11Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Every Day is producing Such astonishing Events, Such Scenes of carnage havock and devastation of the Humane species, upon the Theatre of the World, that we stand agast at the desolation, and think our “blindness to the future kindly given”
12Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
...in looking round, and making inquires may not be mispent. you will find William shaw much grown. you will find him possessd of a Good Heart and an amiable obliging temper; wanting experience & a knowledge of the world, with some peculiarities of which I dare say he does not hear so often by one half, as if he had his Aunt with him there is one, of which I have often reminded him, and which...
13Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I presume this will find you at Philadelphia, fix’d in your Lodgings; and in possession of your office, where I wish you much of the Good things of the world, tho purchased by toil & trouble, they may serve to enhance their value; above all worldly Goods. I wish you Health, for destitute of that great blessing, few others can be enjoyed...., all the distant din, the world can keep “Rools o’er...
14Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
...at quiting my station personally. I believe it best both for Your Father and for me. as to our prospects that is an other subject We have not made a fortune in the service of the public. That the World know— we will live in independance, because We will live within our income. if that is mean & much below the rank we ought to move in, the fault is not ours— the Country which calld...
15Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 12 June 1800 (Adams Papers)
to the world he has been long since dead he declined very fast after the warm weather commenced. these were old Men, and had lived out their Days of three score & ten; but a more gloomy scene than this I...
16Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
...he and his Successor, have laboured to preserve, beautify Strengthen and adorn they are for spreading such a Glory arround him, as to cast into a shade Services as disinterested, as meritorious as arduous as he ever aechived the World, & posterity will show a more impartial judgment.—
17Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
...will compleatly depress him—and tho it was done by Friends as well as foes, I cannot but think, better information would have exculpated him from “charges which would have been proved unfounded.[”] You know, and the world know, that in pecuniary affairs he never conducted with the approbation of his nearest Relatives,
18Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 3 January 1798 (Adams Papers)
I know not into whose Hands this may fall. it would not be prudent to write any thing but what is known to the world. I saw your Friend mr Charles Hall yesterday who inquired affectionatly after you. he is doing very well in his profession. he is to dine with us to day. I heard from your sister last week. she...
19Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
...to his credit and that of his daughter to have let her have lived with him, and given her an Annuity, untill she was weary of him, or he eloped and left her—but that is there affair. the world will laugh at his folly. it is surely a fine encouragement to needy adventurers. it is well he has not any more daughters to marry—
20Abigail Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 5 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I shall take pleasure in aiding the prosecution of a Work which will undoubtedly be renderd valuable, and usefull to the World, particuliarly so to our Country.