will be so good as to send the enclosed to Dr Tufts, & she will oblige me—I have not time now...
Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed...
You will now have no occasion to wish for more Snow, if at Quincy you are favoured with as much...
To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your...
How changed My Dear Sister, is the weather now, from the clam clear Sunshine I enjoyed with you...
To see Abby Adams’ marriage announced in the public Paper, was at this time, to us a very...
Your very interesting Letter of last week in which you mention the departure of your dear...
I am sorry you did not find time to write me a line—reports are so various, & calamitous that it...
I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she...
10From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was very much gratified to find that it was not the Presidents, your own, or your family’s...
Yesterday as soon as the mail arrived I sent to the Office full of expectation of receiving a...
With pleasure I congratulate My Dear Brothers & Sister, upon the agreeable prospect they have of...
I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but...
Yesterdays Mail, My Dear Sister, conveyed your Letter safe to me, with the two Bills—I do not so...
The peircing cold air of this Month has made me quiver so that I could not quit the fire side...
I was in hopes of receiving a Letter by yesterdays Mail from you—I was glad to see by the News...
I feel much obliged my Dear Sister, to the Christian Desciple for the mild, & pacific Principles,...
I was much grieved to hear of Mrs Adams sickness, both upon her own account & yours —Such a...
I too my Dear Sister, have to address you from the Bed of Sickness— The wednesday night after I...
My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as...
If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,...
your good grandchildren are just gone to repose in the arms of sweet Sleep, soothed by the...
You know my Dear Sister, that my Heart is ever prone “to rejoice with those who rejoice, as well...
Your long silence (My Dear Sister) made me fear that you, or some of your family were sick—I was...
By Mrs Welsh, who spent the afternoon with us, I was informed that Your dear Grandson was going...
Your kind Letters of Feb. 15th & March 31st lie before me, in which I find are several things...
It is a sad misfortune to dear Connections when their Friends do not love to write—Some I know...
Every Day, & Week since my return, I have thought I would devote some time to write to my Dear...
It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by...
Has not this long term of rainy weather made you sick? it has almost every body arround us—& I...
I hope my dear Sister, & family are well, though I have not heard from her for three last...
Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid...
I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am...
I have the pleasure to inform you, that your dear Grandchildren reached here Friday noon, safe, &...
35From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
The Calender informs me it is the month of May, my Dear Sister—I should not suppose it, by the...
The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of...
37From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,...
Often in this Vale of Tears, My Dear Nephew, & Niece, are we called to sympathize with each...
By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &...
Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,...
My Dear Sister, has I presume written, & given you some account of the Situation of our...
I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents...
At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters...
The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the...
My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual...
I received your kind Letters yesterday by mail, & though I ought soon to have expected such an...
Company, unexpected, & avocations unavoidable, have for several Days occupied my whole Time, &...
Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual...
Your Letter my Dear Sister, received a week since, flattered me with the pleasing Prospect of our...
I hope my Dear Sister’s Fibres are not so relaxed by the late intense heat of the weather, as not...