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I have not yet had the pleasure of receiving a line from you, which I presume is owing to the...
Your letter from Washington of the 27th: ult: to our dear Mother, came to hand this day; and as...
Last Evening I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of 25th: ulto: which contained the first...
Having at length recover’d from the fatigue of a very unpleasant journey I take the liberty my...
Much time has elapsed indeed, Since you have favoured me with your last Letters—and more, Since I...
I am ashamed of my long silence after the receipt of the two last letters from my kind friend and...
I enclosed to you by last Evening’s Mail a Copy of the President’s Message, as first printed by...
I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of...
I address you jointly and congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since you commenced...
We arrived safe at Providence on the Evening of the day when we took leave of you in Boston; and...
I want to write an Essay.—Whom Shall I choose for a Model?—Plutarch, old Montaigne, Lord Bacon,...
It is rare, that a Letter of yours remains so long upon my Table unacknowledged as has that of...
At a time of life when retirement is sought for, and the release from all political attentions...
Among the papers of my late friend Mr.mr Brand-Hollis; I have been greatly gratified by the...
As the account I gave you the day before yesterday may occasion you some anxiety on my wife’s...
“Pride of Talents and much Ambition were undoubtedly combined in the Character of the President,...
I take the first moment of self-possession that I have to inform you that my dear wife at...
I feel a pleasure in forwarding to you the second part of the Transactions of the Philosophical...
In the 306 page of your first Volume there are certain Traits that I had overlooked. “Richard...
In order to give you all the Authentic Documents necessary to explain the Remarks I have made...
You begin your Letter, Sir, of August 8th. with complaints of “new demonstrations of Mrs....
More demonstrations of your Friendship for Mr Adams appear in the 229 page of the third Volume....
I have duly recieved your letter of the 28th. of July expressing a wish that your brother could...
I know not how to satisfy the demands you make upon my time and patience without entering into...
In your third Volume page 169, you say that “on the twenty Second of April 1782, Mr. Adams was...
Your fourth Letter like the preceding ones, discovers a fixed determination to mis-construe every...
Had I really been disgusted and mortified at my Treatment by Congress which in fact I was not,...
In the 135th. Page of your Second Volume, you State that in 1778 Mr John Adams of the State of...
Before I had an opportunity to forward my reply to yours of July 11th: I received another letter...
In the 131 and 132 page of the first Volume of your History, you are pleased to say that John...
In the 392 Page of the third Volume of your History you say that “After Mr Adams’s return from...
After a long suspension of a friendly literary intercourse, it was very unexpected to me this...
As it is neither consistent with my Principles, Disposition or habits, upon any misunderstanding...
Though your last Letter was not immediately answered, I offer no apology but my own frequent...
I once met Alexander Cruden the Author of the Concordance of the Scriptures at Charles Dilly’s....
As the British have blockaded the Chesapeak it has deprived us in this Quarter of any conveyance...
Having a considerable time since took the liberty of addressing you, being the Widow of your late...
John Bunjan, if he had written my last Letter to you would have called it an history of Gods...
I have received your favour of the ninth of this Month, and conveyed to Dr Tufts your Letter to...
Inclosed is the Certificate of forty Shares in the Fire and Marine Insurance Company. The third...
The Fire and Marine Insurance Office are now repaying the third part of their capital, to which...
If I had written to you my dear sister half as often as I have thought of you and contemplated...
Permit me to trouble you with the delivery of the enclosed letter to Dr Tufts. It contains an...
tho a stranger I take the Liberty of addressing you on a subject that very much Interests me, & I...
I received at an Exhibition of Musick in our polite Village of Mount Woollaston, on thursday,...
I return you, the Letter of Edward Smith. Time may or may not unriddle this whimsical Mystery. It...
I have to acknowledge the receipt of Your highly esteemed letter, which you did me the honour to...
You shall not expect an excuse, for mÿ dilaÿing a few days to return the inclosed. Mÿ heart was...
In one of your former letters you say as an excuse for your not assuming the reserve of certain...
I read in the Chronicle some time ago, two Speculations with the signature of a military...