John Adams to Ann Frances Bulkeley Humphreys, July 14, 1819

Quincy July 14th 1819

dear Madam

your reccommendation alone would have been surficient < , Start deletion, apology for me , End, > Authority for me to sign my name to the recommendation of Mr Frances Coffin a Brother of our friend Mrs Derby to be Consul at Lima—tho the other names already signed to that reccommendation < , Start deletion, we , End, > being among the most respectable in the state, would have been amply surficient without mine—when the extreme heat of the weather is over—I hope to have the honor of a Visit from you, I should have long since have had the pleasure of paying my respects to you at Mount Vernon—but indisposition has < , Start deletion, [. . .] , End, > therto prevented it—

Our friend Tudor, has followed so many of our other friends that the number of mine is reduced very low—

I am Madam with the sincerest respect and / affection, your obliged and affectionate / friend,

John Adams