John Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 2, 1817

Quincy Jan. 2d. 1818

My dear Son

I have received your Letter of the 26th. of December 1817 inclosing a Postnote upon the Branch Bank of The United States at Boston for nine hundred and One dollars and Ninety five Cents, being the Amount of the dividend of five per Cent upon the debt proved under the Commission of Bankruptcy of Robert Bird and Co. at New York.

I am your affectionate Father

John Adams