Altho I have not the pleasure to acknowledg any Letter from you of a more recent date, than one...
It was with great pleasure, that I received your Letter from St. Petersburgh, bearing date july...
I have to acknowledge your obligeing Letter of June the 18th, and to thank you for the...
As I hope you are now in a Situation both to receive Letters, and write them with more Security...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
I have to acknowledge a very tender and affectionate Letter from you, bearing date 8th Janry...
I address you, altho I know not where to find you, which is, and has been a source of much...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
I am indebted to you for several very entertaining Letters, while I have not any thing in return...
I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for...
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits...
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
23From 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...
Altho’ I have repeatedly written to you Since I received a Letter from you, I am not critical in...
By a vessel which saild a week since, I wrote to my Son, and Grandson’s. by this I shall write...
I must inclose a Note to you, to Say that this morning the mail from Utica in N york, informd me...
I shall make one effort more; to convey a Letter to you, and that by sending it to Ghent, where I...
I have had Such repeated melancholy tidings to communicate to you, Since your absence, and your...
Altho I cannot have the pleasure of acknowledging any Letter from you of a more recent date than...
I have received your kind Letter of June the 7th, tho not by Mrs Perkins, for she has not yet...
Your Letter of July 9th was joyfully received by me, it was not untill your Letter arrived, that...
I hope the afflicting intelligence which you must receive from your Friends at Washington, will...
I beleive I have written you only one Letter since the commencment of the present Year, and I...
I have already written to you by this vessel. her sailing haveing been delayed, I have the...
I always like to send to every one some token of remembrance by writing to each, altho, I á derth...
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had...
It is a long time since I addresed a Letter to You, and a much longer since I received a Letter...
I will not let mr Ingraham depart without a few Lines to you. I have written to you Several times...
When I closed my Letter; last week to my son by captain Smith, I fully intended to have written...
I must beg of you to tell the Doctor to give me and my brother our pay they are going to arrest...
Captain Bates arrived here yesterday morning, from Amsterdam, and has lent me a number of...
My last Letter accounted regularly for my progress from Stockholm, only as far as Oerebro, where...
The wind, which had been blowing for ten days to the Westward having yesterday become fair,...
Last Evening I received a letter from Mr William Wyer, (I suppose a brother of the Consul at...
The day before Yesterday, I received the first of your Letters numbered by yourself—The number,...
Since the departure of Mr Gallatin, I am left here the only remnant of what was called the...
No letter from you, since that of 10. September, which I received, this day week—The next...
After informing you by my last Letter of my arrival in this City, and of the Hotel where I had...
49From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 7 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
On Thursday Morning Mr Rodda arrived here from St: Petersburg, which he had left on Monday...
Mr. William Willink (the father) of Amsterdam, with his Lady arrived here from England, the...
51From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 9 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
Mr Rodde informs me that before he left St: Petersburg the twenty-five English Mails had arrived,...
Since you recommended writing to me, you have dropp’d the thread of the numbers of your...
Your two Letters of 15 and 16. December were delivered to me yesterday Morning, and are numbers...
I received yesterday Morning your’s of 27. December number 54—and readily excuse the omission of...
We have at length got through the argument on the Cause for which I came here. It was finished...
First for the news from America. I had not closed my last Friday’s Letter to you, when the Times...
Although I have been since I wrote you last Friday constantly engaged in preparing for my...
At length I may indulge the hope of having reached the remotest bound of the distance which...
Last night I received your kind favour of the 4th: instt: with the information the most...
Your Letter of 30. September, not numbered, was brought to me yesterday, after I had given up the...