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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
Character, Appearance, Habits, Domestic Life
Character 26
Relationships 141
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diary keeping35
early introspective reflections28
assistance sought by and given to Amer. prisoners and others26
appeals from and assistance to Amer. prisoners18
interest in and consumption of Bordeaux wines17
sends goods to AA17
extent of own achievements in Netherlands over obstacles realized10
companionship with girls and romantic interests6
plan to live with family at The Hague5
AFC05
brings law clerks into his family2
LJA01
criticism of for partiality in assisting Amer. prisoners2
PJA12
record-keeping habits2
DJA01
AA: “My Good Man is so very fat”1
AFC01
AA criticizes miniature of1
AFC05
Adams family physician in London1
LJA03
“a little like a Lion”1
DJA01
amused by guest1
AFC06
and controversy over J. Temple's return to U.S.1
PJA12
and dispute over care of house at The Hague1
AFC06
and the Porpas sloop1
PJA08
and titles of dignity1
AFC03
and William Jackson1
PJA11
anecdote about giving fine dinners1
AFC06
anecdote on patience1
PJA12
appearance of1
PJA11
arranges for milk and cream delivery in London1
AFC06
as a courtier1
AFC04
as correspondent1
PJA03
asks AA to acknowledge all of his letters by date1
AFC02
asks Franklin to care for books and clothes1
PJA10
as politician1
PJA03
assists J. Wheelock's fundraising effort1
PJA13
attends English Church at The Hague1
PJA13
attends Prince's Review1
PJA12
“a vile Habit of dozing in the Morning”1
AFC01
“Ballast is what I want”1
EJA01
behavior of Duke of Dorset toward1
AFC07
belongings stolen1
PJA11
Benjamin Rush on1
AFC03
boasts of his patience1
AFC03
book dedication to1
PJA13
books and papers left with AA (1778)1
EJA01
breakfasts with Sarsfield1
PJA13
buys wine1
PJA11
called “a civil Cincinnatus”1
AFC05
called by Mercy Otis Warren “the Stat Holder”1
AFC02
cannot read Dutch1
PJA13
character as revealed in his Diary and Autobiography1
DJA01
children mentioned1
LJA02
clerk needed1
PJA06
comments on1
PJA11
compared to Atlas1
PJA13
concern for saddle horse1
PJA04
conscience1
PJA01
content to farm, be a selectman and “get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers”1
AFC05
converts earliest diary to letterbook1
EJA01
cuts relic from Shakespeare's chair1
AFC07
danger of using name in Britain1
PJA12
decline of finances1
PJA03
deplores his poor handwriting1
AFC03
described as “a most wretched politician”1
PJA13
described as “pettifogging Attorney”1
PJA13
described by Tripolitan secy. as “un veritable Turk”1
AFC07
described by William Langborn1
AFC07
described on leaving to present A Memorial at The Hague1
AFC04
desire to return to private life1
AFC05
determines to keep family together1
AFC06
dines with Laurens and Ridley1
PJA13
dinners1
PJA11
discusses politics with John Brown Cutting1
AFC07
dislike of formalities and ceremonies1
DJA01
dislikes English breakfast1
AFC07
division of personal and public expenses1
PJA11
doubts proficiency in French language1
PJA11
Dumas visits1
PJA12
Dutch negotiations fully recorded and preserved by1
AFC04
Dutch schoolmaster seeks help in finding new job1
PJA12
early letterdrafts as literary exercises1
EJA01
early romantic interest of1
AFC05
effect of compliments on1
PJA12
egotism, &c., distrusted by Madison1
AFC04
encounter with Hannah Quincy in old age1
EJA01
entertains lawyers and judge at dinner1
LJA02
enumerates family cares1
AFC05
envy of his position1
PJA09
estimate of his character by Col. Josiah Quincy1
DJA01
estimate of his character by Franklin1
DJA01
estimate of his character by Hamilton1
DJA03
estimate of his character by John Paul Jones1
DJA04
estimate of his character by Jonathan Sewall1
AFC01
estimate of his character by Lord Howe1
DJA03
estimate of his character by Rush1
DJA02
estimate of his character by Samuel Tucker1
DJA02
estimate of his character by Vauguyon1
DJA03
estimate of his character by Vergennes1
DJA03
estimate of his character by William Greene1
DJA02
existence of God1
PJA12
fails to send letter to Franklin1
PJA13
fond of tea1
AFC05
“fortified with a shield of Innocence and Honour ten thousandfold stronger than brass or Iron”1
AFC04
forwards letters from James Warren to Winslow Warren1
AFC07
Franklin sends fictional accounts of events in U.S. printed at Passy1
PJA12
friendship with Jonathan Sewall1
AFC07
gathers possessions to be ready to return to America1
AFC05
green velvet cap called a “Cap of Wisdom”1
AFC06
hires and dismisses a drunken coachman1
AFC06
hiring a servant1
AFC01
his letters “may exhibit to our Posterity a kind of Picture ... of these Times”1
AFC01
humor of1
AFC07
“I am told I am the first public Minister that ever lived without a Carriage”1
