Title: From John Adams to Alexander Bryan Johnson, 6 February 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Johnson, Alexander Bryan

Dear Sir
Montezillo February 6th. 1822

I thank you for your favour of January 23d. And am very glad to learn, you have persevered to the end of your course in the study of the law, and particularly that Abigail was wise enough to encourage you in your pursuit; This I esteem in her a great merit and a proof of prudence deserving imitation by all her sex, in incouraging their Husbands in all manly Studies and business, and there is none more so than the Law. I advise you to commence the practice immediately, and to pursue it with attention and Ardor upon the most honorable and virtuous principles—
The subject of your literary design you have not mentioned, but whatever it may be, I should make it entirely subserviant to my practice at the Bar—In many Books there is some labor, much anxiety, and more obloquy as I have found by woful experience, and no profit—
My love to Mrs. Adams, Mrs Johnson—all your dear Children, and respectful compliments to your Father and Mother—We hear frequently from Mrs Clark, who writes to Louisa many amiable and elegant letters—She is very serious, tho’ she sometimes dances at a ball—
 Mr De Wint and Caroline, with three of their Children have made us a visit—
I am dear sir your / affectionate Grand Father
John Adams


Title: From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 6 February 1822
From: Smith, John Adams
To: Bentham, Jeremy

					My dear Sir.
					Feb 6. 1822.

				I beg leave to enclose you the letter for Mr Laurence from Mr Rush to Mr Appleton at Rio—I would gladly add others but neither Mr Rush nor myself have any other acquaintance at Rio—I am yours Dr Sir / very Sincerely

					J. Adams Smith


Title: From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 9 February 1822
From: Smith, John Adams
To: Bentham, Jeremy

					My dear Sir
					9 Feby 1822.

				I beg to enclose you the letter, for Mr Laurence, to Mr Appleton at Rio Janeiro—hoping still to have the pleasure of seeing Mr Laurence before his departure I am very truly / yr obt Servt

					J Adams Smith


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 10 February 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, Charles Francis

					My Dear Charles
					Washington 10 Feby. 1822

				Your Letter is this moment brought to me and would certainly have afforded me more pleasure could I perceive any of those evidences of a desire to improve in your hand writing about which you Know I am so solicitous—I have always been ready to rely on the promises of my children when they have been seriously made and give full confidence to yours more especially on account of the uneasiness I know you would suffer from a sense of ingratitude to Parents who have ever been so ready to promote your happiness and even to gratify your tastes when they are compatible with propriety—It is said my Dear Boy that your long residence with your Mother has proved a serious injury to you by teaching you to be proud and unsocial in your habits and extremely indolent in your studies I therefore call upon you to justify me by your exertions and to prove to your family and the world that your Mother is as incapable of spoiling you or encouraging you in such dispositions as you are susceptible of being injured by such means—Let me therefore urge you always to keep in mind that any failure of yours must be a deep injury to my character and a heavy blow to my future peace—And now my Son let me recommend you to alter your plan of living for the future and if you can get a respectable Chum I would advise you by all means to take him to live with you and associate with your Class upon liberal and easy terms—for a young man who lives entirely alone necessarily acquires selfish and disagreeable manners which unfit him altogether for the world in which he is to move and make him too frequently an object of ridicule to those who are his inferiors Mr. Amory who has just returned to Boston and who is in Johns Class tells me he lodges in the same house with you and that he has tried to cultivate your acquaintance without success—He is a very fine young man and I wish you would meet his advances for remember there is a wide difference between social intercourse and dissipation—I have just been reading Lyttleton’s Letters they are very good and contain some of the best advice for young men that I have seen—His character was so vicious and immoral and the consequences of his vices are so strongly depicted they must operate as a warning because they are dictated by the most painful experience—May you never my beloved Child feel the acute sufferings of a guilty mind and should the crisis now near at hand which remove your Mothers watchful guardianship from your sight remember that from the Spheres above she will claim the promises you have made her and reward you with her blessings for I shall she will die in the conviction that you will not deceive one who loves you so tenderly as

					L. C Adams.

					Your father has written to you I hope your answer will be respectful


Title: From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 February 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, Charles Francis

					My dear Son.
					Washington 18. February 1822

				I have received, and duly reflected upon your Letter of the 10th instt. and approve very cordially of the determination you have taken, of exerting yourself by diligence to acquire a respectable standing in your Class—From this day your term begins, and if you carry your Resolution into effect I shall not only never have any inducement  to repeat the proposal which I made you in my last Letter; of stepping down to the next Class, but shall no longer have even cause to lament that I permitted you so soon to enter—I shall wait with the greatest anxiety to learn, what both your standing and that of your brother will be upon the next half yearly lists—His habits of Industry are already so well formed, and he has so throughly witnessed their  good effects by the very great advance that he made in the last half year, that my expectations from him, are high and sanguine—They will be equally so of you, if upon the lists of next June, your name shall have emerged to a standing equal or near to that which he has attained—He has told me the whole secret of the cause by which this effect was produced—which was that he had not missed a single recitation throughout the term, and had no fine upon his quarter Bill—Take care to have it in your power at the end of every term to give me the same assurance, and I will ask no questions, about your standing.In one of your late Letters to your brother George, you have mentioned that you were partial to historical reading, and that you had been employing part of your vacation in reading a dull and tedious History of France—I would by no means wish you to restrain your inclination for Historical reading, any farther, than to guard you against suffering it to encroach upon your proper studies—Never neglect a recitation study, for any other reading whatsoever—Make this rule inflexible; and shew the firmness of your character, by your self controul in this particular—Give as much of your leisure to historical reading as you please; but give it such a direction that it will assist and facilitate your proper Collegiate Studies—Upon this principle I recommend it to you to read Rollin’s Ancient History, Gillies or Mitford’s History of Greece, the travels of Anacharsis, Ferguson’s History of the   Roman Republic and Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire—Next to these you may take, Russell’s History of Antient and Modern Europe—or Millot’s compendium of Antient and Modern History—Nor should you omit to make yourself well acquainted with the History of your own Country. For this purpose read Robertson’s History of America, the Abbe Raynal’s History of the European Establishments in the East and West-Indias, Burke’s History of the British Settlements in America, Marshall’s life of Washington, Hutchinson and Minot’s Histories of Massachusetts-Bay, Miss Hannah Adam’s History of New-England, Belknap’s History of New-Hampshire, and his biography; and Botta’s History of the War, of the American Revolution—When you have gone through this list; I can if you desire it name to you as many more Historians well deserving of your attention—These will occupy however as much of your time, as you will probably have at your disposal, while you remain at the University—The Antient History, and the Grecian and Roman History, are those which will be the most immediately useful to your proper studies—With the Greek and Roman History you cannot make yourself too familiarly acquainted; and after a perusal of the General Histories of those Nations, you will find no less instruction than entertainments in reading over more than once or twice the lives of Plutarch—At this time, and perhaps for years to come, your fondness for History will probably proceed more from the interest which you will take in the narrative, than from the moral or political conclusions which you will be enabled to draw from it. Am I mistaken in the supposition that in your historical reading hitherto, you have not paid much attention to the important incidents of time, and place? And that you have still less felt its attractions as a school of Ethics. Yet you may perhaps have heard or read that Geography, and Chronology, are the eyes of the Historic Muse; and it is even not unlikely that you are  acquainted with the definition of History—That it is, Philosophy, teaching by Example—I will however not yet ask you to meditate very deeply upon the Characters and Events which History will cause to pass in review before you—Store your mind well with the facts—Court an intimate acquaintance with great and illustrious characters—Listen well to what they say; observe attentively what they do—But to form clear and distinct ideas even of these, you must not neglect attention to the times and places of Events—Chronological tables and maps should always and frequently be resorted to in all historical reading—You can have no clear idea of History without a well settled  remembrance in your mind of the succession of time within which it happened, and a general recollection of the geography of the age and Country which from the scene of action—Among the Histories, of which I hope you will not fail to acquire a thorough and systematic knowledge, is that of the Bible—The greatest part of that venerable and precious book is Historical; and in that Book, is to be found the only knowledge extant of antient Chronology—I earnestly advise you to read it through many and many times—If you read it with attention you will never read it without profit—And as you may read it every time, with reference to some special object of enquiry; you can devote one reading to its Chronology; or the succession of its Historical Events, from the Creation of the world to the commencement of the Christian AEra. When you have acquired as exact a knowledge of this, as you can obtain from the Bible, you will afterwards easily be enabled to attach all the various AEras of profane History to it—Priestley’s Lectures upon History, with his biographical and Chronological Charts, and Bossuat’s Essay upon Universal History will aid you much in this investigation—Dufresnay’s Chronological Tables and Lavaisne’s Atlas, are good books to be occasionally consulted—I remain your ever affectionate father

					John Quincy Adams.


