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1 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 20 January 1778 | 1778-01-20 | I am happy in having it in my power to furnish you with a Copy of Mr. Duche’s Letter, which is... |
2 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 6 March 1778 | 1778-03-06 | Your much esteemed favor came to hand this day, in which you inform me of the departure of your... |
3 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 31 March 1778 | 1778-03-31 | Since I wrote you last, the mystery of blank Dispatches being sent by Capt. Folgier from France... |
4 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 3 April 1778 | 1778-04-03 | I have just heard a piece of news from Mr. Lovell, which he says comes in a packet lately arrived... |
5 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 18 April 1778 | 1778-04-18 | Since I had the pleasure of addressing you last, I have found in the office a Narrative... |
6 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 9 May 1778 | 1778-05-09 | I have had the pleasure of receiving your agreeable favour of the 9th. of April. I am so... |
7 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 16 May 1778 | 1778-05-16 | I do myself the honor to inclose the postscript to Hall & Sellers’s Paper of the 9th instant... |
8 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1778 | 1778-05-22 | I am happy in informing you, that the Marquiss de La Fayette has safely returned to the Main... |
9 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 10 June 1778 | 1778-06-10 | Your favor of the 21st. and 26th. of May came to hand yesterday. I was exceedingly shocked at the... |
10 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1778 | 1778-07-06 | Permit me to congratulate you on the safe Arrival of Mr. Adams at France. It is an event that has... |
11 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1778 | 1778-07-10 | I had been so short a time in this place when I wrote you last, that it was out of my power to... |
12 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1778 | 1778-07-17 | In my letter of the 11th. inst. I mentioned the arrival of the French Ambassador at Chester. I am... |
13 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 2 September 1778 | 1778-09-02 | Your much esteemed favors of 23d. July and 19th. Augst. came to hand on Monday. Your Letters and... |
14 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 11 September 1778 | 1778-09-11 | Your favor of the 26th. Augst. I was honored with last Monday. Just after I had wrote my last to... |
15 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 15 September 1778 | 1778-09-15 | Since the date of that letter mentioning my not having recieved any intelligence from home for... |
16 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 15 December 1779 | 1779-12-15 | The Reason of our being in Spain, you will, perhaps, be no stranger to, when this reaches You. I... |
17 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 16 December 1779 | 1779-12-16 | This Afternoon I visited one of the Churches in this place; and casting my Eyes into one Corner... |
18 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 18 January 1780 | 1780-01-18 | After twenty odd days spent in climbing Mountains, sinking into Valleys, tumbling over Rocks,... |
19 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1780 | 1780-02-16 | On the ninth of this Month We all happily arrived here, and with Hearts replete with Gratitude.... |
20 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 15 March 1780 | 1780-03-15 | On Monday Morning I had the Honor to go with his Excellency and Mr. D ana to breakfast with the... |
21 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 30 April 1780 | 1780-04-30 | That a Nation once distinguished in the Annals of Mankind, should by the Pride, Avarice,... |
22 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780 | 1780-05-12 | On the 10th. of this Month I had the pleasure of recieving Letters from Hingham dated in... |
23 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1780 | 1780-05-17 | I was made happy this day by the Receipt of your esteemed favor of the 2d. of March. You say,... |
24 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 18 June 1780 | 1780-06-18 | About a fortnight since Mr. Hutchinson, formerly Governor of the Massachusetts Bay, dropped down... |
25 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 21 August 1780 | 1780-08-21 | I have the pleasure of informing You, that Mr. Dana this day recieved a letter from Mr. A dams of... |
26 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 19 September 1780 | 1780-09-19 | A few days since I had the honor of a letter from Mr. A., who I have the pleasure to inform You... |
27 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 20 September 1780 | 1780-09-20 | I had the honor yesterday of a most excellent letter under the signature of Portia dated 21st.... |
28 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 1 April 1781 | 1781-04-01 | I have been duly honoured with your two favours of the 18th. of Novr. and 8th. of December. I am... |
29 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 27 May 1781 | 1781-05-27 | I have been honoured with your favor of the 5th. February last. It would give me infinite... |
30 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1781 | 1781-07-21 | Ten months have I been waiting for an opportunity to forward my Letters, but none has presented,... |
31 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, August 1781 | ≈1781-08-01 | I am almost ashamed to intrude another Letter by this Conveyance, which, if it should prove a... |
32 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1781 | 1781-12-02 | ’Tis a pleasing Reflexion to one absent, that his Correspondence with his friends meets with no... |
33 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 19 December 1781 | 1781-12-19 | By the last Mails came the King’s Speech, the Address of the two Houses in answer, and the... |
34 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1782 | 1782-03-07 | Your favor of the 9th. of December last informs me of the Arrival of the Apollo, Minerva, and... |
35 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1782 | 1782-06-23 | Since my last an important Revolution has taken place here respecting our Country. A formal... |
36 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 27 July 1782 | 1782-07-27 | Soon after writing You at Amsterdam, I was unfortunate enough to have a Relapse, after I thought... |
37 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 16 August 1782 | 1782-08-16 | I am to express my Acknowledgments to You for your kind favor of the 17th. June last, with which... |
38 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1782 | 1782-09-03 | What pleasing Sensations does a Packet from the other side of the Atlantic produce? Every part of... |
39 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1782 | 1782-10-09 | In receiving the Communication, that the T reaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States... |
40 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 17 October 1782 | 1782-10-17 | I am thus far advanced on my Journey, and shall continue it from hence tomorrow. I found Mr.... |
41 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 10 November 1782 | 1782-11-10 | We arrived here the 26th. last Month after a tedious Journey in a crazy Carriage, with the... |
42 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 14 November 1782 | 1782-11-14 | I forwarded a Letter to You, Madam, yesterday by Capt. Barney, Commander of the Packet... |
43 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 19 November 1782 | 1782-11-19 | In my melancholy, unhappy Moments, (for such I sometimes have), I recur to my old Letters for... |
44 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1782 | 1782-11-27 | You will believe me, when I inform You, that I am grievously disappointed in only having to... |
45 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 15 December 1782 | 1782-12-15 | I intended to have wrote largely by this Opportunity, but have been confined ever since last... |
46 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1783 | 1783-01-16 | About three weeks agone, I forwarded a packet of Letters to Mr. Cranch, inclosing one to him—the... |
47 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 22 January 1783 | 1783-01-22 | I little expected, when writing to You on the 16th. instant, to have so soon congratulated You... |
48 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 30 January 1783 | 1783-01-30 | In acknowledging the receipt of your kind favor of 26th. October and in confessing it was... |
49 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 28 March 1783 | 1783-03-28 | Peace seems to have closed all Communication with America. ’Tis a very long time since any... |
50 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 18 April 1783 | 1783-04-18 | For about three Weeks in the Time of Lent, the Play Houses are shut up, on account of its being a... |