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...
11From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 23 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have received your two letters of last Week, with a dozen copies of my letter to Mr: Otis—And...
12From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
My wife received a few days since a letter from you, and I had the happiness of receiving one...
13From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 31 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
I will thank you to give the enclosed manuscript to Oliver and Munro, to be published immediately...
14From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind attention to my affairs, as detailed in your last Letter which I have...
15From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 25 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 5th: instt: never came to my hands untill yesterday—I have long noticed the...
16From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 12 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
I begin by congratulating you upon the birth of your daughter Elizabeth, of which I had never...
17From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 7 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
I will thank you to pay to my father, for me, on or before the 22d: of this month eleven hundred...
18From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your affectionate letter of the 15th:— and do not a moment delay to answer...
19From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 18 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you some time since and enclosed an order on the Branch Bank at Boston, to be placed to...
20From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 6 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to you, I believe for two letters; but there is so much in the last, of what parson...
21To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 27 January 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have already written you a very long letter in answer to your favour of the 8th: instt:—and...
22From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 8 January 1808 (Adams Papers)
I send you occasionally, the public documents of the most interesting nature, but I have not the...
23To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 27 December 1807 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 14th: instt: came to my hands just at a moment to renew and to strengthen...
24From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 18 December 1807 (Adams Papers)
I received some days since, your letter of the 18th: of last Month—But it was longer in coming...
25From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 14 December 1807 (Adams Papers)
Your’s of the 3d: instt: came to hand the night before last; I am perfectly satisfied with your...
26To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 30 November 1807 (Adams Papers)
I received a few days since your very kind letter which I am ashamed of answering by a few lines;...
27From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 7 November 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet had the pleasure of receiving a line from you, which I presume is owing to the...
28From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 November 1807 (Adams Papers)
Last Evening I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of 25th: ulto: which contained the first...
29From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 28 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
I enclosed to you by last Evening’s Mail a Copy of the President’s Message, as first printed by...
30From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of...
31From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 17 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
We arrived safe at Providence on the Evening of the day when we took leave of you in Boston; and...
32From John Quincy Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 20 August 1807 (Adams Papers)
As the account I gave you the day before yesterday may occasion you some anxiety on my wife’s...
33From John Quincy Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 18 August 1807 (Adams Papers)
I take the first moment of self-possession that I have to inform you that my dear wife at...
34To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 18 June 1807 (Adams Papers)
The Fire and Marine Insurance Office are now repaying the third part of their capital, to which...
My project of coming from Washington to this place, by the way of Annapolis was disappointed, by...
I received yesterday your letter of the 15th: and this morning that of the 17th: enclosing in the...
Since I wrote you last I have been a little affected with the rhumatism in my shoulder, so that I...
38From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 17 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I received in proper time from you, a copy of Selfridge’s trial, and also the Anthology for...
The enclosed lines were written as a tribute of my affectionate remembrance, of your...
40From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of January; and shall particularly attend to your directions at...
I yesterday enclosed you a letter from Adelaide, under a blank cover, because I was all the...
42From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have two letters from you of the 18th: and 28th: of last Month to answer—And since the receipt...
Since I wrote you last, when we were in the midst of a hurricane from the Northwest, untill this...
Your letter of 26. Jany: enclosing one to your Mamma, reached me the same day that I wrote you...
45From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 5 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I received some days since your favour of the 19. January, and thank you for the information it...
Since I wrote you last, which was on the 1st: of this month I have not heard from you—I enclose...
47From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had...
The Potowmac Bridge question is at last postponed untill the next Session of Congress, after...
49To John Adams from John Quincy Adams, 27 January 1807 (Adams Papers)
I received nearly ten days since your very kind letter, which has hitherto remained unanswered...
I wrote you last Monday a few lines enclosing a letter for Caroline, and intended further to have...