1From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 August 1809 (Adams Papers)
I would not come to Town to day because I knew I should only add to yours, and my own agony, my...
I address you jointly and congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since you commenced...
3From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
The reason that you did not receive a Letter from me when you arrived at Philadelphia, was oweing...
Your Journal No 7. to Janry 30th, Harriet brought me to day, just as we had sat down to dinner;...
I received yesterday your Letter of Novbr 27th. and was rejoiced to learn that you and the...
Your Letter of May 2d was so long comeing, that I feared Sickness had arrested your pen—as...
The fine Sleighing has tempted So many visitors to make use of it, that we have had a Constant...
I congratulate you upon your safe arrival in the cold Regions of the North: to which I hope your...
This is the last day of Sep’br, and the month is thus far expended, without my addressing a line...
do not think that I have not participated in your Joy, upon the Birth of your daughter, because I...
I never know how to let a vessel go from Boston, without a Letter to Some of the Family. I have...
I received your journal No 4. containing the drawing Room History, which amused us much. What...
How shall I address a Letter to you, how share and participate in your Grief without opening...
I attempted to write to you, by Captain Bronson in Jan’ry but my strength failed me, and I have...
I this day received a Letter from my son dated october 21 from constradt—we had heard three weeks...
I Sit down to write to my dear daughter, almost without a hope, or wish that She Should receive...
Your Letter of Jan’ry 6 I received last Evening. your Children are very well, and very well taken...
It was with great pleasure that I received and read your Letter of August 6th from Ealing, and it...
your Letter from St petersburgh of october 28th I received the last week, four Months after the...
Altho I have not the pleasure to acknowledg any Letter from you of a more recent date, than one...
It was with great pleasure, that I received your Letter from St. Petersburgh, bearing date july...
A long period has elapsed since I addrest a line to you—I have not taken my pen for three weeks—I...
My correspondence has been much interrupted the last fortnight Susan has been So feeble and weak,...
I have to acknowledge your obligeing Letter of June the 18th, and to thank you for the...
I received yesterday your journal to the 21st of Jan’ry. Washington Seems to be in a whirpool of...
As I hope you are now in a Situation both to receive Letters, and write them with more Security...
I received Your Letter of July 18th on Saturday 25th. It was a great damper to me, who had been...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
I have to acknowledge a very tender and affectionate Letter from you, bearing date 8th Janry...
I address you, altho I know not where to find you, which is, and has been a source of much...
I write a line to enclose a Letter from Harriet. George has been so steady at Cambridge that I...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
I this morning received Your Second Letter, by way of journal. we have all been highly...
I am indebted to you for several very entertaining Letters, while I have not any thing in return...
you will I know excuse my not haveing written to you more than once; when you learn the...
I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for...
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits...
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
Altho’ I have repeatedly written to you Since I received a Letter from you, I am not critical in...
I received your Letter of december 6th on the 14th and was very glad to hear of your safe arrival...
I have been haunted with the Deamon of omission, and a hundred Sprights in the garb of excuses,...
By a vessel which saild a week since, I wrote to my Son, and Grandson’s. by this I shall write...
I received your Letter of March 2d which has increased my anxiety to hear again from you, for a...
I must inclose a Note to you, to Say that this morning the mail from Utica in N york, informd me...
I received your favour of Novbr 20th and rejoiced to learn that you reachd Washington in safety...
I shall make one effort more; to convey a Letter to you, and that by sending it to Ghent, where I...
The Children Say that they have your permission to come to Town to dine with Commodore Hull—and...
I have had Such repeated melancholy tidings to communicate to you, Since your absence, and your...
It is a long time since I wrote you, or rather since I sent a Letter, for an unfinished one has...
Altho I cannot have the pleasure of acknowledging any Letter from you of a more recent date than...