1Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 March 1787 (Adams Papers)
I would not omit writing you, because you seem to think you have been agrieved. I do not...
2Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 November 1794 (Adams Papers)
Well my Dear Son, how did the watery world agree with you? I hope it was propitious to your...
3Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
Should a vessel cross the Atlantick, and my dear Thomas not find a few lines from his Mother, I...
4Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 11 February 1795 (Adams Papers)
When you address me again, let it be by the endearing Epithet of Mother, instead of the formal...
5Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 April 1795 (Adams Papers)
I did not receive any Letters from You when your Brother wrote last to me the 11 of Nov br . I...
Your kind Letters of Nov. 2. and Dec r 20 are before me. You will Soon learn the meaning of the...
7Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 17 September 1795 (Adams Papers)
This very Day twelve month You lost sight of your native Land. Your Native Land is not I trust...
8Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 November 1795 (Adams Papers)
I Love to receive a Letter from both Brothers at once, and I suppose each of You like to have a...
9Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 March 1796 (Adams Papers)
I never feel so great a propensity to write as when I have just received a Letter. Yours of Nov...
10Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 June 1796 (Adams Papers)
A Neighbour of ours Captain Richard Beal is going this week to sail for England, and I do not...
11Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 August 1796 (Adams Papers)
There has been an interval of Eight Months Since I received a line from Your Hand. this...
12Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 September 1796 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of June the 29 th was as refreshing to me as cold water to a thirsty Soul. the very...
13Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 8 November 1796 (Adams Papers)
I have just received Your Letter, sent by the Gen’ ll Green, Captain Sheldon via RhoadeIsland,...
14Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 February 1797 (Adams Papers)
I fear to look back to the Date of my last Letter to You, least it should accuse me of omission....
15Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 June 1797 (Adams Papers)
Your Friend Quincy is married, truly married and to a Nyork Lady, by the Name of Morten, without...
16Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 July 1797 (Adams Papers)
Tis expectation that make a Blessing sweet, says the poet. how sincerely sweet would it be to me...
17Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 7 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
Your Letters have become Such a model of elegant composition, that I cannot but think you must...
18Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 3 January 1798 (Adams Papers)
I Embrace the opportunity by the British packet of writing you a few lines, tho I have not any...
19Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 18 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
When I have written to your Brother I feel as if I had exhausted all the subjects which it is...
20Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 4 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
To know that one Cannot freely say that Black, is Black; even tho it be “darkness visible,” or...
21Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 1 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
I promised My dear Thomas to write to him by the May packet. on Fryday Evening at the drawing...
22Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
As there is some Probability that Thomas Welch will Embark before I shall return to Quincy, I...
23Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
If you have once more set your foot upon American ground, and are in safety, God be praised I...
24Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I Congratulate you my dear son, upon your safe arrival in your Native Country; and myself that I...
25Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received with Sincere pleasure the confirmation of your Safe arrival in your Native Land, from...
26Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I presume this will find you at Philadelphia, fix’d in your Lodgings; and in possession of your...
27Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 June 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of June 21— I cannot but feel very anxious for your Health. the Hot season...
28Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
I know not how it is, but I always feel more spirits when I take my pen to write to you, than to...
29Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 4 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received yours of the 21 July upon my return from a Ride. your Father said he had a Letter for...
30Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 17 August 1799 (Adams Papers)
I received with much pleasure your Letters of August 1 st and 12th, for which accept my thanks. I...