1Anonymous to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I rejoice to find you engaged in your latter days, in so laudable an undertaking as that of...
2A. & J. W. Picket to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
We address you on a Subject of vital importance; we mean the Subject of Female Education , which...
3David Abbot to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I write to You on a subject which I think of great importance and because in your life I think...
4Reuben Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , held on the 27 th ultimo Thomas...
5Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: TJ’s membership certificate, 1 Jan. 1823, 1 January 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The ACADEMY of Natural Sciences OF PHILADELPHIA HAVE ELECTED Thomas Jefferson a Correspondent of...
6Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
what right have I to be one of your tormentors? and amongst the numerous applicants for...
7To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington Adams, 23 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Should it be thought presumptuous to address to you a pamphlet little worth your acceptance but...
8To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 1 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I ought not to have neglected so long to write you an account of the delightful visit I received...
9John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Was you ever acquainted with Dugald Stuart —before I left France I received a letter from...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 March 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The sight of your well known hand writing in your favour of 25. Feb. last, gave me great...
11To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 November 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your friend Professor Ticknor is bound upon a Tour in Virginia, though he needs no introduction...
12John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am greatly obliged to you for your Letter of the 9 th It has entirely convinced me that the...
13John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 8 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of Nov. 13 gave me great delight not only by the divine Consolation it afforded me...
14John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 January 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
When Harris was returned a Member of Parliament a Friend introduced him to Chesterfield whom he...
15To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your last letter was brought to me from the Post office when at breakfast with my family. I bade...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 17 April 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of March 25 th has been a cordial to me, and the more consoling as it was brought by...
17John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am dill diligently & laboriously occupied, in reading & hearing your “political economy”—I call...
18John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of the 27 th June is received with pleasure, for the free air of it delights me. Your...
19To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 18 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
With much pleasure I have heard read the sure words of prophecy in your letter of Sep 4 th It is...
20John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 3 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg , and a larger work in two huge volumes of...
21John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 24 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your favour of the 12 inst t . Hope springs eternal . Eight millions of Jews hope...
22To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 2 December 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been deeply afflicted with the account of your accident—At first your leg was broke—I...
23John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have taxed my eyes with a very heavy imost impost to read the senator Tracy ’s Political...
24To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 29 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I return your letter at your request signified by Gen. Dearborn though it has been such a cordial...
25John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for your kind congratulations on the return of my little family from Europe . To...
26John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I must answer your great question of the 10 th in the words of Dalembert to his Correspondent,...
27To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 24 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Benjamin Parker Richardson, a Grandson of a neighbour of mine, who has lived in harmony with...
28John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
If I am not humble I ought to be, when I find myself under the necessity of borrowing a juvenile...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Watchman! what of the night!! Is darkness that may be felt to prevail over the whole world? Or...
30John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 27 May 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have transmitted your letter to Samu el Adams Welles Esq r in Boston as you desire This...
31John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 30 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Late last night I received Your Report and your translation of Tracy , for both of which, tho’ I...
32John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 23 November 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you and myself on your recovery from the three Illnesses that have distressed you,...
33To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 15 October 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have long entertained scruples about writing this letter, upon a subject of some delicacy. But...
34To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 22 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 8 th has revived me—It is true, that my hearing has been very good, but the...
35John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
As Holly is a Diamond of a Superiour Water, it would be crushed to pouder by mountainous...
36John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 26 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Leslie Combs of Kentucky has Sent me a “History of the late War, in the Western Country, by M...
37To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 23 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We think ourselves possessed or at least we boast that we are so of Liberty of conscience on all...
38John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
There are on the Journals of Congress Some early resolutions for establishing a Nursery for the...
39John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am impatient to See your Plan of a University and new System of Education. To assist you in...
40To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 10 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Virginia Ladies have always been represented to me, and I have always believed it, are among...
41To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 19 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Charles Sigourney & Lady, a respectable pair in Hartford, Connecticut, the Husband a Son of...
42John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
As you was so well acquainted with the philosophers of France I presume the name and character of...
43John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you accept a curious Peace Piece of New England Antiquities. It was a tolerable Catechism...
44John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
one trouble never comes alone! At our ages We may expect more and more of them every day in...
45To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 14 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance, a young Lawyer by the name of Josiah Quincy, and...
46John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a National Register, to convince you that the Essex Register is not to blame for...
47John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 18 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Lyman was mortified that he could not visit Monticello . He is gone to Europe a Second time. I...
48To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 25 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Every line from you exhilarates my spirits and gives me a glow of pleasure—but your kind...
49John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of March 21 st I will communicate to Mr Bowditch , and Pickering — You may put my...
50John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Half an hour ago I received, and this moment have heard read for the third or fourth time, the...