Your two last numbers 21 and 22 came together as usual on Saturday last. I could not help smiling...
Mr. Harris was here last evening, and made me an offer of a House, which as times go is...
Your No 21 and 22 were recieved by me as usual last Saturday, or rather Sunday morning, as it was...
I was so fortunate as to recieve your No 25 on Wednesday which was the day in course but as it...
Having recieved your very affectionate letter of the 12 August No. 26 this morning I hasten to...
Your No 28 was deliver’d to me yesterday morning. Your fears of bad news from America in the...
From your last Letter of the 19 I am led to believe that you are not likely to return home so...
As this is probably the last opportunity I shall have to write you I sieze it with avidity, and...
I had entirely left off writing under the idea that you would have been on your way home very...
I had left off writing entirely from the idea that you would have left England Ghent befor a...
Some how or other By some mistake I think I misdated my last Letter to you and it is only to day...
No 39 arrived in due time and I have for some time been perpetually satisfied with the Post...
The surprize and sorrow I felt at the receipt of your last letter cannot be expressed and I felt...
I received your kind letter of the 30 of September in due time and although it confirmed the bad...
Although Mr. H.—has informed me that the Congress is dissolved, still I persevere in writing, as...
Bad news still keeps pouring on us and your prophecies are too fatally accomplished It is to day...
Your Letters arrive so regularly that it is scarcely necessary to acknowledge the receipt of...
My last letter mentioned some good news which I had heard from America I thank God this has been...
You cannot think how much I was disappointed in your last last Letter when I open’d it I was in...
70From Charles Francis Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
By some accident my letter was too late for the last Post I therefore only send you this letter...
I am charmed to find by your last letter that you pass your time so agreeably at Ghent: it would...
Your charming letter only reached me last night the roads being very bad but it came time enough...
I did not mean to offend you, in what I wrote you concerning the information you gave. but I was...
Yours of the eighth is come not to fill me with doubts because that was already effected but to...
My troubles will never end till you return and I really if it does not soon happen I shall be...
Another Letter was yesterday brought me but it gave me no hopes of your return and I dare not...
I am just going to dine with the Princess Belloselsky at which I have no doubt you will be much...
Having heard of the arrival of the Fingal you may suppose how anxious I am for the next Post A...
I was much disappointed at the receipt of your last letter having flatter’d myself that you would...
With what pleasure I read your last kind Letter you are capable of judging who are so well...
Your letter is this moment brought me and Mr Lewis has called at the same time to inform me that...
According to your desire I begin again to number my letters but I hope at least that our...
Your last letter afforded me inexpressible pleasure as far as regards self we both likely to be...
I can scarcely find time to write you into even a few lines having been so interrupted yesterday...
Conceive the astonishment your Letter caused me if you can and still more the Treaty which is...
I am sure you must have thought me mad from the date of my last letter I was so teazed with...
The confusion around me and the perpetual interruptions render it almost impossible for me to...
Your kind letter with that of Mrs Smith reached me the day before yesterday and I hasten to...
I hasten to inform you of our safe Arrival at this City after as pleasant a journey as the Season...
I address you once more from this place and I cannot yet say when I shall be able to leave it as...
I am this instant setting off and have only time to say that nothing can equal my impatience to...
We have proceeded thus far on our journey as well and with as much pleasure as we could possibly...
After a very troublesome and tedious journey we have happily arrived at Berlin where I expected...
94From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Levett Harris, 13 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
We arrived here late last evening, after a very fatiguing journey from Berlin, where I was...
I write you from this place where I arrived last evening and where I have again met with a severe...
Mr. Todd having just called to announce his departure I hasten to write you although I do not...
Your last kind Letters of the 20 of May reached London only two days since and according to your...
Your kind Letters have remained unanswered much longer than I intended owing to the constant...
Your kind letter of the 2 September was delivered to me the day before yesterday, conveying the...
I found your note this morning on my plate when I enterred the breakfast room and hasten to offer...