27 I sent to know if Mrs. Morgan would see me but it was so late when I received an answer that I...
I received your three last numbers they arrived nearly at the same time No. 14 on Friday and 15 &...
August 24 As there has not been one incident which could induce me to write I have omitted my...
No 39 arrived in due time and I have for some time been perpetually satisfied with the Post...
We have arrived safely here after a tolerably pleasant journey and a very pleasant visit at...
27 Sept—In the Evening the Count and Countess came to visit us and sat above an hour conversing...
I was much disappointed at the receipt of your last letter having flatter’d myself that you would...
I have been so very sick the last day or two it has been impossible for me to write you I am...
2 July I must continue journalizing for want of something better to do as the time hangs heavily...
You must laugh at the information contain’d in my last as Mr. Harris tells me he wrote you by the...
It is my intention to return to you early next week unless my Dr. forbids; I will therefore beg...
29 Rode out to Mr Sergeants about 2 miles and a half from Philadelphia on the Ridge Road. The...
I am charmed to find by your last letter that you pass your time so agreeably at Ghent: it would...
Tomorrow week being the 1st. March I presume this must be the last letter I address to you at...
Mr. Shaw brought me your letter last night of the 29 and you may be assured I will attend to the...
I last night recieved your letters of the 10 and 13 together and the extreme satisfaction of...
Your Letter is this moment brought me my dear John and I confess I was very much disappointed in...
I am so exhausted by fatigue that it is with the utmost difficulty I can scrawl a few lines...
The last time I wrote you I was so excessively fatigued and it was so late that I scarcely know...
August 27. I see by the papers that Mr. Harrisson has lost his daughter Mrs. Mason—This is a...
To offer you, the kindest wishes of the season, my best friend, is almost unnecessary; my...
Having received a very elegant Lace Cap from the Ladies of the Lace school at Newport I write to...
July 31 Mrs. Powell, Mrs. Fisher, and Mr Saul from New Orleans, called on us, and I returned all...
August 2 We last night paid our intended visit to the Masonic Hall and were received by the Grand...
We return’d to Town yesterday morning which was one of the most bitter Cold I ever experienced...
Your charming letter only reached me last night the roads being very bad but it came time enough...
11 July. This day we celebrated and drank the health of my best friend accompanied by every good...
I arrived here yesterday after a very fatiguing journey but find my health tolerably good Your...
I am sure you must have thought me mad from the date of my last letter I was so teazed with...
We had concluded from appearances here that you would be detained some days at Revel, but I did...
61From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 August 1822 to 31 August 1822 (Adams Papers)
August 30 It is worth while to be absent a short time from home for the sake of receiving such...
I have impatiently waited for letters, my best friend, having recieved none, since last Thursday...
I received your kind letter of the 30 of September in due time and although it confirmed the bad...
I intended writing to you yesterday but was prevented by a feverish indisposition which I believe...
Still no Letter from you mon Ami! I can scarcely account for this, as Mr Hall wrote me, that you...
August 3 After despatching my Letters we received Georges N. 10 with one from Mrs. Porter in...
Having arrived thus far safely my best friend I write you a few lines merely to inform you that I...
From your last Letter of the 19 I am led to believe that you are not likely to return home so...
How it happened that I omitted to say I had received N. 1 I do not know—It was so kind a letter...
I am much disappointed at your Sisters not having accompanied you to Boston, having flatter’d...
The confusion around me and the perpetual interruptions render it almost impossible for me to...
The extreme anxiety you appear to suffer, my best friend, causes me great uneasiness; you have...
With what pleasure I read your last kind Letter you are capable of judging who are so well...
Yours of the eighth is come not to fill me with doubts because that was already effected but to...
Assured that a few lines from me will be acceptable to my best beloved friend on his arrival I...
Would I were a Poet and could celebrate this day as it deserves to be—Few Natal days would admit...
Our poor George is so much better to day that we shall probably be able to get home sooner than I...
Your two last numbers 21 and 22 came together as usual on Saturday last. I could not help smiling...
I address you once more from this place and I cannot yet say when I shall be able to leave it as...
Although Mr. H.—has informed me that the Congress is dissolved, still I persevere in writing, as...