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In my last I told you that the Case which was brought to my Lodgings for your Benefit did not...
My Letters by Davis, Mr. Guild &c. are lost.—Pray did you get the Goods by Davis? This goes by...
So I must Give up my Little Companion, my Young Friend. Your Claim is prior, your Title Cannot be...
By an express last night from Cape May, We learn that the Fleet went out of the Bay, the Morning...
We have not yet the least Intimation of Howes Design. He is wasting away the Time. Let him aim at...
I hoped long ere now to have Been at Braintree, but evry circumstance has hitherto been Against...
I have this Morning been out of Town to accompany our Generals Washington, Lee, and Schuyler, a...
I have sent you, one yard of fine Cambrick, at 14 Livres an Ell, two of a coarser sort at 6...
I am not displeased that the Call of Business obliges me to address you at this Time, and gives...
Nothing but the Greatest affection for my dear Mrs. Adams Would Induce me to Break over the...
We wait and wait and wait forever, without any News from America. We get nothing but what comes...
This Week has produced an happy Reconciliation between the two Parties in this City and...
I cannot omit the Opportunity of writing you, a Line, by this Post. This Letter will I suppose,...
Le Marquis de lafayette Most Respectful Compliments Wait on Mrs. Adams and is highly sensible of...
I have been lately more remiss, than usual in Writing to you. There has been a great Dearth of...
Having now a good opportunity I Cannot Let it Slip without writing a few Lines To You as it is...
We have a fine Piece of News this Morning of the March of 2000 of the Enemy, and destroying a...
The Riding has been so hard and rough, and the Weather so cold that We have not been able to push...
When I left Paris, the 8 March, I expected to have been at Home before this Day and have done my...
I have paid Turner, his Wages up to this day, and settled all Accounts with him. Besides which I...
I have at length an Opportunity by Mr. Brown to forward Bills of Exchange; and I only add the...
I have often thought of You My good friend, and as often wish’d to See You, and did flatter...
The Reason of our being in Spain, you will, perhaps, be no stranger to, when this reaches You. I...
I told you, in a former Letter, that I lodged at Gen. Roberdeau’s. This Gentleman is of French...
A Gentleman, Mr. Boardman of Newbury Port, is going, and by him I send you a few Lines. In...
Could I write you any agreable Inteligence I would with pleasure Grasp the pen And Call of my...
I am thus far advanced on my Journey, and shall continue it from hence tomorrow. I found Mr....
It would give Pleasure to every Body your Way but the few, unfeeling Tories, to see what a Spirit...
I have received your Letter, respecting the Bill for £50. The way that you propose is as agreable...
This day I received yours of the first of March from Bilbao, with the Journals &c.—the Postage of...
Yesterday’s Post brought me your Letters of the 10th and 14 with a Copy of March 17. on the...
This is King Tammany’s Day. Tammany was an Indian King, of this Part of the Continent, when Mr....
Monsieur Chaumont has just informed me of a Vessell bound to Boston: but I am reduced to such a...
Mr. Church setts off, tomorrow Morning. I have sent this Morning by Mr. William Winthrop, about...
After a March like that of Hannibal over the Alps We arrived last Night at this Place, Where We...
By your Letter of the 3d. received this day I find that I have lost the Pleasure of having what...
I think I have sometimes observed to you in Conversation, that upon examining the Biography of...
In my letter of the 11th. inst. I mentioned the arrival of the French Ambassador at Chester. I am...
I have sent you Things from Bilbao, by Captain Babson, and a small present by the M. de la...
I am to thank you, in my own name, and on the public account, for that exercise of laudable...
Yesterday by Major Osgood I had the Pleasure of a Letter from Mr. Palmer, in which he kindly...
I had a most charming Packett from you and my young Correspondents, to day. I am very happy, to...
I am much concerned least you should feel an Addition to your Anxieties, from your having so...
The enclosed Newspapers will communicate to you, all the News I know. The Weather here begins to...
I arrived here, last Evening, and have attended Mr. Strongs Meeting all this Day. I rode alone,...
Inclosed with this you have an Evening Post, containing some of the tender Mercies of the...
We have no News here, except what We get from your Country. The Privateers act with great Spirit,...
This Morning We crossed the North River at Poughkeepsie, on the Ice, after having ridden many...
Not receiving any Line from you by this day’s post, I recur to your favor of April 3d. already...
My dear Mrs. Adams will undoubtedly Wonder that she has not heard from me since I Left Braintree,...