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1 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, March 1778 ≈1778-03-01 I was meditating a Letter to my dear Sister when her agreable favour reachd my Hands. Tho my own...
2 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 April 1778 1778-04-05 Your kind Letter by Cousin Tufts was a pleasing and fresh proof of your Goodsense, Piety of...
3 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, February – March … ≈1782-02-01 I yesterday received a congratulatory Letter from you, upon the safe arrival of my dear Charles,...
4 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams and Mary Smith … 1783-03-15 If I had received your Letter an hour sooner, I could have sent you an answer the same day, viz....
5 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 17 September … 1783-09-17 It will not be in my power to get Beaf. Bisquit I can procure, I shall prepaire a dinner here and...
6 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 4 January 1784 1784-01-04 I received Yours, last Friday just as We were siting down to dinner, favoured by Mr. Ludden. We...
7 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 March 1784 1784-03-26 The Roads have been so bad for several Weeks past, that there has been but little travelling, and...
8 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 11 July 1784 1784-07-11 This day 3 weeks I came on Board this Ship; and Heaven be praised, have hietherto had a...
9 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 28 – 30 July … ≈1784-07-28 I think when I finishd the last page I was rubbing myself up on Board Ship. But this was not the...
10 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1784 1784-10-15 Permit me to congratulate both you and my dear Neice upon your safe and happy arrival upon the...
11 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 December 1784 1784-12-05 I have not seen your Letter to Sister Cranch as yet, and cannot tell how you like your present...
12 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 14 December 1784 1784-12-14 I know your good will to have written to me if you had been able. It gives me pain to hear that...
13 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 11 January 1785 1785-01-11 I was doubly rejoiced to receive a Letter from you not only on account of the pleasure which I...
14 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 April 1785 1785-04-25 Not to hear one word from Novem. to April seemed a very long space of Time, to One solicitous for...
15 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 8 May 1785 1785-05-08 I do not expect to date you any more letters from this place. Delighfull and blooming Garden, how...
16 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 12 June 1785 1785-06-12 I have but just returned, my much loved Sister, from my Southern Excursion. You know how...
17 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 August 1785 1785-08-15 I have been situated here for near six weeks. It is one of the finest squares in London. The air...
18 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 7 September 1785 1785-09-07 The long looked for, the modest, the manly, the well accomplished Youth, is come at last. And had...
19 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 September … 1785-09-15 Mr. Storer says the ship in which he is to embark will go down to day and that he shall go on...
20 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 November 1785 1785-11-06 Your Son, My Dear Sister has been a Member of our Family for these five Weeks, almost three of...
21 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 January 1786 1786-01-02 Yes! My Dear Sister, Mr. and Mrs Allen are just gone from here, and carried away my Betsy Smith...
22 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 4 March 1786 1786-03-04 I seldom feel a sufficient stimulous for writing untill I hear that a vessel is just about to...
23 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 18 March 1786 1786-03-18 Should I my Dear Sister, too much alarm the Heart of an affectionate Mother, solicitous for the...
24 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 24 April 1786 1786-04-24 Mr jenks is suddenly obliged to return to America and I have only time to write you a few lines,...
25 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 18 June 1786 1786-06-18 Your Letter March 24th. by Capt Cushing, with the Apron, came safe to Hand 2 Days after his...
26 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1786 1786-07-19 Accept my thanks for your kind Letter of March 18th and for the pleasing favourable account you...
27 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1786 1786-07-20 Here I am, all alone for a great rarity. There is nothing more agreeable to me for a little while...
28 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1786 1786-07-23 Mr Sparhawk called for my Letter Just as I was giving you an account of my Aunt Smith’s Death. I...
29 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 October 1786 1786-10-01 This Day is the Aniversary of Eleven Years since our dear Mother left us poor Pilgrims, to...
30 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 October 1786 1786-10-15 And so my dear Sister all your Nephews have quitted your Hospitable Mansion for the university of...
31 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 November 1786 1786-11-01 Two Vessels arrived from London while I was upon my little southern Tour. It was in vain that I...
32 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 21 November 1786 1786-11-21 Mr Sparhawk calld upon us a Day or two ago, and deliverd me your kind Letter of: july the 20th....
33 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 20 January 1787 1787-01-20 You will see by the inclosed that I wrote you a long Letter, and that it has lain some time...
34 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1787 1787-02-08 My Uncle Smith has been so kind as to send me word this Morning, that a Nephew of Mr Gill’s was...
35 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 10 March 1787 1787-03-10 Tho I have already acknowledged all your Letters, I will not let captain Scoet sail without a few...
36 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 2 May 1787 1787-05-02 mr Blodget is going passenger in Captain Callihan and has offerd to take a Letter to you, who are...
37 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 May 1787 1787-05-20 Yours of July 19 th which either did, or was to have come in Callihan last Fall, I did not...
38 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1787 1787-07-19 I will not plead in excuse that I have not by any of the late vessels received a Line from my...
39 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 22 July 1787 1787-07-22 The last Week has indeed been a Week of Joy to me— We have “eat our Bread with gladness, & drank...
40 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 12 October 1787 1787-10-12 Your obliging Letter was handed me, on my return from a journey into Devonshire. it was one of...
41 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 17 November 1787 1787-11-17 Friend, after Friend is severed from my Heart—I have lost many near, & dear Relatives, as well as...
42 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1788 1788-06-22 Thanks be to an ever watchful & kind Providence that has conducted my dear Brother, & Sister...
43 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1788 1788-07-26 I got home the Friday-noon after I left you, & had the great satisfaction of finding all well—my...
44 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 21–23 September … ≈1788-09-21 Mr Lincoln has been here for several Days past— Tomorrow he intends to return to Hingham, & has...
45 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 3 October 1788 1788-10-03 I am almost affraid you do not love me so well as I hoped you did— If you had have known how much...
46 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 14 February 1789 1789-02-14 You cannot think how mortified & grieved I was, by being so unexpectedly disappointed, of seeing...
47 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1789 1789-05-02 By the News Papers, I find you have met with a temporary Loss—The United suffrages of my...
48 Adams, Abigail Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 27 September … 1789-09-27 I write to you my dear sister, not from the disputed Banks of the Potowmac, the Susquehanna or...
49 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 14 March 1790 1790-03-14 I have a Letter partly written to you which was begun sometime ago, but as a new Seene has...
50 Shaw, Elizabeth Smith Adams, Abigail Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 28 September – … ≈1790-09-28 I know your tender sympathetick Heart will join with me, & drop a Tear over a lovely Child—the...