Your letter of the 16th: brought me consolation and hope in the information that you were all...
It is sometimes said that suspense is worse than the certainty of evil—But it is a hard relief...
I have not received a line from you since I wrote you on Monday—Your mother however has had a...
I have received but one letter from you since I left Boston, and that was written only two days...
I thank you for your letter, and Kitty for her watch paper— I had like to have had no watch-case...
The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place;...
On leaving Boston I had formed the Resolution of travelling only in the day-time, but at the...
I write you a line from the Stage–Office: having just this moment arrived, and intending in half...
9To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 6 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
About two months since I transmitted to you certain papers respecting a native citizen of this...
10To James Madison from John Quincy Adams, 4 June 1808 (Madison Papers)
I take the liberty of enclosing to you two certificates, respecting William Parker, a native...