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 21 February 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John

					My Dear John
					Washington 21 Feby 1822

				Being very well I hasten to write you and although you disclaim all merit in a certain transaction still to repeat my approbation of a conduct which does you so much honour and which I hope (although you must not expect) will be rewarded by the improvement and merit of its object—Should this not happen do not suffer the disappointment to mortify or wound your feelings or to damp any future desire to benefit others. which This alas too often destroys the best intentions and the purest benevolence of a young heart and leaves it cold and callous to the misery of its fellow creatures—And now let me speak about your brother who is in need of all your watchful kindness to lead him to his fathers favour—Attend as far as you are able yourself to his habits and assist by your advice in those parts of his studies which he finds most arduous—I am sure it is unnecessary for me to say to you that on his success depends his fathers future favour if not his affection depends on it for the higher his hopes have been raised the greater will be his disappointment or rather his grief at the failure—You see my beloved Son how much I rely on you as I know your example so meritorious has already produced the best effects—He is so young that he require a steady and affectionate guide to protect and encourage him through his difficulties and surely there can be no one found so worthy as yourself for whom however petulant he may sometimes appear he feels both esteem and respect and you have long known the power over his mind which you possess and I am sure will use it with discretion and not arbitrarily according to the hearts wish of your Mother

					L C Adams


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 22 February 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

Dear George
Montezillo Feb. 22 1822

Do not the cannon which have thundered this morning in honour of your Namesake, in flame a holy Ambition in your breast to imitate his Virtues talents and qualities?
you have received, no doubt Alexander Everetts Europe. It has been read to me. It discovers attentive observation, Sedulous inquiry and profound reflection. But it wants in many points the maturity of Judgment which is only the result of Long experience. In his 132 page he “did Off” Montesquiue Blacstone and De Lolme as Blackmore “did off Creátion, with a look.” Had he Served a few years in a popular Assembly he could not have written this and Several other passages in his Book. I See in the news papers the Spaniards alledge the authority of Franklin to justify their Cortes in one Assembly.
The Duke de La Rochefoucaut and the Marquis of Condorcet alledged the Same Authority for their Legislature in one Assembly. I Suspect that Alexander has too superstitions a veneration for the legislative Attainments of that great man. Franklin’s doctrine is equivalent to “Cry havock!” and let Slip the dogs of War civil and Foreign, till a despot Shall come in to lay the dogs prostrate with his languadge and dessipate in thin Air all the bubbles of Constitutions.
Your Uncle and Aunt have returned and the De Wints are Cedar Grove all in health and well pleased
John Adams


Title: From Daniel Webster to John Quincy Adams, 23 February 1822
From: Webster, Daniel
To: Adams, John Quincy

					Feb 23. 1822

				Mr Webster regrets that a previous engagement deprives him of the pleasure of accepting Mr & Mrs Adam’s invitation to dine on Thursday.


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 5 March 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

Dear George
Quincy 5 March—1822.

Did you send me a pritty address of the President of Columbia College, which I received this Morning. Who is this Revnd. Dr William Staughton, is he a native American, or a foreigner, was he Educated in Rhode Island College, Is he a Baptist, or of what denomination; he appears to me an amiable Man and a good scholar.—He says that Man on his enterance on existence, is unconscious of danger and possesses no fear. If I remember right Montesquieu and Condelac assert a contrary doctrine; Viz, that he fears, and flies from every thing; and they quote the example of the Wild Man caught in the Forest of Hanover, and afterwards brought to London, as a proof. I wish you would enquire concerning this Wild Man, and where I can find any account of him, he must have attracted the attention and inquires of all the Men of Science and literature in Europe, I should think. I cannot determin even for myself the controversy between Secondat on one side, and Dr Staughton on the other, I know not, and I cannot conceive how I shall ever find out; whether a Natural Man is a Coward, or a Hero—Dr Staughton thinks the Elements of language were probably from divine suggestion, this may have been for what I know; but I see no necessity for a divine revelation, in the theory of Grammar, or the practice of Speech, any more than in the Science of Astronomy, the Architecture of Temples and Ships, the art of Algebra; or in deed in Painting, Poetry, or Music. these are all the results of Natural and experimental Philosophy; the natural history of Speech, is as prominent to observation, as the principles of any other Art or Science; the Child cry’s as soon as it is born, and when it is at ease, it naturaly cry’s A, or ah! and the first time he shuts his lips upon that sound, he makes the Sylable ab, he soon perceives that the sounds come out of his mouth and that his lips, his tongue, and his teeth, can modulate those sounds at his pleasure; Speculators soon arise who critically observe all these phenomenas and reduce them to ru of Science, and Art. Dr Staughton however has respect  Authorities on his side.—
Judge Quincy has come out with objections to the City Corporation Bill, what its fate will be is uncertain—
We are all well, and send love to all. / Your affectionate / Grand Father

John Adams


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 10 March 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

Dear George.
Quincy March 10th. 1822.

I have received your No 19, 24, Feby. When I recollect the freedom of speech, which I indulged, and in which I was indulged, and which I fear I sometimes abused in congress from 1774, to 1778, I ought not to be very severe upon Mr Randolph, or on Mr M. Durfee, I must say however that the liberty I claimed I always granted to others, and my pertness was plentifully retorted upon me. I think therefore that neither Mr Randolph, nor Mr M Durfee, ought to be very umbrageous at each others freedoms. The accounts of their altercations are so differently reported in different newspapers, that I know not what to make of them. I hope no blood will be shed. I see that Mr Randolph is determined to keep out John the 2d. as he exults in having driven out, John the first, and I shall not be discontented with either.—
I lament the death of Mr Pinckney as a National misfortune; And the Conflagration of Bodwoin College as a great calamity to the very respectable State of Maine. —This letter will be delivered you by Mr William O Hollis, who is a Candidate for the public service in the Marine corps. I wish you to be civil and kind to him—His Father and Mother Grand Father, and Grand Mother, his Great Grandfather, and great grand Mother, were my kind Neighbours and acquaintance in my Youth
I am your affectionate / Grand Father—

John Adams


Title: From John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 March 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, John Quincy

My dear Son
Montezillo 10 March 1822

Contrary to my established habit for many years I must now become an intercessor for a candidate. You must remember a virtuous & industrious lady old lady the widow Owen who lived to be 90 odd years of age, and maintained an always an excellent character and was highly esteemed by your mother. You must remember also young Hollis her grandson who lived some time in our family and was the cleverest fellow we ever had in his capacity. That grandson is now your tenant in Boston & a very respectable man. His mother is now a respectable woman & promises to be as good and live as long as her mother. The bearer of this letter is William O. Hollis is a brother of your tenant. He came to me with his mother and brought me the inclosed certificate of his character & qualifications The young gentleman appears to me to merit their recommendation. I have seen proofs of his ingenuity which prove him to be capable of the service he solicits. I pray you to be kind to him & produce his certificate to the Sec of the navy or War or to both. I am with constant prayers for your felicity your affectionate father.
J. A


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 11 March 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, Charles Francis

					My Dear Charles
					Washington 11 March 1822

				I know why it is but I write with so much difficulty and feel so much averse to undertake it I am ever procrastinating the answers to the Letters that are addressed to me this will account to you for h not having an answer to your last and though a miserable excuse must be accepted until something or other occurs to restore me to my wonted capacity and habits—I have the utmost reliance and confidence in your promises and am perfectly easy in the assurance that you will exert yourself in your studies. My only fear is in your great taste for miscellaneous reading which although it may conduce to your advantage some years hence is calculated to render your more arduous studies irksome and laborious. It is on this account that I could wish you would appropriate so many hours every day to the particular duties and to make a determination that no book however tempting shall ever call of your attention—My reason for urging this is the experience I have had on this subject as I have often found myself drawn on by an interesting work to forget hours duties and every thing but my book to the great dissatisfaction of all who surrounded me—I was a little displeased at the tone of your last as when I wrote about Amory I had no idea of any thing but merely recomming an acquaintance to you in consequence of his neighbourhood—I have already mentioned my dislike to anything like hauteur and pride and recommend to you once more to check every tendency to it for my dear Charles I have too often found it the accompaniment of a mean spirit—There is a pride which I would instil into the hearts of my Children and that is the pride of well doing that pride which proceeds from a consciousness of worth can never be offensive for it inspires benevolence and pity towards those less deserving than ourselves and teaches us to fear that our own merits may not be such as will enable us to resist or escape from unsuspected temptation—Humility and a consciousness of our weakness and  are the safest guardians of virtue—Discard then my dear boy every propensity to arrogance and be assured that this caution will save you from much and severe mortification and you will give the greatest pleasure to your affectionate / Mother

					L C Adams—


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 11 March 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John

					My Dear John
					Washington 11 March 1822

				I yesterday received your Letter and was very much concerned to observe the depression of spirits under which you laboured, but the rapid approach of Spring will I hope restore you to all those blithsome feelings which are so charming and so natural to your nature character and disposition—.It is too true alas that in the attainment of the knowledge of human nature we are obliged to wade through a dreadful picture of frailty of passions and of wickedness and it is melancholy to look back even to the earliest histories of human society and to retrace the same cruelties the same vices and the same results almost always proceeding from the same causes But this knowledge is useful and gives us a real insight into that world in which we are doomed to bear a part and when properly applied enables us to guard against some of the evils which necessarily await us in our progress by teaching us to curb those passions which for want of proper controul lead us to infamy and ruin—One of the great advantages to be derived from the study of history is the knowledge that may be acquired of the nature of Governments and those social institutions which bind and tend so much to the happiness of the civilized World and altho’ we cannot fail to observe that the reason of man can never attain to the highest State of perfection he is ever susceptible of improvement and always capable of repairing by observation application and industry the errors of past ages and ameliorating his own—It is with this view my Son that in this Country where every man be called upon to legislate for the whole where by his own merits and talents he may rise to fill the highest stations he should make the study of mankind his aim and his business and minutely weigh and balance his capacities his errors and his follies by comparing generations one with another and tracing step by step his advancement or his degradation. It is the penalty of Youth to labour for the advantage of old age and although your hard studies must now be irksome the reward will be fully apportioned to the trouble in this conviction my beloved Child I urge you to persevere and you soon be released from the heaviest part of the burthen by the conviction that you afford heartfelt delight to your affectionate Mother

					L C A

					My health is very good—But I believe all the anticipations will prove naught—


Title: From Henry Clay to John Quincy Adams, 11 March 1822
From: Clay, Henry
To: Adams, John Quincy

					Washington 11h. Mar. 1822.

