Adams Family Correspondence, volume 4
All well.—You will send these Papers to some Printer when you have done with them.
We have found that the only Way of guarding against Fevers is to ride. We accordingly mount our Horses every day. But the Weather through the whole Spring and most of the Summer has been very dull, damp, cold, very disagreable and dangerous. But shaking on Horseback guards pretty well against it.
I am going to Dinner with a Duke and a Dutchess and a Number