31John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I...
32John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am extreamly afflicted with the Relation your Father gave me, of the Return of your Disorder. I...
33John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 (Adams Papers)
By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give...
34John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
I would not loose the Opportunity of writing to you—tho I must be short. Tedious, indeed is our...
35John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
I had a tollerable Journey hither, but my Horse trotted too hard. I miss my own Mare—however I...
36John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have nothing to do here, but to take the Air, enquire for News, talk Politicks and write...
37John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763 (Adams Papers)
Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.—I intended to have been at...
38Enclosure: Poem on the Boston Tea Party, 27 February 1774 (Adams Papers)
Wrote at the Request of A Gentleman who described the Late Glorious Event of sacrificeing several...
39John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 (Adams Papers)
This is the second day of the Term at York: very little Business--very hot weather. My...
40John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I am so idle, that I have not an easy Moment, without my Pen in my Hand. My Time might have been...
41John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 (Adams Papers)
Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity...
42John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Quincy and I came this Morning from York, before Breakfast, 15 Miles, in order...
43John Adams to Abigail Smith, 15 August 1763 (Adams Papers)
The Disappointment you mention was not intended, but quite accidental. A Gentleman, for whom I...
44Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1767 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter I receiv’d to day and am greatly rejoiced to hear you are all so well. I was...
45John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Mobs are the trite Topick of Declamation and Invective, among all the ministerial People, far and...
46Elizabeth Palmer to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
I have this moment finished Copying The manuscript you was kind enough to Lend me, and must write...
47John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1769 (Adams Papers)
We have lived thro the Heat, and Toil, and Confusion of this Week. We have tried three of the...
48John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 (Adams Papers)
Have you seen a List of the Addressers of the late Governor? There is one abroad, with the...
49John Adams to Abigail Smith, 11 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
This is the last Opportunity I shall have to write you from Braintree for some Weeks. You may...
50Isaac Smith Jr. to Abigail Adams, 21 February 1771 (Adams Papers)
Your kindness to me in a former absence, requires some acknowledgment in this. I write to you,...
51Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1774 (Adams Papers)
I thank you my dear Sister for all your kind offers. I have not been able yet to get Miss Dolly...
52John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
The Deacon and his Three Children are arrivd and the Operation has been performed, and all well....
53John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
When or where this Letter will find you, I know not. In what Scenes of Distress and Terror, I...
54Cotton Tufts to Abigail Smith, 19 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
It was not forgetfulness, that prevented my writing. You must not ascribe to forgetfulness my not...
55John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
Having a Leisure Moment, while the Congress is assembling, I gladly embrace it to write you a...
56John Adams to Abigail Smith, 18 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
Three of our Company, have now the Small Pox upon them, Wheat, Badger, and Elderkin. We have seen...
57John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 September 1774 (Adams Papers)
In your last you inquire tenderly after my Health, and how we found the People upon our Journey,...
58Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 8 February 1774 (Adams Papers)
When I cast my Eyes backward; and take a general survey, of the great alterations which have been...
59Elizabeth Smith to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1774 (Adams Papers)
I had written to the Deacon before I had received Yours, wherein I have your Sanction for it, and...
60John Adams to Abigail Smith, 8 May 1764 (Adams Papers)
This Morning received yours by Mr. Ayers. I can say nothing to the Contents at present, being...