101From Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 3 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
It is more than a Month, Since a half finishd Letter has lain by, designd for you, and now it is...
102From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 24 January 1818 (Adams Papers)
The President has a letter from Vanderkemp, in which he proposes to have him send a collection of...
103From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 12 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
I realy ought to have written to you and have inclosed the few Lines to Cousin Abbe which were...
104From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
I sympathize with you in the loss you have sustained, and rejoice that the event did not prove...
105From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 January 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was never more at a loss what to Say to you than at the present moment. to accuse you of...
106From Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 18 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
This Evening my dear Daughter, will give you a Son, and me a Grandson, whom I have no doubt will...
107From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 2 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
This Letter will derive some merit from its being the latest date, and I hope will reach you...
108From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 15 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
I should not so long have delayd to thank you for the freedom of your communications made to me...
“Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops...
110From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 25 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
It is sometime since I have written to you and I feel that I owe you a Letter; you do not like...
111From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, March 1808 (Adams Papers)
your Letter begun at wWashington and finishd at Baltimore I received a few days since read and...
I mentiond to mr D. Greenleaf the money which was to have been Sent to the Young Cranchs for...
113From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 20 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
I had got comfortably through the cold of the winter, but the chilling winds of March have laid...
114From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 19 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
I received this morning your Note of Sunday and Monday, and am the better for hearing of that...
115From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 22 March 1816 (Adams Papers)
I received a few lines from you to night by mrs Adams; and rejoice in the returning health of...
116From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 6 March 1810 (Adams Papers)
your Letter from St petersburgh of october 28th I received the last week, four Months after the...
117From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 29 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
Altho I have not the pleasure to acknowledg any Letter from you of a more recent date, than one...
118From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Cranch Norton, 11 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
you have e’er this, received intellegence most afflictive to the heart of an affectionate Child,....
119From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 23 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
For three weeks past there have been many & various reports in circulation respecting the...
120From Abigail Smith Adams to Dolley Payne Todd Madison, 24 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of October 12th was an unexpected pleasure, and I cannot regret the occasion which...
121From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
I See by the paper that a cartel is to sail from Newyork for Gottenburgh. altho I have written to...
Yesterday was our Thanksgiving day. In our own way, and with tempers suited to the occasion, we...
123From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 10 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
As I consider you as a part of my own Family, I Send you the inclosed, which you will return with...
124From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 24 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Brother returnd this Evening from Boston and gave me notice that a vessel would Sail for...
125From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 5 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
I inclose to you a paper with the distrest State of an old Batchelor, not Supposing that you will...
126Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 29 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
what right have I to be one of your tormentors? and amongst the numerous applicants for...
your Letter of Feb’ry 15th, lies yet unacknowledged My Spirits have been in a whirl, the...
128From Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 20 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was glad to learn through mr Johnson that you had an agreable journey home Your visit here...
129From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 15 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
So, so master John, your Back is up, because you have not been written to, as often as you...
130From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 23 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
The black hair Ribbon is just what was wanted, I thank you for thinking of it. I Should like 8...
131From Abigail Smith Adams to Mary Smith Gray Otis, 13 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
Next to the Supports of religion; is the sympathy of Friends in affliction, of the first you have...
132From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday, was one, of the most joyful days of my life Harriet Welsh, like a winged mercury, came...
133From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 December 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledg Your Letter of the 30th of June, brought by the Pilifix ,...
134From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 9 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
It was with great pleasure, that I received your Letter from St. Petersburgh, bearing date july...
135From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 August 1816 (Adams Papers)
I make it a rule to begin my Letters by an acknowledgment of those which I have received from...
136From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 8 December 1815 (Adams Papers)
I have lost my dear venerable second Father and ancient Friend, the upright Christian, the...
137From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 23 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I hope you will not impute my not writing to you by your son to want of attention to you, or a...
138From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, March 1818 (Adams Papers)
I beleive you thought me very imprudent to consent to the Presidents going to Town So cold a day...
139From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 26 December 1816 (Adams Papers)
your uncle and I ask the pleasure of mr Greenleafs and your Company to dinner tomorrow. Your Aunt...
140From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
Many happy returns of the Season dear Harriet is wished you by your Friend, who you know would...
141From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
This Letter my dear son, is to introduce to you, and mrs Adams, the Lady of Major Manners, whose...
142From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 24 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Yesterdays post brought us heavey tydings tidings from Philadelphia. our Friend, our Physician,...
143From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 24 October 1816 (Adams Papers)
I have not had any opportunity of returning the Letter and paper you Sent me on Saturday. mr C....
Altho a reluctance to Letter writing grows daily more, and more upon me, your Mothers Letter to...
A long period has elapsed since I addrest a line to you—I have not taken my pen for three weeks—I...
146From Abigail Smith Adams to William Stephens Smith, 27 September 1811 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your Letter, and at the Same time, the President received the one inclosed...
147From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 February 1815 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter of Nov’br 23d No 66. came by way of England and reachd me on the 12th of this Month....
148From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, February 1815 (Adams Papers)
I inclose to you mr Adams’s Letter of Novbr 23. the peace was it seems as unexpected to him a...
149From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 February 1806 (Adams Papers)
I begin my Letter by announcing the Health of your Children, that your mind and that of their...
150From Abigail Smith Adams to Katherine Dexter, 12 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
How can I address you, or offer human consolation for a wound which must bleed afresh at every...