31John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 20 February 1783 (Adams Papers)
I arrived here about a week agone, and expected to leave this place in a vessel for Kiel, (which I found here,) two days afterwards, but I have been waiting for a wind here ever since. I rather preferred going from hence to Hamborough by water; than thro’ Holstein because the roads are extremely bad and it would be a Journey of at least eight or ten days; whereas, with a good wind we can run...