Adams Family Correspondence, volume 3

John Adams to Abigail Adams

John Adams to Abigail Adams

73 John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 August 1778 JQA AA

1778-08-11

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 August 1778 Adams, John Quincy Adams, Abigail
John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams
Hond. Mamma Paris august ye 11 1778

you will pardon me if I do not write to you very often for you know how I used to teaze you to write a copy of a letter for me but now I do not have you to write and my Pappa being always a doing publick affaires or a writing to you cannot do it for me, so that I am obliged to think myself, sometimes I think of a few words to write but you know I am no great hand at letter writing for if I was I should write much oftener though I have wrote several times I wrote a long letter by captain Barnes with an account of my voyage1

I am your dutiful son John Quincy Adams

RC (Adams Papers). Text is given here in literal style.

1.

Not found; doubtless lost at sea.