Docno: ADMS-04-03-02-0060
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Recipient: Adams, Abigail
Date: 1778-08-11
[dateline] Paris august ye 11 1778
[salute] Hond. Mamma
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 voyage
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[salute] I am your dutiful son
[signed] John Quincy Adams