If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,...
My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as...
I too my Dear Sister, have to address you from the Bed of Sickness— The wednesday night after I...
I was much grieved to hear of Mrs Adams sickness, both upon her own account & yours —Such a...
I feel much obliged my Dear Sister, to the Christian Desciple for the mild, & pacific Principles,...
I was in hopes of receiving a Letter by yesterdays Mail from you—I was glad to see by the News...
The peircing cold air of this Month has made me quiver so that I could not quit the fire side...
Yesterdays Mail, My Dear Sister, conveyed your Letter safe to me, with the two Bills—I do not so...
I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but...
With pleasure I congratulate My Dear Brothers & Sister, upon the agreeable prospect they have of...
61From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was very much gratified to find that it was not the Presidents, your own, or your family’s...
Yesterday as soon as the mail arrived I sent to the Office full of expectation of receiving a...
I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she...
I am sorry you did not find time to write me a line—reports are so various, & calamitous that it...
Your very interesting Letter of last week in which you mention the departure of your dear...
To see Abby Adams’ marriage announced in the public Paper, was at this time, to us a very...
How changed My Dear Sister, is the weather now, from the clam clear Sunshine I enjoyed with you...
To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your...
You will now have no occasion to wish for more Snow, if at Quincy you are favoured with as much...
Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed...
will be so good as to send the enclosed to Dr Tufts, & she will oblige me—I have not time now...