I do not know how our account stands, whether I am indebted for a letter or you, but I shall not...
After a year’s absence I came yesterday to make a visit to my friends for three days. Our anxiety...
Your Apology for not having written before was accepted by your grandmother. To be attentive to...
Your neat, pretty letter, looking small, but containing much, reached me this day. I have a good...
I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear...
“Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops...
I was made very happy by the receipt of your letter of the 7th. I have enclosed two papers to...
Yesterday was our Thanksgiving day. In our own way, and with tempers suited to the occasion, we...
As Dean Swift says, “eyes with writing almost blind,” I commence a letter to you, near ten...
Your Letter, my dear Caroline, gave me pleasure. As all your’s are calculated to enliven the...
This morning’s post brought me your letter of the 20th. We were all delighted; grandfather’s...
Your letter of May the 8th, your grandpapa brought home with him from church, on Sunday the 20th;...
If you find as many joyful faces to receive you, as you have left sorrowful hearts behind you,...
It was with a heavy heart and trembling hand, that I yesterday broke the seal of your letter to...
delightfull praise! like summer Rose that brighter in the dew drop glows— they were Sweet Drops...
I write you a few lines just to say that I send your mother a century Sermon, preached in this...
To-morrow will be a fortnight since you left me; I have watched the weather with much solicitude,...
I hope you received the letters safe which I inclosed to you from your brother. I wish I could...
I return the enclosed letter according to your desire, painfully regretting, that I can not...
20From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 24 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
This year compleats a Century Since my Uncle Boylston introduced the practise of Inoculation into...
The Executors of the last Will and Testament of John Adams deceased, have proceeded to the...
22From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 22 November 1824 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of the 5th November gave us all great pleasure and certainly none more than me. I was...
The Executors of the last Will and Testament of John Adams, late of Quincy deceased, enclose...
24From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 18 December 1823 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter of the 14th. has given me great pleasure, I congratulate you on the Birth of...
25From 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...
I gave the Portrait of my beloved and lamented Sister your dear Mother, to mine, without reserve...
There is but one copy of the “Epistle to my Mother” extant, and that is an unfinished fragment—I...
28From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 25 January 1825 (Adams Papers)
your letter of the 6th. of January gave me much pleasure, to which was added was that of your...
29From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 11 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I have been informed that you have read Mr Locks Essays on the human Understanding it would also...
30From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 25 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
I must acknowledge that some time ago, I fostered the expectation of being gratified with a few...