Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, May 11, 1806
Washington May 11th. 1806 My dear Mother A few days since I recieved your very obliging letter in which you mention having procured the articles I wrote for and for…
Washington May 11th. 1806 My dear Mother A few days since I recieved your very obliging letter in which you mention having procured the articles I wrote for and for…
Atkinson May 10th—1806— My Dear Sister, It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal of pain in…
Boston 10. May 1806. My dearest Louisa I wrote you last Sunday, the day after my arrival at Quincy and gave you an account of the progress and termination of…
Washington May 5. 1806 My beloved friend. After a couple of days of anxious solicitude 1 last night recieved your very affectionate letter from New York which revived my half…
New York march 23d. 1806. Dr. Sir— I am informed that Mr. P. A Schenk is nominated as Surveyor of this port, and of course I am to be superceeded…
Washington 19. March 1806 I have received two letters from you, since I wrote you last; but I presume you will know the reason which has prevented me from answering…
Washington 16. March 1806. Sir. I have received your favour of the 12th: instt: enclosing a receipt for $1000 deposited in the Bank of New-York, and standing there to my…
Washington 14. March 1806. It is so long since I have had one hour of leisure that I could appropriate to correspondence with my friends at Quincy and Boston, that…
New York March 12th 1806 My Dear Madam I have intended a long time since to write to you but have been prevented by various avocations. Sincerely have I sympathized…
Quincy March 5th 1806 My dear Son I fear your Father may have given you unnecessary anxiety; I told him at the time it was not best to mention an…