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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 1 January 1779 | 1779-01-01 | I take my pen to perform my promice of writing to you and to wish you a happy new year may heaven... |
| 2 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 24 January 1779 | 1779-01-24 | Last weak I had the pleasure to receive too letters from my friend Myrtilla, aney time when you... |
| 3 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 4 February 1779 | 1779-02-04 | If aney person had told me the night I left Braintree that I should have ben at Plymouth almost... |
| 4 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 13 February 1779 | 1779-02-13 | It is now past ten however I will write you a few lines as I flatter myself they will be... |
| 5 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 15 March 1779 | 1779-03-15 | As a convenient opportunity offoring by General Warren I cannot let it excape without a line for... |
| 6 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 20 October 1779 | 1779-10-20 | I have began too or three letters to you but have burnt them, all for reasons that you need not... |
| 7 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 24 May 1781 | 1781-05-24 | And are you really determined my Dear Brother not to condescend to write to your Sister again... |
| 8 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Thaxter, John | Abigail Adams 2d to John Thaxter, 25 May 1781 | 1781-05-25 | My mamma has so often reminded me of a deficiency in politeness in not replying to your letter... |
| 9 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, April 1782 | ≈1782-04-01 | Knowing your benevolent heart is ever gratified by hearing of the wellfare of your friends, and... |
| 10 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 3 May 1782 | 1782-05-03 | I am conscious my dear Brother that I have appeared deficient in my duty and affection by... |
| 11 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, June 1782 | ≈1782-06-01 | I have not heard a word from B— since Wedensday last. I want much to know how you all do. I wrote... |
| 12 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, September 1782 | ≈1782-09-01 | Mr. Robbins dined with us to day and has just now told me he intends to make you a vis this... |
| 13 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 2 October 1782 | 1782-10-02 | No Eliza I do not believe your real affection has decreased for Amelia, but a consiousness of my... |
| 14 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 9 November 1782 | 1782-11-09 | A constant succession of company, is all I have to offer in vindication of my appearant... |
| 15 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 19 December 1782 | 1782-12-19 | Yesterday, my Dear Eliza, I came here to pass a few days with our friend. I found her much... |
| 16 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 22 December 1782 | 1782-12-22 | Yesterday my Dear Eliza I returned from G ermantown and this morning, it being our usual post... |
| 17 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 4 January 1783 | 1783-01-04 | Your wishes for my happiness, my Dear Eliza, demand my thanks. Wishing, this power of the mind,... |
| 18 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 11 January 1783 | 1783-01-11 | Your letter my Dear Eliza, was, sent me yesterday afternoon. By the bearer of it I returned an... |
| 19 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 18 January 1783 | 1783-01-18 | Your letter my Dear Eliza was this day handed me by your Mamma. I Love her much, Eliza, but wish... |
| 20 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 27 January 1783 | 1783-01-27 | Your last letter my Dear Eliza, deserved from the goodness and friendship, expressed, a reply... |
| 21 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Thaxter, John | Abigail Adams 2d to John Thaxter, 27 April 1783 | 1783-04-27 | Opportunities of conveyance from America have for these many Months past been so seldom, that it... |
| 22 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John | Abigail Adams 2d to John Adams, 10 May 1783 | 1783-05-10 | No opportunity of writing has pressented since I was so happy as to receive two excellnt letters... |
| 23 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 10 May 1783 | 1783-05-10 | Where, or in what part of the world to address you, my dear brother, I do not at present know;... |
| 24 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 1 July 1783 | 1783-07-01 | Every moment of my time has been employd since we got home, in writing to my friends abroad, to... |
| 25 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Thaxter, John | Abigail Adams 2d to John Thaxter, 1 July 1783 | 1783-07-01 | On my return from a little excursion to Hingham some time since, I was presented with a letter... |
| 26 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 17 July 1783 | 1783-07-17 | For these Two days my Dear Eliza, I have been in expectation of hearing from you. Mr. Shaw tells... |
