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Title: Adams, John to Caroline Amelia DeWint, 1820 January 24; No. 6 John Adams to Caroline Amelia DeWint
Identifier(s): text:346222
Description: Discusses inoculation and the "accidental discovery" of Dr. [Edward] Jenner, points out that one hundred years ago Adams's uncle [Zabdiel] Boylston introduced inoculation in America, and comments on human ignorance; gives grandfatherly advice.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Inoculation; Vaccination; Vaccines; Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823; Boylston, Zabdiel, 1679-1766
Date: 1820-01-24; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Thomas Boylston Adams, 1795 April 26; No. 5 John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams
Identifier(s): text:346192
Description: Admits to having suffered from ennui when in Europe but mentions that he found relief in books; gives advice about purchasing books, learning French, and exercising; expresses interest in the new Dutch constitution but fears that "Franklinianism," "Turgotism," and "Nedhamism" will prevail and expresses hope that a spirit of intolerance in political discussions will not appear in the Netherlands; expresses hope for peace in France so that the nation can form a constitution for itself.; Typescript transcription on microfilm.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: French Revolution; Constitution; Education; Books; Adams, Thomas Boylston, 1772-1832
Date: 1795-04-26; 2022

Title: Adams, John to George Alexander Otis, 1821 January 16; No. 13 John Adams to George Alexander Otis
Identifier(s): text:346342
Description: Thanks him for his letters and for his translation of [Carlo Guiseppe Guglielmo] Botta [History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America (1821)] and comments on same; disagrees with Botta in portraying the American cause so often "in dangerous and desperate circumstances," especially the British plan [in 1777] to cut off communication between the Northern and Middle states, which "always appeared to me one of the weakest of all their plans."; Typescript transcription on microfilm.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837. Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America. English; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837; Otis, George Alexander, 1781-1863
Date: 1821-01-16; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Edme Jacques Genet,1778 August 1; No. 8 John Adams to Edme Jacques Genet
Identifier(s): text:346187
Description: Discusses an enclosed law [not present]; congratulates him on the news that [Charles-Henri-Theodat], comte d'Estaing sailed from Brest, [France] and remarks that it is a "decisive Event"; requests that in future he write in French because at present Adams wishes to read everything in French.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Law; France. Marine; France. Navy; Genet, Edme Jacques, -1781; Estaing, Charles Henri, comte d', 1729-1794
Date: 1778-08-01; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Joseph Palmer, 1776 April 2; No. 16 John Adams to Joseph Palmer
Identifier(s): text:346228
Description: Expresses hope that [Francis] Dana will be appointed a judge or attorney general because he is well qualified; mentions the "rash Anger" of an old friend [Robert Treat Paine] and a quarrel with the latter about "some Important Points of Rank," which seems to have blown over; remarks that the evacuation of Boston is a great event, urges that the harbor be fortified, and argues that the Tories will prevail upon Britain to send another expedition against the town; points out that some people still expect British commissioners to treat with Congress and all demand that they grant a bill of rights; inquires how much powder was furnished to the Continental army from the Boston or the Massachusetts magazines and urges that the magazines be replenished.; Signature added from another manuscript
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: United States. Continental Army; Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814; Palmer, Joseph, 1716-1788; Dana, Francis, 1743-1811
Date: 1776-04-02; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Jean Luzac, 1781 December 13; No. 11 John Adams to Jean Luzac
Identifier(s): text:346182
Description: Informs him that Adams intends to send copies of the new Dutch translation of "the American Constitutions" to the principal public libraries in America, mentions receiving copies of the new Dutch translation of the Massachusetts constitution, and expresses regret about his own inability to read a comparison of the latter with the Dutch constitution; comments on the future of America; encloses a letter [not present] from Gen. [Henry] Knox that does not give hope of possessing Charleston, [S.C.] this year; responds to his "friendly complaint" about relaying information for the "Leyden Gazette" [Gazette de Leyde] and discusses the problem of disseminating news.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Gazette de Leyde (Netherlands, Leiden); Netherlands; Luzac, Jean, 1702-1783; Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Date: 1781-12-13; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1809 February 20; No. 14 John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush
Identifier(s): text:346310
Description: Points out that the Stoics and other philosophers preceded Dr. [Joseph] Priestley in the concept of the perfectability of the human mind; comments that no religious or political sect "ever carried their Jesuitical artifices to greater extravag_ than the late Faction of Atheistical Philosophers in France"; remarks that "Experimental is the only knowledge"; comments on the embargo.
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Philosophy; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
Date: 1809-02-20; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Edme Jacques Genet, 1778 June 8; No. 9 John Adams to Edme Jacques Genet
Identifier(s): text:346232
Description: Encloses newspapers [not present] so that he can select items for Affaires de l'Angleterre et de l'Amerique; discusses two letters Adams wrote in 1775 that were published in [John Almon's] Remembrancer, comments that the history of the war has been "a Completion of the Prophecies contained in them," and points out that another series of Adams's letters in the Remembrancer refute accusations that the Americans "concealed our Designs of Independency, and professed to have no such Designs."; Partly illegible
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Genet, Edme Jacques, -1781
Date: 1778-06-08; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Edme Jacques Genet, 1778 July 12; No. 7 John Adams to Edme Jacques Genet
Identifier(s): text:346313
Description: Discusses false rumors that commissioners appointed by Congress will meet with the British peace commissioners [the Carlisle peace commission]; informs him that Adams and his colleagues agree that the treaty [of alliance with France] should be printed as soon as the King [Louis XVI] thinks proper, but not without the latter's knowledge; complains that the British "are doing all they can to confound the Distinctions between Truth and Falsehood, and to make a Lye to be respected as much as the Truth."; Partly illegible
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Treaties; Negotiation; Diplomacy; Genet, Edme Jacques, -1781; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Date: 1778-07-12; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Dr. Benjamin Rush, 1813 April 18; No. 15 John Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush
Identifier(s): text:346289
Description: Expresses regret that Adams's sons and grandson expended their time as their father and grandfather did "in Diplomatick Dulness, where Knaves find fortune and honest Men Ruin"; comments that an act printed in [Benjamin] Ede's [Boston] Gazette, 13 Nov. 1775, regarding fitting out armed vessels to defend the coast of America is one of the most important documents in world history and the beginning of the destruction of Britain's domination of the sea; comments on a loan that was subscribed by [David] Parish and [Stephen] Girard; responds to a question in Rush's letter [of 10 April, regarding the present war]: "The Liberty of the Ocean is the Pretext, but the Power of the Union The Object."
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848; Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831
Date: 1813-04-18; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Abigail Adams, 1782 December 4; No. 4 John Adams to Abigail Adams
Identifier(s): text:346247
Description: Dissuades her from joining him in Europe and informs her that today he wrote his resignation to Congress and will return home as soon as he receives an acceptance, and also that their son [John Quincy Adams] is now traveling from St. Petersburg, [Russia] and will accompany him home.; "Fourth Copy"
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Diplomacy; Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Date: 1782-12-04; 2022

