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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, Abigail | Waterhouse, Benjamin | Abigail Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 October 1782 | 1782-10-06 | Your obligeing favour of Sepbr 10th was put into my hands the day before I set out upon a journey... |
| 2 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 September 1784 | 1784-09-08 | I received your friendly Letter of the 19. June, by my dear M rs Adams, with great Pleasure and... |
| 3 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 April 1785 | 1785-04-23 | This Letter will be delivered you, by your old Acquaintance, John Quincy Adams, whom I beg Leave... |
| 4 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 February … | 1791-02-24 | It was not, till yesterday that I received your kind Letter, with your Discourse on Animation;... |
| 5 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 September … | 1800-09-10 | I have received and will communicate to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, your Prospect... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 February … | 1805-02-13 | I thank you for your Lecture on Tobacco which I received this morning and have read with much... |
| 7 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 February … | 1805-02-19 | When I wrote you a line of Acknowledgment for your Lecture upon Tobacco, I kept no Copy of it,... |
| 8 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 July 1805 | 1805-07-24 | In the course of your industrious researches, in natural History have you ever given a particular... |
| 9 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 7 August 1805 | 1805-08-07 | From early Youth I have heard it lamented among Men of Letters that We had no neither a natural... |
| 10 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 August 1805 | 1805-08-09 | I told you before, that I had renounced the Study of Natural Philosophy and Mathematicks for... |
| 11 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 August 1805 | 1805-08-11 | Many thanks for your favour of the 9th: and the copy of your Memorial to the Corporation. I... |
| 12 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 September … | 1805-09-04 | De la Marre, tells us, that in the North of Holland they make use of Fucus to support their... |
| 13 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 September … | 1805-09-13 | (To be added to those on Sea Weeds) If the gentleman from the Isle of Fromme mentioned in your... |
| 14 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 September … | 1805-09-19 | After receiving so many trifles you will not be surprised at another. I wish you to tell me... |
| 15 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 October 1805 | 1805-10-03 | I duly recd your favour of the 21. Sept.—I Sent you two pretty large Packetts the first of Six... |
| 16 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 October 1805 | 1805-10-29 | I have heard, as you insinuate, that Sterne was a wicked Man; and there are traits of a false... |
| 17 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 December … | 1805-12-26 | In a former Letter I expressed a doubt, whether the Barilla of Spain, were the Same Plant as the... |
| 18 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 January 1806 | 1806-01-03 | I have derived as much consolation in Life, from Horace as from Epictetus. I say Buvons,... |
| 19 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 April 1806 | 1806-04-02 | Your favour of March 30th I received last Evening. The Subject of it is of great importance I... |
| 20 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 June 1806 | 1806-06-29 | I rejoice to find by your Letter of the 26. and by my Sons Conversation, that his commencement of... |
| 21 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 8 January 1807 | 1807-01-08 | I received your favour of the Second of this month, yesterday. I dont do not understand your... |
| 22 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 21 January 1807 | 1807-01-21 | Robinson was not only a Man of Sense and learning but Piety and Virtue but of a Catholic tolerant... |
| 23 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 2 February 1807 | 1807-02-02 | One of the Historiographers of Johnson’s Chat, Boswell perhaps or Piozzi says that Johnson being... |
| 24 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 18 December … | 1809-12-18 | I have recd your favour of Nov. 20th and regret very much that your Employments would not allow... |
| 25 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 10 January 1810 | 1810-01-10 | I thank you for your favour of Decr 25 And the Extracts inclosed. I regret the loss of your Visit... |
| 26 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 17 September … | 1810-09-17 | I know that Mother Harvard had Power to make D.D. M.D. and LLD as well as Batchelors and Masters:... |
| 27 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 27 February … | 1811-02-27 | As I read the Essays of The elegant Botanist as when they appeared in the Monthly Anthology, with... |
| 28 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 29 March 1811 | 1811-03-29 | Your Favour of the 25th is received. I feel much at my Ease under the Lash: as much as Epictetus... |
| 29 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 June 1811 | 1811-06-11 | In your favour of the 9th of this month, you request a Copy of the first page of your Letter to... |
| 30 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 5 July 1811 | 1811-07-05 | The K. of modern Babilon, mentioned in your Letter of the 2d, who was become as a Beast, and... |
| 31 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 July 1811 | 1811-07-12 | The Charge of “Change of Politicks” hinted in your Letter of the 8th, deserves no other answer... |
| 32 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September … | 1811-09-15 | I receive no Letters with So much pleasure as yours and Rushes. The Shortest of them always... |
| 33 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 3 December 1811 | 1811-12-03 | A Visit from you my good Friend, would be a cordial, and if honoured by His Honour would raise my... |
| 34 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 December … | 1811-12-12 | What is common Law in England has been Subject to disputes enough. In Blackstones Commentaries... |
| 35 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 February … | 1812-02-11 | In answer to your Letter of the Eighth I can only say that Societies Since as I have never been... |
| 36 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 11 March 1812 | 1812-03-11 | The tumultuous Crowd of Thoughts that rushed into my head as I read your Letter of Yesterday,... |
| 37 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 August 1812 | 1812-08-16 | You are So waggish and roguish with your Woofs and your Warps and your Webs, that I am almost... |
| 38 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 19 August 1812 | 1812-08-19 | The History of Queen Ann’s reign and of the Treaty of Utrecht is So instructive, that it is worth... |
| 39 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 15 September … | 1812-09-15 | You ask my Opinion, (if I understand you) whether Duane or General Hull, be the fittest Man for... |
| 40 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 December … | 1812-12-31 | I cannot take leave of the Year, without confession of my fault and begging Pardon, A Letter so... |
| 41 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 12 January 1813 | 1813-01-12 | No Wonder, that the President has suffered a violent strain. I have spent nine days in the gulph... |
| 42 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 January 1813 | 1813-01-16 | I am broke….I am a Bankrupt… Je n’ai rien; Je dois par tout Dans mes affaires Je Suis au but....... |
| 43 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 25 January 1813 | 1813-01-25 | I will join with Vice President Gerry and Lt. Governor Gray in any reasonable representation. But... |
| 44 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 March 1813 | 1813-03-16 | I have just recd your Favour of Yesterday. It has been a Rule of the Government from 1789 to this... |
| 45 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 23 March 1813 | 1813-03-23 | The inclosed letter from Dr Rush will give you good News of your Son. I congratulate you on the... |
| 46 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 31 March 1813 | 1813-03-31 | “The History” is of no value, except on account of its date. It was written and printed in Edes... |
| 47 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 6 April 1813 | 1813-04-06 | Other parts of your letter of yesterday may be remembered hereafter; but “ Brimborion ” must not... |
| 48 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 April 1813 | 1813-04-09 | Since there is nothing in human life but Brimborians, that is maginificent nothings, pompous... |
| 49 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 May 1813 | 1813-05-09 | Our Boston Rulers must be acknowledged to be profound Politicians. They appear to have Studied... |
| 50 | Adams, John | Waterhouse, Benjamin | From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 28 May 1813 | 1813-05-28 | You know not the Feeling I have for you. I wish Mr Cutts and Mr Seaver, may guess right: but you... |