				Mr. Clay has the pleasure to accept the invitation of Mr. Adams and Mrs Adams to dinner on Saturday next.


Title: To John Adams from Harriet Welsh, 11 March 1822
From: Welsh, Harriet
To: Adams, John

					Dear Sir—
					Boston March 11th 1822

				Having met with the answer & recantation of Campbell the poet to Mr. Everett and being pleased I have thought you too might like to have it read to you, regretting that I cannot receive the pleasure and benefit of reading it to you myself—it has suggested an inquiry which it will gratify my curiosity if you will have the goodness to answer—viz—whether you think that at any period of our revolution any man be his popularity what it might, could have persuaded the people of this country, or any considerable number of them, to be governed by a king of their own or even a President for life—or if in your opinion it would have been possible for any man gradually so to constitute himself at when we separated from Great Britain?—Mr. Everett is now repeating his lectures at Cambridge—when he can let me have them I shall transmit them to you or myself take them to Quincy—. When you have finished the perusal of his brothers “Europe” I Shall ask the favor of You to let me have it a few days if it can be spared—to your most respectful /  friend

					H Welsh


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 26 March 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

Dr G.
March 26 22 18

I am delighted with your number 22. It is not too free. It is modest enough. It is wise learned and ingenious.
I have sometimes the feelings of Theophrastus who at 115 as I learn from casauban, thought it hard to die when he had just learned to live. Never was I more ardently interested in historical and political studies or Amusements. Hobard Johnson Morton, Winslow Bradford and a hundred others have been read to me from Our Historical Collections and I am now studying the debates in the New York Convention I know not a book more deserving the anxious meditation of a young American Lawyer.
 It is true the legal political and historical Litiratur of the United States is already Swollen with a dropsy: but a Lawyer must have at hand all over Constitutions debates of Conventions, Reports of Adjudged Cases, Original Histories and Historical Collections. You seem to be aware of the influence of names. You will be more sensible of it, the Longer you live and the more you read. The Power of names is tremendous. The Name of a General has often gained more Victories Man all his Skill and Valour. The Name of a Statesman has often ruined and perhaps sometimes saved a Nation. Many names have been blessings to man kind but I fear that many more have been Pestilences. Have a care that yours may ever do good and no harm.
Thomas behaves well a Norwich. See that he does not get the Start of you all

John Adams


Title: From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 28 March 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, John

					My dear Son
					Washington 28 March 1822.

				It has given me great satisfaction to learn that a part has be assigned to you to perform at the exhibition, fixed for the 30th. of April—and should be well pleased if it if it were in my power to be present at the performance—But as that will not be practicable, I wish you to let me know what dialogue it is that you are to speak—I feel also some anxiety for your performance, and quite especially solicitous that your delivery should be with due energy.—You should Learn your part thoroughly, and then repeat it to yourself at least three times a day, until that of the exhibition—You should also learn the part of your collocator or as well as your own, and study the meaning of every word, with a view to the proper pause, accent, emphasis, and inflection of the word—Every Night, when you retire to bed think of your part—Every Morning when you awake, let your second thought be of your part—Remember that your reputation is a stake upon your performance, and that your standing in the world as well as in your Class depends largely upon it. I am glad you have the books, and if my warmest wishes can avail, they will prove a valuable present to you. That will depend altogether upon the use you shall make of them—I flatter myself you will make it a serious point to know what they contain and will apply to them the injunction of Horace with regard to the Grecian models— Nocturnâ versate manu, versate diurnâ—Your opinion that the dialogue upon Oratory which was been usually attributed to Tacitus was not written by him, has long been mine—I have judged of it as you have by the Style, which is very different from that of all the other writings of Tacitus—It is said however that the same writer may use a different Style, at different periods of his life, and in treating of different subjects—And this is undoubtably true—But between the features of the same face in youth, in manhood and in age there is always a discernible likeness, and a Style so peculiar as that of Tacitus the Historian, could not I think have disguised itself so completely in a dialogue upon Eloquence, that not one of his sententious sparkles should be visible in it—The Dialogue is sometimes ascribed to Quintilian and is more congenial to his manner of writing than to that of Tacitus,—But by whomsoever written it is a precious relic of antiquity, and deserves to be faithfully studyed, as I hope it has been and will be by you.There is no part of your studies at the University which will deserve more assiduous attention than Mr Farrar’s Lectures on Natural and Experimental philosophy, and those which will follow, upon Astronomy—The Languages, Mathematics, Metaphysics, composition, and elocution, are studies, which may be pursued in Solitude, and should the inclination or the business of your life hereafter lead you to a deeper knowledge of these than the mere elements which you now acquire, you will need nothing but solitude, patience and books to penetrate into the recesses of Science—But experimental philosophy, requires  a costly apparatus and instruments, to be well taught—With these, Mr Farrar is well provided; but you will seldom meet them except at some public institution. Let me advise you also to take very particular notice of all the instruments used for making the experiments–Obtain as exactly as you can without being troublesome to the professor, the names of them all—ascertain where and by whom they were made—Examine as far as you may be permitted to the construction of them—Let not the Telescope, the Microscope, the Air–pump, the Electrical Machine, the Sextant, the repeating Circle, the Theodolite, nor any other of the Instruments which you will see used to explain the Lectures and experiments escape your most inquisitive Scrutiny—Study them all, as if you were preparing to deliver Lectures, with them yourself—Mr Farrar takes so much pleasure in teaching that he will readily give you every information that you may desire; and remember that now or never is your time especially for acquiring that particular knowledge. I hope that the habit of Study has become so familiar to you that it is more of a pleasure than a burthen—If so, it will soon become a necessary of Life. Then the best relaxation from one study will consist in the transition to another—I have found it so with little exception for more than forty years.Those with Language will with this disposition become  an invaluable recreation after a difficult lesson of Homer and Tacitus and  an antidote  will relieve you from the angry humours of Achilles—Theseus and Th will you at the same time to the practice of composition—Writing Letters to your friends will have the same effect, for you should never write a Letter without an object; and an effort to make your communication either intructive or amusing; and if possible both.I am your affectionate father

					John Quincy Adams


Title: Inscription on the tomb of Henry Adams, March 1822
From: Adams, John
To:

In memory of Henry Adams who took his flight from the dragon persecution in Devonshire in England and alighted with eight sons near Mount Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England & after taking time to explore the Country four removed to Medfield & the neighboring towns—two to Chelmsford a. One only Joseph, who lies here at his left hand remained here, who was an original proprietor in the town township of Braintree incorporated in the year 1639. This stone and several others have been placed in this yard by a great great son grandson from a veneration of the piety humility simplicity—prudence patience temperance frugality industry and perseverance of his ancestors in hopes of recommending on their an imitation of their virtues to their posterity.


Title: From Thomas Boylston Adams to Francis Henderson, 18 April 1822
From: Adams, Thomas Boylston
To: Henderson, Francis

					Sir,
					Quincy April 18th: 1822

				I have the honour, at the request of my Father, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th Instant, and to furnish you with a copy of his letter to you in answer to your’s of the 3d. of January last, the original of which has failed to reach you. He desires me to add, that the papers and documents which accompanied that letter have been filed, and laid away by one of his family who is now absent, but that they shall be returned to you so soon as he can lay his hand upon them.I have the honour to be &Ca:


Title: From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 23 April 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Boylston, Ward Nicholas

dear Cousin Boylston
Montezillo April 23d 1822

Not a word at present about your delicious Cider and flounders.
Miss Farnam a Grand Daughter of my Ancient acquaintance of Sixty years standing and brother barrister at Law with whom I have rode many a painful Circuit Mr Farnham of Newbury port, is a bout to remove to Princetown, in the Character of a school mistress, and is to reside in the family of Mr Clark your Revnd Pastor, her Aunt Mrs Hay who is a Daughter of my Old friend, and was an intimate friend of my dear Wife, in Paris, in London, and in Boston requests me to mention this young Lady to you, and to Mrs Boylston, that you may know such a person is in  your neighbourhood, any little kindnesses, or attentions, that you and Mrs Boylston will condescend to bestow upon her, will be greatefully remembered, and will confer a particular obligation on your Cousin
For mercy sake let me give you, a Glass of your own—For mercy sake, let me have an opportunity, of giving you a Glass of your own Cider, and your own wine at Quincy, before you go to Princetown, and if I could get Cask, and Venison, and Nectar and Ambrosia, I would give them all to you with great pleasure, and gratitude

John Adams


Title: To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 23 April 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, John

					Dear Sir.
					Washington 23d. April 1822.

				I send you the enclosed pamphlet, at the request of Mr John Williams, a native of North Carolina, now a member of the Senate of the United States from the State of Tennessee—I am ever faithfully and affectionately, your Son

					John Quincy Adams.


