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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-04-01 | will be so good as to send the enclosed to Dr Tufts, & she will oblige me—I have not time now... |
| 2 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-02-13 | Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed... |
| 3 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-01-24 | You will now have no occasion to wish for more Snow, if at Quincy you are favoured with as much... |
| 4 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-01-06 | To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your... |
| 5 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-12-17 | How changed My Dear Sister, is the weather now, from the clam clear Sunshine I enjoyed with you... |
| 6 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-11-12 | To see Abby Adams’ marriage announced in the public Paper, was at this time, to us a very... |
| 7 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-09-24 | Your very interesting Letter of last week in which you mention the departure of your dear... |
| 8 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-09-10 | I am sorry you did not find time to write me a line—reports are so various, & calamitous that it... |
| 9 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-08-29 | I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she... |
| 10 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | ≈1814-07-01 | I was very much gratified to find that it was not the Presidents, your own, or your family’s... |
| 11 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-07-05 | Yesterday as soon as the mail arrived I sent to the Office full of expectation of receiving a... |
| 12 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-06-11 | With pleasure I congratulate My Dear Brothers & Sister, upon the agreeable prospect they have of... |
| 13 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-05-13 | I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but... |
| 14 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-03-26 | Yesterdays Mail, My Dear Sister, conveyed your Letter safe to me, with the two Bills—I do not so... |
| 15 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-03-15 | The peircing cold air of this Month has made me quiver so that I could not quit the fire side... |
| 16 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-02-10 | I was in hopes of receiving a Letter by yesterdays Mail from you—I was glad to see by the News... |
| 17 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-31 | I feel much obliged my Dear Sister, to the Christian Desciple for the mild, & pacific Principles,... |
| 18 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-17 | I was much grieved to hear of Mrs Adams sickness, both upon her own account & yours —Such a... |
| 19 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-10 | I too my Dear Sister, have to address you from the Bed of Sickness— The wednesday night after I... |
| 20 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-12-20 | My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as... |
| 21 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-08-19 | If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,... |
| 22 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-08-05 | your good grandchildren are just gone to repose in the arms of sweet Sleep, soothed by the... |
| 23 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-07-12 | You know my Dear Sister, that my Heart is ever prone “to rejoice with those who rejoice, as well... |
| 24 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-06-22 | Your long silence (My Dear Sister) made me fear that you, or some of your family were sick—I was... |
| 25 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-05-20 | By Mrs Welsh, who spent the afternoon with us, I was informed that Your dear Grandson was going... |
| 26 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-04-07 | Your kind Letters of Feb. 15th & March 31st lie before me, in which I find are several things... |
| 27 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-03-07 | It is a sad misfortune to dear Connections when their Friends do not love to write—Some I know... |
| 28 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-12-31 | Every Day, & Week since my return, I have thought I would devote some time to write to my Dear... |
| 29 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-09-08 | It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by... |
| 30 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-08-17 | Has not this long term of rainy weather made you sick? it has almost every body arround us—& I... |
| 31 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-07-14 | I hope my dear Sister, & family are well, though I have not heard from her for three last... |
| 32 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-20 | Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid... |
| 33 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-13 | I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am... |
| 34 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-16 | I have the pleasure to inform you, that your dear Grandchildren reached here Friday noon, safe, &... |
| 35 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-05 | The Calender informs me it is the month of May, my Dear Sister—I should not suppose it, by the... |
| 36 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-04-26 | The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of... |
| 37 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | ≈1812-03-01 | I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,... |
| 38 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Thomas Boylston | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Thomas Boylston … | 1812-03-14 | Often in this Vale of Tears, My Dear Nephew, & Niece, are we called to sympathize with each... |
| 39 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-13 | By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &... |
| 40 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-07 | Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,... |
| 41 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, John Quincy | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to John Quincy Adams … | 1812-02-26 | My Dear Sister, has I presume written, & given you some account of the Situation of our... |
| 42 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-01-20 | I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents... |
| 43 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-12-18 | At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters... |
| 44 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-11-11 | The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the... |
| 45 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-21 | My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual... |
| 46 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-19 | I received your kind Letters yesterday by mail, & though I ought soon to have expected such an... |
| 47 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Felt, Joseph Barlow | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Joseph Barlow … | 1811-08-21 | Company, unexpected, & avocations unavoidable, have for several Days occupied my whole Time, &... |
| 48 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-08-20 | Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual... |
| 49 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-08-03 | Your Letter my Dear Sister, received a week since, flattered me with the pleasing Prospect of our... |
| 50 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-07-13 | I hope my Dear Sister’s Fibres are not so relaxed by the late intense heat of the weather, as not... |