1From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 August 1803 (Adams Papers)
Know all Men by these Presents, that We John Adams of Quincy in the County of Norfolk and...
2From Ann Frances Harrod Adams to John Adams, 20 June 1810 (Adams Papers)
When I take a retrospective view of the innumerable obligations which I owe you, not only as the...
Your idea of Osterley park being near our house is correct it now belongs to the Countess of...
4From Charles Francis Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
At Mr: Fishwick’s School, where I am, there are sixteen boys besides myself, and besides his two...
After having written to my Grandpapa, and my Brothers, I must not omit writing to you, to express...
6From Charles Francis Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 July 1816 (Adams Papers)
I am now come home for the holidays and I hope to receive a great many letters but too I must...
7From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have no line from you, since the 13th at Brookfield. There has been so much rainy weather as to...
8From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 31 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 31st of August by Captain Brownson. I saw in an American Paper...
9From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
We arrived here last night, or rather yesterday at one o Clock and here we dined and Slept. The...
10From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I am favoured this morning with yours of the 23d.—This is Accession day you know. I shall always...
11From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have recd yours of 24th and thank you for your relation of our little domestic affairs at...
12From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 November 1800 (Adams Papers)
I recd last night your Letter of the 11th. Your Girls and Mr Shipley arrived in good health and...
13From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
Saturday night 9 O Clock and not before I recd yours of 13th. and the Letter to Thomas with it,...
14From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you this morning, But was not particular. It will be Six or Seven days before that or...
15From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of the 20th has been to Phyladelphia and came back to me only last night: nor was...
16From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
We arrived on the 10th. I, much oppressed by one of my great Colds, which is now going off.—I...
17From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have yours of 26 by Brisler and that of the 28th. this Morning. Thomas is in Phyladelphia and...
18From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I Sent you a Letter this morning before I recd yours of the 13. from Brookfield. I rejoice that...
19From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
I recd your favour of the 2d by Mr. Dexter and this morning from Mr. Gerry an account of your...
20From John Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
I have written you but once since I bid you farewell. I was seized in Connecticutt with one of...
21From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 August 1815 (Adams Papers)
You will imagine that the place from which I now write you has been thus named by us; but so it...
22From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 26 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
Last week I sent you a number of the Monthly Theological Repository, containing some Speculations...
23From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
Our Sons John and Charles are come home from school this morning, to spend the Michaelmas...
24From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you last week by Captain Bronson, and sent you a Volume of Letters from the Continent,...
25From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
This day two Months have elapsed since Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard arrived and delivered to me your...
26From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your affectionate letter of the 15th:— and do not a moment delay to answer...
27From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The late french Ambassador at this Court, the Duke de Vicence, has taken leave, and his succesor...
28From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether it was generosity, or any other virtue, or merely a disposition to receive the...
29From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday Morning I received the first information of the ratification, by the Government of the...
30From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I went to London, to the anniversary dinner of the Society of Friends of foreigners in...
31From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Captain Smith, who was the bearer of your kind letter of 7. May, has met with the same misfortune...
32From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of...
33From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received a very few days ago, your kind favour of 1. March last, which gave me great pleasure...
34From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 March 1801 (Adams Papers)
I am almost asham’d to acknowledge how long it has been since I wrote you last, and can only hope...
35From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I had the good fortune of sending a single letter from this place to England, in time to go by...
36From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
As the Couriers between Paris and St: Petersburg have not yet ceased to be dispatched, by the...
37From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 July 1800 (Adams Papers)
A few days ago, I received your favours of 27. April and 15. May; together. The latter was...
38From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 January 1806 (Adams Papers)
The first thing I look for in all the letters I receive from Quincy, is that which relates to our...
39From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
My last Letter to you was written at Reval, and dated the 12th: of May—It was forwarded from...
40From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
I had heard of your illness with extreme concern, from my wife, and also through Mr: Cranch and...
41From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
My last Letter to you, was of the 31st: of January, from Bruxelles; and I enclosed it to Mr...
42From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
In proportion as the time lengthens since the receipt of your last Letter, which is also the last...
43From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of January; and shall particularly attend to your directions at...
44From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 October 1809 (Adams Papers)
The seventy-ninth day since our departure from Boston, and not yet in Petersburg—But we are on...
45From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 September 1814 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote you my last Letter, a press copy of which, is enclosed, I had little or no...
46From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
I mentioned to you in a former Letter, the visit that I had received from Mr Frend, and Mr...
47From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
General Boyd, Mr Stores, Mr Forbes, and Mr and Mrs. Everett, have all arrived in London within...
48From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your letter of 15. Feby: which was brought by Captain Brown, of the Washington, and which I...
49From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
A dutch Vessel, called the Prince of Orange, which had taken out to America the Minister, Mr....
50From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Just as I was closing my last Letter to you, I received your letter of 12. April, and had barely...