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 25 April 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John

					My Dear John
					Washington 25 April 1822

				I will not apologize for not writing as I hate excuses none especially when they are bad or indifferent I hope your character is not changed for the worse and that whatever change may have taken place in you that your principles are still  sound and fixed not withstanding I am aware that the theological controversies that are so fashionable in your part of the world are more calculated to confuse and puzzle the understandings of young people than to inspire them with either respect for or faith in things divine—The best plan for you is to avoid as much as the nature of studies will entering at all upon these subjects until experience and a greater degree of maturity have enlarged your capacity for judging and I trust detecting the falacy of many of their doctrines—The New Testament properly studied will always afford you the best rules for conduct through life and no matter what questions are begun started by the vain glory and vanity of mortal man Jesus Christ will always be a model to which you for perfection and imitation—I have not seen the pieces you mention and I agree with you that Giuseppino is a very poor thing Eighteen hundred and twenty I have not read altho’ it has long been in the house—Your Uncle is on his way to pay me a visit but in so dreadful a state of health we are under great apprehensions for him. My visit to the North this Summer will greatly depend on him but will most likely not take place—Your father will visit you at all events and see your dashing Uniform—Give my love to Charles and believe me most affectionately your Mother

					L. C. Adams


Title: From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 6 May 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, John

					My dear Son.
					Washington 6. May 1822

				I have received your two Letters of 5 and 22. April—with much pleasure; and it would have been with more, had not the hopes which I had formed from your success at the last term, been somewhat damped by certain accounts which have reached me, of a less favourable character—It has given me great pain to learn that you have in the course of the present term exposed yourself to the censure of the Government, and received a public admonition—And as dissipation and extravagance are always twin companions, I am also informed that you call upon your uncle for expenditures beyond your allowance, and beyond what either he or I think suitable for you—I must therefore at least postpone the permission which you request of going to Norwich during the ensuing vacation—The accounts I had heard both of and from you at the close of your last term were so flattering, and had raised my expectations so high, that I could not be disappointed without feeling it severely. Accordingly I learn from some of your own admissions in your correspondence here, that you are not rising in your Class, with any thing like the rapidity that you did at the close of the last year—You remember that after I was informed of the making up of the lists in your Class of last winter, I required as a condition that at the next Summer lists you should stand not lower than N. 12. and I pointed out an easy way of accomplishing it—You have preferred Slowing and receiving admonition and wasting time—I hope you will yet stand higher than last Winter—But I am yet not willing to renounce the delightful expectation of seeing you graduated among the very foremost Scholars of your Class—I shall see you graduated in no other way—For I have made up my mind not to be present at your Commencement, if at the settling of the lists last before that time, your name shall stand lower than N. 5. in your Class. I think it proper to give you this notice now, that you may be suitably impressed with what I do expect and demand of you—It is unceasing, unintermitted application to your studies, and unexceptionable moral conduct—I tell you plainly that I shall not be satisfied to find your name lower than N. 12. at the next lists, and that from what I have heard I have now little hope of finding it less than 16. Your success in the first term of your junior year, and the joy which it gave to the heart of your father, instead of stimulating you to increased exertions, has slackened your industry, and partially surrendered you up again to indolence and self-indulgence—The consequence is, that although you have not lost, but have rather gained ground in your standing, you have been far from rising upon a steady wing—That was what I required and expected of you—That was completely in your own power, and is yet so in a great degree—Your part at the exhibition, I understand was well performed. Your speaking is still distinguished for propriety, but yet requires more energy of intonation, and more emphatic action—I hope you intend to speak again for the Bolyston prize this year, and that you will prepare and discipline yourself to succeed in obtaining it—You may profitably employ a part of your approaching vacation to that purpose instead of acquiring the geographical knowledge of a visit to Norwich.By the Letters received here from your brother Charles it appears that he has not been successful in the Resolution he had formed of applying himself to study—He represents himself as having neither Resolution enough to overcome his habits of idleness, nor fortitude enough to bear contentedly the low Station in which they necessarily place him. He wishes therefore to leave College—A wish which I would readily gratify, if I could place him elsewhere in a situation where he might be preparing for a life of usefulness hereafter;  and where idleness would not be at his option—There is none of that description which occurs to me at present unless it be a midshipman’s place in the Navy—I must try him for another year in College; but as I apprehend one of the principal causes of his idleness is his living by himself and out of College, I must require that you and he should room together the next year, and I must desire you to aid him by your advice as well as your example to more assiduity in attention to his duties—His Classmate Aylwin I learn  has been disgracefully dismissed for dissipation and mis-conduct—I still hope that this will not happen to him. I will write to him after the vacation, when I know precisely what his standing is—In the meantime, I wish you to cheer, and encourage him, and persuade him by kind and gentle means to devote more time to his studies. Tell him if he will but employ his time upon his  duties, I will be satisfied with him be his standing what it may.I feel too much to say more, and remain / your affectionate father

					John Quincy Adams.


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 6 May 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, Charles Francis

					My dear Charles
					Washington 6 May 1822

				Why will you give way to despondence? the time you have been at College has been too short in any way to decide upon your Scholarship and you should not dwell too much upon your standing as long as you exert yourself to improve it—I am told that it is not customary to let young men know any thing about it for fear of exciting jealousy therefore you cannot ascertain what is perfectly immaterial at present I must beg therefore you will cease your repining and cheer up your spirits or I shall be apt to the think you are less of a man than you have hitherto affected to be and that you are boyish enough to be home sick—remember that neither your father or myself expect wonders from a boy of your age and that we shall always be satisfied if you really exert yourself to the utmost of your ability—By degrees you will be able to bend your mind however stubborn to the studies which at present appear to be so insupportable and a little patience and real perseverance will soon make it even pleasing to you—remember my beloved Child that want of firmness at this period of your life may lay the foundation of future misery and degradation and do not carelessly throw away opportunities which can never be renewed—Your capacity is naturally good though I always observed you learnt with some degree of labour but that is no actual drawback to your future success if you are determined to conquer the difficulty—You have my Child prided yourself upon possessing firmness of character now is the time to prove it and not suffer your mind to sink under the first disappointments that assail you—Do you keep up no intercourse with your brother? and what was Aylwin sent away for? write me again soon and tell me how much you study in a day?yours affectionately

					L C A—


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 12 May 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John

					Dear John
					Washington 12 May 1822

				I have been much gratified at hearing of your success at the Exhibition which news has reached us in a variety of ways—It has however been suggested that your success would have been still more complete if you had spoken a little louder but this is a defect which I hope you will outgrow as your voice strengthens and by acquiring a habit of speaking in publick—I wish you would tell Mr Boylston should you have an opportunity to see him that I fear it will not be in my power to visit him this Summer as your Uncles health is so bad that I shall not like to leave him and my own is such as to prevent all prospect of comfort or enjoyment.It is a great disappointment to me I confess and I fear it will be so to you but so many things occur to ruin our pleasure or happiness on these occasions you will give it up with less reluctance—Since the departure of Congress We have been as usual very dull and there is nothing stirring whatever either to interest or to please—Not that I regret their absence as heaven knows few can do their only business appearing to be to make themselves odious by their unjustifiable acts and the utter disgrace which as a body they bring upon themselves if not upon the Nation—Our future residence in this place is likely to be too unpleasant and I very much doubt if it can be long at which I certainly shall not grieve or at least very partially—Could I be sure all my family would retire from Publick life with as little regret as myself our happiness would not be materially injured and could I divert myself of the dread that disappointed ambition would sour the temper and embitter the days to come I could quit our present station without a sigh—You can understand this and enter into my feelings—I am very anxious concerning Charles as he appears to be determined on leaving College and with all the troubles your Father at has to suffer this blow would severely affect him—Tell him not to be rash and perhaps we may be enabled to adopt some plan which may meet his wishes without producing the effects which I so much dread and which he will for ever bewail—You have it in your power to do much for him my beloved boy and on you I rest my hopes I know you must make some sacrifices of your own particular views and perhaps pleasure but what are these compared with the welfare of your brother Much has been expected of you much is still required of you which I know will be performed to the utmost and it is this confidence that rewards all my cares and all the warm affection of your devoted Mother

					L. C. Adams.

					Do not suffer yourself to be hurt or mortified by any thing however unjust put persevere and conquer—


Title: To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 12 May 1822
From: Boylston, Ward Nicholas
To: Adams, John

					My Dear Cousin
					Sunday Evg 12th May 1822 (Princeton)

