Your letter of the 21st arrived from Quincy this Morning and I can only assure you in answer that...
Without knowing where to address you I cannot refrain from writing to you to inform you of our...
Having heard of the arrival of the Fingal you may suppose how anxious I am for the next Post A...
I have been so occupied in writing for Mr. Adams ever since his indisposition that I have really...
You cannot think how much I was disappointed in your last last Letter when I open’d it I was in...
We have this morning recieved your kind letter my dear Mother and I hasten to write you a few...
Conceive the astonishment your Letter caused me if you can and still more the Treaty which is...
Some how or other By some mistake I think I misdated my last Letter to you and it is only to day...
After so long a silence my dear mother I scarcely know how to address you without troubling you...
St Petersburg Octbr. 23d We are now my dear Mother enjoying the delights of a violent Snow storm...
61From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I ought to have thanked you long ago my Dear Harriet for your very obliging Letter announcing the...
With a mind sorely depressed by the late afflicting intelligence from America and the many...
I write you my dear Madam, to announce our safe arrival at Cronstad, after a most tedious, and...
The surprize and sorrow I felt at the receipt of your last letter cannot be expressed and I felt...
At length my dear Madam we have arrived in this splendid City and find ourselves plunged into the...
Your two last favours of the 19 and 22 of July were again deliver’d to me together at on Saturday...
I intended writing you a long Letter this evening my best friend but was interupted by a visit...
Your letter is this moment brought me and Mr Lewis has called at the same time to inform me that...
I recieved your very kind letter my dear Aunt a few days since and hasten to answer it although...
I hasten to inform you of our safe Arrival at this City after as pleasant a journey as the Season...
As the tops of the Houses here are cover’d with Snow and the winds continue to be contrary I...
72From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 14 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
You cannot think what a disappointment your not writing occasion’d me! I have been weighing and...
73From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1814 (Adams Papers)
To offer you anything like consolation for your irreparable loss my dear Mother is I feel utterly...
Your kind letter with that of Mrs Smith reached me the day before yesterday and I hasten to...
Your last letter afforded me inexpressible pleasure as far as regards self we both likely to be...
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...
We wait with much anxiety for Letters, to reassure us on account of your health; although the...
Having already written to Mrs Adams, by this conveyance, my dear Madam, I cannot think of losing,...
80From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Adelaide Hellen, 31 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have been very negligent my Dear Sister in not sooner answering your very affectionate Letter...
Mr. Todd having just called to announce his departure I hasten to write you although I do not...
As Mrs: Perkins has kindly offered to take Letters, I hasten to answer your kind Letters of 24th:...
In the first place I will inform you, as I know how very particular you are, that I have received...
I received your three last numbers they arrived nearly at the same time No. 14 on Friday and 15 &...
You must laugh at the information contain’d in my last as Mr. Harris tells me he wrote you by the...
I am so exhausted by fatigue that it is with the utmost difficulty I can scrawl a few lines...
From your last Letter of the 19 I am led to believe that you are not likely to return home so...
We have been some time now without receiving Letters from you, although we have heard of you from...
Your last Letter was indeed flattering to me. eminently as you are gifted with the talent of...
Mr. Harris was here last evening, and made me an offer of a House, which as times go is...
I write you again my best friend; although I have nothing from you, since your Letter from...
Your No 21 and 22 were recieved by me as usual last Saturday, or rather Sunday morning, as it was...
Yesterday my best friend I had the heartfelt satisfaction of hearing of your safe arrival at...
Your kind Letters have remained unanswered much longer than I intended owing to the constant...
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...
I much fear you will accuse me of negligence in having omitted writing to you by the two last...
Within a few days I have received your two very kind letters of April and am sincerely grieved to...
I did not mean to offend you, in what I wrote you concerning the information you gave. but I was...
100From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 19 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
Owing to the unfortunate detention of your last letter (that is to say No 2) I lost the...