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General Lincoln setts out Tomorrow, and I should not dare to let him go without a Love Letter to...
It is with very great pleasure that I address you, my dear mamma, from this place again. You will...
We have had Such falls of Snow and rain that I Suppose the Mail has been retarded and I have no...
I am so anxious for your health, Since you inform’d me of the return of your Intermittent, that I...
Your Letter from your Sick Chamber if not from your Sick bed, has made me so uneasy that I must...
I am grieved to hear of the fresh return of your old persecuter the Ague; I had flattered myself...
Your last letter to me is dated the 18 th: of March, since which time I have not heared a single...
Your kind letter of the 12 has reached me, in complyance with M r Brieslers request I enclose the...
I am extremely sorry to hear, that you have had another attack of your ague, since Cousin Betsy...
I ought to have written you from New-York, of my safe arrival there in little more than three...
I am happy in having it in my power to give you more favorable accounts respecting the Fever in...
Since my Brother informed me of the miscarriage of some of my letters, I am determined to suffer...
Your favor of the 28 th: Oct r: has been received, & as I omited writing by the last Post, I will...
We have had an agreable Journey to this Town, have been to Meeting all Day and heard two...
I have now been in the City since the 19 th: and am happily able to give you the fullest...
Had you My respected friend join’d the Small, tho’ social Circle the last Thursday, it would have...
I arrived here Yesterday, and had the Pleasure to dine with our Children and The Baron: All are...
We may ever remember The Thirtieth of November because it was the Day on which We were absolved...
I wrote you from Hartford, New York and once from Philadelphia: but have not yet had the Pleasure...
I believe you are indebted to me for a letter or two, but as your late loss has been my gain, it...
This Day having been devoted to Thanksgiving by the Governor of Pensilvania, Congress have...
Having taken a cold which makes it inconvenient to go out this morning I cannot employ myself...
M rs Otis arrived with her little Rosignal, in good health and Spirits the night before last, and...
This Morning I returned M r Genets’ Visit. The Conversation was confined to Some Inquiries I made...
I went this morning to D r Greens and this afternoon to St. Pauls where I heard D r Magaw: but I...
I have enough to do to write Apologies in Answer to Invitations to dinner and to Tea Parties: but...
It is a long time since I have written to you, or received a Line from either of my much loved...
This morning I received your favour of the 20 th. The House I am in was aired and Smoked with Tar...
I have taken a Sheet of Paper, only to wish you an happy new Year and many happy repetitions of...
The Door Keeper has just brought me your kind Letter of Dec r 28. Freneau’s Paper is discontinued...
The Anxiety you express (in your kind Letter of Dec r 31 which I received this morning ) for your...
I had Yesterday the Pleasure of yours of January 5. I will Send, to M r Adams a Check upon the...
The ice in the Delaware having delayed the post beyond it’s usual period I had not the honor to...
I Send you, at present the Negotiations with M r Hammond as I sent you before those with M r...
We go Slowly forward: So Slowly as to produce no Results, which is a better course than to run...
I am weary of this Scæne of Dulness. We have done nothing and Shall do nothing this Session,...
your favor of the 6 th: Inst t: has been received— The expressions of tendeness & Maternal...
I have just now rec d your favour of the 12 th. The Mail from the Eastward has been unusually...
The Mail of Yesterday brought me, a rich Treasure in your kind Letters of the 18. 24 and 25 th of...
The Indisposition of my ever honoured and beloved Mother gives me a very tender Anxiety— I hope...
I have rec d your s of the 30 th. Ult. and given the inclosed to son Thomas, who will do with it...
Vive la Baggatelle! Dulce est desipere. I have no other Resource in my solitude, amidst all my...
I have rec d yours of Jan. 31.— And it has relieved me from a Melancholly which has hung upon me...
We have done nothing hitherto, but prevent our Countrymen from plunging blindfold into a War,...
I this day rec d your favours of the 8. and 12 th. but how this last could have leaped to this...
The Birthday was celebrated Yesterday with as much Joy affection and Festivity as ever, and as it...
I am quite ashamed my dear M rs Adams that I have so long neglected writeing to you, indeed I can...
The Senate were obliged to Spend the whole of the last Week, in a Solemn Tryal of the Election of...
Your Favours of Feb. 26 and Feb. (blank) arrived not till last night. They deserve my best Thanks...
I received Yesterday your kind Letter of Feb. 28. and March 1.— I can never be sufficiently...