Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, December 20, 1814
Quincy December 20th 1814 My Dear Daughter I was glad to learn through mr Johnson that you had an agreable journey home Your visit here seems more like a vision,…
Quincy December 20th 1814 My Dear Daughter I was glad to learn through mr Johnson that you had an agreable journey home Your visit here seems more like a vision,…
Boston 19 Dec 1814 Dear Sir I had promised my friend George Ticknor Esqr who will hand this letter to you, that I would accompany him to Quincy and have…
St Petersburg Decbr. 2d 1814 My best Friend Yours of the eighth is come not to fill me with doubts because that was already effected but to make those doubts…
Ghent 2. December 1814. My beloved wife. Yesterday morning your Letter of 6. November, which I mark number 41 was delivered to me—Why it had been so long on the…
Quincy December 2d 1814 Dear Sir I thank you for your favour of the 23d.— Gerry is gone to joine his Copatriots in lamentations over the degeneracy of his Country;…
Ghent 29 November 1814 My dearest wife. My letter of Friday last informed you of the arrival of the Fingal at Havre, and of the dispatches from the Government, brought…
Quincy Novbr 29th 1814 Dear Sir As my Husband has thought it proper to inclose a Letter, received from our Son to the president, which I presume you may read,…
Quincy Nov’br 29th 1814 my Dear Son My last Letter to you, was dated 17th of October 1814 which supposing the negotiation had ended in Sep’br I directed It to…
Quincy Nov 28 1814 Dear Sir Your favour of the 23d gave Us all great Joy. We heard of your return to Boston, from twenty quarters: and though there was…
St Petersburg Novbr: 26 1814 My best Friend I did not mean to offend you, in what I wrote you concerning the information you gave. but I was so much…