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I fear your Father may have given you unnecessary anxiety; I told him at the time it was not best...
It is so long since I have had one hour of leisure that I could appropriate to correspondence...
I was much pleased at receiving your Letter of March 14th. It was a much longer interval than had...
I have contemplated writing to you for some time, and thanking you for the information which I...
By the last mail, I had the honour, and the pleasure, to receive your most acceptable letter—To...
The Bill which Our Tennant has presented must I presume be allowd him: the repairs were necessary...
We are again permitted to return home in good health, after having passed as pleasant a winter as...
It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal...
A few days since I recieved your very obliging letter in which you mention having procured the...
When Mr. Hall was here your Father told him that he would leave to you the adjustment of the...
I sympathize with you in the loss you have sustained, and rejoice that the event did not prove...
By the last Letters I have received from my wife I expect she will reach Boston by the last of...
I left Cambridge yesterday, after having finished my weekly performance, to come here and meet my...
Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my...
Having finishd my Farm House avocations I sit down to inquire how you are, and how my dear little...
It is a long time since I have had a line from a friend who for many years I have cordially...
we have not washd this week. I hope mr Adams has things enough. if the weather Should be good I...
I think it is full time to take my pen and inquire after your Health, and to assure you that I...
We have had in the Week past the coldest Weather that has been through the winter, yet we have...
I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had...
I have received your kind letter of January; and shall particularly attend to your directions at...
I fully designd writing to you so that my Letter should have reachd you at Washington, but ten...
To your kind and friendly Letter I fully designd an immediate replie, but a Severe attack of a...
It is a long time my Dear Sister, since I have written to you; but I consider it a priviledge...
If my hands could have obeyed the dictates of my heart I should have written to you long before...
If I had written to you my dear sister half as often as I have thought of you and contemplated...
Though your last Letter was not immediately answered, I offer no apology but my own frequent...
I address you jointly and congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since you commenced...
I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of...
Last Evening I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of 25th: ulto: which contained the first...