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1 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1800 | 1800-12-28 | I have just clos’d a long Letter to sister Peabody from whom I reciev’d one last week— Tis the... |
2 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 December 1800 | 1800-12-07 | I last week receiv’d your first Letter from the city of washington. I began to grow impatient not... |
3 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 November 1800 | 1800-11-07 | welcome thou best of women thou best of Sisters thou kindest of Friends the Soother of ever human... |
4 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 25 April 1800 | 1800-04-25 | I know your impatience to hear frequently of your affairs here & I am as solicitous that you... |
5 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 11 April 1800 | 1800-04-11 | My fears are all alive. cousin Thomas wrote mr Cranch that his Mother was not so well as she had... |
6 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 3 April 1800 | 1800-04-03 | you have not told me that the Lady in the undress who was presented at your Drawing Room had been... |
7 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 14 March 1800 | 1800-03-14 | There is a great deal of pain: taken to make mischief between you & Mr & Mrs Porter many wish for... |
8 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 February 1800 | 1800-02-23 | I have not written you so often as I wish’d to do for these Several weeks— I have not been free... |
9 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1800 | 1800-02-09 | I have to thank you for two Letters which lay by me unanswer’d, I have had My hands full of... |
10 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1800 | 1800-01-19 | I have receiv’d two Letters from you since I wrote last. one contain’d the Border & Lace for my... |
11 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5 January 1800 | 1800-01-05 | I am very much mortified that I have Sent so Many Letters to you burthen’d with Postage I thought... |
12 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 8 December 1799 | 1799-12-08 | I feel an inclination to write you every week athough I have nothing new to inform you of I know... |
13 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 24 November 1799 | 1799-11-24 | I receiv’d your kind Letter of the 15 th yesterday & am glad to find you able to receive so much... |
14 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 October 1799 | 1799-10-19 | I was very glad to hear by the Letter you sent me from Brookfield, that you had got Safely so... |
15 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1798 | 1798-07-07 | How did you live thro’ the heat of Monday & Teusday we could but just breathe the glasses Stood... |
16 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1798 | 1798-06-29 | Nothing but dire necessaty has prevented my writing as often as you could wish I do not always... |
17 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1798 | 1798-06-22 | I have had the House full of company for a week & have not been able to Steal a moments to write... |
18 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 June 1798 | 1798-06-15 | I have been at hard work this morning & my hands tremble So, I can Scarcly hold my Pen, but if I... |
19 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 June 1798 | 1798-06-10 | I have at last heard from atkinson I had just Sent a long Letter to sister when I receiv’d one... |
20 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1798 | 1798-05-28 | I yesterday receiv’d your kind Letter of the 18th my Sons & mrs Johnson to you. you cannot think... |
21 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1798 | 1798-05-25 | Vanity of vanity! & the conseiquenc of it is vexation of Spirit— who ever is inclin’d to live... |
22 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1798 | 1798-05-18 | I too have taken my pen with the rising Sun. I have been so disturb’d with the account of the... |
23 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1798 | 1798-05-10 | I can never sufficiently thank you for your Letters & the communications you so frequently Supply... |
24 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 April 1798 | 1798-04-29 | I am doom’d my dear Sister to be the messenger of death to you. I believe for five weeks past my... |
25 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1798 | 1798-04-23 | I write now merely to inform you that I have reciev’d your two Lettes of the 9th & 13th of this... |
26 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 20 April 1798 | 1798-04-20 | I have read the dispatches from the Envoys with as much astonishment as the Jacobins in congress... |
27 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5 April 1798 | 1798-04-05 | I last week had to inform you of the Sudden death of my much value’d Freind Mrs Quincy I Now have... |
28 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 1 April 1798 | 1798-04-01 | I thank you for your Letter of the 20th of march which I receiv’d yesterday & for the papers you... |
29 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1798 | 1798-03-22 | I write now because I know how it feels to be disappointed not because I have any thing to... |
30 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 February 1798 | 1798-02-23 | I cannot enough thank you my dear Sister for your kind Letter its Sisterly contents Sink deep in... |