I received yesterday your Letter of Novbr 27th. and was rejoiced to learn that you and the...
Inclosed you have a Letter, to mr Rutledge which you may if you like send to your Brother if you...
I received two days since your Letter of Febry th 11. it containd information the most agreable...
4From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
The reason that you did not receive a Letter from me when you arrived at Philadelphia, was oweing...
I received your Letter of december 6th on the 14th and was very glad to hear of your safe arrival...
Your Letter of Jan’ry 6 I received last Evening. your Children are very well, and very well taken...
I shall begin my Letter by putting your mind at ease respecting your children, who are both very...
I address you jointly and congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since you commenced...
I received your favour of Novbr 20th and rejoiced to learn that you reachd Washington in safety...
It is a long time since I wrote you, or rather since I sent a Letter, for an unfinished one has...
11From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I would not come to Town to day because I knew I should only add to yours, and my own agony, my...
I congratulate you upon your safe arrival in the cold Regions of the North: to which I hope your...
I this day received a Letter from my son dated october 21 from constradt—we had heard three weeks...
your Letter from St petersburgh of october 28th I received the last week, four Months after the...
When I closed my Letter; last week to my son by captain Smith, I fully intended to have written...
I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for...
It is a long time since I addresed a Letter to You, and a much longer since I received a Letter...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
I hope the afflicting intelligence which you must receive from your Friends at Washington, will...
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had...
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
I Sit down to write to my dear daughter, almost without a hope, or wish that She Should receive...
do not think that I have not participated in your Joy, upon the Birth of your daughter, because I...
I beleive I have written you only one Letter since the commencment of the present Year, and I...
How shall I address a Letter to you, how share and participate in your Grief without opening...
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits...
I have had Such repeated melancholy tidings to communicate to you, Since your absence, and your...
I will not let mr Ingraham depart without a few Lines to you. I have written to you Several times...
I shall make one effort more; to convey a Letter to you, and that by sending it to Ghent, where I...