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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-02-18 | I hope the afflicting intelligence which you must receive from your Friends at Washington, will... |
| 152 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 22 … | 1811-02-22 | The Schooner Washington owned by mr Gray is ready to Sail for St Petersburgh. I have already sent... |
| 153 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-02-26 | Your Letter, my dear Caroline, gave me pleasure. As all your’s are calculated to enliven the... |
| 154 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-02-26 | I received your Letter by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write you a few... |
| 155 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-02-28 | your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had... |
| 156 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-02-28 | I received your Letters by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write to give... |
| 157 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 … | 1811-03-02 | How often I have in imagination I have visited you this Dreary season. I know not, but not a day... |
| 158 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 4 March … | 1811-03-04 | You will no doubt receive from the President of the United States permission to return home, as... |
| 159 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-03-04 | When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to... |
| 160 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 5 … | 1811-03-05 | I believe I may say with truth, that I have been your daily visitor through the dreary season of... |
| 161 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 6 … | 1811-03-06 | The great quantity of snow upon the Ground has obstructed the travelling So much, that the post... |
| 162 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1811-03-10 | It is so long Since I received a Letter from you or any of the Family that I am not a little... |
| 163 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 30 … | 1811-03-30 | The Letters you forwarded to me, for Saint Petersburgh, I had an opportunity of Sending... |
| 164 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-04-02 | An inflamation in one of my Eyes, will prevent me from writing more than to thank you for your... |
| 165 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 April … | 1811-04-08 | Your Letter of december No 6—/17 came Safe to hand yesterday, the last No was 8. So that two... |
| 166 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-04-18 | I write you a few lines just to say that I send your mother a century Sermon, preached in this... |
| 167 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 April … | 1811-04-24 | your Letter No 10 has found its way in four Months after its Date. It is as you observe, three... |
| 168 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-04-28 | Scarcly a week has past, for these two Months in which I have not written either to my Son, or to... |
| 169 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf … | ≈1811-04-01 | I thank you for your kind inquiries. I am better to day. I had the Rheumatism in my head, and was... |
| 170 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 May … | 1811-05-15 | The inclosed Letter I received a few days Since to forward by the first opportunity. my last... |
| 171 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Ann Frances Harrod | From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams … | 1811-05-17 | I rode up to your house this morning to inquire how the Children were and heard that they were... |
| 172 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 19 … | 1811-05-19 | I received your favour dated at Baltimore of April 28th, with the Letter inclosed for Mrs Adams,... |
| 173 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 … | 1811-05-22 | Your favour of I received by the last mail. I had been in daily expectation of hearing from you,... |
| 174 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 22 … | 1811-05-22 | . . . Judge Dana is removed, and no man seemeth to lay it to heart. If my absent son had been in... |
| 175 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 May … | 1811-05-28 | I Shall continue to write to you altho you may determine to leave St Petersburgh before my... |
| 176 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-06-08 | I Sit down to write to my dear daughter, almost without a hope, or wish that She Should receive... |
| 177 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 21 June … | 1811-06-21 | I write to you by every opportunity altho I hope you will have left St Petersburgh before this... |
| 178 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 30 … | 1811-06-30 | I promised to write you what I considerd the State of Your Dear Mother. She has appeard since you... |
| 179 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Anonymous | From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, June 1811 | ≈1811-06-01 | your two last favours of May 18th & 29th are now before me unreplied to. my apology must be that... |
| 180 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-07-10 | Not having Wholy dissolved by the intense heat of the last week, I am enabled from a change of... |
| 181 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Abigail Louisa Smith Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Louisa Smith Adams … | 1811-07-23 | your Mother has been So constant in writing that I have been the more remiss. I am glad to find... |
| 182 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, William Stephens | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 23 … | 1811-07-23 | I hope you will not impute my not writing to you by your son to want of attention to you, or a... |
| 183 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 July … | 1811-07-24 | I write to you, altho it is really with the hope that you may not receive my Letter. I would fain... |
| 184 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 31 … | 1811-07-31 | yours of July 21, I received by the last Mail I was just going to ask the cause of your long... |
| 185 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-08-11 | I do not know how our account stands, whether I am indebted for a letter or you, but I shall not... |
| 186 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-08-24 | Truly my dear sister I blush and am asshamed that I have not written to you in replie to your... |
| 187 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, William Stephens | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 28 … | 1811-08-28 | your Letter of August 12th I received in the absence of Mrs Smith, who was upon a visit to mrs... |
| 188 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, William | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith, 12 September … | 1811-09-12 | Altho I cannot personally be with you, oweing to the Sickness in my own Family, to pay the last... |
| 189 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 22 … | 1811-09-22 | At last it is decided—it is as I conjectured in my last Letter to you, the Situation of Mrs Adams... |
| 190 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 … | 1811-09-24 | your Brother returnd this Evening from Boston and gave me notice that a vessel would Sail for... |
| 191 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, William Stephens | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 27 … | 1811-09-27 | I yesterday received your Letter, and at the Same time, the President received the one inclosed... |
| 192 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf … | ≈1811-09-01 | in replie to your inquiries I answer mrs Adams had a very bad night. at 2 oclock Nancy came to my... |
| 193 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cranch, William | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 17 October … | 1811-10-17 | Your dear Father has joind the Spirits of the Blessed made perfect, on saturday last he was taken... |
| 194 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Shaw, William Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith Shaw, 18 … | 1811-10-18 | Your good uncle Cranch is gone. heaven has Saved him the greatest anguish he could experience in... |
| 195 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-10-22 | I wrote to you upon fryday, but I do not now recollect what I have written. I know that my heart... |
| 196 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cranch, William | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Cranch, 25 October … | 1811-10-25 | The solemn and impressive scenes through which I have passed the last week, were too affecting to... |
| 197 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf … | ≈1811-10-01 | I heard last Evening of the melancholy event, and sincerely sympathize with the afflicted family... |
| 198 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf … | ≈1811-10-01 | will you get mr Norten to inform by Letters mr & mrs James Foster of the death of your dear... |
| 199 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 3 … | 1811-11-03 | I owe to your Friendship, a Letter of thanks for the interest you take in whatever concerns me or... |
| 200 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-11-08 | I recieved your Letter by the last Mail inclosing one for your daughter, who left me last week,... |