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John Quincy Adams to George Washington Adams, August 10, 1818
Washington 10. August 1818 My dear Son. It is a great affliction to me to be deprived as I am by constant and indispensable obligipations, of the pleasure of writing…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, July 28, 1818
Washington 28 July 1818 My Dear John Although your last Letter was not quite so good as I could wish the consciousness and solicitude you appear to feel of its…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, July 28, 1818
Quincy July 28th 1818 My Dear Daughter I received Your Letter of July 18th on Saturday 25th. It was a great damper to me, who had been pleasing myself with…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 30, 1818
Quincy May 30th 1818 my Dear Son I think I once heard you Say—to make a thing choice it Should be rare. your kind Letter last Evening received—possesst both those…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, May 28, 1818
Washington 28 May 1818 My Dear Charles You tell me in your last Letter that “you believe you did not write to me, because you had not received a Letter…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to John Adams, May 26, 1818
Washington 26 May 1818 My Dear John Since I received your last Letter we have been kept in a state of great anxiety < , Start deletion, who was [.…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to George Washington Adams, May 26, 1818
Washington 26 May 1818 My Dear George I do not recollect whether I answered your last Letter my memory not being remarkably good and keeping no account of dates but…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, May 25, 1818
Washington 25, May 1818. My dear Mother. I am ashamed to find upon my file of Letters to be answered , one from you of 29. January; besides two or…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 20, 1818
Quincy May 20th 1818 My dear daughter Your Letter of May 2d was so long comeing, that I feared Sickness had arrested your pen—as Subjects for the use of it…
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John Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 20, 1818
Quicy May 20. 1818 My dear Son I thank you for the documents you Send me, which I give to the Athenaeum believing they will do more good there than…
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John Adams Smith to John Quincy Adams, May 19, 1818
London 19 May 1818. Dear Sir. An Anonymous writer has commenced his communications with me & I received his first letter on saturday evening the 9th of May. I shall…
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John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, May 18, 1818
Washington 18 May 1818 My Dear Brother On examining the Register which you sent me, I find that your Court sits at Nantucket the second and at Edgar Town the…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, March 1, 1818
[ , Start insertion, March 1818 , End, ] Dear Harriet I beleive you thought me very imprudent to consent to the Presidents going to Town So cold a day…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, March 30, 1818
Washington 30 March 1818. My dear Mother In my last I think I informed you that the news of this place was become so little interesting that my journal must…
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Ward Nicholas Boylston to John Adams, March 24, 1818
Hermitage Jamaica plain 24 March 1818 My Dear Cousin That I may prove to you and my Dear Mrs Adams, the high estimation of the value I attach to the…
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Charles Thomas Clark to Sarah Smith Adams, March 23, 1818
U.S. Ship Washington—23d: March 1818.— My Dear Mother It has been much longer since I wrote to you than I intended. The opportunities by which I have sent letters to…
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John Quincy Adams to Alexander Contee Hanson, March 23, 1818
Washington 23d March 1818. Sir According to your request, I return the plat, which you had the goodness to send me with many thanks.—Your letter of 6th. Feby. had remained…
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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Charles Francis Adams, March 22, 1818
Washington 22 March 1818. My Dear Charles Your two last Letters have come safely to hand and I am much pleased at your steadiness and punctuality in writing—I suppose that…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, March 22, 1818
Quincy, March 22d, 1818. My Dear Caroline: “Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops which flowed from the heart to the eyes…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, March 17, 1818
Quincy March 17th 1818 my Dear Daughter I received your Letter of March 2d which has increased my anxiety to hear again from you, for a series of misfortunes Seem…