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1 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 1763-08-11 If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon...
2 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 1763-09-12 You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure....
3 Green, Hannah Storer Adams, John Hannah Storer Green to John Adams, 20 February 1764 1764-02-20 I think myself greatly indebted to you, for the honor you do my judgment, in refering so...
4 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 1764-04-07 How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me...
5 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 1764-04-08 If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch...
6 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 1764-04-12 Here am I all alone, in my Chamber, a mere Nun I assure you, after professing myself thus will it...
7 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 15 April 1764 1764-04-15 Mr. Cranch informs me that Hones will go to Town tomorrow, and that I may not miss one...
8 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 16 April 1764 1764-04-16 I think I write to you every Day. Shall not I make my Letters very cheep; don’t you light your...
9 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 1764-04-19 Why my good Man, thou hast the curiosity of a Girl. Who could have believed that only a slight...
10 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 1764-04-30 Your Friendly Epistle reach’d me a fryday morning, it came like an Infernal Mesenger, thro fire...
11 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 May 1764 1764-05-04 Your desire that I would write every Opportunity is punctually observed by me, And I comply with...
12 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 9 May 1764 1764-05-09 Welcome, Welcome thrice welcome is Lysander to Braintree, but ten times more so would he be at...
13 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 1764-10-04 I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken about help. I am very willing to submit to...
14 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 1764-10-13 When I wrote you by the Doctor I was in hopes that I should have been out the next day, but my...
15 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 September 1767 1767-09-13 The Doctor talks of Setting out tomorrow for New Braintree. I did not know but that he might...
16 Smith, Isaac Jr. Adams, John Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 21 February 1771 1771-02-21 I have very little of a political, or of any other kind of entertainment to give you. Yet I...
17 Smith, Isaac Jr. Adams, John Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 3 September 1771 1771-09-03 I have just returned from an agreable excursion, in the course of which I had the pleasure of...
18 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 December 1773 1773-12-30 Alass! How many snow banks devide thee and me and my warmest wishes to see thee will not melt one...
19 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, John Mercy Otis Warren to John and Abigail Adams, 17 May … 1774-05-17 Mr. Warren being prevented by many Avocations from writing this Morning, has put the pen into the...
20 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 August 1774 1774-08-15 I know not where this will find you whether upon the road, or at Phylidelphia, but where-ever it...
21 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 August 1774 1774-08-19 The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month...
22 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 September 1774 1774-09-02 I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your...
23 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 September 1774 1774-09-14 Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by...
24 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 1774-09-22 I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day...
25 Adams, John Quincy Adams, John John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 13 October 1774 1774-10-13 I have been trying ever since you went away to learn to write you a Letter. I shall make poor...
26 Smith, Elizabeth (1750-1815) Adams, John Elizabeth Smith to John Adams, 14 October 1774 1774-10-14 I have (my Dear Brother) been more than entertained by perusing a number of your Letters to my...
27 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 1774-10-16 I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I...
28 Cranch, Richard Adams, John To John Adams from Richard Cranch, October 1756 1756-10-01 Tho’ I acknowledge that one ought never to be asham’d to speak the truth; yet I find my self much...
29 Sewall, Jonathan Adams, John To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 29 September 1759 1759-09-29 My Absence from home for this Week past has occasioned my delaying an Answer to your very...
30 Crawford, William Adams, John To John Adams from William Crawford, 13 January 1760 1760-01-13 I am lately come from divine Service, if I may be allowed the Expression, performd by the Revd....
31 Sewall, Jonathan Adams, John To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 13 February 1760 1760-02-13 In my last, if I rightly remember, I joined with you in your panegyric on the superior Rewards...
32 Crawford, William Adams, John To John Adams from William Crawford, 4 July 1763 1763-07-04 I hope you enjoy mens sana in Corpore Sano: My Body for more than six months past has been in...
33 Sewall, Jonathan Adams, John To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 15 February 1764 1764-02-15 You may remember we had some Confab. together about having the Small Pox in Concert. I intend...
34 Sewall, Jonathan Adams, John To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 5 October 1765 1765-10-05 The Bearers John Oliver and Michael Nagail are indicted of the ignominious narrow-Soul’d Crime of...
35 Cooper, William Adams, John To John Adams from William Cooper, 18 December 1765 1765-12-18 Boston, 18 December 1765. Printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography Diary and Autobiography of John...
36 Palmer, Joseph Adams, John To John Adams from Joseph Palmer, 1765 1765-01-01 My known fondness for Agriculture and Manufactures, has given many Opportunitys, which I have...
37 Sons of Liberty Adams, John To John Adams from the Sons of Liberty, 5 February 1766 1766-02-05 You doubtless and every American must be Sensible, that where there is a Union happily...
38 Crafts, Thomas Jr. Adams, John To John Adams from Thomas Crafts Jr., 15 February 1766 1766-02-15 Yesterday I wrote you a few Lines by Docr. Tuffts informing you the Sons of Liberty Desired your...
39 Sewall, Jonathan Adams, John To John Adams from Jonathan Sewall, 11 March 1767 1767-03-11 11 March 1767. Enclosed in a letter from JA to Hezekiah Niles (5 Feb. 1819, LbC , Adams Papers )....
40 Macaulay, Catharine Adams, John To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, 19 July 1771 1771-07-19 A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe...
41 Whipple, William Adams, John To John Adams from William Whipple, 13 February 1772 1772-02-13 Portsmouth, 13 February 1772. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To John Adams Esqr. at Boston...
42 Freeman, Nathaniel Adams, John To John Adams from Nathaniel Freeman, 4 October 1772 1772-10-04 Sandwich, 4 October 1772. RC ( MiU-C ); addressed to John Adams in Boston; endorsed. Freeman...
43 Adams, Samuel Adams, John II. Samuel Adams to John Adams, 22 February 1773 1773-02-22 If you have had Leisure to commit your Thoughts to writing agreable to my Request I shall be...
44 Hawley, Joseph Adams, John To John Adams from Joseph Hawley, 30 June 1773 1773-06-30 The letter inclosed herewith contains My Answer to the young Gentn. you was pleased recommend Me...
45 Macaulay, Catharine Adams, John To John Adams from Catharine Macaulay, August 1773 1773-08-01 I was very sorry to find by your favor of the 19 of Aprill that you had so many good reasons to...
46 Wilson, Thomas Adams, John Adams Elected to Membership in Supporters of the Bill … 1773-09-21 In pursuance of a Resolution of this Society, I am to signify to you that you have this Day been...
47 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, John To John Adams from Mercy Otis Warren, 11 October 1773 1773-10-11 MS ( Adams Papers ) in the hand of Mercy (Otis) Warren. This unsigned poem was doubtless an...
48 Warren, James Adams, John To John Adams from James Warren, 3 January 1774 1774-01-03 I Received your last and am to Acknowledge that the Contents of it gave me great pleasure. I have...
49 Dilly, Edward Adams, John To John Adams from Edward Dilly, 4 March 1774 1774-03-04 The Letters you sent for Mrs. Macaulay directed, under Cover, for me, were put into the Post...
50 Woodfall, William Adams, John To John Adams from William Woodfall, 12 March 1774 1774-03-12 As the Affairs of AMERICA are now agitating in both Houses of the English Parliament, and as it...