1From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 1 February 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of January and read it over and over again with pleasure, because I think I discern in it, the marks of a good heart and of a mind awake; I should fill a volume, if I should attempt to commit to paper all the new recollections and reflections which your letter has excited in my mind. Your Fathers Election if his health is preserved will be an event of importance. No...