It is sometimes said that suspense is worse than the certainty of evil—But it is a hard relief...
I have received only one letter from you—that of 25. Novr: since I left you—And none from any of...
I have nothing new to tell you from this place. I have no letter from you of later date than 25....
Your letter of the 16th: brought me consolation and hope in the information that you were all...
I now enclose you the two bills, together with an order upon the Bank at Boston for their...
Last Evening I received your’s of the 14th: which makes me anxious to hear from you again—Your...
I wrote you from Cambridge last Tuesday, and then promised that my next should be from this...
I wrote you last Sunday, the day after my arrival at Quincy and gave you an account of the...
The latest letter I have from you is dated the 14th: when you were very unwell with a sore throat...
I have as little faith in presentiments as yourself—but the anxiety which I have felt for this...
The enclosed lines were written as a tribute of my affectionate remembrance, of your...
12From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 May 1806 (Adams Papers)
The first pen I put to paper after reaching my journey’s end must be to inform you, my dearest...
I received yesterday your letter of the 15th: and this morning that of the 17th: enclosing in the...
From your letter of the 20th: which I have just received, I am in doubt whether even this letter...
I have just received your letter of 24. Decr: and lament that the expression of my anxiety to...
My project of coming from Washington to this place, by the way of Annapolis was disappointed, by...
I expected to have this letter from Quincy, where it was my intention to have gone yesterday in...
I received yesterday your letter of Decr: 28th: with the enclosures to Mr: & Mrs: Hellen, and to...
I wrote you this day week, last Sunday that I intended to return to Boston the next morning—But,...
Yesterday was the first Saturday since I arrived here, which passed over without bringing me a...
The last Letter I have received from you was that of the 1st: instt: which I answered last week—I...
On leaving Boston I had formed the Resolution of travelling only in the day-time, but at the...
I have just this morning received your kind favour of the 2d: instt: which at once confirmed my...
The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place;...
I have been expecting to hear from you these two or three days, and begin to feel some anxiety to...
I have received but one letter from you since I left Boston, and that was written only two days...
Here I am at length, established as an intimate, in the family of Dr: Waterhouse; but from a...
The Potowmac Bridge question is at last postponed untill the next Session of Congress, after...
In the course of the last week I received your kind favour of the 15th: instt: which in assuring...
Last Evening I received with heart-felt pleasure your letter of the 25th: ulto: which was the...