I received with the liveliest pleasure your kind favour of 26. February, as independent of the joy which it always gives me to hear good tidings from you, it affords me the occasion to give my own and my dear wife’s grateful thanks to you, and to Mr Peabody and to my amiable Cousin, for your affectionate kindness, to our dear boys. In the course of the last eighteen months we have indeed been...
2John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 29 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
I should, certainly have written before this, at least to show how gratefull a Sense, I retain, of the numerous obligations, I was under both to my Uncle, and Aunt, while I was at Haverhill. But what with going to Braintree, and what with having been since I ca me here, much more closely engaged, than I shall be for the future, my in tention till now has failed. About 10 this morning, the man...