John Adams to Susanna Boylston Adams Clark Treadway, February 4, 1819
Quincy 4th Feby. 1819 My dear Susan The practice of borrowing hands to write for me is so modern & my skill in dictating so little familliar that I forgot…
Quincy 4th Feby. 1819 My dear Susan The practice of borrowing hands to write for me is so modern & my skill in dictating so little familliar that I forgot…
Washington 3d February 1819 Dear Charles I was delighted with your Letter and was only sorry you did not mention your health, which I understand has been very indifferent, and…
Jan 3. [ , Start insertion, 1819 , End, ] Mr and Mrs Adams, Miss Cartwright, with Miss Adams & Brother accept with pleasure the polite invitation of Mrs Boylston,…
[ January 2–7, 1819 ] I must begin this Sheet by observing that I have touched rather more largely upon political occurrences than is perhaps prudent considering how little I…
Quincy Decr. 29 1818 My dear Daugher Your Journal to the 20th has Sett me on fire. Give my respectfull Compliments to Mr Clay and tell him that I Sincerely…
Washington 27. Decr. 1818 My Dear Sir. Your kind Letter of 28. November condoling with me, on the distressing event of the decease of my beloved mother, is entitled to…
[ , Start insertion, December 25, 1818—January 4, 1819 , End, ] 25 This being Xmas day received visits as usual from Mr. & Madame de Neuville—As I have just…
Quincy Decr 24. 1818 My dear Son Your favour of the 14th. found me deeply immersed in researches, not astromical or mineralogical or metaphisical; but after old Papers, Trunks Boxes…
Washington 22 Decbr. 1818 Dear John I yesterday received your Letter of the 15 instt. and really can scarcely find an excuse for my long silence both to you and…
Washington 22 Decr. 1818 My Dear Charles As I hear there has been a great fall of snow during the last week or two in Boston I suppose you have…