501From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 7 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
“The Chamber where the good Man meets his fate is privileged beyond the common walk of virtuous...
502From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 1817 to 20 May 1818 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter from Annapolis of May 8th. I congratulate you my dear Sir, that...
503From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, June 1811 (Adams Papers)
your two last favours of May 18th & 29th are now before me unreplied to. my apology must be that...
504From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
The Schooner Washington owned by mr Gray is ready to Sail for St Petersburgh. I have already sent...
505From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 3 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
The vessel which carries you this Letter will convey to you the account of the Death of a dear...
506Obituary Notice for Abigail Smith Adams, 12 November 1818 (Adams Papers)
In the death of Mrs. ADAMS, her friends and society lament no ordinary loss. The grave has closed...
507From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
Despairing almost of conveying a Letter to you amidst the war of Empires and Kingdoms, I have had...
508From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have to acknowledge your obligeing Letter of June the 18th, and to thank you for the...
509From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, 7 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
Sure my dear Friend there is a secret Sympathy in Souls whose minds are congenial to each other...
I received yesterday your journal to the 21st of Jan’ry. Washington Seems to be in a whirpool of...
511From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
while your Father is deeply engaged, in reading, Dupuis “orgine de Tous Les Cultes ou Religion...
512From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 April 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Letter No 10 has found its way in four Months after its Date. It is as you observe, three...
513From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 20 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
As I hope you are now in a Situation both to receive Letters, and write them with more Security...
514From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 20 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet replied to your kind letter from Philadelphia—I designed it Sooner, but overwhelmd...
515From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 4 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
I received last Evening, all the articles you were so kind as to purchase for me. they were...
516From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
Captain Tracy is to Sail on Sunday in the galen. our young men are flying abroad. some upon...
517From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 13 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
I was much rejoiced to receive your kind Letter of Sep’br 26th I began to be very anxious that I...
518From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 31 December 1817 (Adams Papers)
I received last Evening the Calico & your Bill, in which I find Several mistakes which I Shall...
519From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 1 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
After three months Sickness, great part of which time, I expected to go hence & be here no more,...
520From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter written in some agitation of mind, but I presume not without a due...
521From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Baker Johnson, 9 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter, bearing date july 1815 you must excuse me for not nameing the day of the...
522From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
Captain Smith, a Brother of Mrs Charles Millars call’d here to let us know that he should sail...
523From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 12 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have already acknowledged the receipt of your Letter by Captain Bainbridge received three weeks...
524From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 31 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
This is the last Day of the year 1809, and almost 4 Months Since you left us. we have been...
Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to...
526From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 21 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
I always feel gay, when I take my pen to write to you. it is the recollection of your ardour,...
I have to acknowledge a very tender and affectionate Letter from you, bearing date 8th Janry...
528From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
How often I have in imagination I have visited you this Dreary season. I know not, but not a day...
I address you, altho I know not where to find you, which is, and has been a source of much...
The season was so far advanced, and several vessels had arrived from the North without Letters,...
531From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
I fear your Father may have given you unnecessary anxiety; I told him at the time it was not best...
532From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams, 20 September 1806 (Adams Papers)
Having finishd my Farm House avocations I sit down to inquire how you are, and how my dear little...
I this morning received Your Second Letter, by way of journal. we have all been highly...
534From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 25 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
The solemn and impressive scenes through which I have passed the last week, were too affecting to...
535From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 3 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I owe to your Friendship, a Letter of thanks for the interest you take in whatever concerns me or...
536From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
I received a Letter yesterday from mrs Johnson, informing me that Capt Bandrige, in the frigate...
537From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
I was much pleased at receiving your Letter of March 14th. It was a much longer interval than had...
A long and Severe fit of Sickness must plead my excuse for so long delaying the acknowledment of...
you will I know excuse my not haveing written to you more than once; when you learn the...
I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for...
541From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 24 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits...
542From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 4 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to...
543From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 6 March 1811 (Adams Papers)
The great quantity of snow upon the Ground has obstructed the travelling So much, that the post...
544From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 April 1817 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters are always Common property with the Family to hear from you, and know that you are...
545From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 27 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I learn that the vessel in which our ministers are to embark, will not go untill thursday. I will...
546From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 October 1817 (Adams Papers)
while I congratulate dear Caroline upon the Birth of a daughter, I am calld to mourn with her...
547From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 September 1816 (Adams Papers)
Since my Letter to you of the 23 of August I have only written one Letter! it was to Abbe Shaw...
548From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 17 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
The intercourse between us is daily more and more obstructed, it may prolong your tranquility...
549From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 26 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time since we have received a Line from you at Quincy. I have been so very sick...
I have been haunted with the Deamon of omission, and a hundred Sprights in the garb of excuses,...