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101 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 April 1776 | 1776-04-12 | Inclose a few Sheets of Paper, and will send more as fast as Opportunities present. Chesterfields... |
102 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1776 | 1776-04-14 | You justly complain of my short Letters, but the critical State of Things and the Multiplicity of... |
103 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 April 1776 | 1776-04-15 | I send you every News Paper, that comes out, and I send you now and then a few sheets of Paper... |
104 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1776 | 1776-04-23 | This is St. Georges Day, a Festival celebrated by the English, as Saint Patricks is by the Irish,... |
105 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 April 1776 | 1776-04-28 | Yesterday, I received two Letters from you from the 7th. to the 14. of April. I believe I have... |
106 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1776 | 1776-05-12 | Yours of April 21. came to Hand yesterday. I send you regularly every Newspaper, and write as... |
107 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 May 1776 | 1776-05-15 | Mr. Church setts off, tomorrow Morning. I have sent this Morning by Mr. William Winthrop, about... |
108 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1776 | 1776-05-17 | I have this Morning heard Mr. Duffil upon the Signs of the Times. He run a Parrallell between the... |
109 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1776 | 1776-05-22 | When a Man is seated, in the Midst of forty People some of whom are talking, and others... |
110 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 May 1776 | 1776-05-27 | I have three of your Favours, before me—one of May 7., another of May 9. and a third of May 14th.... |
111 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 June 1776 | 1776-06-02 | Yesterday I dined with Captain Richards, the Gentleman who made me the present of the brass... |
112 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 June 1776 | 1776-06-03 | The last Evening, Mess. Adams, P aine and G erry and my self, by Agreement waited on the P... |
113 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1776 | 1776-06-16 | Yesterday was to me a lucky Day, as it brought me two Letters from you, one dated May 27. and the... |
114 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1776 | 1776-06-26 | I have written so seldom to you, that I am really grieved at the Recollection. I wrote you, a few... |
115 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 | 1776-07-03 | Your Favour of June 17. dated at Plymouth, was handed me, by Yesterdays Post. I was much pleased... |
116 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776 | 1776-07-03 | Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with... |
117 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1776 | 1776-07-07 | I have this Moment folded up a Magazine, and an Evening Post and sent it off, by an Express, who... |
118 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1776 | 1776-07-07 | It is worth the while of a Person, obliged to write as much as I do, to consider the Varieties of... |
119 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1776 | 1776-07-10 | You will see by the Newspapers, which I from time to time inclose, with what Rapidity, the... |
120 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 July 1776 | 1776-07-11 | You seem to be situated in the Place of greatest Tranquility and Security, of any upon the... |
121 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 July 1776 | 1776-07-15 | My very deserving Friend, Mr. Gerry, setts off, tomorrow, for Boston, worn out of Health, by the... |
122 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1776 | 1776-07-16 | In a Letter from your Uncle Smith, and in another from Mr. Mason which I received by this days... |
123 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1776 | 1776-07-20 | I cannot omit the Opportunity of writing you, a Line, by this Post. This Letter will I suppose,... |
124 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1776 | 1776-07-20 | This has been a dull day to me: I waited the Arrival of the Post with much Solicitude and... |
125 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1776 | 1776-07-23 | This Mornings Post brought me yours of July 13 and 14 and has relieved me from an huge Load of... |
126 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 July 1776 | 1776-07-27 | Disappointed again.—The Post brought me no Letter from you, which I dont wonder at much, nor any... |
127 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 July 1776 | 1776-07-29 | How are you all this Morning? Sick, weak, faint, in Pain; or pretty well recovered? By this Time,... |
128 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1776 | 1776-07-30 | This is one of my fortunate days. The Post brought me, a Letter from you and another from my... |
129 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 August 1776 | 1776-08-03 | The Post was later than usual to day, so that I had not yours of July 24 till this Evening. You... |
130 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 August 1776 | 1776-08-06 | Yours of 29 July came by this days Post, and made me very happy. Nabby, Charles, and Tommy, will... |
131 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 August 1776 | 1776-08-10 | Yours of 30. and 31 July was brought me, to day, by Captain Cazneau. I am happy to think that... |
132 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1776 | 1776-08-12 | Mr. A. setts off, to day, if the Rain should not prevent him, with Coll. Whipple of Portsmouth: a... |
133 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 August 1776 | 1776-08-12 | Mr. A. and Coll. Whipple, are at length gone. Coll. Tudor went off with them. They went away,... |
134 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 August 1776 | 1776-08-13 | Geography is a Branch of Knowledge, not only very usefull, but absolutely necessary, to every... |
135 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1776 | 1776-08-14 | This is the Anniversary of a memorable day, in the History of America: a day when the Principle... |
136 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 August 1776 | 1776-08-18 | My Letters to you are an odd Mixture. They would appear to a Stranger, like the Dish which is... |
137 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1776 | 1776-08-20 | Yours without a Date, but written, as I suppose about the Twelfth of August came by the Post this... |
138 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 August 1776 | 1776-08-21 | Yesterday Morning I took a Walk, into Arch Street, to see Mr. Peele’s Painters Room. Peele is... |
139 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 August 1776 | 1776-08-25 | The day before Yesterday and Yesterday, We expected Letters and Papers by the Post, but by some... |
140 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 August 1776 | 1776-08-27 | Within this half Hour, I received yours of the 18 by the Post. I have only Time before the Post... |
141 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1776 | 1776-08-28 | Mr. Benjamin Smith of S. Carolina, was kind enough to send forward from New York, your Favour of... |
142 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 August 1776 | 1776-08-30 | The two Armies, on Long Island have been shooting at each other, for this whole Week past, but We... |
143 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 September 1776 | 1776-09-04 | Mr. G erry arrived Yesterday, and brought me yours of August 17. and soon afterwards the Post... |
144 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 September 1776 | 1776-09-05 | Mr. Bass arrived this Day, with the joyfull News, that you were all well. By this Opportunity, I... |
145 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 September 1776 | 1776-09-06 | This day, I think, has been the most remarkable of all. Sullivan came here from Lord Howe, five... |
146 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 September 1776 | 1776-09-14 | Yesterday Morning I returned with Dr. F. and Mr. R. from Staten Island where We met L ord H owe... |
147 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1776 | 1776-09-16 | The Postmaster at N. York, in a Panick, about a fortnight ago fled to Dobbs’s Ferry, about 30... |
148 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 September 1776 | 1776-09-21 | Yours of Septr. 9. I have received. Septr. 5. I sent you another Cannister by Mr. Hare. I have... |
149 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 September 1776 | 1776-09-22 | We have at last agreed upon a Plan, for forming a regular Army. We have offered 20 dollars, and... |
150 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1776 | 1776-09-25 | I have only Time to say, by Mr. Taylor, that I am not worse than I have been—that however, I... |