It is a long time since I wrote you as I have again been very sick and utterly unable to put pen...
Your Letter my caused me a mixture of feelings some pleasing some painful the latter because...
Regularity and method are so essential to the acquisition of real knowledge that the little...
54From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 4 September 1824 (Adams Papers)
I was so much occupied during my stop at Borden Town I could not answer your Letter therefore...
55From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 18 September 1824 (Adams Papers)
I write you a few lines my dear John in answer to yours which I received last night merely to say...
56From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 21 February 1822 (Adams Papers)
Being very well I hasten to write you and although you disclaim all merit in a certain...
I am so much concerned my Dear George to learn from your last letter what a state of suffering...
The frequent and violent attacks of sickness which assail me my Dear George render me a wretched...
Your father wrote you a Letter yesterday in which he desires you to remain with your Grandfather...
We have accomplished our journey thus far as well as I anticipated but my brother was so ill this...
As I am much afraid that I shall not accomplish the plan proposed in my last Letter to John you...
62From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 3 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter my dear John gave us great uneasiness on your Grandfathers account and we feel very...
As Mr. & Mrs. Johnson intend leaving us this evening I write you a few lines to assure you of our...
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
65From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 19 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
To say how much I was affected at not seeing you the day I left Boston would indeed be impossible...
66From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 12 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
It is now I suppose nearly a vacation time with you and you will take your flight to Quincy for a...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
I was much pleased with the flow of good spirits which your last Letter indicated my Dear George...
I yesterday wrote to you in answer to your Letter and as I suppose it will be agreeable to you to...
I do not recollect whether I answered your last Letter my memory not being remarkably good and...
We arrived here yesterday morning after a rapid tho’ not remarkably pleasant journey from French...
We propose leaving this place tomorrow my dear Madam and expect to arrive at Quincy either Sunday...
Mrs: Cruft has arrived here and it is with much pleasure I observe she has derived benefit from...
74From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have been so unwell the whole of this week my dear John, it has not been in my power to answer...
75From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 18 August 1820 (Adams Papers)
As I have already said every thing on the subject of your last which was necessary I will only...
I am rejoiced my Dear Charles to learn that your journey was so pleasant and that the little...
77To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 14 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
It is always painful to be the bearer of bad tidings and yet it is a duty from which we cannot...
I am very sorry to learn from your Letter to Charles my dear George that you had hurt your eye. I...
I am so uneasy about your state of health my dear George that I beg and entreat you to write me...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
81From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 11 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter and was very much concerned to observe the depression of spirits...
82From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 26 November 1822 (Adams Papers)
I have been so much engaged the last week at races parties and Ball it has been impossible for me...
83From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 3 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
Tomorrow is the great National anniversary and at the same the anniversary of your birth which...
I have at length so far recovered my health as to be able to write you my Dear Thomas but I...
I yesterday received your melancholy Letter my Dear George informing me of the low state of Mrs....
We have arrived safely at this place without much trouble and the Horses stood it pretty well,...
I scarcly know how to apologize for my remissness in not writing to you sooner but did you know...
As I presume you will have accomplished your journey ere this epistle arrives, and that you will...
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not...
Your Letter of the 15 which I received yesterday has caused me the greatest alarm, and...
Your Letter has remained unanswered some time in consequence of the illness of Mary which has...
92From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 20 August 1823 (Adams Papers)
I write to announce our safe arrival at this place from whence we propose to start on a visit of...
Your Letter of the 10th. my Dear Charles afflicted me very much as it still betrayed the same...
94To John Adams from Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 31 October 1818 (Adams Papers)
The extreeme distress of mind under which Mr Adams labours in consequence of our dear Mother’s...
Since my return home my Dear George Charles I have been so much engaged it has been almost...
I am afraid that you read my letters in as great a hurry as you appear to do every thing else...
97From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, 14 July 1819 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter announcing the death of Judge Tudor but the melancholy news...
We have arrived safely here after a tolerably pleasant journey and a very pleasant visit at...
Our winter routine has begun and as usual I am plunged into the depths of visits invitations...
As it is possible my dear George that you may hear a rumour that your father was drowned I hasten...