Your Letters arrive so regularly that it is scarcely necessary to acknowledge the receipt of...
Bad news still keeps pouring on us and your prophecies are too fatally accomplished It is to day...
Although Mr. H.—has informed me that the Congress is dissolved, still I persevere in writing, as...
I received your kind letter of the 30 of September in due time and although it confirmed the bad...
The surprize and sorrow I felt at the receipt of your last letter cannot be expressed and I felt...
No 39 arrived in due time and I have for some time been perpetually satisfied with the Post...
Some how or other By some mistake I think I misdated my last Letter to you and it is only to day...
I had left off writing entirely from the idea that you would have left England Ghent befor a...
I had entirely left off writing under the idea that you would have been on your way home very...
As this is probably the last opportunity I shall have to write you I sieze it with avidity, and...
From your last Letter of the 19 I am led to believe that you are not likely to return home so...
Your No 28 was deliver’d to me yesterday morning. Your fears of bad news from America in the...
Having recieved your very affectionate letter of the 12 August No. 26 this morning I hasten to...
I was so fortunate as to recieve your No 25 on Wednesday which was the day in course but as it...
Your No 21 and 22 were recieved by me as usual last Saturday, or rather Sunday morning, as it was...
Mr. Harris was here last evening, and made me an offer of a House, which as times go is...
Your two last numbers 21 and 22 came together as usual on Saturday last. I could not help smiling...
I intended writing you a long Letter this evening my best friend but was interupted by a visit...
Your two last favours of the 19 and 22 of July were again deliver’d to me together at on Saturday...
The last time I wrote you I was so excessively fatigued and it was so late that I scarcely know...
I am so exhausted by fatigue that it is with the utmost difficulty I can scrawl a few lines...
You must laugh at the information contain’d in my last as Mr. Harris tells me he wrote you by the...
I received your three last numbers they arrived nearly at the same time No. 14 on Friday and 15 &...
Your No 14 is just put into my hands and the hope it gives me of your return has come most...
I enclose you two Letters which I received for you some time since one of which I mentioned...
Your two last No 12 & 13 were delivered to me at the same time I presume the first had been...
I write you again my best friend; although I have nothing from you, since your Letter from...
The heartfelt delight I experienced at the reception of your last favour No. 11 is not to be...
79From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 14 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
You cannot think what a disappointment your not writing occasion’d me! I have been weighing and...
Still no Letter from you mon Ami! I can scarcely account for this, as Mr Hall wrote me, that you...
As Mr & Mrs Smith are about leaving this Country I cannot suffer them to depart without a few...
I much fear you will accuse me of negligence in having omitted writing to you by the two last...
Without knowing where to address you I cannot refrain from writing to you to inform you of our...
In the first place I will inform you, as I know how very particular you are, that I have received...
How shall I express my thanks my best beloved friend for you very kind attention. No 8 was put...
All the anxieties which you express in your very affectionate letter No 7 which has just been...
Yesterday my best friend I had the heartfelt satisfaction of hearing of your safe arrival at...
Not having heard from you by the last Mail on which I calculated we are all very much...
Having recieved no letter from you since No: 4 my best friend, I flatter myself you left Reval...
As the tops of the Houses here are cover’d with Snow and the winds continue to be contrary I...
Owing to the unfortunate detention of your last letter (that is to say No 2) I lost the...
We had concluded from appearances here that you would be detained some days at Revel, but I did...
Your kind letter arrived just in time to cheer us. Charles and I were both quite sick, but are...
94From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday evening I received a few lines from you dated from Heglecht. I am extremely happy the...
You will no doubt be much surprized at hearing from me, so soon after your departure; but a...
The arrival of Mr Bayard, & Galatin, my dear Madam, has made so little alteration in our...
Your kind letter my dear Mother as well as that of my kind Sister call for an answer and although...
I write you my dear George, with a hope that this letter will not reach you. however as we have...
I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of answering, your very beautiful, and affectionate letter,...
100From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
With a mind sorely depressed by the late afflicting intelligence from America and the many...