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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 July … | 1797-07-29 | Your kind Letter which assured me of your welfare was a cordial to my heart. It came safe to... |
| 2 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 9 March … | 1803-03-09 | I hear by Dr Tufts that our Medford Farm will be greatly injured by the middlesex Canal being cut... |
| 3 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 March … | 1801-03-29 | A mind agitated by the Vicissitudes attendant upon the present juncture of publick affairs, &... |
| 4 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 May … | 1798-05-15 | Though the kind remembrance I have of my Sister is imprinted upon my heart, as with a point of a... |
| 5 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 13 July … | 1801-07-13 | For the communications by Mrs Black, you have my grateful acknowledgements. She made me only a... |
| 6 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 27 March … | 1799-03-27 | It is a long time since I have written to you— My mind has been so agitated that I was not fit to... |
| 7 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 16 April … | 1804-04-16 | When your Son delivered me your kind letter, little did I think, it would be so long, before I... |
| 8 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 9 … | 1796-01-09 | It is indeed several weeks since I have written to you—an eventful term to me—multiplied with... |
| 9 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 … | 1800-12-15 | Not one word have I heard from my Dear Sister, since I left Boston, nor have I had any... |
| 10 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 26 … | 1798-11-26 | I have this moment been conversing with Richard Dexter upon the subject of becoming one in your... |
| 11 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 28 … | 1796-02-28 | I am very sorry that I could not send Betsy Quincy with her Cousin, but my being unwell prevented... |
| 12 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 22 … | 1798-08-22 | Whenever I have set myself down to write to my dear Sisters, I have found myself so drowned in... |
| 13 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 14 April … | 1797-04-14 | If words could express the gratitude I feel for your kindness to me, & my Children, it would be... |
| 14 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 23 July … | 1796-07-23 | Your kind invitations would have induced Mr Peabody to have visited you at Quincy had it not now... |
| 15 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 10 … | 1797-01-10 | Day after day has slid off into the ocean of time, with the Yesterdays beyond the flood, replete... |
| 16 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 28 … | 1798-01-28 | I have thought day after day, that another should not pass without writing to my much loved... |
| 17 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 8 … | 1801-12-08 | I hope my Dear Sister, has had her Cup of happiness filled, by having an amiable long absent Son,... |
| 18 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1787 | 1787-02-08 | My Uncle Smith has been so kind as to send me word this Morning, that a Nephew of Mr Gill’s was... |
| 19 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1784 | 1784-10-15 | Permit me to congratulate both you and my dear Neice upon your safe and happy arrival upon the... |
| 20 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 … | 1799-01-29 | After many expecting, anxious hours for my dear Nephew, I am made happy by seeing his safe... |
| 21 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 30 March … | 1800-03-30 | A Letter which I had a long time wished for, I at length received from my Affectionate Sister.... |
| 22 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 17 … | 1800-01-17 | How often do we find that having much to say, the full heart cannot impart the half— This evil I... |
| 23 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 March 1784 | 1784-03-26 | The Roads have been so bad for several Weeks past, that there has been but little travelling, and... |
| 24 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1786 | 1786-07-23 | Mr Sparhawk called for my Letter Just as I was giving you an account of my Aunt Smith’s Death. I... |
| 25 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1785 | 1785-09-07 | The long looked for, the modest, the manly, the well accomplished Youth, is come at last. And had... |
| 26 | Smith, Elizabeth (1750-1815) | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1774 | 1774-03-07 | I had written to the Deacon before I had received Yours, wherein I have your Sanction for it, and... |
| 27 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 19 May … | 1796-05-19 | I rejoice that the important question in Congress has terminated so happily, & that the Vice... |
| 28 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 23 … | 1800-09-23 | Miss Palmer has given me hopes of your coming, & Mrs Smith to our Exhibition, & says, you say,... |
| 29 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 3 July … | 1797-07-03 | Health to my Sister, under a more fervid Sun, than that to which she has hitherto been... |
| 30 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 6 … | 1797-10-06 | Since my last my time has been cheifly occupied, in attending to those services, which were due... |