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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1351 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 | 1774-06-29 | The Prophet of York has not prophecy’d in vain. There is in this Town and County a Laodiceanism... |
1352 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 31 January 1797 | 1797-01-31 | I have rec d yours of January 22 d. I know not the reason you had not rec d Letters for a Week—... |
1353 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 August 1782 | 1782-08-15 | Mr. Thaxter is getting better and Mr. Charles Storer is now with me, and We may be all now said... |
1354 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 | 1774-06-30 | I have had a Curiosity to examine what could have been the Cause of Parson Lymans Affection to... |
1355 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1800 | 1800-02-09 | I have to thank you for two Letters which lay by me unanswer’d, I have had My hands full of... |
1356 | Dana, Elizabeth Ellery | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Ellery Dana to Abigail Adams, 6 March 1781 | 1781-03-06 | Your favor of the 5th gave me sensible pain. Had I had the least doubt that you was not so happy... |
1357 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 April 1786 | 1786-04-05 | We have Seen Magnificence, Elegance and Taste enough to excite an Inclination to see more. We... |
1358 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 December 1794 | 1794-12-08 | Your favour of Nov. 30, I received this morning. As every Thing conspires to keep me poor, I may... |
1359 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 31 December 1798 | 1798-12-31 | I hope you have health enough to bear to share with me some of my Griefs. I have determined to do... |
1360 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 December 1787 | 1787-12-23 | It is a long time since I wrote you last, but I am perfectly weary of making apologies. I have no... |
1361 | Cranch, Elizabeth | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1785 | 1785-10-09 | You will percieve by the date of this that I am at H——: last thursday I arrived here. My Visit is... |
1362 | 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... |
1363 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1777 | 1777-08-01 | The Fleet is in Delaware Bay. 228 of them were seen, in the Offing, from Cape Henlopen, the day... |
1364 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1784 | 1784-08-01 | Your favour without a Date, just now received and Mr. Jeffersons Arrival, a Month sooner than he... |
1365 | Waterhouse, Benjamin | Adams, Abigail | Benjamin Waterhouse to Abigail Adams, 22 January 1783 | 1783-01-22 | Yesterday I received your very obliging Letter and return you many thanks for your willingness to... |
1366 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 August 1777 | 1777-08-06 | Price current.—Oak Wood £4:15s:od. Pr. Cord. Bad Beer, not so good as your Small Beer, 15d: Pr.... |
1367 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1787 | 1787-02-09 | If you have reciev’d our Letters by Capn Callahan you will be in Some measure prepair’d for the... |
1368 | Vaughan, Sarah Manning | Adams, Abigail | Sarah Manning Vaughan to Abigail Adams, 22 September … | 1804-09-22 | Permit me to introduce to your friendly notice our eldest Son & daughter who mean to stay a short... |
1369 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 August 1784 | 1784-08-07 | Long e’er this time I hope my dear Sister and Cousin have sat their Feet upon the British shore,... |
1370 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 March 1797 | 1797-03-05 | your dearest Friend never had a more trying day than Yesterday. A Solenm Scene it was indeed and... |
1371 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 June 1800 | 1800-06-01 | Before I left Philadelphia, I wrote you, expecting the letter would overtake you at Brookfield.... |
1372 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1796 | 1796-06-30 | I begin again to number my letters to you; a practice which I neglected, in writing from England,... |
1373 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 June 1800 | 1800-06-12 | M r: Paleske arrived here a few days after I wrote you last, and delivered me your letter and the... |
1374 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 23 August 1781 | 1781-08-23 | I feared moths—have opened your Goods—aired and shook the Wollens—added good Tobacco leaves and... |
1375 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 April 1794 | 1794-04-07 | Your favour of the 28 th. Ult. arrived this morning. before this time I hope you have received... |
1376 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 August 1793 | 1793-08-10 | I ought to have written you from New-York, of my safe arrival there in little more than three... |
1377 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 June 1798 | 1798-06-15 | I have been at hard work this morning & my hands tremble So, I can Scarcly hold my Pen, but if I... |
1378 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1778 | 1778-06-13 | Amiable tho unjust Portia! doubly unjust!—to yourself, and to me. Must I only write to you in the... |
1379 | Adams, Charles | Adams, Abigail | Charles Adams to Abigail Adams, ca. 17 February 1795 | 1795-02-17 | I did not receive your last letter until after it had been written some considerable time The... |
1380 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1785 | 1785-01-16 | Not one line from my dear Sister have I reciev’d sinc last September. What can be the reason? I... |
1381 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 April 1794 | 1794-04-15 | Upon the receipt of your excellent Letter of the fifth of this month I Yesterday sent for our son... |
1382 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1799 | 1799-05-17 | I left Philadelphia the 9 th: inst t: and after passing a few days very pleasantly at Baltimore... |
1383 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1788 | 1788-12-28 | I have rec d your favours of the 3 and 13 th and have opened that to our Son, who has been absent... |
1384 | 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... |
1385 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 March 1777 | 1777-03-16 | The Spring advances, very rapidly, and all Nature will soon be cloathed in her gayest Robes. The... |
1386 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 24 November 1799 | 1799-11-24 | I receiv’d your kind Letter of the 15 th yesterday & am glad to find you able to receive so much... |
1387 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 December 1775 | 1775-12-03 | Yours of Novr. 12 is before me. I wish I could write you every day, more than once, for although... |
1388 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 December 1779 | 1779-12-11 | We have had an Escape again: but are arrived safely in Spain. As the Frigate will probably not... |
1389 | Smith, William | Adams, Abigail | William Smith to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1799 | 1799-12-02 | Your favors of the 19 th & 22 d I have rec d. no Vessell at present is up for Phila a. If any one... |
1390 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1785 | 1785-12-28 | It is mortifying to me, to be again obliged to offer an excuse, for not having written more... |
1391 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 December … | 1800-12-20 | Our Supreme Court being in session, has occupied my time so much as to prevent answering your... |
1392 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 October 1794 | 1794-10-20 | A Passage of 28 days, landed me & my fellow Passengers safe on the shore of England— Our desire... |
1393 | Smith, Abigail Adams | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 11 March 1791 | 1791-03-11 | I received your Letter of March 7 th my Dear Mamma and was very happy to find you so far... |
1394 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 October 1776 | 1776-10-11 | I suppose your Ladyship has been in the Twitters, for some Time past, because you have not... |
1395 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 November 1798 | 1798-11-25 | I have a thousand things to tell you and but a few minutes to write. We arrived in this city... |
1396 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 December 1778 | 1778-12-27 | Mr. Greenleaf is about to set off, towards Nantes and from thence to Boston. Last Night, I walked... |
1397 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 September 1777 | 1777-09-30 | It is now a long Time, since I had an Opportunity of writing to you, and I fear you have suffered... |
1398 | Cranch, Lucy | Adams, Abigail | Lucy Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 August 1787 | 1787-08-18 | I wrote you a few hasty lines, from Boston the Monday before Commencement, inclosing two... |
1399 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 November 1789 | 1789-11-14 | I am impatient to return but partly on Account of my Son who wishes to Stay at Colledge as long... |
1400 | Warren, James | Adams, Abigail | James Warren to Abigail Adams, 27 September 1775 | 1775-09-27 | I Received yours last Evening. Att the same time that I feel a Joy on the happy recovery of... |