I received yesterday your Letter of Novbr 27th. and was rejoiced to learn that you and the...
Your Letter of Jan’ry 6 I received last Evening. your Children are very well, and very well taken...
I received your Letter of december 6th on the 14th and was very glad to hear of your safe arrival...
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...
Inclosed you have a Letter, to mr Rutledge which you may if you like send to your Brother if you...
I shall begin my Letter by putting your mind at ease respecting your children, who are both very...
9From 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 two days since your Letter of Febry th 11. it containd information the most agreable...
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...
22From 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...