I return the enclosed letter according to your desire, painfully regretting, that I can not...
This year compleats a Century Since my Uncle Boylston introduced the practise of Inoculation into...
“Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops...
Your letter of the 5th November gave us all great pleasure and certainly none more than me. I was...
As Dean Swift says, “eyes with writing almost blind,” I commence a letter to you, near ten...
Your kind letter of the 14th. has given me great pleasure, I congratulate you on the Birth of...
7From 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 wish you a happy New year, and as many new-years as your Nature can bear, in health Peace and...
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...