John Quincy Adams to Walter Hellen, October 5, 1812
St. Petersburg, 5. October 1812. My Dear Sir, I received so early, early as last January your obliging favour of 18. Novr. to which Notwithstanding the difficulty amounting almost to…
St. Petersburg, 5. October 1812. My Dear Sir, I received so early, early as last January your obliging favour of 18. Novr. to which Notwithstanding the difficulty amounting almost to…
St: Petersburg 4 October 1812 My Dear Sir “Why was that fair flower blasted so soon”?—The last letter which I have had the consolation of receiving from you, in mentioning…
St: Petersburg 29. September 1812 My dear Brother. A War between the United States and Great-Britain, and a War between France and Russia, having commenced on the same Week in…
Quincy September 28th 1812. Dear Sir. Your friendly note of this day is not unexpected. I am ready to meet my antagonist, on my own element. But as a brave…
St: Petersburg 28. September 1812. My dear Son. Since I wrote you last, which was on the 23d: of June, we have received your letter to your mother, dated 2.…
St: Petersburg 27. September 1812 My Dear Son. I wrote a few days ago to your Grandmama, and desired her to inform you, and your brother John, of the heavy…
Quincy September. 22. 1812. I am very sorry I was < not > absent, when your excellent Mother left me your Letter of the 12th of this mongth, Had I…
St: Petersburg 21. September 1812 My dearly beloved Mother. During the last two years, the unwelcome task has too often been allotted to you, to communicate to my dear wife…
Quincy Sunday Noon 20th Sepbr 1812 my Dear Child I received your Letter of 17th of the last Evening and rejoiced with trembling. [Dr Hoolbrook] thought if [. . .]…
Sunday Quincy Sep’br 13th. 1812 my Dear Daughter It was not untill Saturday morning when I went to See my poor old domestic Pheby, that I learnt a word respecting…