				Nothing but an absolute impossibility prevented my seeing you at Quincy before I we came to this place—I was obliged to Employ every moment for a fortnight before I set out in settleing some very important pecuniary demands, wch. the death of any one of the parties (of which there were 6 in number), would have defer’d a close untill after my Death—I had agencys & attornies to attend to, in preparing Documents & Instructions—and some were left to be closed after I came here—and not untill last Evening that I could say I was freed of Lawyers, attornies &c—In the meantime I have been obliged to build a Barn of 38 by 45 for one of my Tenants, wch. I raised the 3d Instant and at sunset last Evening was coverd & shingled ready to receive his cattle & Hay—my farming concerns also press by the advance of the season—those work’s I shall finish or put in such a state of being pursued, as to leave me so much time as to permit me to make you a visit the last of this month, or 1st of next—In the meantime I hope my friend & neighbour Mrs Curtis has been able to fullfill my request, by sending you some further supplies of Fish of the kinds you so much esteem—it is always the highest gratification both to Mrs B & myself when we can do, or present you with any thing that may prove acceptable—Miss Farnham has arrived, & commenced her School—Mrs B & myself waited upon & took her round the Town, by way of seeing a little of the Country about us—and as her engagements are so constant, it will not allow us to have so much of her Company as we wish.—She dined wth us to day the only vacation day she has in the week—we think her a very amiable young Lady and deserveing of a much greater reward for her talents & time than we fear she derives from the establishment that has been recommended by Mr. Clarke—every thing that either Mrs B or my own exertions can do; will be devoted to make her sejour here advantageous & agreable.My eyes have been so heavily taxed for the last month, that I can now hardly discern after writing a few minutes, what I have written—it was my Intention before I took up pen to have given you Extracts of a Long Letter I recd by last mail from my old Friend Dr Nicholls—I must beg your indulgence to the next mail—I dont recollect if I ever told you he is very much with the Duke of Sussex—from him I suppose he rec’d the Information, that so far from George the 4th intending to marry—his Physicians have given their opinion, that his present complaints are Dropsical, and his successor the Duke of York is so Lethargic as scarcely to be kept awake—and strong apprehensions that his Life is of but short duration—I see by the Public news papers that the peace of Europe is likely to be broken by a Sanguinary warfare between Christians & Infidels—if it confined to that part of Europe (as I feel no very strong attachment to Musselmen,) I shall not be sorry to see them driven across the Bosphorus—but how a little matter a great Fire kindleth—we have often seen—“but give peace our time o’ Lord we beseech thee” is my prayer—& I know is always sincerely yours—Mrs Boylston desires her affectionate respects to you & regards to be united to mine to the Ladies of your Family—also to Judge AdamsI leave this open to add, if I can before the Post passes thro’ the town—Mr Packard who preached here for Mr Clarke & dined with us & requests me to make his respectfull Compliments to you—With respect to the Season here, we are much more forward than last year, & at present every thing looks promising—a little rain however is desireable—My Farm House is finishing as fast as the Labours of 4 Carpenters & 2 Bricklayers can expedite—It wou’d  afford me sincere comfort to hear from you with the confirmation of my hopes that you continue as well as when last I had the happiness of seeing you—Accept the fervent affections / of your affectionate Cousin

					Ward Nichs Boylston


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 14 May 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

					my dear George
					Montezillo May 14th 1822

				I will not trouble you, to read a history of my pains and aches, as an apology for neglecting to acknowledge your letters which  I have regularly received as far as No 28. I am now better and thank you for your punctual attention. I preserve all your letters in a bundle—hæc olim  meminisse juvabit—your observations upon Congress, and its Members, are as they ought to be, candid cautious and prudent, it is an old observation that when there are many passengers in  a ship, on a long voyage before they reach their Port they loose their tempers, grow impatient and fretfull, and quarrelsome so as to find it difficult to keep the peace it is very much so in long Sessions, of Legislative assemblies, I have seen it very often, and felt it sometimes, I have sett the year round in the old Congress till the strength of my body has been exhausted and the tone of my mind almost distroyed, to such a degree that I have been obliged to fly home to preserve my reason and my Life—The Gentleman who said he was heartsick of Legislation, expressed no more than hundreds have felt before him. There is not more anger, or impatience in Congress now, than there was almost  half a Century ago—We are waiting with some anxiety to see the ominous letter of Mr Russell, surely it must be a prodigy if we are to judge by the solemn press that is made about it before it comes out, but I regard it no more than the ignis fatu’us that I have some times seen in a bag I am glad you like Puffindorf I hope you have Barbeyrac’s edition, with his Commentarys and Notes, and his History of Moral Philosiphy. Barbeyrac, is worth more than Puffindorf If I remember and judge right,I rejoice in your Mothers health, and am anxious to know, whether we may have as we ardently wish, to see you all here this summer, I am confident your Father will never have any purgatory to suffer in a future state for his whole life has been a series of fatigues, dangers, sufferings, and purifications, but the integer, vitæ scellerisque purus, they bid defiance to earth and Hell, your Brother John has acquired a sprig of Laurel— Judge Davis, and several other Gentlemen of sound judgement, have expressed to me very handsome approbations of his performance, I wished to have been an Auditor but invincible infirmities forbid me that pleasure. Mr Shaw has been ill, but is so much better—as to pass last sunday with us—your affectionate Grand Father

					John Adams

					P.S. we have read through two volumes of Browns lectures I recomend these scotch metaphysical Philosophers to your attention, and diligent perusal, there is nothing like Mathematicks and metaphysicks to form, and confirm, habits of attention, and give acuteness, and sagacity, to the mind—
				John Adams


Title: From John Adams Smith to Jeremy Bentham, 14 May 1822
From: Smith, John Adams
To: Bentham, Jeremy

					My dear Sir.
					Teusday 14 May 1822

				I will be with you, at the potatoes & water, on Thursday at the Hermitage table—Yours very sincerely

					J. A Smith


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 May 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

my dear Grandson
Montezillo May 15th. 1822

I will not trouble you to read a history of my pains and aches, as an apology for neglecting to acknowledge your letters, which I have regularly received—I am now better and thank you for your punctual attention. I preserve all your letters in a bundle—hec olin meminisse juvabit—Your observations upon Congress, and its members, are as they ought to be, candid cautious and prudent; It is an old observation that when there are many passengers in a ship on a long voyage, before they reach their Port, they loose their tempers, grow impatient fretfull, and quarrelsome, so as to find it difficult to keep the peace. It is very much so in long sessions of Legislative Assemblies, I have seen it very often and felt it sometimes; I have set the year round in the old Congress, till the strength of my body has been exhausted, and the tone of my mind almost destroyed to such a degree, that I have been obliged to fly home to preserve my reason, and my Life. The Gentleman who said he was heart sick of Legislation, expressed no more than hundreds have felt before him—There is not more anger, or impatience in Congress now than there was almost half a Century ago.—We are waiting with some anxiety to see the ominous letter of Mr Russell, surely it must be a prodigy if we are to judge by the Solemn Press that is made about it before it comes out; but I regard it no more than the ignis fatuus that I have sometimes seen in a bog.—
I am glad you like Puffendorf I hope you have Barbeyrac’s Edition, with his Commentarys and Notes, and his History of Moral Philosophy; Barbeyrac, is worth more than Puffendorf, If I remember, and judge right—
I rejoice in your Mothers health and am anxious to know, whether we may hope, as we ardently wish, to see you all here this Summer—I am confident your Father will never have any purgatory to suffer in a future State, for his whole Life has been a series of fatigues, dangers, sufferings, and purifications, but the, integer, vitæ scellirisque purus, They bid defiance to Earth and Hell.
Your Brother John has acquired a sprig of Laurel; Judge Davis, and several other Gentlemen of sound judgement have expressed to me very handsome approbations of his performance, I wished to have been an Auditor, but invincible infirmities forbid me that pleasure—
Mr Shaw has been ill, but is so much better, as to pass last Sunday with us—We have read through two volumes of Browns Lectures, I recommend these Scotch Metaphysical Philosophers to your attentive, and diligent perusal; there is nothing like Mathematicks, and Metaphysicks, to form and confirm habits of attention, and give acuteness, and sagacity to the mind.
Your affectionate Grand Father
John Adams


Title: From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 18 May 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, Charles Francis

					My dear Son
					Washington 18. May, 1822

				I have learnt from some of the Letters which you have lately written to your Mother and your Brother, that you express yourself dissatisfied with your situation at the University, and that you have repeatedly intimated the desire of leaving it—My motive in placing you there, was to furnish you with the means of passing through life in the exercise of a liberal profession—By debarring yourself of this privilege, you will greatly disappoint me, and I fear irreparably injure yourself.But in one of your late Letters, if I understand it, you either acknowledge that you have addicted yourself to depraved habits, or you intimate the apprehension, that you are so much exposed to the temptation of them, that you cannot answer for your own Resolution to preserve yourself from them hereafter—You therefore urge strongly the desire of leaving Cambridge and the University, never to return.The very thought of your giving yourself up to dissipation and licentiousness so deeply distresses me, that if with the desire of quitting College, you had intimated, what you proposed to do, with yourself, where you had thought of going, and how you meant to prepare yourself elsewhere for the duties of life, I should perhaps, whatever pang it had cost me, have acquiesced in your desire, and consented to see you turn your back upon the Hall of Wisdom, and the Porches of Science and Virtue, and devote your future days to labours requiring less of intellectual cultivation. You will understand therefore that I do not absolutely reject your proposal to leave College; but that I can consent to it only upon Condition that you shall determine upon some other course of life, to which you shall immediately resort, as a substitute for the Education which you must lose.There have occurred to me several expedients to which you might resort, if your repugnancy to the collegiate life should prove insuperable; but there are two objections common to them all, and which I fear cannot be removed—The first that they would all require as much application and toil, and indeed more than are required of you at Cambridge, and which you say you have not the resolution and perseverance to endure—And the second, that they would all receive you exposed to temptations as great or greater than those which you profess to fear your inability to resist.I do not mention them to you now, because I hope upon further reflection you will reconcile yourself to remaining at the University, and that you will rouse in your own breast, and in the cause of virtue enough of that obstinacy which your tutor justly tells you belongs to your character, and which if rightly directed, will relieve you from all your perplexities and mortifications—You say your standing this half–year will be between 25 and 35. If it is not below that I shall be fully satisfied with your proficiency, and will yet hope for the best—I will require absolutely of you nothing but good moral conductBut I wish you upon your return to Cambridge even for the next term to Room with your brother and shall write to him accordingly. This injunction is positive; for I am convinced that a great portion of the irksomeness of your situation arises from your residing at a distance from the Colleges and alone. Room with your brother, and let his example and advice stimulate you to the faithful performance of your duties.Finish at least at the University your freshman year; and if at the expiration of that, you still shrink with disgust from those studies with which all the most useful labours and all the liberal pleasures of human life, are linked, you will in the meantime have the time to form and propose to me some plan of occupation to take its place—For myself I have no other wish concerning you than for your happiness—You and your brothers are inexpressibly dear to me; and among the most fervent of my prayers to heaven, is that of your welfare. I have indulged myself in hopes that you would all according to the measure of your faculties, if not give lustre, at least not discredit your name and parentage—That you would in youth and in manhood be distinguished, if not for talents and acquisitions, at least for goodness of temper, and purity of morals—Hic Murus Aheneus esto Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpâ.Let me not be disappointed in this—preserve your morals pure, and let your scholarship be as it pleases Heaven—If I must give up all expectation of success or distinction for you in this life, preserve me from the harrowing thought of your perdition in the next. I am your affectionate father—

					John Quincy Adams.


