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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Smith, Elizabeth (1750-1815) | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1774 | 1774-02-08 | When I cast my Eyes backward; and take a general survey, of the great alterations which have been... |
2 | Smith, Elizabeth (1750-1815) | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1774 | 1774-03-07 | I had written to the Deacon before I had received Yours, wherein I have your Sanction for it, and... |
3 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 April 1778 | 1778-04-05 | Your kind Letter by Cousin Tufts was a pleasing and fresh proof of your Goodsense, Piety of... |
4 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams and Mary Smith … | 1783-03-15 | If I had received your Letter an hour sooner, I could have sent you an answer the same day, viz.... |
5 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 4 January 1784 | 1784-01-04 | I received Yours, last Friday just as We were siting down to dinner, favoured by Mr. Ludden. We... |
6 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 March 1784 | 1784-03-26 | The Roads have been so bad for several Weeks past, that there has been but little travelling, and... |
7 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1784 | 1784-10-15 | Permit me to congratulate both you and my dear Neice upon your safe and happy arrival upon the... |
8 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 December 1784 | 1784-12-05 | I have not seen your Letter to Sister Cranch as yet, and cannot tell how you like your present... |
9 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 April 1785 | 1785-04-25 | Not to hear one word from Novem. to April seemed a very long space of Time, to One solicitous for... |
10 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 12 June 1785 | 1785-06-12 | I have but just returned, my much loved Sister, from my Southern Excursion. You know how... |
11 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1785 | 1785-09-07 | The long looked for, the modest, the manly, the well accomplished Youth, is come at last. And had... |
12 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 November 1785 | 1785-11-06 | Your Son, My Dear Sister has been a Member of our Family for these five Weeks, almost three of... |
13 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 January 1786 | 1786-01-02 | Yes! My Dear Sister, Mr. and Mrs Allen are just gone from here, and carried away my Betsy Smith... |
14 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 18 March 1786 | 1786-03-18 | Should I my Dear Sister, too much alarm the Heart of an affectionate Mother, solicitous for the... |
15 | 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... |
16 | 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... |
17 | 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... |
18 | 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... |
19 | 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... |
20 | 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... |
21 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 9 … | 1796-01-09 | It is indeed several weeks since I have written to you—an eventful term to me—multiplied with... |
22 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 6 … | 1796-02-06 | The tender solicitude you have shewn for my health, demands the earliest return I can make—& it... |
23 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 28 … | 1796-02-28 | I am very sorry that I could not send Betsy Quincy with her Cousin, but my being unwell prevented... |
24 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 19 May … | 1796-05-19 | I rejoice that the important question in Congress has terminated so happily, & that the Vice... |
25 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 23 July … | 1796-07-23 | Your kind invitations would have induced Mr Peabody to have visited you at Quincy had it not now... |
26 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 10 … | 1797-01-10 | Day after day has slid off into the ocean of time, with the Yesterdays beyond the flood, replete... |
27 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 14 April … | 1797-04-14 | If words could express the gratitude I feel for your kindness to me, & my Children, it would be... |
28 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 3 July … | 1797-07-03 | Health to my Sister, under a more fervid Sun, than that to which she has hitherto been... |
29 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 July … | 1797-07-29 | Your kind Letter which assured me of your welfare was a cordial to my heart. It came safe to... |
30 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 6 … | 1797-10-06 | Since my last my time has been cheifly occupied, in attending to those services, which were due... |
31 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 19 … | 1797-12-19 | Least I should forget it, I acknowledge the receipt of ten Dollars you sent while I was at... |
32 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 28 … | 1798-01-28 | I have thought day after day, that another should not pass without writing to my much loved... |
33 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 May … | 1798-05-15 | Though the kind remembrance I have of my Sister is imprinted upon my heart, as with a point of a... |
34 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 22 … | 1798-08-22 | Whenever I have set myself down to write to my dear Sisters, I have found myself so drowned in... |
35 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 26 … | 1798-11-26 | I have this moment been conversing with Richard Dexter upon the subject of becoming one in your... |
36 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 … | 1799-01-29 | After many expecting, anxious hours for my dear Nephew, I am made happy by seeing his safe... |
37 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 16 … | 1799-02-16 | My little Abby—has been sick with a slow intermitting fever, occasioned by a cold—which has... |
38 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 27 March … | 1799-03-27 | It is a long time since I have written to you— My mind has been so agitated that I was not fit to... |
39 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 17 … | 1800-01-17 | How often do we find that having much to say, the full heart cannot impart the half— This evil I... |
40 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 30 March … | 1800-03-30 | A Letter which I had a long time wished for, I at length received from my Affectionate Sister.... |
41 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 23 … | 1800-09-23 | Miss Palmer has given me hopes of your coming, & Mrs Smith to our Exhibition, & says, you say,... |
42 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 … | 1800-12-15 | Not one word have I heard from my Dear Sister, since I left Boston, nor have I had any... |
43 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 March … | 1801-03-29 | A mind agitated by the Vicissitudes attendant upon the present juncture of publick affairs, &... |
44 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 13 July … | 1801-07-13 | For the communications by Mrs Black, you have my grateful acknowledgements. She made me only a... |
45 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 8 … | 1801-12-08 | I hope my Dear Sister, has had her Cup of happiness filled, by having an amiable long absent Son,... |
46 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 31 [sic] … | 1802-04-30 | I have been gratified by receiving two kind letters from you. No circumstance of joy or sorrow... |
47 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 9 March … | 1803-03-09 | I hear by Dr Tufts that our Medford Farm will be greatly injured by the middlesex Canal being cut... |
48 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 16 April … | 1804-04-16 | When your Son delivered me your kind letter, little did I think, it would be so long, before I... |