1From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 26 December 1790 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of September the 24 th with an elegant copy of your poems dramatic and miscellaneous; for both which I pray you to accept my best thanks It is but a few days since we received three other copies addressed to me but without a letter or any other indication from whom or whence they came. As we were subscribers for the publication these might...
2From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 14 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
By the last post I received your letter of January 17 th , and was as much surprised at the information that my last letter to you arrived unsealed, as you could be at the receipt of it. It was most certainly no intention of mine that it should have gone unsealed; nor can I account for the fact. My conjecture is that the person, one of my sons who copied into my letterbook, either...
3From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 29 May 1789 (Adams Papers)
A little before my departure from Braintree I received your favour inclosing a letter from M rs Walker. last night I received that of the 7 th May There was no necessity of any apology for writing to me after so long a correspondence there has never been on my part any failure of friendship to M r Warren or yourself— you are very much mistaken in your opinion of my situation. I have neither...