It is sometimes said that suspense is worse than the certainty of evil—But it is a hard relief...
I have received only one letter from you—that of 25. Novr: since I left you—And none from any of...
Your Journals to the inclusive have been regularly received, and have become a sort of necessary...
I have nothing new to tell you from this place. I have no letter from you of later date than 25....
Your letter of the 16th: brought me consolation and hope in the information that you were all...
I now enclose you the two bills, together with an order upon the Bank at Boston for their...
Meeting here Dr. Huntt, who informs us that he left you last Friday at Bordentown, and Charles...
I received last Evening your Letter of the 1st. instt. from New York—I now enclose to you the...
Your Letters from Philadelphia of the 15th and 16th. have come to hand—From the last of them I...
I received your Letters written in the Steam Boat, and that from Philadelphia—The immediate...
Last Evening I received your’s of the 14th: which makes me anxious to hear from you again—Your...
Your journal of the 24th. and 25th. has been received—The complaint of cold, and the want of...
All your journals have been duly received, and I should not have failed writing to you for the...
Instead of four 5 dollar bills, I enclose you a draft, payable to your order , on a Bank in...
The latest letter I have from you is dated the 14th: when you were very unwell with a sore throat...
I have as little faith in presentiments as yourself—but the anxiety which I have felt for this...
Thomas Hellen was here last Evening and goes to–morrow Morning for Washington—I furnished him...
I have received since I wrote you last two letters from you but cannot learn directly from either...
I received yesterday your letter of the 15th: and this morning that of the 17th: enclosing in the...
From your letter of the 20th: which I have just received, I am in doubt whether even this letter...
I have just received your letter of 24. Decr: and lament that the expression of my anxiety to...
My project of coming from Washington to this place, by the way of Annapolis was disappointed, by...
I have received your Letters of the 9th and 10th. and am able now only to ask you not to be...
We have an interesting question whether by the “middle of the week” which in your Journal of last...
I have just received your Letter from Ballston, with the greater pleasure, as it gives a better...
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 thank you for your affectionate remembrance of my birthday—We passed it as pleasantly as...
I have just this morning received your kind favour of the 2d: instt: which at once confirmed my...
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...
The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place;...
I have been expecting to hear from you these two or three days, and begin to feel some anxiety to...
No Journal received this day—But there was one yesterday, and I hope for one to-morrow—We have...
35From John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 1 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
We have this moment arrived thus far on our Journey, safe, and untill the last Station without...
On the back of my last Letter, I acknowledged the receipt of yours of the 14th. and yesterday...
We continue to be delighted almost daily with your journalizing Letters—which together with our...
An interval of three days without a Letter from you had me, and I find by your Journal to the...
Last Evening I received with heart-felt pleasure your letter of the 25th: ulto: which was the...
Your delightful journal of Friday and Saturday has just come to hand—What diverts me most in it,...
In the course of four days I received your last Letter from St: Petersburg of 12 Feby. That from...
Your journal of the 16th. 17th. and 18th. from Bordentown was doubly grateful, for being...
You will receive I presume at the same time with this a letter from me written yesterday at...
I wrote you yesterday that little Walter had been again very ill the night before; but was...
Since I wrote you last, which was on the 1st: of this month I have not heard from you—I enclose...
Since I wrote you last, when we were in the midst of a hurricane from the Northwest, untill this...
We arrived safe here, about two hours since, and in two hours more expect to be on our way to...
On going yesterday into Boston, I received Mr: Hellen’s letter of the 22d: of last Month, with...
Your journalizing Letters, my dearest friend, from the 18th. to the 23d. have been received—And...
I yesterday enclosed you a letter from Adelaide, under a blank cover, because I was all the...