Title: To John Adams from Ward Nicholas Boylston, 18 May 1822
From: Boylston, Ward Nicholas
To: Adams, John

					My Dear Cousin
					Princeton May 18 1822

				The promised extract of my old Friend Dr: Nicholls Letter, as given you in my Last Letter which went by Mail—is now Inclosed; it may serve to give you some information respecting the state of things in England, wch are not, likely to come in view thro’ the medim of the public papers—and some points wch. could be known among the parties Interested at those periods in events that were passing—I am persuaded that every thing wch. as Dr Ns. has imparted in any of his Letters may be relied on, as historical facts—and so far claim any attention you think important—I propose to send another copy to Mr Secretary Adams as soon as my eyes will permit me to use my pen with less pain than I do at present;The late Rains I hope has blessed your feilds as much as it has mine—every thing around me looks, blooming & flourishing as relates to the season—Mrs Bolyston desires her affectionate Respects to you, & best remembrances to Judge & Mrs: Adams Miss Smith &c—I hope to hear from you before I see you—wch I promise my that happiness ab’ the 1st of next month—In the Interim & ever consider me truely / your affectionate Cousin

					Ward Nichs Bolyston

			 Enclosure
                                                Extract of a Letter from EnglandMy Dear friendI am to acknowledge the receipt of two Letters from you of the dates of Decr. 20. 1821 & Feby. 4. 1822 I am much flattered with Mr. Secretary Adams’s approbation of my book I trust that you will protect me both with Mr Secretary Adams and with every body else, from the imputation of being a friend to Negro Slavery, my Sentiments are quite the reverse. I abhor Negro Slavery, and I have formed this opinion more from the persuasion that it is injurious to the morals of the Masters, than from the Idea that it is oppressive to the Slaves themselves. I had entertained sanguine hopes of ameliorating the Condition of the Slaves, both in their passage to the Islands and when arrived there. but this plan was abandoned for the adoption of Mr. Wilberforce’s plan of Abolition. My Opinion is, that the plan of Abolition can never be carried into effect it has already cost this Country very large sums of money; and has exposed the Negroes carried from Africa to much greater hardships than they ever before suffered. Your letter of Decr. has disclosed to me a circumstance which was before unknown to me. vizt. That in consequence of the arrangements in your Country, Negro Slavery occasions a great increase of political Strength in the inhabitants of the Southern and Western Goverments.—Were I an American, I should certainly wish this to be altered, and I think it will be more easy for you, to prevent the importation of negroes into the United States, than it will be for Great Britain and the United States together, to effect the total abolition of the Trade. For I think your Goverment is the only Foreign state which is sincere in desiring the abolition. When Spain and Portugal are completely seperated from their American Colonies the Continuance or abolition of the Slave trade will be of very little importance to them. The Spanish, the Portuguese and perhaps I may add the French Colonies of Cayenne &c never can sincerely wish the Abolition of the Slave trade—I say this, always recollecting that the Spanish and Portuguese settlements are not yet formed: but I think that they must ultimately be completely seperated from the Mother Countries. Royalty as known in Europe, has hitherto rested on a Feudal Basis, but Feudalism will probably be very soon extinguished every where, it is completely abolished in your States. I know that there will be attempts to reestablish it in France, but I think that those attempts will fail. It will probably be abolished in Spain and Portugal, if Royalty continues to exist, it must rest on some other Basis. I can see no other than a Military Basis, such a power did start up in the person of Napoleon, if it again arises in France, it will not be vested in the Person of a Bourbon. with us, every prospect is afflicting. A Dropsical Complaint is suspected to be already begun in the King, the Duke of York is in a bad state of health. He is Lethargic, it is with great difficulty that they can help him awake—but if he lives, what are we to expect? He is very weak, obstinate, and arbitrary. His father educated him in Germany, as the younger Son of a German Prince and he views the English Constition only as the object of his aversion, and if the Duke of york should die. We should then have the Duke of Clarence a more worthless character could hardly be found in any part of Europe, and it the Duke of Clarence died, We should then have a Child not 3 years old; and the Goverment to be scrambled for by ambitious Oligarchs. George 3d. by his two unnecessary wars, (I mean the American War, and the Crusade against French principles,) Mr. Edmund Burke by driving the nobles to assist the King in the Crusade, Mr Pitt and I regret to say Charles Fox have together brought us into our present situation. For though Charles Fox had the good sense, and the Integrity to disapprove of the Crusade, yet his affection for Earl Fitzwilliam prevented him from takeing effective measures to destroy that administration of which he formed a part—I always continued familiar intercourse with Charles Fox, down to the summer 1802, when I went abroad; I never saw him afterwards. When I returned on the last day of August 1806 he was dying. During the last Parliament in which I sat. viz, from the autumn 1796, to the summer 1802, he never supported me in the house of Commons, though I was often most unparliamentary attacked, the reason was, he knew that I was odious to those Great Families who had joined the King in the Crusade. I often urged him to vigorous measures. I recollect on one occasion, I said to him, come forward, use the same exertion to terminate this Crusade, that you employed to terminate the American War. And from that hour I will be wholly yours. You shall controul me from ever intimating that Earl Fitswilliam deserves punishment. I recollect his answer “he observes a d—— deal of punishment” but my friend Charles Fox could never be bought to act against the wishes of Earl Fitswilliam. He never cared one farthing for the Duke of Portland, whom he knew to be a shabby interested man, his regard for Earl Spencer was greater Though not equal to that which he had for Earl Fitswilliam. But what will you say of Charles Fox as a statesman when he suffered the Bank Restriction Bill of 1797, to pass the house of Commons, almost with out opposition. I recollect that when I urged Charles Fox and Mr Grey that the measure should be opposed in every stage, and that we should endeavour to awaken the Country by dividing the House on every occasion on which the rules of the House would allow of a Division. The Answer I received from Mr. Grey was opposition to this measure will be very unpopular in the City I say this wth. regret of Charles Fox—The New edition of my book will not be out till the Month of April,  the additions will be still more offensive to the Foxite Party they will be equally unacceptable to the Pittites the name by which those who bylive   the plunder of the state


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 21 May 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John

					My Dear Dear John
					Washington 21 May 1822

				read my Letter attentively and then tell me if you perceive any thing like harshness abou? in it. Deep anxiety on account of your brother whose representation of his terror as to his prospects had very much affected me and a fear that you might think yourselves harshly treated made me express myself perhaps in stronger terms terms than I was aware of but could you have read my heart while I wrote it you would have felt that every throb dictated the purest love and the tenderest sympathy for your difficulties and distresses which  though they may proceed from a too quick or acute sensibility are the emanations of a good heart and a noble spirit—I am very sorry to perceive that you suffer your imagination to dwell on words used by your father at a moment of deep mortification and which meant nothing more than a too great solicitude for your advancement and future prosperity—Be assured my dearly beloved boy that there is nothing which is so really injurious to our tempers our happiness or even our peace of mind as the indulgence of a vindictive spirit—Remember that we are all faulty beings and each of us much meet with a proportion of what appears to us to be evil and rest assured that from this apparent evil we often reap the best results—Never for a moment doubt  the undivided affection of your father and be not so unjust as for one moment to believe that your parents can either of them be actuated by an ill judged partiality in any case more especially in those of such moment as the present in which the future welfare of yourself and your brothers depend—Your father has adopted the opinion that severity is necessary to promote the education of his Son’s and suddenly from some unaccountable but concealed influence which must emanate from the College itself has changed altogether the plans which he pursued for years of general  confidence and indugle indulgence—On this new principle he now acts believing that had he sooner adopted it sooner George would sooner have quitted College in a manner more gratifying to his affection and his pride. It is on this general principle that he founds his plan—Your Uncle has arrived and is dangerously ill—He is very anxious to see you but I fear will not be able to perform the journey I shall therefore not visit Boston this unless he should rappidly recover—It is now fifteen years since I have seen this dearly beloved only brother and to meet him in such a state in a situation so melancholy is painful beyond expression and I cannot bear to have him out of my sight—God will I trust raise him from this dreadful state of suffering which has reduced him to a state of debility beyond your power to conceive of and which I ardently hope and pray you may never know—And now my dear John let me entreat you carefully to peruse my Letters and as carefully to examine and weigh their contents ere you believe that I am willingly harsh. from Charles Letters I was apprehensive that something had taken place unfavorable to his character in College and that you, rather than pain me kept it concealed: under this impression I wrote but God knows my heart was full of the warmest and most tenderly affectionate feelings towards you both.

