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31 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-19 | I received your kind Letters yesterday by mail, & though I ought soon to have expected such an... |
32 | 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... |
33 | 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... |
34 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-12-18 | At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters... |
35 | 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... |
36 | 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,... |
37 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-13 | By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &... |
38 | 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,... |
39 | 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... |
40 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-05 | The Calender informs me it is the month of May, my Dear Sister—I should not suppose it, by the... |
41 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-16 | I have the pleasure to inform you, that your dear Grandchildren reached here Friday noon, safe, &... |
42 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-13 | I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am... |
43 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-20 | Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid... |
44 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-07-14 | I hope my dear Sister, & family are well, though I have not heard from her for three last... |
45 | 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... |
46 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-09-08 | It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by... |
47 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-12-31 | Every Day, & Week since my return, I have thought I would devote some time to write to my Dear... |
48 | 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... |
49 | 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... |
50 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-05-20 | By Mrs Welsh, who spent the afternoon with us, I was informed that Your dear Grandson was going... |
51 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-06-22 | Your long silence (My Dear Sister) made me fear that you, or some of your family were sick—I was... |
52 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1813-07-12 | You know my Dear Sister, that my Heart is ever prone “to rejoice with those who rejoice, as well... |
53 | 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... |
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 … | 1813-12-20 | My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as... |
56 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-10 | I too my Dear Sister, have to address you from the Bed of Sickness— The wednesday night after I... |
57 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-17 | I was much grieved to hear of Mrs Adams sickness, both upon her own account & yours —Such a... |
58 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-01-31 | I feel much obliged my Dear Sister, to the Christian Desciple for the mild, & pacific Principles,... |
59 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-02-10 | I was in hopes of receiving a Letter by yesterdays Mail from you—I was glad to see by the News... |
60 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1814-03-15 | The peircing cold air of this Month has made me quiver so that I could not quit the fire side... |