91From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 7 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
My last Note went to you by mr Marston, with two Letters enclosed—I did not write on Saturday as mr A. calld before I had leisure in the morning—it is now five weeks Since Susan was confined, and She is not able to Sit up more than half the day—She has been much weakened by an inflamation and much pain. added to that, what is calld the Miliary Eruption, which I never before Saw, but which I...
92From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 12 April 1818 (Adams Papers)
I have Sent the Shoe & Shall have a pr by Saturday—it is a folly to keep the Boots I Send—charles will out grow them—and as mr John wants to make money by them, his uncle consents to give him his price for them— osburn will call to day for the articles I Sent for—a line from you to Callender will get them for me. you will be so good as to pay him for them—I did not receive any Tea— The weather...
93From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 12 June 1818 (Adams Papers)
But once Since You left us, have I received a line from you. Twice I have written, and twenty hundred times twenty; thought of you, and Sometimes with an exclamation, what can be the reason that H. does not write? now you who have Eyes, fingers at command, and the pen of a ready writer, ought to employ them, when they are So much Sought after. I presume they are so: and that you have Some...
94From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 7 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
I expected you home. that is the reason I did not write. beside I have melted away and very, very feeble—I rejoice to learn that you have had a fine rain. we had only a little drisel , but miss H Adams Said the Minister thanked the Lord for that; and prayed that he would send a soaking rain. we may put up a Similar petition, for Rain is much wanted— I received this morning your favour of 28...
Expecting constantly to hear from you my dear Harriet I have felt involuntarily inclined to procrastinate every effort to write on a subject which has filled all our hearts with the keenest sorrow—How can we sufficiently thank you for all your kind attention? My poor boys will have still to call on you for that kindness you have always chosen shewn them and which now will be doubly desirable...
I yesterday received your kind Letter in which you so feelingly lament the loss of Mrs. Adams—The loss to her family is irreparable and like yourself there is nothing I dislike so much as common public newspaper puffs which blazon virtues to the multitude who feel and respect them as little as if they never had existed and by whom they are no sooner read than forgotten—Hers were excellencies...
I scarcly know how to apologize for my remissness in not writing to you sooner but did you know how I am teazed you would excuse most readily any apparent negligence and always assign some sufficient excuse for it Congress is come back and with it all the stormy passions jealousies and petty enmities which are so widely spread against those who either by talents or circumstances have risen to...
In the midst of bustle and preparation for a small party of 400 and some person’s I cannot refrain from writing you a few lines in answer to your most soothing Letter which has entirely quieted all my anxious apprehensions as such kind care and attention can leave me no room for uneasiness— Our campaigne is almost terminated and it is really time; or we should all sink under the fatigue and...
99From John Adams to Harriet Welsh, 30 August 1819 (Adams Papers)
I know not what my Friend Mr Jay can mean, unless it be a Series of Letters Printed in the Boston Patriot beginning on the 10th. of April 1809 and continued for too or three Years. No Notice of them was taken of them, at the time but by now and then a thrust and Stab from the Tory Press. I have not a Copy of them. If I had I would send it to Mr Jay—Some Antequarian an hundred Years hence, who...
100From John Adams to Harriet Welsh, 23 January 1820 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed is a Bill—you will please to purchase me Dugal’s Philosophy of the Human Mind—By what I know of Mr L Shaw and have heard of him, I should not wonder, if he were the Author of the Review of Judge Story’s Charge & Mr King’s Speeches—The American, I hear is coming out in the Richmond Enquirer like a valiant Hero in open justification of Negrow Slavery— if all the States Southward of...
101From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Harriet Welsh, 8 February 1820 (Adams Papers)
The boys left us on Sunday morning intending to arrive at your house on Saturday Evening when to my astonishment and terror John walked into the room yesterday evening very feverish and looking half wild with agition and fatigue and announced that his Trunk had been cut off from the Mail Stage and he had lost all the Clothes he had in the world—The reception his father gave him was not such as...
102From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Harriet Welsh, 27 November 1820 (Adams Papers)
According to your desire I burnt the Letter which you wrote me and respect greatly the anxiety you manifest for the subject of it, but all traces of the event having apparently disappeared I hope it will never be renewed to pain the feelings of your friend I was not aware that she was a daughter of Miss Outrums I pity her from my heart and think she was fortunate in not becoming his Wife of...
103From John Adams to Harriet Welsh, 9 May 1821 (Adams Papers)
You are it seems requested to enquire of me 1. Whether there was ever any “Coolness” between President Washington and me? 2. Whether, there was any difference in Opinion between Us, on public Affairs? You have not informed me who the inquisitive Person is, or whether his motives are benevolent, or malicious; but as all these points are indifferent to me, I have no reluctance to answer 1. There...
104From John Adams to Harriet Welsh, 22 March 1822 (Adams Papers)
In answer to your Question of the 11th of this Month which has been so long on its way, that I have received it but this moment, I have no hesitation in saying that at no period of our revolution, could any Man be his popularity what it might, could have persuaded the people of this Country or any considerable number of them to be governed by a King of their own, or even a President for Life,...
105From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Harriet Welsh, 14 November 1822 (Adams Papers)
I enclose you a Letter for Miss Hinckley my dear Hariet which I am extremely happy to furnish and which I hope will be the means of procuring both pleasure and comfort to herself and her father during their residence in Paris.—As I am not in the habit of writing mere Letters of recommendation the one I now send is perhaps not in the usual elegant style of such Letters but if it answers the...
106From John Quincy Adams to Harriet Welsh, 19 September 1823 (Adams Papers)
I pray you in presenting my respectful & affectionate regards to Mr & Mrs Bailey to assure them of the regret that I feel in the inability to avail myself of their friendly invitation & in the loss of the satisfaction which I should have derived from a visit to them. It is now uncertain whether I shall be able to go at all to Portland; & certain that if I do, I shall not go further nor be more...