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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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51 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1808-03-18 | William has been so punctual in writing to you every week, that I have been more remiss. I cannot... |
52 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Boylston, Ward Nicholas | From Abigail Smith Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 14 … | 1818-03-14 | Agreable to your Request we have concluded to Send you the picture. Mr Adams has been So occupied... |
53 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 … | 1816-12-05 | “Oh that I too, could make a visit to my Father,” was your exclamation in your last Letter. more... |
54 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Green, Hannah Storer | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Storer Green, 20 … | 1810-02-20 | I know not the date of your last Letter to me but this I know, that it is not so ancient, as the... |
55 | 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... |
56 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Warren, Mercy Otis | From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 9 April … | 1813-04-09 | I cannot let my Son pass through Plimouth without stoping to inquire after your Health, and that... |
57 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Rush, Julia Stockton | From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 23 … | 1815-03-23 | It is a very long time Since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you; but I have not been... |
58 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Thomas Baker | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Baker Johnson, 18 … | 1817-10-18 | I will not let so good an opportunity pass without writing you a few Lines, to inquire after your... |
59 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1808-11-03 | Your Letter of Sepbr 25 together with Carolines came safe to hand, but I have been in a kind of... |
60 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 … | 1814-09-07 | I wrote to you on the 26 of August, and sent my Letter to N york to go in a dispatch vessel. I... |
61 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 … | 1806-01-09 | This is the first Snow which we have had of any concequence; and this promisses to be keep. It... |
62 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 27 April … | 1816-04-27 | I am much dispirited by the weather which prevented the intended visit of you and your Friends, I... |
63 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 16 October … | 1815-10-16 | Mr Adams call’d yesterday morning before six oclock, I rose before light in order to write to... |
64 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1816-05-02 | I never know how to let a vessel go from Boston, without a Letter to Some of the Family. I have... |
65 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, John Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams Smith, 12 March … | 1817-03-12 | I have not noticed your Letter bearing date 10 Novb’r—I had begun to think that you had renounced... |
66 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1818-01-24 | I received your journal No 4. containing the drawing Room History, which amused us much. What... |
67 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 … | 1815-12-24 | By mr. Tarbel, who left here the last of Nov’br I wrote to you, and to mrs Adams, introducing him... |
68 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Anonymous | From Abigail Smith Adams to Anonymous, 25 August 1809 | 1809-08-25 | Inclosed is a Letter which came under cover to the president. I take an early opportunity to... |
69 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 16 November … | 1814-11-16 | Feeling a little in the dumps, the why, or the wherefore I cannot tell, excepting a crick in my... |
70 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 … | 1809-09-30 | This day compleats Eight weeks since you embarked for Russia. I would fain flatter myself that... |
71 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, George Washington | From Abigail Smith Adams to George Washington Adams, 25 … | 1813-01-25 | I received this day a Letter from your father dated 21 Sep’br. it was a Letter different from any... |
72 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 10 August … | 1817-08-10 | Thank you thank you dear Harriet for the Letter from mr Adams you sent me last Evening. tho only... |
73 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1813-01-30 | How shall I address a Letter to you, how share and participate in your Grief without opening... |
74 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 8 September … | 1814-09-08 | I send you a Letter by mr Crufts this day received from Caroline. I had a few lines from her... |
75 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 12 June 1818 | 1818-06-12 | But once Since You left us, have I received a line from you. Twice I have written, and twenty... |
76 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Jefferson, Thomas | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April … | 1817-04-29 | What right have I to be one of your tormentors? and amongst the numerous applicants for... |
77 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 July … | 1810-07-11 | God bless it— mr Jones was so obligeing as to come this morning to Quincy, to inform us that he... |
78 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 31 August 1815 | 1815-08-31 | knowing what a punctilious young gentleman you are, I would not let your old Captain Bronson Sail... |
79 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der … | 1813-10-15 | I cannot refrain any longer from taking my pen and assureing mr van der kemp of the high... |
80 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 8 March 1816 | 1816-03-08 | I must write you a few lines to day from a Night of Rest, I derive Strength, all lost again by a... |
81 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Jefferson, Thomas | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 … | 1816-12-15 | My good Husband has call’d upon me for Some Letters, written to me by my Son, when he was last in... |
82 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1816-03-20 | I attempted to write to you, by Captain Bronson in Jan’ry but my strength failed me, and I have... |
83 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1810-02-20 | I this day received a Letter from my son dated october 21 from constradt—we had heard three weeks... |
84 | 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... |
85 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Jefferson, Thomas | Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 December 1816 | 1816-12-15 | My good Husband has call’d upon me for Some Letters, written to me by my Son , when he was last... |
86 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 March … | 1814-03-08 | Altho I sent Letters yesterday to go by our Ministers from N York, yet a new opportunity offering... |
87 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Rush, Julia Stockton | From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 15 … | 1817-10-15 | I am indebted to you, for two very kind Letters The first, was written after my Grandaughter miss... |
88 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Catherine Maria Frances Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Maria Frances … | 1816-10-15 | Your Letter my dear mrs Smith of Sepbr 23d I received while Caroline de Wint & her Babe were with... |
89 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 23 October 1817 | 1817-10-23 | mr Dexter will come to Boston tomorrow for the Trunks you must go with him to mr Crufts who when... |
90 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1812-11-19 | Your neat, pretty letter, looking small, but containing much, reached me this day. I have a good... |
91 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 9 June 1816 | 1816-06-09 | keep yourself quiet. caroline will come Shortly, and then be sure you shall have a carrier after... |
92 | 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... |
93 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 2 May 1817 | 1817-05-02 | mr Clark will deliver you this Susan has a Letter from her Mother urgeing her to come to See her,... |
94 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1808-12-08 | I am indebted to you for two Letters one of the last bearing date Novbr 20th. & 24th. I am always... |
95 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1806-01-19 | Your Letter of Jan’ry 6 I received last Evening. your Children are very well, and very well taken... |
96 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1815-10-20 | It was with great pleasure that I received and read your Letter of August 6th from Ealing, and it... |
97 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Niles, Hezekiah | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 20 January … | 1818-01-20 | Upon taking up your Register the other day, a communication respecting drawing rooms, attracted... |
98 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1812-08-06 | I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear... |
99 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 5 May 1816 | 1816-05-05 | A ; I opend my Letters this morning and found a Number—dated last Novbr and December, the first... |
100 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, George Washington | From Abigail Smith Adams to George Washington Adams, 15 … | 1813-08-15 | It is better to go to the House of mourning than to the House of Feasting, or dancing, for the... |