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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 … | 1811-08-12 | Although I have not written since receiving your favors of July 12th., & August 2nd., yet my... |
| 122 | Smith, William Stephens | Adams, Abigail Smith | From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 … | 1811-08-12 | I have received your affectionate and interesting Letter of the 23d. of July you have conversed... |
| 123 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-08-20 | Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual... |
| 124 | Cranch, William | Adams, Abigail Smith | From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 September … | 1811-09-01 | I thank you most sincerely for your excellent letter of 5th. ulto. which I should have answer’d... |
| 125 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 … | 1811-09-10 | The first page of the enclosed Press-Copy of my last Letter is so faint that unless you should... |
| 126 | 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... |
| 127 | Smith, William Stephens | Adams, Abigail Smith | From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 … | 1811-09-15 | I received your very affectionate Letter (dated the 20th. of August, post mark 2d inst.) on... |
| 128 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 … | 1811-10-02 | Your favour of 21. June, without a number, was forwarded to me from Copenhagen by Mr. Erving, who... |
| 129 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-19 | I received your kind Letters yesterday by mail, & though I ought soon to have expected such an... |
| 130 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-10-21 | My dearly beloved, & only Sister, for the “threefold silken Cord is broken ” To what an unusual... |
| 131 | Cranch, William | Adams, Abigail Smith | From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 October … | 1811-10-22 | I received yesterday your kind letter of 17th. instant, informing me of the death of my dear and... |
| 132 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 … | 1811-10-24 | By every vessel that has arrived for several months from America, and which we should have... |
| 133 | Young, Archibald | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Archibald Young to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 November … | 1811-11-07 | Cloathing purchased for George and John Adams 3 peices Blew Nankeen at 2 dollars pr piece 6 1... |
| 134 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-11-11 | The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the... |
| 135 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 … | 1811-11-14 | I did not need your last token of love to remind me of my duty to one who is unwearied in... |
| 136 | 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... |
| 137 | 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... |
| 138 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 … | 1811-11-30 | Although since I last wrote to my brother, on the 6th: instt: we have neither received a line... |
| 139 | Monroe, James | Adams, Abigail Smith | From James Monroe to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 December … | 1811-12-03 | I have had the Honor to receive your Letter of the 28th ult. covering one to your Son the... |
| 140 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 … | 1811-12-08 | Though I have felt the complicated affliction that has recently assailed my friends at Quincy, I... |
| 141 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1811-12-18 | At the arrival of the last Mail, I thought I could hear my dear Sister say, “Is there no Letters... |
| 142 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 … | 1811-12-22 | After I had written the letter of which I now enclose a copy, intending to have it ready for Mr:... |
| 143 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 1 … | 1812-01-01 | I will not suffer the first day of this new year to pass over, without renewing to my dear Mother... |
| 144 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-01-20 | I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents... |
| 145 | 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... |
| 146 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 … | 1812-02-08 | A long interval without the receipt of letters from you, I have always found too sure an... |
| 147 | Frye, Carolina Virginia Marylanda Johnson Buchanan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Carolina Virginia Marylanda Johnson Buchanan Frye … | 1812-02-12 | I avail myself of the opportunity that now offers of writing to my dear and absent Sisters whose... |
| 148 | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | Adams, Abigail Smith | From François Adriaan Van der Kemp to Abigail Smith … | 1812-02-18 | I presume, it is not abusing your kindness, in addressing you with a few lines, to assure you of... |
| 149 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-07 | Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,... |
| 150 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-03-13 | By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &... |
| 151 | Smith, Elizabeth | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 March … | 1812-03-14 | It would be injustice in me not to return an immediate Answer to your letter, and its important... |
| 152 | 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... |
| 153 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | ≈1812-03-01 | I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,... |
| 154 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 … | 1812-04-10 | My best thanks are due to you my dear Madam for the letter enclosing a Discourse delivered at the... |
| 155 | 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... |
| 156 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-04-26 | The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of... |
| 157 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 April … | 1812-04-30 | The enclosed is a copy of a letter, which was written near a Month, before an opportunity... |
| 158 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 … | 1812-05-05 | Accept my Dear Friend of my sympathy for the loss of your lovely grand Daughter. For Mrs Charles... |
| 159 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-05 | The Calender informs me it is the month of May, my Dear Sister—I should not suppose it, by the... |
| 160 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-05-16 | I have the pleasure to inform you, that your dear Grandchildren reached here Friday noon, safe, &... |
| 161 | Smith, Elizabeth | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 May … | 1812-05-19 | To Correct an error has been Considerd as proof of a Candid Mind—Will you then permit me my much... |
| 162 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 May … | 1812-05-28 | I find in your letter of 5. Jany: last that you make mention of others which you had written in... |
| 163 | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-13 | I cannot refuse myself the pleasure of answering, your very beautiful, and affectionate letter,... |
| 164 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-13 | I received your letter yesterday, which informed me of yours, & Mrs Smith’s intended visit, & am... |
| 165 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail Smith | From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith … | 1812-06-20 | Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid... |
| 166 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 June … | 1812-06-27 | Mr Ingraham of Boston left this place a few days since, and I gave him a packet for Quincy,... |
| 167 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 July … | 1812-07-12 | The political Condition of the World, not only engrosses all our thoughts, but absorbs all our... |
| 168 | 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... |
| 169 | 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... |
| 170 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 … | 1812-08-10 | Just as I was closing my last Letter to you, I received your letter of 12. April, and had barely... |