John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 2 June 1777
Braintree June the 2d 1777 Dear Sir I Love to recieve Letters very well much better than I love to write them, I make but a poor figure at Composition…
Braintree June the 2d 1777 Dear Sir I Love to recieve Letters very well much better than I love to write them, I make but a poor figure at Composition…
Monday June 2. 1777 Artillery Election!–I wish I was at it, or near it. Yours of the 18th. reached me this Morning. The Cause that Letters are so long in…
Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward. No. 105.] Legation of the United States London, January 24, 1862. Sir: The only event of any importance connected with American affairs that has happened…
June 1. 1777 My dearest Friend I designd to have wrote you by the last Post, but have been so unwell for the week past that I have not been…
Philadelphia May 28. 1777 An horrid cold Day for Election–warm work however, in the Afternoon, I suppose. 1 You will see by the inclosed Papers, among the Advertisements, how the…
May 28 1777 This is Election Day, but the news of the day I am not able to inform you of as I have Heard nothing from Town. The House…
May 25. 1777 At half past four this Morning, I mounted my Horse, and took a ride, in a Road that was new to me. I went to Kensington, and…
Philadelphia May 24. 1777 We have an Army in the Jersies, so respectable that We seem to be under no Apprehensions at present, of an Invasion of Philadelphia–at least untill…
[Extract.] Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward. No. 103.] Legation of the United States, London, January 17, 1862. SIR: * * * * * * * * * * * *…
May 22 [ 1777 ]. 4 O Clock in the Morning After a Series of the souerest, 1 and harshest Weather that ever I felt in this Climate, We are…