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...