You will by this time (I hope), have obtained some days of rest after the fatigue of your...
The heated and violent temper of the public upon the question of politics renders it necessary to...
A long period has elapsed since I addrest a line to you—I have not taken my pen for three weeks—I...
Let me express to you my gratitude for your last note on reading which I had a foretaste of the...
By Marys last letter I am told that you are still suffering from illness and Harriet Welsh...
My correspondence has been much interrupted the last fortnight Susan has been So feeble and weak,...
37From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 29 November 1819 (Adams Papers)
one week more will effectually relieve you from your ennui which perhaps may be succeeded by...
38From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 25 December 1822 (Adams Papers)
Your Journal beginning the third of the month has given me great pleasure. You are much to be...
39From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 17 June 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your journal to the third of June—which is entertaining and Instructing as usual—...
I continue to receive your journals—that of the 29th. was the last; and they would continue to be...
41From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
If Nature in scattering her bounties had bestowed upon me the genius of a Poet or a Painter I...
I have received your Letters of the 9th and 10th. and am able now only to ask you not to be...
43From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 10 July 1822 to 11 July 1822 (Adams Papers)
Receiving on Sunday your rebuke for the blank covers I had forwarded to you, I should have felt...
Your journals down to the 30th of August inclusive are received; and this day the memoirs of Lord...
A most unpleasant journey was completed by our arrival at Quincy last week where we had the...
46From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 23 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
As I take a great interest in your pleasures, and your troubles, your last Journal has given me a...
47From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 21 June 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have received your journal to the third of June—which is entertaining and Instructing as usual—...
We have an interesting question whether by the “middle of the week” which in your Journal of last...
I received yesterday your journal to the 21st of Jan’ry. Washington Seems to be in a whirpool of...
I have just received your Letter from Ballston, with the greater pleasure, as it gives a better...
Your Journal of 31st. July and 1st. instt. is received. I enclose you another Check for 100...
I have duly received your kind Letters of 11. 12 and 16 instt—I wrote to you at New–York and on...
Receiving on Sunday your rebuke for the blank covers I had forwarded to you, I should have it...
I received Your Letter of July 18th on Saturday 25th. It was a great damper to me, who had been...
It is really afflicting to hear that you are again subjected to painful illness and to observe in...
Ever since the middle of the last month we have been in such a succession of events and...
I thank you for your affectionate remembrance of my birthday—We passed it as pleasantly as...
Yesterday afternoon at four, we performed the last sad offices of mortality to the remains of Mr....
I write a line to enclose a Letter from Harriet. George has been so steady at Cambridge that I...
Your letters dear Mrs Adams have been very much neglected apparently by me—but my confidence in...
61From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 13 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
Your journal to the 21st. ult—has given me much amusement and much pleasure I want to touch upon...
I have received your Letters of the 13th. and 14th from Lebanon, and rejoice with exceeding joy...
I write you without knowing where or when my Letter will find you, and must therefore I must omit...
64From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 22 April 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your favor of the 16th. is a reviving cordial in which I have languished for a fortnight—But I...
No Journal received this day—But there was one yesterday, and I hope for one to-morrow—We have...
I this morning received Your Second Letter, by way of journal. we have all been highly...
67From M. A. Patterson to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 10 June 1824 (Adams Papers)
Allow Me To present To you Mr Steuart Wortley, and Mr Stanly—They are Gentlemen of high rank, who...
68From Harriet Welsh to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 1826 (Adams Papers)
You could not have asked my dear Mrs. Adams a happier a more glorious transition from earth to...
On the back of my last Letter, I acknowledged the receipt of yours of the 14th. and yesterday...
you will I know excuse my not haveing written to you more than once; when you learn the...
We continue to be delighted almost daily with your journalizing Letters—which together with our...
It was painful to hear that you had been so ill after arriving at Washington and astonishing that...
You will no doubt my dear Mrs. Adams, be much surprised at receiving a letter from one of whom...
74From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 April 1819 (Adams Papers)
your journals grow more and more entertaining and instructive—you ask my Opinion of General...
It is pleasant to be able to inform you that Grandfathers health rather improves than declines....
An interval of three days without a Letter from you had me, and I find by your Journal to the...
Your delightful journal of Friday and Saturday has just come to hand—What diverts me most in it,...
78From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 11 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received yours of the 3d.—I can only say if Susan will return to me with her Child and...
79From John Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 3 February 1819 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your journals and pray you to continue them for they are a refreshing amusement...
Your letter of the 1st. instant has affected me deeply: it was received this morning and afforded...