121From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
On the 10th: of August 1811. we received your favour of 22. September 1810 to my wife; not quite...
122From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
Although I have not written since receiving your favors of July 12th., & August 2nd., yet my...
123From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have received your affectionate and interesting Letter of the 23d. of July you have conversed...
124From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual...
125From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you most sincerely for your excellent letter of 5th. ulto. which I should have answer’d...
126From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
The first page of the enclosed Press-Copy of my last Letter is so faint that unless you should...
127From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
Not one ray of information has reached us respecting your Family, or my Dear Mrs Cranch’s ill...
128From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received your very affectionate Letter (dated the 20th. of August, post mark 2d inst.) on...
129From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of 21. June, without a number, was forwarded to me from Copenhagen by Mr. Erving, who...
I received your kind Letters yesterday by mail, & though I ought soon to have expected such an...
My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual...
132From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received yesterday your kind letter of 17th. instant, informing me of the death of my dear and...
133From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
By every vessel that has arrived for several months from America, and which we should have...
134From Archibald Young to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
Cloathing purchased for George and John Adams 3 peices Blew Nankeen at 2 dollars pr piece 6 1...
The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the...
136From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I did not need your last token of love to remind me of my duty to one who is unwearied in...
137From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have not words, my dear Aunt, to express my gratitude for your kind and consoling letter of the...
138From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I was much gratified my dear Mrs Adams the last week; by a line from you: especially as it...
139From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
Although since I last wrote to my brother, on the 6th: instt: we have neither received a line...
140From James Monroe to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 28th ult. covering one to your Son the...
141From Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
Though I have felt the complicated affliction that has recently assailed my friends at Quincy, I...
At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters...
143From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
After I had written the letter of which I now enclose a copy, intending to have it ready for Mr:...
144From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 January 1812 (Adams Papers)
I will not suffer the first day of this new year to pass over, without renewing to my dear Mother...
I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents...
146From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
I presume dear Mrs Adams, you know ‘ere this, that the “Star in the East,” who is to make the...
147From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
A long interval without the receipt of letters from you, I have always found too sure an...
148From Carolina Virginia Marylanda Johnson Buchanan Frye to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 February 1812 (Adams Papers)
I avail myself of the opportunity that now offers of writing to my dear and absent Sisters whose...
I presume, it is not abusing your kindness, in addressing you with a few lines, to assure you of...
150From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,...
151From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,...
152From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &...
153From Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
It would be injustice in me not to return an immediate Answer to your letter, and its important...
154From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
As the Couriers between Paris and St: Petersburg have not yet ceased to be dispatched, by the...
155From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
My best thanks are due to you my dear Madam for the letter enclosing a Discourse delivered at the...
156From Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
With pleasure & I hope, with Gratitude, I take up my pen, to assure you my dear Mrs A that we are...
157From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 26 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of...
158From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed is a copy of a letter, which was written near a Month, before an opportunity...
159From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
Accept my Dear Friend of my sympathy for the loss of your lovely grand Daughter. For Mrs Charles...
160From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
The Calender informs me it is the month of May, my Dear Sister—I should not suppose it, by the...
161From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have the pleasure to inform you, that your dear Grandchildren reached here Friday noon, safe, &...
162From Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
To Correct an error has been Considerd as proof of a Candid Mind—Will you then permit me my much...
163From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
I find in your letter of 5. Jany: last that you make mention of others which you had written in...
164From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of answering, your very beautiful, and affectionate letter,...
165From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am...
166From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid...
167From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Mr Ingraham of Boston left this place a few days since, and I gave him a packet for Quincy,...
168From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
The political Condition of the World, not only engrosses all our thoughts, but absorbs all our...
169From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I hope my dear Sister, & family are well, though I have not heard from her for three last...
170From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received a very few days ago, your kind favour of 1. March last, which gave me great pleasure...