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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 31 October 1795 | 1795-10-31 | I have this moment heard Mr & Mrs Black is in town, & going out again immediately but I would not... |
2 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams and Mary Smith … | 1795-09-24 | Justice & judgment are the habitation of thy throne, O my God! but thy mercy endureth forever— In... |
3 | Adams, John Quincy | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 8 July 1795 | 1795-07-08 | About three months have elapsed since I received information by Letters from America, of the... |
4 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1795 | 1795-06-13 | I should be unpardonable if I neglected this Opportunity of writing to you by a private hand, &... |
5 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams and Mary Smith … | 1795-04-04 | I believe in one of my Letters I told you I had troubles of various kinds— I need to be possessed... |
6 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 24 January 1795 | 1795-01-24 | I have had a very bad cold, attended with some other complaints which have enfeebled me, & made... |
7 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 10 September … | 1794-09-10 | My Cousins most agreeably supprized me by a Visit— I had been informed that your Sons were to... |
8 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, John Quincy | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to John Quincy Adams, 9 June 1794 | 1794-06-09 | My Dear Nephew could not suppose a Friend to merit, could read a Paragraph in last Saturdays... |
9 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 29 December 1793 | 1793-12-29 | It is a long time since I have written to you, or received a Line from either of my much loved... |
10 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 11 June 1793 | 1793-06-11 | I am extremely sorry to hear, that you have had another attack of your ague, since Cousin Betsy... |
11 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Cranch, Mary Smith | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 April … | 1793-04-21 | I have been exceedingly grieved at hearing of our dear Sister Adams’s Illness— She was so well in... |
12 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 31 December 1792 | 1792-12-31 | I wish I could be satisfied, & know what is my duty towards my William, & Abigail, I could then... |
13 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 August 1792 | 1792-08-26 | I hope you will not think me criminally negligent in not particularly addressing myself to you... |
14 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 24 June 1791 | 1791-06-24 | As I am exceedingly grieved when I hear of the Indisposition of any of my Friends, so am I... |
15 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 20 March 1791 | 1791-03-20 | I received, by Dr. W——, your kind letter of February 14th. He was very punctual to his... |
16 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Boylston Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 17 March … | 1791-03-17 | A few days since I received your kind letter of Feb ry : 18 th: and its being handed by a... |
17 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 14 February 1791 | 1791-02-14 | By my Sister I have been informed of your Sickness, & of the distressed State of your Family,... |
18 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 December 1790 | 1790-12-06 | Major Mc Farling has just called upon us, & informed us of his intention of going to Philadephia... |
19 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 28 September – … | ≈1790-09-28 | I know your tender sympathetick Heart will join with me, & drop a Tear over a lovely Child—the... |
20 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 14 March 1790 | 1790-03-14 | I have a Letter partly written to you which was begun sometime ago, but as a new Seene has... |
21 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 27 September … | 1789-09-27 | I write to you my dear sister, not from the disputed Banks of the Potowmac, the Susquehanna or... |
22 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1789 | 1789-05-02 | By the News Papers, I find you have met with a temporary Loss—The United suffrages of my... |
23 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 14 February 1789 | 1789-02-14 | You cannot think how mortified & grieved I was, by being so unexpectedly disappointed, of seeing... |
24 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Cranch, Mary Smith | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, 26 November … | 1788-11-26 | I do not know whether you have heard a word from me since I left you, if you have not, I presume... |
25 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 3 October 1788 | 1788-10-03 | I am almost affraid you do not love me so well as I hoped you did— If you had have known how much... |
26 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 21–23 September … | ≈1788-09-21 | Mr Lincoln has been here for several Days past— Tomorrow he intends to return to Hingham, & has... |
27 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1788 | 1788-07-26 | I got home the Friday-noon after I left you, & had the great satisfaction of finding all well—my... |
28 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1788 | 1788-06-22 | Thanks be to an ever watchful & kind Providence that has conducted my dear Brother, & Sister... |
29 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Cranch, Mary Smith | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 May 1788 | 1788-05-08 | You cannot think how anxious I have been to hear from my Sister Adams, & you. Two Vessels I saw... |
30 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Cranch, Mary Smith | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, 17 February … | 1788-02-17 | I hear Judge Seargant is to go to Boston tomorrow, & I will not defer writing a few Lines to my... |
31 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 17 November 1787 | 1787-11-17 | Friend, after Friend is severed from my Heart—I have lost many near, & dear Relatives, as well as... |
32 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 12 October 1787 | 1787-10-12 | Your obliging Letter was handed me, on my return from a journey into Devonshire. it was one of... |
33 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 22 July 1787 | 1787-07-22 | The last Week has indeed been a Week of Joy to me— We have “eat our Bread with gladness, & drank... |
34 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1787 | 1787-07-19 | I will not plead in excuse that I have not by any of the late vessels received a Line from my... |
35 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 May 1787 | 1787-05-20 | Yours of July 19 th which either did, or was to have come in Callihan last Fall, I did not... |
36 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 2 May 1787 | 1787-05-02 | mr Blodget is going passenger in Captain Callihan and has offerd to take a Letter to you, who are... |
37 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 10 March 1787 | 1787-03-10 | Tho I have already acknowledged all your Letters, I will not let captain Scoet sail without a few... |
38 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1787 | 1787-02-08 | My Uncle Smith has been so kind as to send me word this Morning, that a Nephew of Mr Gill’s was... |
39 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 20 January 1787 | 1787-01-20 | You will see by the inclosed that I wrote you a long Letter, and that it has lain some time... |
40 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams Smith, 27 … | 1786-11-27 | I must frankly acknowledge to my Dear Niece that I could not but wonder at her long Silence. I... |
41 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 21 November 1786 | 1786-11-21 | Mr Sparhawk calld upon us a Day or two ago, and deliverd me your kind Letter of: july the 20th.... |
42 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 November 1786 | 1786-11-01 | Two Vessels arrived from London while I was upon my little southern Tour. It was in vain that I... |
43 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 October 1786 | 1786-10-15 | And so my dear Sister all your Nephews have quitted your Hospitable Mansion for the university of... |
44 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1786 | 1786-10-01 | This Day is the Aniversary of Eleven Years since our dear Mother left us poor Pilgrims, to... |
45 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1786 | 1786-07-23 | Mr Sparhawk called for my Letter Just as I was giving you an account of my Aunt Smith’s Death. I... |
46 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1786 | 1786-07-20 | Here I am, all alone for a great rarity. There is nothing more agreeable to me for a little while... |
47 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1786 | 1786-07-19 | Accept my thanks for your kind Letter of March 18th and for the pleasing favourable account you... |
48 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 18 June 1786 | 1786-06-18 | Your Letter March 24th. by Capt Cushing, with the Apron, came safe to Hand 2 Days after his... |
49 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams 2d, 4 June 1786 | 1786-06-04 | Pray Madam, are you married? Nay then the wonder ceases. No matter now how loose your affections... |
50 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 24 April 1786 | 1786-04-24 | Mr jenks is suddenly obliged to return to America and I have only time to write you a few lines,... |