do not think that I have not participated in your Joy, upon the Birth of your daughter, because I...
182From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 2 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
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...
187From 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...
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...
190From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 March 1810 (Adams Papers)
your Letter from St petersburgh of october 28th I received the last week, four Months after the...
191From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 29 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
Altho I have not the pleasure to acknowledg any Letter from you of a more recent date, than one...
192From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 9 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
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,...
195From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
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...
197From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 20 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
As I hope you are now in a Situation both to receive Letters, and write them with more Security...
198From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 July 1818 (Adams Papers)
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...
208From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 24 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits...
209From 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...
210From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
Altho’ I have repeatedly written to you Since I received a Letter from you, I am not critical in...