					L. C. Adams


Title: From George Washington Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 May 1822
From: Adams, George Washington
To: Adams, Thomas Boylston

					My dear Uncle.
					Washington 25th May 1822—

				I am enabled to reply to your last favour somewhat earlier than to the two which preceded it and hope that as my large file of unanswered letters is at last wholly disposed of I shall have it in my power to keep pace with my correspondents in future. There are moments in the life of every man when it is exceedingly difficult to bend the attention to business and those who allot special hours to particular employments find it sometimes hardly possible to preserve the rule. This is especially the case with regard to letters. When the body is debilitated by oppressive heat and the mind depressed by the lassitude of the body it is vain to attempt to afford pleasure or satisfaction to correspondents and if rigorous resolution accomplishes the taste of composition it is usually marked by the traces of evident labour and effort. A letter, to please, should be written when the spirits are equable and the mind vigorous and animated; when the succession of thought is rapid, continued, and interesting; when the desire of communing with the persons addressed is strong and sincere and the predominant feeling kind and agreeable. Perhaps it may be said with truth that this is not often the case; that men are very seldom in the enjoyment of perfect health and spirits and that when they are, other occupations of a more active nature demand and absorb their attention; even allowing this my position will be generally true. It is impossible as it appears to me to establish any universal rules for writing letters and it is therefore the circumstances in which the writer is placed at the time of writing which give a character to the letter. With this belief it is hardly extraordinary that letters should sometimes remain long on my unanswered file for a dull correspondent being worse than none, I am unwilling to write letters when I feel myself wholly unadapted to the taste. You may think that the case now from the general and abstract character of this You say in your last that Thomas is satisfied with his situation at Norwich which I am very glad to hear. In my No 5. I expressed my opinion upon this subject and spoke of the effect of first impressions. If they have been favourable with Thomas it is probable he will be happy at this school during the whole period of his residence there. It is very advantageous to a young man to be thoroughly acquainted with the modern languages and many elegant pleasures as well as useful benefits are conferred by this knowledge. The French has been and is now, a sort of “passe partout” by which a man is enabled to hold converse with his fellow men in distinct and different regions. The Italian is a language of great beauty and its literature very extensive and celebrated. It is not difficult to acquire the Italian but there is no small difficulty in comprehending the great and eminent authors who have written it. Danté, Ariosto, Tasso. The first is said to be beyond the comprehension of any man not a native Italian. It is to others what Shakespear is to the French. The Spanish is a beautiful and powerful language. It is very little known in this country and was still less so a few years since, but the taste for it and Just ideas of its evidences of excellence having been more widely diffused of late render it probable that it will hereafter be understood and appreciated. It will be a valuable accomplishments should our relations with South America be as is prophecied by some, important and intimate. Indeed the knowledge of modern languages is in every case an accomplishment. The letter from Thomas which you had proposed to enclose did not accompany your last. I regret this as it would have given me great pleasure to have received it. I spoke so fully of the Deaf and Dumb in mine marked (29) to my Grandfather that Nothing is left to say. The Story of the Eagle and the Cat as related by my Grandfather on the occasion which you describe has been published recently in the Democratic Press and copied into several papers.Believe me faithfully your nephew

					George Washington Adams


Title: From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 25 May 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Adams, John

					My dear Son.
					Washington 25. May 1822.

				I have received your Letter of the 16th. instt. and have given deliberate attention to its contents—I listen with pleasure to all the circumstances that you allege in indication of yourself; and shall doubly rejoice to learn at midsummer, that your expectations are confirmed, by the standing which you will then have attained—If you should not be lower than 12. it will be apparent that my conclusions are hastily drawn, I shall owe you an apology, and you may confidently anticipate that it will be made—But if you do not get within the pale of that number, my anticipation will have been realized, and fresh stock of extraordinary exertion will be necessary to bring you up to my mark within the following year.You have reminded me that there was a time, when I expected less from you, than from others—But that was when you was in point of Scholarship, in the lowest half of your Class—Tell me now that you have so throughly redeemed yourself from that situation, what can a rational man expect from a Son who stands at N. 45. in the lit of his Class—He may hope, that by applying the stimulus of censure and approbation, he may reclaim his Son, and witness his swift and steady ascent; but that hope can hardly warrant an expectation, until there has been at least some beginning of realization to encourage it—You will remember that at the time when I was most mortified, at what I considered your degradation, I told you that it was an inexpressible consolation to me to be informed that your moral deportment was unexceptionable, and I must remind you that in your enumeration of the charges which you think you have found in my last Letter, you have, erroneously included that of ingratitude. I have never charged you with that hideous vice, nor suspected you of it, and now, since you have proved in the space of one half year what you could do, my expectations of your future proficiency, run very high—You have assigned several reasons why at your last term, your rise was not so rapid as it had been at the term before. I give them all their due weight, and only wish that the Studies which you are hereafter to pursue may be more agreeable to you. At all Events, you may be sure that nothing which can befall you, will be indifferent to me—And as on the one hand I cannot be insensible, to an incident so strongly marked as a public admonition; so I shall receive with the most lively pleasure any new testimonial of your advancement in the estimation of your fellow students or of your instructors.But I am now more concerned for your brother Charles than for you. In some late Letters he has intimated repeatedly the wish to leave the University, from an apprehension, that the temptations to dissipation there are stronger than he has Resolution to resist. I am afraid that he has associated too much with Aylwin—I am convinced it will be best for him to room henceforth while you remain at Cambridge, with you—I have accordingly directed him to do so even for the next term, and wish you to make your arrangements accordingly. I place great reliance upon benefit to him both of your advice and your example—Judge yourself from thence how much confidence I repose in you. I am, your affectionate father

					John Quincy Adams.


Title: From John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, 28 May 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Treadway, Susanna Boylston Adams Clark

My dear Grandaughter
Montizillo May 28. 1822.

Give my thanks & a kiss to Miss Susan for reminding her mother to write to her Grandfather. Your lovely letter of May 21. reached me this morning. You are indeed a great traveller for your age and your letters will do more honor to your Country than the  printed travels of Europeans, which come out in such numbers, wearing such sombre colours; Wherever you go every thing is smiling & pleasant. You find kind & assiduous friends in every place & you are sensible of & grateful for all their benevolence.
Utica is indeed becoming a great mart, & a splended, populous & oppulent City. Your description of the scenery on the N river is very delicious. We have nothing here to communicate to you worth your knowing except that we are all in good health & especially excepting that your two cousins John & Charles are here for a short vacation. Fo Long enough indeed for them  but too short for me. For their presence enlivens my hours very much for besides they carry me out to ride & write letters for me who cannot write this with my own hand as I ardently wish but rough–rugged palsy forbids me. I shall scarcely be able to make put my mark at the close of it. Your accounts of your hopes for you mother & of your sister’s looks & the childrens loveliness are is charming to me.
The prosperity of the State of New-York is the admiration of every body & I fear the envy of some. Not to me for I am an American & nothing American is foreign or indifferent to me.
I rejoice that you have so lively & grateful a sense of the kindnesses you received in the District of Columbia, in Philadelphia in Utica & every where else. It is a proof of a good heart, & a good understanding.
Miss Marstons Academy enjoys a good reputation and is in a state of flourishing, prosperity, & increase. Our young Ladies are taking lessons of a Miss Brenard in drawing at the same time that they are attending Miss Marston. The sunday school suffers something from your absence; but on your return in the fall, which we wish & expect with pleasure will revive your opportunities of doing good.
Tomorrow is our election & the weather is very fine but the drought is very severe; though as we ought to be thankful at all times for all things we ought to be thankful for that for it is undoubtedly for the Public good: though we are too apt to whimper a little too ungratefully & unphilosophically.
I hope theological controversies do not rage in your neighbourhood; they are carried on here with some zeal but with great candour & moderation in general. Dr Ware & Dr Woods are now on the arena and they conduct like able & gentlemanly combatants.
Louisa has been upon a visit to Boston—returned last night in smart health & happiness.
Suppose Miss Susan should write a letter to her Great Grandfather. Mrs. Dawes is here by water from Baltimore with a very fine Baby.
I am / Your affectionate Grandfather
John Adams—


Title: From William Cranch to John Quincy Adams, 28 May 1822
From: Cranch, William
To: Adams, John Quincy

					Dr Sir,
					Alexa. May 28. 1822

				I beg leave to introduce Mr. John D. Herbert, a respectable gentleman of this place, who I understand wishes to see you upon business.I am, Dr Sir, / most respectfully / your obedt. servt.

