I had anticipated a visit from Mrs Adams, & both her Children, for a few days at least, when she...
You my beloved Sisters, whose time is ever filled , with the various duties of Life, can more...
Mr Lion and his intended I suppose so , as the modern phrase is, called here last Wednesday—I was...
I received your kind letter, with the sum enclosed for Mr Little. Butter has, since yours was...
5From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 May 1808 (Adams Papers)
I had the happiness of receiving your excellent letter at Middleton, for which my heart is alive...
Last Wednesday Miss Livermore was conducted by her Brother, from this House, as far as Haverhill,...
7From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 April 1808 (Adams Papers)
My wife received a few days since a letter from you, and I had the happiness of receiving one...
We were blessed with fine weather & roads from Providence to Phila., where we staid a fortnight;...
9From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 24 February 1808 (Adams Papers)
I have just received your affectionate letter of the 15th:— and do not a moment delay to answer...
I have delay’d answering your very kind letter owing to my Baby’s having been very seriously sick...
Your very kind letter has eased my heart of a load of anxiety, on account of our dear George,...
12From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 4 November 1807 (Adams Papers)
Last Evening I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of 25th: ulto: which contained the first...
13From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 27 October 1807 (Adams Papers)
I wrote a line to my father, from New-York, enclosing a letter for Mr: Shaw, and informing you of...
14From Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 July 1807 (Adams Papers)
Though your last Letter was not immediately answered, I offer no apology but my own frequent...
15From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 April 1807 (Adams Papers)
If my hands could have obeyed the dictates of my heart I should have written to you long before...
It is a long time my Dear Sister, since I have written to you; but I consider it a priviledge...
17From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind letter of January; and shall particularly attend to your directions at...
18From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 February 1807 (Adams Papers)
I have hardly been able to reconcile it to my own conscience for some weeks that so much time had...
19From Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 December 1806 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time since I have had a line from a friend who for many years I have cordially...
Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my...
21From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 August 1806 (Adams Papers)
I left Cambridge yesterday, after having finished my weekly performance, to come here and meet my...
22From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 July 1806 (Adams Papers)
By the last Letters I have received from my wife I expect she will reach Boston by the last of...
A few days since I recieved your very obliging letter in which you mention having procured the...
It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal...
25From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 April 1806 (Adams Papers)
We are again permitted to return home in good health, after having passed as pleasant a winter as...
26From Eliza Susan Morton Quincy to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 April 1806 (Adams Papers)
By the last mail, I had the honour, and the pleasure, to receive your most acceptable letter—To...
27From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 March 1806 (Adams Papers)
It is so long since I have had one hour of leisure that I could appropriate to correspondence...
I will not, I dare not, stop to think how long it is, since I have written to my Dear Sister, but...
29From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 25 January 1806 (Adams Papers)
The first thing I look for in all the letters I receive from Quincy, is that which relates to our...
I received with joy your letter of the eighteenth a few days since as I had suffer’d considerable...