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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday June 20 1784. | 1784-06-20 | Embarked on Board the ship Active Capt. Lyde commander, with my daughter and 2 servants for... | |
2 | Adams, Abigail | Wedensday [23 June]. | 1784-06-23 | Our ship dirty, ourselves sick. Went upon deck and sent the servants down to clean her up: very... | |
3 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday [24 June]. | 1784-06-24 | A fine wind and clear air but the Ship going before the wind rolls sadly. Dr. Clark has been well... | |
4 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday June 27. | 1784-06-27 | I have been so sick that I could not be regular in my journal. We have had two days calm since we... | |
5 | Adams, Abigail | Monday Mor’g 28 June. | 1784-06-28 | A very dissagreeable Night. Wind at the southard near the Banks of Newfoundland. The morning... | |
6 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday July 1 1784. | 1784-07-01 | I have not been able to write a line since Monday when a North east Storm came on and held till... | |
7 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday 2 of July. | 1784-07-02 | A fine wind and a pleasent day. Our sea sickness has left us in a great measure. Went all of us... | |
8 | Adams, Abigail | Saturday 3 July. | 1784-07-03 | A fine morning. Rose by six o clock. Went upon deck. None of the Gentlemen up; our Second Mate, a... | |
9 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday July 4th 1784. | 1784-07-04 | This is the Anniversary of our Glorious Independance. Whilst the Nations of Europe are enveloped... | |
10 | Adams, Abigail | Tuesday July 6th. | 1784-07-06 | I was not able to write yesterday the wind blew so fresh; and not very fair, so that there was... | |
11 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday July 8th. | 1784-07-08 | If I did not write I should lose the Days of the Weeks. Yesterday a cold wet day. Could not go... | |
12 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday July 9. | 1784-07-09 | A fine day; but little wind; have been upon Deck the chief of the Day, engaged in reading... | |
13 | Adams, Abigail | Saturday 17 of July. | 1784-07-17 | I have neglected my journal for a week. During that time we have had 3 calm days, some wet... | |
14 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday July 18th. | 1784-07-18 | This Day about 2 oclock made land. It is almost a Calm, so that we shall gain but little. We hope... | |
15 | Adams, Abigail | Monday Morning July 19th. | 1784-07-19 | A calm. The vessel rolling: the wind freshning towards Night. We hope for a speedy passage up the... | |
16 | Adams, Abigail | Wedensday [i.e. Tuesday, 20 July.] | 1784-07-20 | Early in the morning a pilot Boat came of to us from Deal. The wind blew very high and the Sea... | |
17 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday July 20 1787 London. | 1787-07-20 | This day three years I landed at Deal. Since that time I have travelld to France, to Holland and... | |
18 | Adams, Abigail | 21. | 1787-07-21 | We set out about 9 in the morning, stoped and baited at Farnham, dinned at Alton and reached... | |
19 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday 23 [i.e. 22 July.] | 1787-07-22 | Went to the Cathedral Church at Winchester. It is a very curious structure. It is said to have... | |
20 | Adams, Abigail | 24 [i.e. 23] July. | 1787-07-23 | We dinned at South hampton and set out after dinner for Salsbury 22 miles, where we meant to have... | |
21 | Adams, Abigail | July [24–]25 | 1787-07-24 | We left this village and proceeded on our way to Blanford where we put up for the Night. Saw... | |
22 | Adams, Abigail | July 26[–27] | ≈1787-07-26 | Our next Stage was Bridport a small Sea port but a very bad harbour. No trade only in coal which... | |
23 | Adams, Abigail | 28th | 1787-07-28 | We left Axminster and proceeded to Exeter. Here we put up at the Hotell in the Church yard and... | |
24 | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams’ Diary of her Return Voyage to America … | ≈1788-03-30 | Sunday London March 30. We took our departure from the Bath Hotell where I had been a Fortnight,... | |
25 | Adams, Abigail | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr., 16 March 1763 | 1763-03-16 | Tis no small pleasure to me, to hear of the great proficioncy you have made in the French tongue,... |
26 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 | 1763-08-11 | If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon... |
27 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 | 1763-09-12 | You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure.... |
28 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 2 April 1764 | 1764-04-02 | I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I... |
29 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 | 1764-04-07 | How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me... |
30 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 | 1764-04-08 | If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch... |
31 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 9 April 1764 | 1764-04-09 | I suppose you have written to me, tho I have not received it, for Mr. Ayers left his pocket Book... |
32 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 | 1764-04-12 | Here am I all alone, in my Chamber, a mere Nun I assure you, after professing myself thus will it... |
33 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 15 April 1764 | 1764-04-15 | Mr. Cranch informs me that Hones will go to Town tomorrow, and that I may not miss one... |
34 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 16 April 1764 | 1764-04-16 | I think I write to you every Day. Shall not I make my Letters very cheep; don’t you light your... |
35 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 | 1764-04-19 | Why my good Man, thou hast the curiosity of a Girl. Who could have believed that only a slight... |
36 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 | 1764-04-30 | Your Friendly Epistle reach’d me a fryday morning, it came like an Infernal Mesenger, thro fire... |
37 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 May 1764 | 1764-05-04 | Your desire that I would write every Opportunity is punctually observed by me, And I comply with... |
38 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 9 May 1764 | 1764-05-09 | Welcome, Welcome thrice welcome is Lysander to Braintree, but ten times more so would he be at... |
39 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 | 1764-10-04 | I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken about help. I am very willing to submit to... |
40 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 | 1764-10-13 | When I wrote you by the Doctor I was in hopes that I should have been out the next day, but my... |
41 | Adams, Abigail | Green, Hannah Storer | Abigail Adams to Hannah Storer Green, 14 July 1765 | 1765-07-14 | How many months have passed away since I have either written or received a line from my Dear... |
42 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 July 1766 | 1766-07-15 | Tomorrow being Commencment, suppose this will not fail thro want of a conveyance. I therefore... |
43 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 October 1766 | 1766-10-06 | I wrote to you a week ago, and sent my Letter part of the way, but like a bad penny it returnd,... |
44 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 13 October 1766 | 1766-10-13 | I heard to Day that the Doctor had a Letter from Mr. Cranch, and that he was still very Ill, poor... |
45 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail and John Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 January … | 1767-01-12 | Mr. Etter was so good as to come this morning and inform me that his Sons would go to Salem... |
46 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 January 1767 | 1767-01-31 | I have just returnd from Weymouth, where I have been for a week past. It seems lonesome here, for... |
47 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 September 1767 | 1767-09-13 | The Doctor talks of Setting out tomorrow for New Braintree. I did not know but that he might... |
48 | Adams, Abigail | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Abigail and John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 4 January … | 1770-01-04 | I Congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since your absence; if it has been as... |
49 | Adams, Abigail | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 20 April 1771 | 1771-04-20 | I write you, not from the Noisy Buisy Town, but from my humble Cottage in Braintree, where I... |
50 | Adams, Abigail | Warren, Mercy Otis | Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 July 1773 | 1773-07-16 | The kind reception I met with at your House, and the Hospitality with which you entertained me,... |