To-morrow will be a fortnight since you left me; I have watched the weather with much solicitude,...
Your letter of May the 8th, your grandpapa brought home with him from church, on Sunday the 20th;...
Your Apology for not having written before was accepted by your grandmother. To be attentive to...
I can scarcly belive that I have not written to my dear Girl for so long a time as two months,...
I have not written to you this year! and this is the second month of it, and let us ask the...
last Saturday my Dear Children and grandsons viz William your Brother, and little Charles Adams...
Thursday the 30th of November was our thanksgiving day. I was not able to go to meeting owing to...
Thursday, 30th November, was our Thanksgiving Day; I was not able to attend church, owing to my...
I hope you received the letters safe which I inclosed to you from your brother. I wish I could...
Your Letter, my dear Caroline, gave me pleasure. As all your’s are calculated to enliven the...
I write you a few lines just to say that I send your mother a century Sermon, preached in this...
I do not know how our account stands, whether I am indebted for a letter or you, but I shall not...
I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear...
Your neat, pretty letter, looking small, but containing much, reached me this day. I have a good...
Yesterday was our Thanksgiving day. In our own way, and with tempers suited to the occasion, we...
delightfull praise! like summer Rose that brighter in the dew drop glows— they were Sweet Drops...
I inclose you a volm from Harriot, and I have written to your Mother so late, that I have not a...
I was made very happy by the receipt of your letter of the 7th. I have enclosed two papers to...
This morning’s post brought me your letter of the 20th. We were all delighted; grandfather’s...
If you find as many joyful faces to receive you, as you have left sorrowful hearts behind you,...
my dear Caroline must be informd that her Grand mothers Eyes are so much afflicted as to oblige...
After a year’s absence I came yesterday to make a visit to my friends for three days. Our anxiety...
It was with a heavy heart and trembling hand, that I yesterday broke the seal of your letter to...
As Dean Swift says, “eyes with writing almost blind,” I commence a letter to you, near ten...
“Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops...
The few first days after I came to Quincy namely 19th. 20th. & morning of 21st—She was very weak...
I gave the Portrait of my beloved and lamented Sister your dear Mother, to mine, without reserve...
28From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 19 May 1819 (Adams Papers)
Thank Mr De Wint for his Box of New york Cider Grove champaigne—Accept my thanks for the two...
29From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 1 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
I wish you a happy New year, and as many new-years as your Nature can bear, in health Peace and...
There is but one copy of the “Epistle to my Mother” extant, and that is an unfinished fragment—I...