After a most fatiguing journey in which I suffered grievously we arrived at half past nine...
102From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am ashamed to find upon my file of Letters to be answered , one from you of 29. January;...
103From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letters of 12 and 17. March, the latter enclosing one (copy) from Mr H. G. Otis to my...
23d. received a note from Mrs. Monroe requiring my attendance at 1 oclock I went according to...
It is long since I wrote you in consequence of a very severe indisposition which confined me to...
Decbr. 15 A Stormy and bousterous day a large party invited to dine being the first Diplomatic...
107From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Some time in the early part of last month, I had the pleasure to write you a letter in answer to...
In my last I think I informed you that the news of this place was become so little interesting...
109From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 November 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letter of 15th. October was received by me on the 20th. from which time, the only...
110From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
We came here in less than four hours. Found the riding much better than was expected & were not...
111From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Although I have it not in my power to make this Letter in any manner interesting—yet I am So...
112From Nathaniel Niles to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
I was honored with your note, & have attended to it as I hope is in accordance to your will on...
113From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your letters, dear Madam, are always welcome, and your requests are commands to me. I only regret...
114From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
The President yesterday received a letter from Mr Adams, in which he mentions his acceptance of...
115From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, January 1818 (Adams Papers)
I am very happy to find by your Letter of the 7th that you are kind enough to be satisfied with...
We have arrived safely at this place after a fatiguing journey owing to the dust and extreme heat...
117From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams’s business accumulates so rappidly and Genl. Jackson has cut out so much new and...
118From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 September 1817 (Adams Papers)
An alternation of six Stages, and six Steam-Boats finally landed us here yesterday afternoon,...
119From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am very happy that you have favored me with a letter respecting Mr Smith. It increases the...
120From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I hail this happy day—the Snow and rain can not lessen my enjoyment—I arose chearfully and...
121From Ruth Hooper Dalton Deblois to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 June 1817 (Adams Papers)
The long friendship experienc’d from you, and the President and the regard he has ever had for...
122From James Monroe to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 September 1818 (Adams Papers)
I declind answering your letter, untill I could obtain some details, which were material, in...
123From John Pope to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 July 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am one of the Trustees of the Trasylvania University, and on that account have to request the...
124From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
We have been many weeks without receiving a line from you, or from any of our friends at...
125From John Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 17 August 1825 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for a very pleasant letter, and I supplicate a continuance of them—I have given up...
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...
129From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 30 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
Your dear Mother not long since received a Letter from you, in which I read with great pleasure,...
130From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 5 May 1823 (Adams Papers)
Being better to day my dear Charles I hasten to write to you fearful if I delay that a Chill and...
I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I...
I am rejoiced my Dear Charles to learn that your journey was so pleasant and that the little...
What sort of a Letter was your last and how is it to be answered? to be angry with you is...
You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not...
135From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 14 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
A very few days after my arrival in this City, I received your Letter of 19. September, the...
I received yesterday my dear Charles your Letter of the 4th. and hasten to answer it as I really...
Your Letter of the 10th. my Dear Charles afflicted me very much as it still betrayed the same...
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...
Our winter routine has begun and as usual I am plunged into the depths of visits invitations...
At last my dear Charles I find a moment of leisure to address you not having had a moment since...
As Mr. Pope is so good as to offer to convey your skates to Boston I have siezed the opportunity...
When I left you I did not think you were so soon to assume the sacerdotal vestment but I...
Your last Letter my dear Charles quite revived my spirits as it re-assured me concerning yours...
Still in this City I again write you and probably for the last time until I get home—Your last...
As I hear there has been a great fall of snow during the last week or two in Boston I suppose you...
I have been so sick with the Influenza it has not been possible to write independent of which the...
The Mail is this moment arrived and as I am at leisure I hasten to answer your Letter which is a...
I enclose you a Letter from one of your young correspondents which was received a few days after...
150From John Quincy Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 3 October 1822 (Adams Papers)
It is long since I had the pleasure of writing to you or of receiving a Letter from you; yet...