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51 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 28 November 1797 | 1797-11-28 | I received your kind Letter of Nov’ br. 19 th by this days post. I had previously received two... |
52 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 August 1785 | 1785-08-15 | When I wrote you by Captain Dashood, I was obliged for want of time to break of before I had... |
53 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 10 October 1790 | 1790-10-10 | I wrote to you last Sunday, and on Wednesday received your kind Letter. we have begun to pack up... |
54 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 25 May 1786 | 1786-05-25 | Captain Callihan arrived yesterday at Portsmouth and to day your letter came safe to hand. A... |
55 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 February 1798 | 1798-02-15 | I have not received a Line from Since the last of Jan’ ry Betsy is much distresst to hear from... |
56 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 December 1797 | 1797-12-12 | I receied yesterday your kind favour of 29 Nov’ br and 8 th December. I had a few lines from you... |
57 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 7 February 1801 | 1801-02-07 | I Suppose the reason why I have not had a Letter from You for a long time, arrises from Your... |
58 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 19 June 1798 | 1798-06-19 | I expected to have heard from you on Saturday, but no Letter came and on Wedensday but still no... |
59 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 February 1785 | 1785-02-20 | Your last favour which was dated in December came to hand in Febry. If Capt. Young has arrived... |
60 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15–18 December 1788 | ≈1788-12-15 | I thank you for your kind Letter of Nov br 30th Dec br 2d you judg’d rightly I was almost... |
61 | 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... |
62 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 26 November 1799 | 1799-11-26 | Your kind Letter reachd me on the 20th. I began to feel very impatient to hear from you; Your... |
63 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 7 April 1800 | 1800-04-07 | Yesterday mr Johnson and his Mamma arrived here, in good Health. by her I heard from mr & Mrs... |
64 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 26 December 1797 | 1797-12-26 | I received Your Letter by this days mail of 17 th I am mortified at the loss of mr Whitman, tho... |
65 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 April 1786 | 1786-04-06 | Altho I was at a stupid Route at the sweedish ministers last Evening, I got home about 12 and... |
66 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 March 1791 | 1791-03-12 | I was just going to set down to write to you, when I received your Letter of I am sensible I was... |
67 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 9 April 1798 | 1798-04-09 | I wrote you on saturday that I would forward to you the Dispatches as soon as they were out. I... |
68 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 13 April 1798 | 1798-04-13 | I inclose a Letter to cousin Betsy who has been very frank with me upon the subject of her... |
69 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 24 January 1790 | 1790-01-24 | I embrace this opportunity By my Brother to write you a few lines tho it is only to tell you what... |
70 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 13 June 1786 | 1786-06-13 | Any agitation of mind, either painfull or pleasureable always drives slumber from my Eyes. Such... |
71 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 4 December 1799 | 1799-12-04 | Mrs smith Louissa Mrs Otis Rush Peters & a number of young Ladies are just gone to Congress to... |
72 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 December 1800 | 1800-12-21 | on fryday the 19th I returnd from mount Vernon, where at the pressing invitation of Mrs... |
73 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 19 June 1789 | 1789-06-19 | This day is the Aniversary of my Landing in Boston and Tomorrow that of my departure from it.... |
74 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 25–29 March 1792 | ≈1792-03-25 | I received your kind Letter of march eleventh yesterday. I wrote to you last week which was the... |
75 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 24 June 1785 | 1785-06-24 | Captain Lyde is arrived and I have 3 Letters by him, one from Doctor Tufts one from Dr. Welch and... |
76 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 29 May 1798 | 1798-05-29 | I just write you a line to day, to tell you we are well, and to inclose Letters from my Family.... |
77 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 5 January 1798 | 1798-01-05 | I received your kind Letter of December and was surprized to find that my Letter should convey... |
78 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 28 June 1789 | 1789-06-28 | I wrote you from Providence some account of my polite reception there & closed my Letter just as... |
79 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 5 September 1784 | 1784-09-05 | It is now the 5th of September, and I have been at this place more than a fortnight, but I have... |
80 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 July 1789 | 1789-07-12 | I received your kind Letter by mr Brisler who reachd here on the 4th of july, Since which you... |
81 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 23 June 1798 | 1798-06-23 | The weather has been so oppressively Hot for this week—and the streets of the City so nausious... |
82 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 18 December 1799 | 1799-12-18 | Death, thou art no Respecter of Persons; Washington is no More! a Great Man has fallen, and his... |
83 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 3 March 1798 | 1798-03-03 | To communicate pleasure, is reflecting happiness. The secretary of state came smiling in my Room... |
84 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 3 June 1797 | 1797-06-03 | The weather was so cold yesterday that we had fires in our Rooms. I suppose you have weather of a... |
85 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 January 1798 | 1798-01-20 | I do not know whether there is any getting over the Rivers. the Eastern Mail due yesterday is not... |
86 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 4 June 1798 | 1798-06-04 | I received on saturday Yours of May 28 th I wrote you on saturday previous to my receiving yours... |
87 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 27 February 1800 | 1800-02-27 | I have not written to you since I received your Letter giving me an account of the ordination,... |
88 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 10 November 1800 | 1800-11-10 | I arrived in this city last Evening & came to the old House, now occupied by Francis as an Hotel.... |
89 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 26 April 1798 | 1798-04-26 | I inclose to you a National song composed by this same mr Hopkinson. French Tunes have for a long... |
90 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 9 August 1789 | 1789-08-09 | If I should ask why I have not heard from my sister or Friends, for several weeks past, would she... |
91 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 March 1790 | 1790-03-15 | I last Evening received your Letter of 28 th of Febry which relieved my mind from a great weight... |
92 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 March 1790 | 1790-03-21 | I was in hopes of hearing from you by last Nights post, as I am solicitious to learn how mrs... |
93 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 14 March 1798 | 1798-03-14 | yesterday dispatches were received from mr King up to the 9 th Jan’ ry in a postscrip he says, I... |
94 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 March 1798 | 1798-03-20 | I write you a few Lines this mor’g just to inclose to you the News paper of yesterday which... |
95 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 March 1787 | 1787-03-08 | It was not untill yesterday that captain Callihan brought us the bundle containing Newspapers and... |
96 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 June 1798 | 1798-06-08 | I received yours of June the first. I am quite delighted at the account you give of the season,... |
97 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 21 May 1786 | 1786-05-21 | Your kind Letter of Feb’ry came safe to hand, and proved my assertion, that I was sure you had... |
98 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 28 April 1798 | 1798-04-28 | I have just received yours of the 23 April and I sit down to answer your inquiries respecting the... |
99 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 1 September 1789 | 1789-09-01 | I Received your kind Letters and meant sooner to have replied to them, but many avocations have... |
100 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 12 September 1786 | 1786-09-12 | I am again safe arrived in this city after an absence of five weeks. By the last vessels I wrote... |