1From Abigail Smith Adams to Hendrick W. Gordon, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
your favour of July 12th is before me I forward to your kind care a few lines more to my Son merely to Say that we are all well. the aspect of our public affairs is so unpleasent, and the conduct of our own State So mortifying to every real uncontaminated American, that I turn with disgust from them when I take my pen to write to him, knowing how grievious to him they must appear. The Letter...