1Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
Not one word have I heard from my Dear Sister, since I left Boston, nor have I had any...
2Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 23 September 1800 (Adams Papers)
Miss Palmer has given me hopes of your coming, & Mrs Smith to our Exhibition, & says, you say,...
3Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 30 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
A Letter which I had a long time wished for, I at length received from my Affectionate Sister....
4Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 17 January 1800 (Adams Papers)
How often do we find that having much to say, the full heart cannot impart the half— This evil I...
5Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 27 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time since I have written to you— My mind has been so agitated that I was not fit to...
I have received two letters from you, & suppose you wonder that you have not heard from me much...
7Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
My little Abby—has been sick with a slow intermitting fever, occasioned by a cold—which has...
8Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
After many expecting, anxious hours for my dear Nephew, I am made happy by seeing his safe...
9Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 26 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment been conversing with Richard Dexter upon the subject of becoming one in your...
10Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 22 August 1798 (Adams Papers)
Whenever I have set myself down to write to my dear Sisters, I have found myself so drowned in...