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51 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 1764-04-19 Why my good Man, thou hast the curiosity of a Girl. Who could have believed that only a slight...
52 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1774 1774-01-19 I sincerely Congratulate my much Esteemed friend on the Restoration of the invaluable Blessing of...
53 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 1764-05-07 I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever...
54 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 1774-10-07 I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I...
55 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 1774-06-30 I have nothing to do here, but to take the Air, enquire for News, talk Politicks and write...
56 Adams, Abigail Cranch, Mary Smith Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 July 1766 1766-07-15 Tomorrow being Commencment, suppose this will not fail thro want of a conveyance. I therefore...
57 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 1774-06-29 This is the second day of the Term at York: very little Business--very hot weather. My...
58 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 1774-07-01 I am so idle, that I have not an easy Moment, without my Pen in my Hand. My Time might have been...
59 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 1763-04-20 Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity...
60 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 1763-09-12 You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure....
61 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 1774-10-16 I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I...
62 Adams, Abigail Warren, Mercy Otis Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 25 January 1775 1775-01-25 I wrote you last Sabbeth evening in a good deal of pertubation of Spirits. I fear I did wrong in...
63 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1774 1774-07-03 Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Quincy and I came this Morning from York, before Breakfast, 15 Miles, in order...
64 Cranch, Mary Smith Adams, Abigail Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1767 1767-01-15 Your kind letter I receiv’d to day and am greatly rejoiced to hear you are all so well. I was...
65 Adams, Abigail Warren, Mercy Otis Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 3 February 1775 1775-02-03 The die is cast. Yesterday brought us such a Speach from the Throne as will stain with...
66 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 1774-07-06 Mobs are the trite Topick of Declamation and Invective, among all the ministerial People, far and...
67 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 1774-07-07 Have you seen a List of the Addressers of the late Governor? There is one abroad, with the...
68 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 August 1774 1774-08-15 I know not where this will find you whether upon the road, or at Phylidelphia, but where-ever it...
69 Smith, Isaac Jr. Adams, Abigail Isaac Smith Jr. to Abigail Adams, 21 February 1771 1771-02-21 Your kindness to me in a former absence, requires some acknowledgment in this. I write to you,...
70 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 1764-04-12 Here am I all alone, in my Chamber, a mere Nun I assure you, after professing myself thus will it...
71 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 September 1774 1774-09-02 I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your...
72 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 April 1764 1764-04-14 The Deacon and his Three Children are arrivd and the Operation has been performed, and all well....
73 Adams, Abigail Warren, Mercy Otis Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 July 1773 1773-07-16 The kind reception I met with at your House, and the Hospitality with which you entertained me,...
74 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1774 1774-09-08 When or where this Letter will find you, I know not. In what Scenes of Distress and Terror, I...
75 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1774 1774-09-16 Having a Leisure Moment, while the Congress is assembling, I gladly embrace it to write you a...
76 Adams, Abigail Warren, Mercy Otis Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 December 1773 1773-12-05 Do not my Worthy Friend tax me with either Breach of promise; or neglect towards you, the only...
77 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 1764-04-30 Your Friendly Epistle reach’d me a fryday morning, it came like an Infernal Mesenger, thro fire...
78 Adams, Abigail Warren, Mercy Otis Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 27 February 1774 1774-02-27 Your agreable favour of January 19 demands from me more than I am able to pay. My coin will have...
79 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...
80 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...
81 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1774 1774-10-09 I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond...
82 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 1764-09-30 I have this Evening been to see the Girl.—What Girl? Pray, what Right have you to go after...
83 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 27 February 1774 1774-02-27 The Confidence I have in the Candour and Friendship of Both Mr. and Mrs. Adams, together with her...
84 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1774 1774-09-29 Sitting down to write to you, is a Scene almost too tender for my State of Nerves. It calls up to...
85 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 1774-06-29 The Prophet of York has not prophecy’d in vain. There is in this Town and County a Laodiceanism...
86 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 1774-06-30 I have had a Curiosity to examine what could have been the Cause of Parson Lymans Affection to...
87 Adams, Abigail Cranch, Mary Smith Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 October 1766 1766-10-06 I wrote to you a week ago, and sent my Letter part of the way, but like a bad penny it returnd,...
88 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 1774-06-29 I have a great Deal of Leisure, which I chiefly employ in Scribbling, that my Mind may not stand...
89 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1774 1774-07-02 I have concluded, to mount my Horse, tomorrow Morning at four, and ride to Wells to hear my old...
90 Adams, Abigail Cranch, Mary Smith Abigail and John Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 January … 1767-01-12 Mr. Etter was so good as to come this morning and inform me that his Sons would go to Salem...
91 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 28 January 1775 1775-01-28 I think myself Doubly obligated to my amiable Friend that she has for once Layed aside that...
92 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 July 1774 1774-07-05 I cant be easy without my Pen in my Hand, yet I know not what to write. I have this Morning heard...
93 Adams, Abigail Tufts, Cotton Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 2 April 1764 1764-04-02 I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I...
94 Adams, Abigail Cranch, Mary Smith Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 31 January 1767 1767-01-31 I have just returnd from Weymouth, where I have been for a week past. It seems lonesome here, for...
95 Adams, Abigail Macaulay, Catharine Sawbridge Abigail Adams to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay, 1774 1774-01-01 In the last Letter which Mr. Adams had the honour to receive from you, you express a Desire to...
96 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 25 February 1775 1775-02-25 I had the pleasure of hearing Yesterday by a transient person that my much Esteemed friend Mrs....
97 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 1774-07-06 Our J ustic e H utchinso n is eternally giving his Political Hints. In a Cause, this Morning,...
98 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 9 August 1774 1774-08-09 I Returned yesterday from a Visit to my Venerable Father, and on our arival at our own Habitation...
99 Adams, John Adams, Abigail John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 April 1764 1764-04-07 For many Years past, I have not felt more serenely than I do this Evening. My Head is clear, and...
100 Adams, Abigail Smith, Isaac Jr. Abigail and John Adams to Isaac Smith Jr., 4 January … 1770-01-04 I Congratulate you upon the fine weather we have had since your absence; if it has been as...