Mr President | 7 July 1817 |
In the good old English Language of your Virginian and my New England Ancestors, I am right glad to See you in the oldest Plantation, in old Massachusetts, next to Salem, where you will be recd with more Splendor and I hope with equal Cordiallity.
John Adams.
MHi: Elizabeth Smith Scrapbook; Smith-Townsend Family Papers.