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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Mary Catherine Hellen Adams, September 12, 1826
Boston 12 Sept 1826 Your Note and packet came safely to me a few days since and I write a few lines merely to say that Mr. Adams has fixed…
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John Quincy Adams to John A Shaw, September 12, 1826
Quincy 12 September 1826— Sir I pray you to accept my thanks for your obliging Note of the 25 ulto. and for the copy of your Eulogy upon John Adams…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, September 9, 1826
Boston 9 Sept 1826 I wrote you a very few lines yesterday my dear Charles, with a promise to write to you again immediately and more fully, but I fear…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Greenleaf, September 8, 1826
Quincy 8th: September 1826. Gentlemen Upon the decease of my late honoured Father, I have considered it a duty devolving upon me to erect a plain and modest monument to…
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Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Barlow Felt, September 4, 1826
Quincy 4th Septr. 1826. Dear Sir. I received your favour of the 17th August and thank you for your prompt compliance with my wishes in the article of books. I…
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John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, August 28, 1826
Quincy 28. August 1826— My dear Friend and Cousin. The most important facts in the History of my fathers Life will be found in one or another of the enclosed…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 26, 1826
Quincy 26. August 1826. Saturday. My dearest Friend. I write you without knowing where or when my Letter will find you, and must therefore < , Start deletion, I must…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, August 7, 1826
Cedar Grove 7 August 1826 My best friend I have been so very sick the last day or two it has been impossible for me to write you I am…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 5, 1826
Quincy Saturday 5 August 1826 My dearest Friend. I received last Evening your Letter of the 1st. instt. from New York—I now enclose to you the Letter which I had…
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H. Cranch Fifield to Adams Family, August 4, 1826
Weymouth—August 4th. 1826. The family of the late President are respectfully requested to accept the enclosed Copy of the Hymn performed yesterday at Braintree. Mrs. Fifield—
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, August 4, 1826
New York 4. August 1826 We have arrived safely here after a tolerably pleasant journey and a very pleasant visit at Borden Town although poor Mrs. Hopkinson was sick the…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, August 3, 1826
Fishkiln 3 August 1826 My best friend I was so much hurried when I wrote to you from New York that I am afraid you could scarcely read the scrawl—We…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, August 2, 1826
Hamilton’s Exchange Hotel, Boston Wednesday 2 August 1826. 5 A.M. My dearest Friend. Meeting here Dr. Huntt, who informs us that he left you last Friday at Bordentown, and Charles…
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Edward H Robbins to Josiah Adams, August 1, 1826
[ , Start insertion, August 1, 1826 , End, ] Greeting. Whereas, at a Court of Probate, held at Dedham in and for the said County of Norfolk on the…
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Harriet Welsh to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 1, 1826
You could not have asked my dear Mrs. Adams a happier a more glorious transition from earth to Heaven—on that day fifty years since consecrated to his blessed memory—I was…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, July 1, 1826
[ , Start insertion, July 1826 , End, ] Having just received a letter from John I wish to know if you are desirous that I should come on before…
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Stephen Peabody to John Quincy Adams, July 25, 1826
Atkinson 25th. July 1826 Sir, Two or three weeks since an old friend of mine Capt. Jacob Sherburne of Orland, on the Penobscot River Maine wrote to me requesting my…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Quincy Adams, July 11, 1826
Washington 11 July 1826 My best friend Ere I touch upon the melancholy subject which at present occupies your mind; allow me to offer the most sincere congratulations on the…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 11, 1826
City–Hotel New York. 11. July 1826. Tuesday 1/2 past 1. P. M. My dearest friend, We arrived safe here, about two hours since, and in two hours more expect to…
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François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Thomas Boylston Adams, July 10, 1826
Oldenbarneveld 10 July 1826 My Dear Sir! This morning I did See in a N.Y. paper—the announced death of your Revered Father—my beloved and respected Frend—during more than forty years—alas!…