To tell you that I am exceedingly grieved , to hear that you have been very sick, would be to...
2From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
I had heard of your illness with extreme concern, from my wife, and also through Mr: Cranch and...
3From Richard Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
Agreeably to your request I have been recollecting some particulars respecting the antient and...
It would be impossible for me to tell you how disappointed, grieved, vexed, & everything, I was,...
By last Friday mail, I received your very excellent Letter, wherein you observe, it was thought a...
I am rejoiced to hear that you, & my niece got home safe. Such little excursions are really...
7From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
Often as it has been my fortune in the course of my life, to be parted from my Parents, and...
8From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
The seventy-ninth day since our departure from Boston, and not yet in Petersburg—But we are on...
At length my dear Madam we have arrived in this splendid City and find ourselves plunged into the...
I have been hoping every day since since I got home, that I should have more leisure tomorrow ,...