151From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
As I had made up my mind to Submit to the unpleasent circumstances attendent upon distance, and...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
153From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith Shaw, 23 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I desired Louissa to call and See you, and to tell you that I would Send for you to Quincy if you...
154From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have already written to you twice by this opportunity. I had not intended to have taken my pen...
155From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Cranch Norton, 11 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
you have e’er this, received intellegence most afflictive to the heart of an affectionate Child,....
156From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith Shaw, 11 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I wish you was as far recoverd from your Sickness as I am from mine, altho I have not yet left my...
157From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have now received all the Letters you have written to me, except No 4. up to No 8. altho they...
I hope the afflicting intelligence which you must receive from your Friends at Washington, will...
159From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Schooner Washington owned by mr Gray is ready to Sail for St Petersburgh. I have already sent...
Your Letter, my dear Caroline, gave me pleasure. As all your’s are calculated to enliven the...
I received your Letter by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write you a few...
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had...
I received your Letters by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write to give...
164From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
How often I have in imagination I have visited you this Dreary season. I know not, but not a day...
165From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
You will no doubt receive from the President of the United States permission to return home, as...
166From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
167From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 5 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
I believe I may say with truth, that I have been your daily visitor through the dreary season of...
168From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 6 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
The great quantity of snow upon the Ground has obstructed the travelling So much, that the post...
169From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith, 10 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is so long Since I received a Letter from you or any of the Family that I am not a little...
170From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 30 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Letters you forwarded to me, for Saint Petersburgh, I had an opportunity of Sending...
171From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, April 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind inquiries. I am better to day. I had the Rheumatism in my head, and was...
172From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 2 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
An inflamation in one of my Eyes, will prevent me from writing more than to thank you for your...
173From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of december No 6—/17 came Safe to hand yesterday, the last No was 8. So that two...
I write you a few lines just to say that I send your mother a century Sermon, preached in this...
175From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Letter No 10 has found its way in four Months after its Date. It is as you observe, three...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
177From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The inclosed Letter I received a few days Since to forward by the first opportunity. my last...
178From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams, 17 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I rode up to your house this morning to inquire how the Children were and heard that they were...
179From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 19 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received your favour dated at Baltimore of April 28th, with the Letter inclosed for Mrs Adams,...
180From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of I received by the last mail. I had been in daily expectation of hearing from you,...
181From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
. . . Judge Dana is removed, and no man seemeth to lay it to heart. If my absent son had been in...
182From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
I Shall continue to write to you altho you may determine to leave St Petersburgh before my...
183From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, June 1811 (Adams Papers)
your two last favours of May 18th & 29th are now before me unreplied to. my apology must be that...
184From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 8 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I Sit down to write to my dear daughter, almost without a hope, or wish that She Should receive...
185From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I write to you by every opportunity altho I hope you will have left St Petersburgh before this...
186From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 30 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
I promised to write you what I considerd the State of Your Dear Mother. She has appeard since you...
187From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 10 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
Not having Wholy dissolved by the intense heat of the last week, I am enabled from a change of...
your Mother has been So constant in writing that I have been the more remiss. I am glad to find...
189From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 23 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I hope you will not impute my not writing to you by your son to want of attention to you, or a...
190From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I write to you, altho it is really with the hope that you may not receive my Letter. I would fain...
191From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 31 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
yours of July 21, I received by the last Mail I was just going to ask the cause of your long...
I do not know how our account stands, whether I am indebted for a letter or you, but I shall not...
193From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 24 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
Truly my dear sister I blush and am asshamed that I have not written to you in replie to your...
194From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 28 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of August 12th I received in the absence of Mrs Smith, who was upon a visit to mrs...
195From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, September 1811 (Adams Papers)
in replie to your inquiries I answer mrs Adams had a very bad night. at 2 oclock Nancy came to my...
196From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith, 12 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Altho I cannot personally be with you, oweing to the Sickness in my own Family, to pay the last...
197From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 22 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
At last it is decided—it is as I conjectured in my last Letter to you, the Situation of Mrs Adams...
198From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Brother returnd this Evening from Boston and gave me notice that a vessel would Sail for...
199From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 27 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter, and at the Same time, the President received the one inclosed...
200From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I heard last Evening of the melancholy event, and sincerely sympathize with the afflicted family...