John Adams to Horatio Gates Spafford, December 29, 1813
Quincy Dec. 29. [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ]13 Friend Spafford I have delivered the Copy of your Gazetteer of New York, intended for the American Accademy of…
Horatio Gates Spafford was an American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" following the Great Chicago Fire (1871), and the deaths of his four daughters on a transatlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre.
Quincy Dec. 29. [ , Start insertion, 18 , End, ]13 Friend Spafford I have delivered the Copy of your Gazetteer of New York, intended for the American Accademy of…
Quincy June 4th. 15 Friend Spafford My Son is probably in England: but I have no Letter from him later than the 21. March, then at Paris in the Center…
Quincy 7 Mo. 26, 1816 Worthy Friend I thank thee, for thy kind congratulations on my Health. There is no Man who wishes the return of my Son So much…
Quincy Jan. 31. 1816 [ , Start insertion, 1817 , End, ] Mr Spafford I thank you for your kind Letter of the 21st, and for the three Magazines inclosed,…