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Navara is the last place which we stopp'd at before our arrival here, is a small, insignificant town but will be always famous for the battle fought there. As to this place, I have not been here long enough to know much about it, but by what we have seen of it I think it to be still handsomer than Berlin. The streets are large and the houses very well built but it is not yet half finish'd and will require another century to be render'd compleat.

Just before we got to Berlin, by the carelessness of a postillion our carriage overset and broke so that Mr. Dana was obliged to buy another there but luckily no body was hurt by the fall.

Nothing else Extraordinary befel us on our journey.

I am your dutiful Son,

John Q. Adams

Adams, John Quincy. Letter to John Adams, August 21, 1781 O.S. / [September 1, 1781 N.S.]. Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Published in Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 4: October 1780 - September 1782 (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973). Pages 206-207.