Adams Family Correspondence, volume 3

John Adams to Abigail Adams

Benjamin Rush to Abigail Adams

74 John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 14 August 1778 JQA Cranch, Elizabeth Norton, Elizabeth Cranch John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 14 August 1778 Adams, John Quincy Cranch, Elizabeth Norton, Elizabeth Cranch
John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch
My Dear Cousin Paris august ye 14 1778

by your desire I now sit down to write a few lines to you and not yet having wrote to you I cannot let this oportunity pass without writing. my Pappa has received two or three packets from my mamma in which she said our family and Freinds were all well as I hope this will find them. I have nothing material to write having given an account of my voyage and travels to my Mamma. I am your affectionate Cousin

John Quincy Adams

RC (MHi:Jacob Norton Papers); docketed: “August 14. 1778. JQA.” MS bears various later notations in ink and pencil not recorded here. Text is given in literal style.