AFC03
I am “too old to make a Figure in Arms” (1775)1
PJA02
“I cannot eat Pensions and Sinecures, they would stick in my Throat”1
AFC03
“I can pass for a Fool, but I will not pass for a dishonest or a mercenary Man”1
AFC03
“I expect to be totally forgotten within 70 years from the present Hour”1
PJA01
“If I had Power I would forever banish and exclude from America, all Gold, silver, precious stones, Alabaster, Marble, Silk, Velvet and Lace”1
AFC03
“I have not much of the Grand in my Composition”1
AFC02
“I have so many Irons in the Fire, that every one burns”1
EJA01
immigration information sought from1
PJA12
“I must be within the Scent of the sea”1
PJA13
influenced by Rousseau1
AFC03
informs James Elworthy of safe arrival of Bond family in Boston1
AFC07
interest in improving education1
PJA12
“I think Women better than Men in General”1
AFC03
“It is not that my Pride or my Vanity is piqued by the Revocation of my envied Commission.... What affects me most is the Tryumph given to ... vile Intrigue against inflexible Honour and Integrity”1
AFC04
“I was never very fond of public Life, myself”1
PJA09
“I write in Trammells”1
AFC02
Joseph Hawley's appraisal of1
PJA02
JQA's resemblance to1
AFC06
judged zealous but incautious by Gerry1
AFC04
keeps food gifts confidential1
AFC06
lack of self-control1
DJA02
lacks commercial knowledge1
PJA12
Laurens on1
PJA13
letter-writing habits1
AFC01
letter-writing in old age1
AFC01
“Literary and Professional ... Ambition”1
AFC02
Louisa Catherine Smith, JA's amanuensis in his old age1
AFC02
marriage to AA1
AFC01
Mars appropriate for table of1
AFC06
Mary Cranch wishes him to be informed of Royall Tyler's true character1
AFC07
Mather Brown portrait1
PJA11
member of Bill of Rights society1
PJA06
“My dear blue Hills, ye are the most sublime object in my Imagination”1
AFC04
“my Life has been a Series of dissappointments, chequered with . . . a Ray of good Luck”1
AFC05
“naturally inclined to be fat”1
AFC05
needs a clerk1
PJA07
Neufville presents print of Washington portrait by Trumbull1
PJA12
Neufville seeks portrait of1
PJA12
not a “King Killer, King Hater or King Despizer”1
PJA13
“not formal and ceremonious enough” to be chief justice1
AFC02
of calm and considered judgment1
AFC04
“Oh that I was a Soldier!”1
AFC01
on indigence at home1
EJA01
on procrastination1
EJA01
on virtue and holding public office1
PJA09
orders grandsons to preserve what they write1
AFC01
Paris banker1
PJA06
“Politicks are an ordeal Path, among red hot Ploughshares”1
PJA02
purchases portrait of Jefferson1
AFC07
reads Dana's mail1
PJA12
reasons for ending correspondence with Greene1
PJA12
receives honorary degree from Harvard1
PJA12
receives news of Yorktown1
PJA12
receives word of CA's arrival in Massachusetts1
PJA12
recognition by Harvard1
AFC04
recommends brother-in-law to Dutch merchants1
AFC05
recommends Cerisier and Marien for membership in Amer. Academy of Arts and Sciences1
PJA12
referred to as “Doctor Adams” in Massachusetts1
AFC06
reflects on his qualities1
PJA12
refuses to assist Allcock1
PJA13
reputation of1
PJA11
response to nature1
PJA01
reunited with family in London (1784)1
EJA01
role in Penhallow and Treadwell v. Lusanna 1
PJA05
sarcasm of1
PJA13
sees own firmness or obstinacy1
AFC04
sends early letters to Niles in 1819, now lost1
AFC01
sends merchandise to U.S.1
PJA12
sends New England shilling to Thomas Brand Hollis1
PJA12
“should be painted looking like a short, thick, fat Archbishop of Canterbury”1
LJA02
sister-in-law characterizes1
AFC06
social finesse exhibited1
AFC04
social life in Braintree1
PJA11
sons contemplate law study1
LJA01
takes sons to France1
PJA09
talent for sarcasm1
EJA01
tears apart Epiphany pie1
AFC06
Temple affair and1
PJA13
“the Acquisition and Communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life”1
PJA01
“The Letters I have written ... must be kept secret”1
AFC01
“the most anxious and mortifying Year [1780] of my whole Life”1
PJA10
“The Times alone have destined me to Fame”1
DJA02
“The Zeal-Pot boils over”1
AFC01
threat of execution in England1
PJA13
tips sea captain1
AFC07
toasts “A glorious Peace”1
PJA13
to dine with Boreels1
PJA12
“To tell you the Truth, I admire the Ladies here”1
AFC03
use of letterbooks1
AFC03
values brother-in-law's opinion1
AFC05
Vermont and1
PJA13
views on epistolary style1
AFC02
Vinkeles' engravings of1
AFC05
visits the Cranches in Salem (1766)1
AFC01
walks for exercise1
PJA09
wants JQA to return to Netherlands1
PJA12
wants JQA to return to The Hague1
PJA13
wants to return home1
PJA12
“What are the Motives, that ought to urge me to hard study?”1
EJA01
wishes to write a history of the Revolution1
PJA07
Witherspoon on1
AFC04
writes Van der Kemp on “the Litterary Character” of AA1
AFC01
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