1From John Adams to Zabdiel Adams, 23 July 1763 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter I received, and after an Interval occasioned by Commencement, am seated to return an Answer. I acknowledge the Justice of your Rebuke for not answering your former Letters, and for not Writing you since your Departure from happy Braintree. Matrimony, my dear Friend is yet at a greater Distance from me, than nine Months. I wish it was not Nine minutes off.—Affairs in Church and...