What a gratification again have you bestowed upon me in your Letter of Febr. 7th. not never to...
Unexpectedly I found myself once mor honoured with a few lines and well in a Season—in which the...
Although I continue to be an invalide by a relapse Since three weeks—I will endeavour to amuse...
ἀναπέτομαι δὴ πρὸσ ολυμπον πτερυγεσσι κούφαις — μ’ ἐπίβωτον κατὰ γειτόνας ποιήσεις. And I was...
I mentioned in a former letter, that Monticello’s Philosopher, desired in one of his Letters,...
I Should rather guess that Basanistes would do good—It is true it is a heroic medicine, but it...
When I send you last mail Basanistes, I was so much tortured with head–ache—that it was not in my...
8To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 3 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I intended at first to have answered your kind favour of July 16—last week—but I was everÿ daÿ So...
9To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 7 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
I make no apologÿ in not answering your gratifying favour of the 26th of may Sooner, nor do I...
10To John Adams from François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Alex. Bryant Johnson returned me the ms—Had I more time I Should be tempted to write a...