1From 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...
I address you, altho I know not where to find you, which is, and has been a source of much...
It was with great pleasure, that I received your Letter from St. Petersburgh, bearing date july...
As I hope you are now in a Situation both to receive Letters, and write them with more Security...
Altho I have not the pleasure to acknowledg any Letter from you of a more recent date, than one...
Altho I cannot have the pleasure of acknowledging any Letter from you of a more recent date than...
Your Letter of July 9th was joyfully received by me, it was not untill your Letter arrived, that...
I have to acknowledge a very tender and affectionate Letter from you, bearing date 8th Janry...
I must inclose a Note to you, to Say that this morning the mail from Utica in N york, informd me...
It was with great pleasure that I received and read your Letter of August 6th from Ealing, and it...
I always like to send to every one some token of remembrance by writing to each, altho, I á derth...
I attempted to write to you, by Captain Bronson in Jan’ry but my strength failed me, and I have...
I have already written to you by this vessel. her sailing haveing been delayed, I have the...
By a vessel which saild a week since, I wrote to my Son, and Grandson’s. by this I shall write...
I never know how to let a vessel go from Boston, without a Letter to Some of the Family. I have...
Altho’ I have repeatedly written to you Since I received a Letter from you, I am not critical in...
I have to acknowledge your obligeing Letter of June the 18th, and to thank you for the...
I have received your kind Letter of June the 7th, tho not by Mrs Perkins, for she has not yet...
This is the last day of Sep’br, and the month is thus far expended, without my addressing a line...
I am indebted to you for several very entertaining Letters, while I have not any thing in return...