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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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501 | 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... |
502 | 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... |
503 | 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.... |
504 | 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... |
505 | 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... |
506 | 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... |
507 | 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... |
508 | 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... |
509 | 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... |
510 | 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... |
511 | 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... |
512 | 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... |
513 | 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... |
514 | 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... |
515 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 July 1776 | 1776-07-11 | You seem to be situated in the Place of greatest Tranquility and Security, of any upon the... |
516 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 October 1775 | 1775-10-02 | Every Thing here is in as good a Way as I could wish, considering the Temper and Designs of... |
517 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1781 | 1781-12-02 | Your favours of September 29 and Oct. 21. are before me. I avoided saying any Thing about... |
518 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1793 | 1793-01-09 | In your Letter of Dec r 23 d you Say “Faxon wants Money to buy, three Cows and four young... |
519 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 January 1793 | 1793-01-27 | I was not a little Surprized, a few days ago at receiving a Letter from D r Hutchinson as... |
520 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 April 1778 | 1778-04-12 | I am so sensible of the Difficulty of conveying Letters safe, to you, that I am afraid to write,... |
521 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 April 1777 | 1777-04-29 | This days Post brought me yours of 17th. inst. and Miss Nabbys obliging Favour of the 16. This... |
522 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 April 1778 | 1778-04-19 | This Letter will be conveyed to you by Sir James Jay and Mr. Digges. Sir James is a Brother of... |
523 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 | 1774-06-29 | I have a great Deal of Leisure, which I chiefly employ in Scribbling, that my Mind may not stand... |
524 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 April 1776 | 1776-04-28 | Yesterday, I received two Letters from you from the 7th. to the 14. of April. I believe I have... |
525 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 August 1782 | 1782-08-17 | Your Favour of June 17. arrived this Day and gave me, all the tender and melancholly Feelings of... |
526 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1774 | 1774-07-02 | I have concluded, to mount my Horse, tomorrow Morning at four, and ride to Wells to hear my old... |
527 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1776 | 1776-05-12 | Yours of April 21. came to Hand yesterday. I send you regularly every Newspaper, and write as... |
528 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1777 | 1777-01-09 | The irresistable Hospitality of Dr. Sprague and his Lady has prevailed upon me, and my worthy... |
529 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 31 August 1782 | 1782-08-31 | All well.—You will send these Papers to some Printer when you have done with them. We have found... |
530 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 November 1792 | 1792-11-24 | The Weather has been so disagreable and the Roads so bad, that I have not been able to advance... |
531 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 October 1799 | 1799-10-12 | We arrived on the 10 th. I, much oppressed by one of my great Colds, which is now going Off.— I... |
532 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 May 1779 | 1779-05-14 | I left Paris on the Eighth of March, expecting to find the Alliance, at Nantes and embark... |
533 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 August 1777 | 1777-08-04 | Your kind Favour of July 23, came by the Post, this Morning. It revives me, to hear of your... |
534 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1776 | 1776-08-20 | Yours without a Date, but written, as I suppose about the Twelfth of August came by the Post this... |
535 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 January 1783 | 1783-01-29 | Your kind Letters of Oct. 25. and November 13 came to hand but to day. A Packet from you is... |
536 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 August 1777 | 1777-08-08 | I have concluded to run the Risque of sending Turner Home. It will save me the Expence of his... |
537 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams: Falmouth, 7 July 1774 | 1774-07-07 | I am engaged in a famous Cause: The Cause of King, of Scarborough vs. a Mob, that broke into his... |
538 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 March 1796 | 1796-03-01 | Yesterday the President sent his Carriage for me to go with the Family to the Theatre. The Rage... |
539 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1780 | 1780-02-28 | I have already sent to the Marquis de la Fayette, a Number of Letters for you, and the Children,... |
540 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 January 1794 | 1794-01-06 | The Door Keeper has just brought me your kind Letter of Dec r 28. Freneau’s Paper is discontinued... |
541 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1794 | 1794-01-09 | The Anxiety you express (in your kind Letter of Dec r 31 which I received this morning ) for your... |
542 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1777 | 1777-03-22 | The Post now comes regularly, once a Week, and brings me the Boston News Papers, but no Letters... |
543 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1796 | 1796-01-15 | We have floods of rain but no frost nor Snow and very little news. The Democrats continue to pelt... |
544 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1779 | 1779-12-12 | The french Consul had agreed to carry me, Mr. Dana, Mr. Allen, and my three Children and our... |
545 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 January 1776 | 1776-01-24 | I am determined not to commit a fault which escaped me, the last Time I sat out for the... |
546 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 November 1794 | 1794-11-08 | We took the Packet at New Haven, and arrived at N. York as Soon as the Stage— Although We Saved... |
547 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1777 | 1777-10-07 | I have no Time, nor Accommodations to write of late—besides I seldom know what to write, and when... |
548 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1797 | 1797-04-14 | I have this day rec d , in your favours of the 5. 6. and 7 th. of the month the first... |
549 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 July 1776 | 1776-07-15 | My very deserving Friend, Mr. Gerry, setts off, tomorrow, for Boston, worn out of Health, by the... |
550 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1776 | 1776-07-20 | This has been a dull day to me: I waited the Arrival of the Post with much Solicitude and... |