| 27 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 20 July 1783 | 1783-07-20 | Amid the numberless letters that you receive from your various and numerous correspondents, can a... |
| 28 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 20 August 1783 … | ≈1783-08-20 | Why my Dear Eliza have I not had the pleasure of hearing from you but once in an absence of two... |
| 29 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 4 January 1784 | 1784-01-04 | And why my Dear Eliza has my letter layn unanswered. That it merited a reply I will not pretend... |
| 30 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams 2d to Abigail Adams, 6 January 1784 | 1784-01-06 | Yesterday afternoon Mr. V——handed me your letter. I am sorry that you were prevented from... |
| 31 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 9 July 1784 | 1784-07-09 | My Dear Eliza will be one of the first to inquire after the welfare of her friend. Nor shall she... |
| 32 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 30 July 1784 | 1784-07-30 | This day I was Dining with Mamma at Mrs. Atkinsons in hourly expectation of receiving letters... |
| 33 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 4 September 1784 | 1784-09-04 | Here my Dear Eliza is your friend placed in a little village two or three miles from Paris,... |
| 34 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Lucy | Abigail Adams 2d to Lucy Cranch, 4 September 1784 | 1784-09-04 | Will you not think me very unmindfull of you my Dear Lucy that I have not ere this, written you.... |
| 35 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Warren, Mercy Otis | Abigail Adams 2d to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 September 1784 | 1784-09-05 | I should have availed myself, Madam, of your permission to write you, ere this, had an... |
| 36 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 30 September 1784 | 1784-09-30 | Your letter N 2. Eliza, I was so happy as to receive a day or two ago. I searched my journal,... |
| 37 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 10 December 1784 | 1784-12-10 | You can judge of my impatience my Dear Cousin, the last week when we heard from Mr. Storer who... |
| 38 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Elizabeth | Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch, 6 May 1785 | 1785-05-06 | I have now before me your two last Letters by my Dear Eliza received by Capt Calliham which I... |
| 39 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Lucy | Abigail Adams 2d to Lucy Cranch, 6 May 1785 | 1785-05-06 | Your agreeable favour my Dear Cousin was received by me some time since. I have defered answering... |
| 40 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams 2d to Mary Smith Cranch, 22 June 1785 | 1785-06-22 | The flattering mark of attention which I yesterday received from my Dear Aunt demands my earliest... |
| 41 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Cranch, Lucy | Abigail Adams 2d to Lucy Cranch, 23 June 1785 | 1785-06-23 | Disappointment upon Disappointment, Mortification upon Mortification My Dear Lucy shall no longer... |
| 42 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 4 July 1785 – 11 … | ≈1785-07-04 | Every day, hour, and minute, your absence mon chere frere , pains me more and more. We left last... |
| 43 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Tyler, Royall | Abigail Adams 2d to Royall Tyler, 11 August 1785 | 1785-08-11 | Herewith you receive your letters and miniature with my desire that you would return mine to my... |
| 44 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 26 August 1785 | 1785-08-26 | Lyde sailed the 24th. with a long Letter for you from me, and I have now commenced N 6, which I... |
| 45 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 24 September … | 1785-09-24 | Last fryday I closed my Last to you and Mr. Storer sailed on Monday from Graves End so that it is... |
| 46 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 18 October 1785 | 1785-10-18 | Mr. James Jarvis called upon us yesterday but we were not at home. To day he wrote to Pappa to... |
| 47 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 27 November 1785 | 1785-11-27 | Never was there a young Man who deserved more a severe punishment than yourself. I am so out of... |
| 48 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 5 December 1785 | 1785-12-05 | This Morning I wrote you that we were going to the play with Mrs. Church. At six oclock we called... |
| 49 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 22 January 1786 | 1786-01-22 | I have taken my pen, to frame an appology to you my Dear Brother. There are so many that offer... |
| 50 | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams, 9 February 1786 | 1786-02-09 | This my Brother is the day appropriated for the celebration of the Queens Birth day. It really... |