Title: Adams, John to Joseph Palmer, 1776 April 2; No. 16 John Adams to Joseph Palmer
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:705
Description: Expresses hope that [Francis] Dana will be appointed a judge or attorney general because he is well qualified; mentions the "rash Anger" of an old friend [Robert Treat Paine] and a quarrel with the latter about "some Important Points of Rank," which seems to have blown over; remarks that the evacuation of Boston is a great event, urges that the harbor be fortified, and argues that the Tories will prevail upon Britain to send another expedition against the town; points out that some people still expect British commissioners to treat with Congress and all demand that they grant a bill of rights; inquires how much powder was furnished to the Continental army from the Boston or the Massachusetts magazines and urges that the magazines be replenished.; Signature added from another manuscript; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Mobilizing the Populace; Waging the War; American loyalists; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Equipment and supplies; United States. Continental Army--Supplies and stores; Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814
Date: 1776-04-02; 2020

Title: Adams, John to Edme Jacques Genet, 1778 December 11; No. 10 John Adams to Edme Jacques Genet
Identifier(s): text:346403
Description: Encloses two private letters [not present] and requests their return; informs him that [Thomas] Cushing and [John) A[very],[ Jr.], "are both of the [Massachusetts] Council, and very respectable Characters."
Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826et al
Subject: Genet, Edme Jacques, -1781; Cushing, Thomas, 1725-1788; Avery, John, 1739-1806
Date: 1778-12-11; 2022