					W. Cranch—


Title: From Ward Nicholas Boylston to John Quincy Adams, 29 May 1822
From: Boylston, Ward Nicholas
To: Adams, John Quincy

               My Dear Sir
               Princeton 29h May 1822

            As you are in some degree releived from the pressure of Public Business, by the termination of congressional calls upon your labours—I avail myself of the leisure it may afford you in reading the Inclosed extract of a Letter recently rec’d from my worthy Friend Dr: Nicholls.—it may appear somewhat strange that he should refer to you in what he says about the slave trade.—but a few words will explain the reason—when I was favd: with your Letter of 24th Jany last, I read it to my beloved and venerable Friend your Father, and as I conceived it the highest compliment I could present to Dr N. on his Book, to wch. you refer & the best critism on both the Laws of Pitt & Fox—I suggested to him my wish to make the extract from it—and send him, provided I did not hazard your dissapprobation in doing—he replied, “by all means send it—I will take all blame upon myself if the Secretary charges you with blame”—thus if indeed I have offended the Son—I at least hope I have a Mediator with the Father—Dr. Nicholls has been highly gratified & flatter’d by it—and the more so, as it could never been supposed at the time, he was ever to be made acquainted with your sentiments respecting his Book.—the New Edition I suppose is now out of Press, and by the next Ship—I shall receive one Copy for you—whenever it comes I will immediately forward it—With respect to your Father’s Picture I shall sacredly preserve it, for the purposes I have already mention’d—yours I hope will not be denied me, as a Companion to it—It was never my wish that it should subject you to any other trouble or expence, but that of setting for it—and for that object I have appropriated Six Hundred Dollars—and in case I should not live to see it accomplish’d I leave that amount to be applied when most convent to yourself—The Season is now approaching, when I may presume to hope both you & Mrs Adams will indulge us, with another visit to this place—your Father’s health was so much benefited by the excursion, that he has promised me to accompany you & make a longer stay,—if—as he says—the Grave yard does not dissappoint him which may heaven avert—I have but few Links left of the chain which fastens me to life—and the loss of him will be breaking one of the strongest—I mean to make him a visit next week, if only for a day—his kindness and tokens of affections I sensibly feel and shall studiously cherish.—When your mind is a little a leisure I wish you would bestow a thought or two, upon the improvement of the Institution for Prizes in Elocution—any suggestions you can favor me with, I will transmit to the Corporation of Harvard College to be observed on the next exhibition—I have been written to repeatedly by my neighbour Mr Thomas Amory, whom you may have formerly known both in England, as well as in Boston (his birth place)—who has a Son a young man who has been engaged in several voyages to India & N West Coast—which his Parents & Friends were in hopes would have been sufficient to have cured his passion for a nautical profession, but in this they have been dissappointed—and he has been for sometime very anxious to enter as a Midshipman in the US service—(about 18 month ago previous to his last voyage to India from whence he has just returned) he applied by Letter to the Secretary of the Navy, inclosing Letters recommendatory from his uncle, Commodore Morris, & H G Otis Esqr for a midshipmans warrant—these Letters were presented to the Secretary by Dr Eustis W:C: & he saw them regularly filed in the office—as he has not heard any thing from the Secretary since he supposed no new warrants have been made out,—it is with a view to learn what might be his expectations and to solicit thro’ me your kind aid in furtherance of his wishes, that I now request the favor of your to assertain and if you can aid his application, that you would be so good as to afford it.—Mr T Amory has a large & necessaryly expensive of Family, has been an extensive and opulent Mercht. untill total blindness compel’d him to relinquish Business, and retire into the Country—Mr Amory is perhaps well-known to you as one of the first families in Boston and his Son John Holmes Amory for whom he applies is his eldest son—I have not seen much of him for some years back—but his friends say of him, that he is a young man of good character & capable of becomeing a valuable officer in the service—When you favor me with a Letter be so obliging as to mention what may be his prospects of being appointed—as his Friends are very anxious to know on what they may depend on; I am sorry to be so troublesome to you upon a subject so distinct from your own official engagements, but the urgent request of a Friend & Neighbour has induced me to trespass upon your kindnessMrs. Boylston desires her best respects to you and unites with me in affectionate regards to Mrs Adams.—whose health we are extreamly sorry to hear has been so much impaired thro’ the winter, but hope is now convalescent so much so as only require the air of Princeton to confirm—With the Sincerest Regard & Esteem I remain, / My Dear Sir most affectionatly your Friend / And Serv

               Ward Nichs Boylston


Title: From John Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 May 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Boylston, Ward Nicholas

My dear Cousin
Montezillo May 30 1822.

Some of Jobs afflictions and some peculiar to myself have rendered it impossible for me to write to you even a bare acknowledgement of the favours I have received from you. The first & greatest of which is the Extract from Mr Nichols. The manly sense pure integrity & noble disinterestedness of that worthy gentleman always charms me. After such a treat it seems a sin & a shame to mention such an article as that of which you have sent me seven barrels. It is transcendently excellent. It is too good. I am afraid of it & yet constantly under strong temptation to transgress. I have no news to tell you very good or even very bad excepting that our English grass is languishing under a dangerous consumption & our gardens parched with a severe drought. You are situated so much nearer the Clouds that I hope you enjoy a more plentiful share of their blessings.
I am deprived by my infirmities of the joys & amusements of social life I cannot go to Cambridge to Exhibitions nor to Boston to Elections or meetings of literary Societies. I will not complain for perhaps I get as much as I lose by these privations.
There is a great botheration in the world about two letters one of Jonathan Russell & the other of J Q Adams. There is an abundance of musical sharps & flats in both to be rude but it seems to me as unnecessary at this time as it is to represent the captors of André as mercenaries Gen Putnam a coward or James Otis & John Hancock as trimmers. Bringing out Russel’s letter at this time appears a silly business. The poor fellow has got a sting in his ear which I believe will make it ache. We are all as well as usual at Wash Quincy &c. All send love & compliments to you & Mrs Boylston to whom my most particular most respectful & most affectionate regards. Oh that I owned an estate on the top of Wachusett from whence “my contemplation might prune it’s ruffled wings & my free soul look down to pity kings” & even look down upon my dear Cousin Boylston & pity him for the vexatious cares in which he is involved by his large possessions & even by his charity, philanthropy, & benevolent bounties to Science & letters. Do not you Worcester County gentlemen think of digging a canal from Wachusett to Worcester & from thence to Providence? but I must put a stop to this career of nonsense by assuring you of the sincere gratitude & affection of / Your Cousin
John Adams


Title: From John Quincy Adams to Josiah, III Quincy, 5 June 1822
From: Adams, John Quincy
To: Quincy, Josiah, III

					Dear Sir
					Washington 5 June 1822.

				Conformably to the suggestion in your favour of the 24th ultimo, I have written to Mr Cruft, requesting him to have the Books at the Athenæum belonging to me packed up in boxes and deposited with some others now in his custody—I pray you to accept my best acknowledgments for your kind offers of assistance and have desired Mr Cruft should he have occasion for it to avail himself of them.I am with great Respect and Regard / Dear Sir, your faithful Servt


Title: From John Adams to George Washington Adams, 12 June 1822
From: Adams, John
To: Adams, George Washington

					My dear Grandson
					Montizillo 12 June 1822.

				I am well pleased with your No’s: 31. 32 & hope you will continue the subject. I see nothing on the quarterly review but the Johnsonian antipathy to Scotland. That Mr. Locke has had greater influence on the intellectual moral & political world than any man of the last century I believe; but to deny that Reid & Stuart have made no improvements a upon Locke appears to me an iniquitous partiality in favour of England I have heard the two first volumes of Brown’s lectures and am far advanced in the third. Mrs Shaw and Miss Anna Thaxter are with us and entertain me with much delightful reading. Brown is manifestly a pupil & disciple of Stuarts & Reid & though the differences between them are chiefly about the meaning of words yet I think they have made words more intelligible and more precise. The result of all the metaphisical speculations I have ever read is that we are ignorant of all causes ment & substances mental or corporeal. We know that causes & substances do exist, but what they are we are still ignorant & ever shall be. Our faculties in this life can not reach them That we are fearfully & wonderfully made in mind as well as body—that wisdom power & goodness transcending all our conceptions have been exerted in the production & preservation of the intellectual & moral as well as material world is beyond all controversy. When I read a number of good books in succession I am very apt to think the last the best. Accordingly I receive more pleasure from Brown than from his predecessorsYour friend Quincy is now reading a great modern work in six large Octavos upon real estates. I think the authors name is Noyce. As he quotes his authorities on the margin of every page, if his authority is not sufficient, you may consult the original. The work I think must be a rich treasure to the young students of law. It has been reprinted in America and I hope you will purchase it and I hope you will cultivate a friendly correspondence with QuincyThe tracasserie diplomatique has been decided in this part of the world so universally in favor of one party that no man has hitherto thought it prudent or safe to print write or speak one word in favour of the other. Whether we may hope for a visit this summer from the whole or any part of the family you will please to inform your afectionate grandfather

					J. A.


Title: From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 June 1822
From: Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson
To: Adams, John Quincy

					My best friend
					Baltimore S. B. U. S 21 June 1822

				We have accomplished our journey thus far as well as I anticipated but my brother was so ill this morning I was fearful we should be obliged to remain at Baltimore for some days. As however he is better this Eveng he has determined to go on in the Stage and reach Philadelphia tomorrow morning—I shall therefore send the Carriage round to join us there—Our Stage party consists of Mr Pratt of P. Mr. Hoffman and Mr Purviance of Baltimore and as they appear inclined to be very polite and I am sure will take good care of us—The Captain who is very obliging will put this Letter into the Post Office when he arrives and you will give my love to all and believe me ever affectionately yours

					L. C Adams

					Tell George to take great care of himself while I am away—