Last Evening I received your truly kind & affectionate letter of the 1st: instt: and most...
The last Letter I have received from you was that of the 1st: instt: which I answered last week—I...
Since I wrote you, which was last Thursday, I have received three letters from you, which call...
I wrote you last Monday a few lines enclosing a letter for Caroline, and intended further to have...
The Potowmac Bridge question is at last postponed untill the next Session of Congress, after...
Since I wrote you last, which was on the 1st: of this month I have not heard from you—I enclose...
Your letter of 26. Jany: enclosing one to your Mamma, reached me the same day that I wrote you...
Since I wrote you last, when we were in the midst of a hurricane from the Northwest, untill this...
I yesterday enclosed you a letter from Adelaide, under a blank cover, because I was all the...
The enclosed lines were written as a tribute of my affectionate remembrance, of your...
Since I wrote you last I have been a little affected with the rhumatism in my shoulder, so that I...
I received yesterday your letter of the 15th: and this morning that of the 17th: enclosing in the...
My project of coming from Washington to this place, by the way of Annapolis was disappointed, by...
I have duly recieved your letter of the 28th. of July expressing a wish that your brother could...
I address you jointly and congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since you commenced...
I received your favour of Novbr 20th and rejoiced to learn that you reachd Washington in safety...
Your Letter did not reach me untill several Weeks after it was written, & as I had a few days...
It is a long time since I wrote you, or rather since I sent a Letter, for an unfinished one has...
59From Orchard Cook to John Quincy Adams, 1 January 1809 (Adams Papers)
Mr. & Mrs. Cook ask leave to present to Mr. & Mrs. Adams the Compts. of the Season— Your Letters...
I write you a line from the Stage–Office: having just this moment arrived, and intending in half...
On leaving Boston I had formed the Resolution of travelling only in the day-time, but at the...
The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place;...
I thank you for your letter, and Kitty for her watch paper— I had like to have had no watch-case...
I have received but one letter from you since I left Boston, and that was written only two days...
I have not received a line from you since I wrote you on Monday—Your mother however has had a...
It is sometimes said that suspense is worse than the certainty of evil—But it is a hard relief...
Your letter of the 16th: brought me consolation and hope in the information that you were all...
We have at length got through the argument on the Cause for which I came here. It was finished...
I wrote you on Sunday, and the same Evening I received yours of 26. Feby:—Yesterday yours of the...
Last night I received your kind favour of the 4th: instt: with the information the most...
71From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I would not come to Town to day because I knew I should only add to yours, and my own agony, my...
72From Alexander Hill Everett to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 1809 (Adams Papers)
Permit me, Madam, to lay before you these few lines put together at your request. You may indeed...
I congratulate you upon your safe arrival in the cold Regions of the North: to which I hope your...
I this day received a Letter from my son dated october 21 from constradt—we had heard three weeks...
your Letter from St petersburgh of october 28th I received the last week, four Months after the...
When I closed my Letter; last week to my son by captain Smith, I fully intended to have written...
I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for...
78From le Commandeur de Maisonneuve to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 23 December 1810 (Adams Papers)
Le Commandeur de Maisonneuve a l’honneur d’annoncer à Madame Adams qu’Elle est invitée ainsi que...
It is a long time since I addresed a Letter to You, and a much longer since I received a Letter...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
I feel asham’d My Dear Neice when I think how few Letters I have written to you since you left...
Le Comte de Romanzoff, Chancelier de l’Empire, prie Madame d’Adams de lui faire l’honneur de...
I hope the afflicting intelligence which you must receive from your Friends at Washington, will...
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had...
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
86From Madame Colombi to John Quincy Adams, 1 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Sont invitées de la part de Mme Colombi et de celle de Mr. François Colombi à assister aux...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
I Sit down to write to my dear daughter, almost without a hope, or wish that She Should receive...
89From Alexander Hill Everett to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 July 1811 to 18 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I reached this place, Madam, after a ride of 22 hours. I cannot refuse myself the satisfaction of...
I have a thousand apologies to make to you, Madam, for not having troubled you sooner with a...