Your letter has remained long unanswered, my dearest mother, but you know how little time I have for writing, and since I last heard from you both Mrs Coxe and Armine have been ...

I have actually torn up two letters, my dearest Mother, and I ...

Ellen and myself have congratulated each other many times since you left us that you should have embraced the only interval of fair weather for your journey: we hope that you arrived without...

Joseph has explained Mr Sparks’ wish with regard to the papers of Gouverneur Morris, and I should have myself written to Mrs Morris but I know she is affronted with me for not writing sooner, & my letter of introduction might do Mr S— more harm than good. If any one has any influence with the...

By this time, my dearest mother, I hope you are safely arrived at your own house in Washington, and after a pleasant journey, for all circumstances appear to have been favorable. the weather here has been ...

I have been intending all the afternoon to write to you, dearest mother, but it is now past six and I am just beginning my letter; the children have been so much on my hands that I have found it impossible to get rid of them long enough to carry my intention into effect, so if I do not fill my...

If you have not received Joseph’s letter my dearest mother, you will be very much surprised to know that I am within forty miles of you, scarcely ...

A rainy sunday, my dearest mother, gives me the leisure I have been waiting for to write to you, I am sorry not to go church, but much pleased to have an hour at my own disposal which I can devote to you. several gentlemen...

I take so little note of time, my dearest mother, even by it’s loss, that I do not know exactly when I last wrote to any of you, but it seems to me more than a fortnight, and perhaps you are beginning to be surprised at my silence. I have been very busy getting the little girls ready to go into...

I have been most anxiously expecting a letter for some time past, my dear mother, that I might hear something more of this appointment of Nicholas’s. Burwell wrote me that Mr Clay had named him to a place worth $ 1600. a year, but from you I have heard not one word, and know not how to account...