine it myself on...
479From John Adams to Samuel Adams Wells, 19 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I return you the papers relative to the Gaspee—I long to see them in print you ought to publish...
480From John Adams to Thomas Hertell, 8 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of Febry 25th. your apology for publishing—my letter was...
481From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 23 June 1823 (Adams Papers)
I have received two kind letters from you not yet answered. Mr Curtis sent me the fish which I...
482From John Adams to J. H. Tiffany, 23 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received your favour of the 14th.—as Religion and Government and the Literature and the...
483From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 1 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I wish you a happy New year, and as many new-years as your Nature can bear, in health Peace and...
484From John Adams to William Smith Shaw, 16 June 1821 (Adams Papers)
I believe I have related to you, for Shaw told the Story 100 times, of a very vulgar dialogue...
485From John Adams to Horace Holley, 28 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
I presume I Shall not have The pleasure of Seeing You before your departure. My best Wishes will...
486From John Adams to Thomas Dawes, 9 March 1821 (Adams Papers)
Though I cannot boast aurium occulis cumque vigor integis yet I have been able to read, & to hear...
487From John Adams to Price Greenleaf, 26 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind Letter which is received; and for the delicious present which is...
488From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
Yours of the 27th. June is received with pleasure, for the free air of it delights me. Your...
489From John Adams to William Tudor, Sr., 9 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
In the Search for Something, in the History and Statutes of England, in any degree resembling...
490From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
Watchman! what of the night!? Is darkness that may be felt to prevail over the whole world? Or...
491From John Adams to Timothy Alden, 29 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
You have been kind enough to send me five Numbers of your Allegany Magazine, for which I can only...
492From John Adams to Jonathan Meredith, 29 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have no hesitation of the 5th: nor in expressing my entire approbation of your design “The...
493From John Adams to Caleb Stark, Jr., 23 December 1823 (Adams Papers)
I regret that a disagreeable but unavoidable circumstance prevented my writing to you on Sunday...
494From John Adams to John Sanderson, 4 October 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 29th. and a sketch of Mr Hancocks Life, which I am very glad...
495From John Adams to Samuel Adams Wells, 22 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have so many irons in the fire,—that every one of them burns—and none more than your favor of...
496From John Adams to James Trecothick Austin, 7 August 1824 (Adams Papers)
I ought to have answered your kind letter of the 23d July—before now, but decrepitude and...
497From John Adams to J.B. Binon, 11 October 1821 (Adams Papers)
To all who may see this letter I certify that I have been acquainted for several years with the...
498From 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...
499From John Adams to Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 24 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
You cannot imagin how much pleasure I have received from your kind letter of the 15th. It is...
500From John Adams to Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, 28 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of Yesterday reached me yesterday me last night— I cannot express in terms strong...