John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, April 8, 1781
Leyden April the 8th 1781 Honour’d Mamma I have been wanting to write to you this sometime but there has been nothing worth writing, and even now I know not…
Leyden April the 8th 1781 Honour’d Mamma I have been wanting to write to you this sometime but there has been nothing worth writing, and even now I know not…
Leyden 11th. Feby. 1781 Sir I have the Honour to inform You that Charles was matriculated the 29th. of last Month, by the Consent of the Curators, to whom the…
Leyden Feby. the 11. 1781 Honoured Sir I received a day or two agone the vocabulary which I desir’d you to send, for which I am much obliged to you.…
Febry. 8 1781 My dear sons I fear you will think Mamma is unmindfull of you if she does not write you a few lines by so good an opportunity.…
Febry. 5 1781 My dear Sir I have not had the pleasure of a line from you since your arrival in Holland. I fear I have lost Letters by a…
Leyden Feby. the 3d. 1780 [ , Start insertion, i.e. 1781 , End, ] Hond. Sir I yesterday received your’s of the 31st of Jany. in whic you desir’d me…
Leyden 1st. Feby. 1781 Sir I have waited on Mr. Luzac with the Crisis, who is much obliged to You for it, and will either translate it into Dutch or…
Amsterdam Jan. 31. 1781 My dear Boy I have received, by the Way of Bilboa, a Letter from your Mamma, of the 8th of October, in which She presents her…
Janry. 28 1781 My dearest Friend Last Evening General Lincoln call’d here introducing to me a Gentleman by the Name of Col. Laurence 1 the Son as I suppose, of…
Leyden 25th. Jany. 1781 Sir Your favour of yesterday 1 was recieved this morning. I suspect it was opened before it came to my hands. The Seal appeared to have…