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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 … | 1804-12-03 | I received some days since your kind letter of the 11th: of last month, and was delighted to find... |
| 2 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 … | 1804-12-19 | I do not exactly recollect the date of my last Letter to you; but if it went safely you must have... |
| 3 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 … | 1805-11-12 | As our driver is about to return, I take the opportunity to inform you that we arrived here... |
| 4 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 … | 1805-11-17 | We embarked at Providence on Tuesday morning, as I wrote you we purposed to do; and after a... |
| 5 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 … | 1805-12-03 | This morning I had the satisfaction of receiving your kind letter of the 21st: ulto: which partly... |
| 6 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 … | 1805-12-16 | I received some days ago your kind favour of the 29th: of last month; and since then my brother’s... |
| 7 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 … | 1805-12-30 | Your kind letter of the 17th: instt:—together with that of my brother dated the day before has... |
| 8 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 … | 1806-01-25 | The first thing I look for in all the letters I receive from Quincy, is that which relates to our... |
| 9 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 March … | 1806-03-14 | It is so long since I have had one hour of leisure that I could appropriate to correspondence... |
| 10 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 July … | 1806-07-29 | By the last Letters I have received from my wife I expect she will reach Boston by the last of... |
| 11 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August … | 1806-08-09 | I left Cambridge yesterday, after having finished my weekly performance, to come here and meet my... |
| 12 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 … | 1807-02-03 | I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had... |
| 13 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 … | 1807-02-13 | I have received your kind letter of January; and shall particularly attend to your directions at... |
| 14 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 … | 1807-10-27 | I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of... |
| 15 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 … | 1807-11-04 | Last Evening I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of 25th: ulto: which contained the first... |
| 16 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 … | 1808-02-24 | I have just received your affectionate letter of the 15th:— and do not a moment delay to answer... |
| 17 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 April … | 1808-04-20 | My wife received a few days since a letter from you, and I had the happiness of receiving one... |
| 18 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 March … | 1809-03-08 | I had heard of your illness with extreme concern, from my wife, and also through Mr: Cranch and... |
| 19 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August … | 1809-08-09 | Often as it has been my fortune in the course of my life, to be parted from my Parents, and... |
| 20 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 … | 1809-10-21 | The seventy-ninth day since our departure from Boston, and not yet in Petersburg—But we are on... |
| 21 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 8 … | 1810-02-08 | The Sunday before we embarked for this place, my excellent friend and Pastor Emerson, delivered... |
| 22 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 June … | 1810-06-06 | Captain Thomas of the Express, a vessel belonging to Mr: W. R. Gray arrived here a few days ago,... |
| 23 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 July … | 1810-07-25 | Captain Harrod, by whom your kind favour of 20. March to me, mentions that you had written to my... |
| 24 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 … | 1810-09-17 | Mr. Jones arrived here from Gothenburg & Stockholm a few days since, and brought me your kind... |
| 25 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 … | 1810-10-14 | Captain Smith, who was the bearer of your kind letter of 7. May, has met with the same misfortune... |
| 26 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 … | 1810-10-25 | Although I wrote you about ten days ago, I cannot suffer Captain Leach to depart without taking a... |
| 27 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 … | 1810-11-15 | There were last Winter fifteen or sixteen American vessels, that pass’d the Winter at... |
| 28 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 … | 1810-11-28 | I received a few days ago, and since I wrote you last a letter from Captain William Welsh, dated... |
| 29 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 … | 1810-12-17 | Since I wrote you last, I have not had the pleasure of receiving a line from you, but as you are... |
| 30 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 … | 1811-01-12 | The year eighteen hundred and ten according to Russian reckoning still exists—But as its last... |
| 31 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 … | 1811-01-30 | I wrote you on the last day of the old year, Old-Style, and sent my letter under cover to Mr:... |
| 32 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 … | 1811-02-28 | We assisted last week, at the public examination of the Institute of the order of St: Catherine,... |
| 33 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March … | 1811-03-19 | In proportion as the time lengthens since the receipt of your last Letter, which is also the last... |
| 34 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 22 March … | 1811-03-22 | I dined yesterday at the French Ambassadors, at a diplomatic dinner of about sixty persons in the... |
| 35 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 April … | 1811-04-24 | The Russian People pass their lives in a continual and alternate succession of feasting and... |
| 36 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 2 May … | 1811-05-02 | The religious ceremony of which in my last Letter I gave you an account, began at Midnight and... |
| 37 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 May … | 1811-05-18 | The late french Ambassador at this Court, the Duke de Vicence, has taken leave, and his succesor... |
| 38 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 June … | 1811-06-11 | Your letter of 15. Feby: which was brought by Captain Brown, of the Washington, and which I... |
| 39 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 June … | 1811-06-30 | I have now to acknowledge the receipt of your number 6. dated 22. February, brought by the Henry... |
| 40 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 July … | 1811-07-29 | My last letter, of which a press-copy is enclosed, was sent by the Palafox, Captain William... |
| 41 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 … | 1811-08-12 | On the 10th: of August 1811. we received your favour of 22. September 1810 to my wife; not quite... |
| 42 | 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... |
| 43 | 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... |
| 44 | 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... |
| 45 | 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... |
| 46 | 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:... |
| 47 | 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... |
| 48 | 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... |
| 49 | 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... |
| 50 | 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... |