John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Palmer Cranch, January 1, 1773
[ , Start insertion, 1773 , End, ?] 1 Dear Cousing i thank you for your last letter i have < , Start deletion, have , End, > had it…
[ , Start insertion, 1773 , End, ?] 1 Dear Cousing i thank you for your last letter i have < , Start deletion, have , End, > had it…
Paris august ye 14 1778 My Dear Cousin by your desire I now sit down to write a few lines to you and not yet having wrote to you I…
Plymouth jan 1 1779 1 My Dear Friend I take my pen to perform my promice of writing to you and to wish you a happy new year may heaven…
October 20 1779 I have began too or three letters to you but have burnt them, all for reasons that you need not be inquisitive to know. If they had…
Saturday [ , Start insertion, April 1782 , End, ] Knowing your benevolent heart is ever gratified by hearing of the wellfare of your friends, and feeling a disposition to…
[ , Start insertion, post 2 October 1782 , End, ] 1 No Eliza 2 I do not believe your real affection has decreased for Amelia, 3 but a consiousness…
Sunday eve. [ , Start insertion, ca. 22 December 1782 , End, ] 1 Yesterday my Dear Eliza I returned from G [ermantown] and this morning, it being our usual…
Milton saturday Morning [ , Start insertion, ca. 4 Jan. 1783 , End, ] 1 Your wishes for my happiness, my Dear Eliza, demand my thanks. Wishing, this power of…
Saturday Morn [ , Start insertion, ca. 11 January 1783 , End, ] 1 Your letter 2 my Dear Eliza, was, sent me yesterday afternoon. By the bearer of it…
Saturday Evening [ , Start insertion, ca. 18 January 1783 , End, ] 1 Your letter 2 my Dear Eliza was this day handed me by your Mamma. I Love…
Cambridge july 17 1783 For these Two days my Dear Eliza, I have been in expectation of hearing from you. Mr. Shaw tells me he brought letters but I have…
Braintree [ , Start insertion, post 20 , End, ] July 1783 1 Amid the numberless letters that you receive from your various and numerous correspondents, can a few lines…
Auteaul 1 septem. 4th. 1784 Here my Dear Eliza is your friend placed in a little village two or three miles from Paris, unknowing and unknown to every person around…
Auteuil Sepbr. 5 1784 My dear Betsy I am situated at a small desk in an appartment about 2 thirds as large as your own little Chamber; this appartment opens…
December 3. 1784 My dear Betsy I had my dear Girl such an obligeing visit from you last Night, 1 and such sweet communion with you that it has really…
Paris December 10 1784 You can judge of my impatience my Dear Cousin, the last week when we heard from Mr. Storer who informed us that he had forwarded some…
March 8th. 1785 Auteuil My Dear Betsy There is a Gentleman by the Name of Blakney 1 a Philadelphian who is with other company to dine here to day and…
Cambrige April 7th: 1786 My things, are yet pretty much in Confusion, and I do not expect to get well settled till the next Quarter. I find much more, to…
London, 23 July, 1786 My Dear Girls I bought me a blue sarcenet 1 coat not long since; after making it up I found it was hardly wide enough to…
London july 19 th 1787— to what Cause my Dear Eliza am I to attribute that Air of Mistery which reigns throughout your last Letter to me,— 1 you ever…