3. On
20 Nov., AA wrote to JA, below, that she had just received one of JA's two letters of 10 Sept. (one
below; the
other
Adams Papers), which gave the same information and exhortation as the present letter. In her letter to JQA of
20 Nov., below, she says that she received JA's “Letters of 10 September.” This letter of the 7th went to America with John Thaxter, who traveled to New York and Philadelphia before reaching Braintee on 14 December (AA to JA,
15 Dec., below).