Your letter of the 16th: brought me consolation and hope in the information that you were all...
It is sometimes said that suspense is worse than the certainty of evil—But it is a hard relief...
I have not received a line from you since I wrote you on Monday—Your mother however has had a...
I have received but one letter from you since I left Boston, and that was written only two days...
I thank you for your letter, and Kitty for her watch paper— I had like to have had no watch-case...
The day after I wrote you from Baltimore, that is to say on Thursday, I came to this place;...
On leaving Boston I had formed the Resolution of travelling only in the day-time, but at the...
I write you a line from the Stage–Office: having just this moment arrived, and intending in half...
9From John Quincy Adams to William Smith Shaw, 23 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have received your two letters of last Week, with a dozen copies of my letter to Mr: Otis—And...
10From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
My wife received a few days since a letter from you, and I had the happiness of receiving one...