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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 31 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1809-05-19 | It would be impossible for me to tell you how disappointed, grieved, vexed, & everything, I was,... |
| 32 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1809-06-13 | By last Friday mail, I received your very excellent Letter, wherein you observe, it was thought a... |
| 33 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-21 | My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual... |
| 34 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-03-07 | It is a sad misfortune to dear Connections when their Friends do not love to write—Some I know... |
| 35 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-09-24 | Your very interesting Letter of last week in which you mention the departure of your dear... |
| 36 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-01-06 | To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your... |
| 37 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-07 | Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,... |
| 38 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-08-20 | Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual... |
| 39 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1808-06-18 | Mr Lion and his intended I suppose so , as the modern phrase is, called here last Wednesday—I was... |
| 40 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-08-29 | I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she... |
| 41 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-11-12 | To see Abby Adams’ marriage announced in the public Paper, was at this time, to us a very... |
| 42 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | ≈1812-03-01 | I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,... |
| 43 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-06-11 | With pleasure I congratulate My Dear Brothers & Sister, upon the agreeable prospect they have of... |
| 44 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-11-11 | The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the... |
| 45 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-01-20 | I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents... |
| 46 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-04-07 | Your kind Letters of Feb. 15th & March 31st lie before me, in which I find are several things... |
| 47 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1810-02-20 | I scarcely know when was the last time that I wrote to my Dear Sister, but this I can fully... |
| 48 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1809-03-06 | To tell you that I am exceedingly grieved , to hear that you have been very sick, would be to... |
| 49 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-08-05 | your good grandchildren are just gone to repose in the arms of sweet Sleep, soothed by the... |
| 50 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1815-01-24 | You will now have no occasion to wish for more Snow, if at Quincy you are favoured with as much... |
| 51 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1810-11-10 | I know that my Dear Sister, will rejoice to hear that the kind Healer of the sick, has again... |
| 52 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1806-05-10 | It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal... |
| 53 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-04-26 | The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of... |
| 54 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-08-19 | If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,... |
| 55 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-05-13 | I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but... |
| 56 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1809-11-20 | I have been hoping every day since since I got home, that I should have more leisure tomorrow ,... |
| 57 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-06-28 | The very sudden change of the weather last Sabbath, when I was in a high state of persperation;... |
| 58 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-02-13 | The Time since I have written to you, I acknowledge is too long for One, whose Heart is deeply... |
| 59 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-08-17 | Has not this long term of rainy weather made you sick? it has almost every body arround us—& I... |
| 60 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1806-08-11 | Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my... |