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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1861 | Cranch, William | Adams, Abigail Smith | From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 November … | 1811-11-16 | I have not words, my dear Aunt, to express my gratitude for your kind and consoling letter of the... |
1862 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1815-11-24 | I found your note this morning on my plate when I enterred the breakfast room and hasten to offer... |
1863 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 … | 1813-09-21 | This day two Months have elapsed since Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard arrived and delivered to me your... |
1864 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 … | 1808-02-24 | I have just received your affectionate letter of the 15th:— and do not a moment delay to answer... |
1865 | Quincy, Eliza Susan Morton | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Eliza Susan Morton Quincy to Abigail Smith Adams … | 1806-04-06 | By the last mail, I had the honour, and the pleasure, to receive your most acceptable letter—To... |
1866 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 May … | 1811-05-18 | The late french Ambassador at this Court, the Duke de Vicence, has taken leave, and his succesor... |
1867 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1818-10-06 | As Mr. & Mrs. Johnson intend leaving us this evening I write you a few lines to assure you of our... |
1868 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 April … | 1813-04-07 | I know not whether it was generosity, or any other virtue, or merely a disposition to receive the... |
1869 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March … | 1815-03-19 | Yesterday Morning I received the first information of the ratification, by the Government of the... |
1870 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 June … | 1816-06-06 | Yesterday I went to London, to the anniversary dinner of the Society of Friends of foreigners in... |
1871 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 … | 1810-10-14 | Captain Smith, who was the bearer of your kind letter of 7. May, has met with the same misfortune... |
1872 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail Smith | Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 11 January 1817 | 1817-01-11 | I owe you, dear Madam, a thousand thanks for the letters communicated in your favor of Dec. 15.... |
1873 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 … | 1807-10-27 | I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of... |
1874 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1817-02-24 | Unexpectedly I found myself once mor honoured with a few lines and well in a Season—in which the... |
1875 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1818-01-16 | 16 Went out to pay some visits and in the evening had a small party to Tea which consisted of my... |
1876 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 July … | 1812-07-23 | I received a very few days ago, your kind favour of 1. March last, which gave me great pleasure... |
1877 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1816-04-29 | As I was, unexpectedly, So highly gratified with your favour of the 2d. instant, it might appear... |
1878 | Felt, Abigal Adams Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Abigal Adams Shaw Felt to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 … | 1815-04-28 | It is impossible for me to express to you my dear, my much beloved Aunt, the consolation your... |
1879 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1817-08-14 | We propose leaving this place tomorrow my dear Madam and expect to arrive at Quincy either Sunday... |
1880 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1818-06-01 | Mrs: Cruft has arrived here and it is with much pleasure I observe she has derived benefit from... |
1881 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 July … | 1814-07-28 | I had the good fortune of sending a single letter from this place to England, in time to go by... |
1882 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1810-06-16 | I this Day by the Mail received your kind letter, & am happy to hear you got Home, with your... |
1883 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | ≈1814-07-01 | I was very much gratified to find that it was not the Presidents, your own, or your family’s... |
1884 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March … | 1812-03-30 | As the Couriers between Paris and St: Petersburg have not yet ceased to be dispatched, by the... |
1885 | 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... |
1886 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1815-06-12 | Mr. Todd having just called to announce his departure I hasten to write you although I do not... |
1887 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1804-12-19 | I received your Kind letter of the 8th. inst. and was extremely sorry to hear of the... |
1888 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1817-10-14 | Had I not been honoured, So often; with proofs of your kindness, with which you was pleased to... |
1889 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 … | 1811-09-11 | Not one ray of information has reached us respecting your Family, or my Dear Mrs Cranch’s ill... |
1890 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1816-06-07 | As Mrs: Perkins has kindly offered to take Letters, I hasten to answer your kind Letters of 24th:... |
1891 | 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... |
1892 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1817-03-07 | Did I not foster Such an exalted opinion of John Quincy Adams, then yet I might deem it a... |
1893 | Rush, Richard | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 December … | 1814-12-16 | If I have detained the enclosed letter longer than was proper, I beg it may be ascribed, not to... |
1894 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 … | 1806-01-25 | The first thing I look for in all the letters I receive from Quincy, is that which relates to our... |
1895 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 June … | 1814-06-30 | My last Letter to you was written at Reval, and dated the 12th: of May—It was forwarded from... |
1896 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 … | 1812-02-07 | I presume dear Mrs Adams, you know ‘ere this, that the “Star in the East,” who is to make the... |
1897 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 … | 1811-11-29 | I was much gratified my dear Mrs Adams the last week; by a line from you: especially as it... |
1898 | 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... |
1899 | Gordon, Hendrick W | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hendrick W Gordon to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 … | 1817-08-16 | I congratulate you, my illustrious friend the President, and all your family on the safe arrival... |
1900 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 … | 1813-10-13 | I cannot express to my dear Mrs. Adams the ardent desire I feel that we might at least have one... |
1901 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1818-03-16 | I was then once more honoured with your affectionate favour of the 27th favour—from which I... |
1902 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 … | 1812-04-11 | With pleasure & I hope, with Gratitude, I take up my pen, to assure you my dear Mrs A that we are... |
1903 | Rush, Julia Stockton | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 … | 1813-06-23 | It is matter of much consolation to know that frends so dear to My lamented husband as Mr and Mrs... |
1904 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1815-06-15 | How can I express mÿ deep Sense of gratitude for your condescending kindness, in gratifying me So... |
1905 | Monroe, James | Adams, Abigail Smith | From James Monroe to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 April 1813 | 1813-04-10 | I fear that the pressure of much business, and an anxiety to avail myself of a moment of leisuir,... |
1906 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 March … | 1809-03-08 | I had heard of your illness with extreme concern, from my wife, and also through Mr: Cranch and... |
1907 | Warren, Henry | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Henry Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 October … | 1814-10-19 | The friendships of early youth never cease but with the dying breath.—“Tell my Dear Mrs: Adams to... |
1908 | 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... |
1909 | Dexter, Katherine | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Katherine Dexter to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 June … | 1816-06-14 | I lament that indisposition should have obliged me to defer so long acknowledging your kind... |
1910 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 … | 1815-02-21 | My last Letter to you, was of the 31st: of January, from Bruxelles; and I enclosed it to Mr... |