1XIV. Reading Copy of Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Proceedg. f. c. to yt qualfcn ′ wch ye Constn reqres. befre. my entrnce. on ye charge agn....
2XIII. Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Proceeding, fellow citizens, to that qualification which the constitution requires before my...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Abernethie, 12 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of Dec. 1. I referred it to the Secretary of the Treasury for...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Acheson, 29 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 12th. inst. has not come to hand. I have now recieved that of the 18th....
5From 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...
We have been under the necessity of delaying our journey a few days on account of the marriage of...
7From 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...
By the last mail, I had the honour, and the pleasure, to receive your most acceptable letter—To...
9From 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...
10From 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...
11From 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...
12From 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...
13From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 August 1805 (Adams Papers)
Agreable to your wish, expressed some months past, Mrs: Smith, accompanied by Miss Caroline and...
Your very kind letter has eased my heart of a load of anxiety, on account of our dear George,...
A few days since I recieved your very obliging letter in which you mention having procured the...
I had anticipated a visit from Mrs Adams, & both her Children, for a few days at least, when she...
I was much disappointed My Dear Madam in not having it in my power to see you again before we...
I will thank you to tell Mrs. Cranch to give George a couple of teaspoonfuls of Castor oil and to...
19From 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...
It is a long time my Dear Sister, since I have written to you; but I consider it a priviledge...
After a pleasant although extremely fatiguing journey we have safely arrived at Mrs. Hellens were...
I have delay’d answering your very kind letter owing to my Baby’s having been very seriously sick...
23From 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...
24From 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...
25From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 December 1805 (Adams Papers)
This morning I had the satisfaction of receiving your kind letter of the 21st: ulto: which partly...
Mr Lion and his intended I suppose so , as the modern phrase is, called here last Wednesday—I was...
27From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 December 1805 (Adams Papers)
I received some days ago your kind favour of the 29th: of last month; and since then my brother’s...
28From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 December 1805 (Adams Papers)
Your kind letter of the 17th: instt:—together with that of my brother dated the day before has...
29From Ann Quincy Packard to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 March 1805 (Adams Papers)
And her only child! my Dear Madam from her heart thanks you, for the kind consoling letter,...
30From 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...
31From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 March 1808 (Adams Papers)
We were blessed with fine weather & roads from Providence to Phila., where we staid a fortnight;...
I received with joy your letter of the eighteenth a few days since as I had suffer’d considerable...
33From 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...
34From 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...
It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal...
36From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
As our driver is about to return, I take the opportunity to inform you that we arrived here...
37From 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...
38From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
We embarked at Providence on Tuesday morning, as I wrote you we purposed to do; and after a...
Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my...
I will not, I dare not, stop to think how long it is, since I have written to my Dear Sister, but...
41From 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...
42From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 May 1808 (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday Miss Livermore was conducted by her Brother, from this House, as far as Haverhill,...
None but an affectionate Sister, can tell how much I was gratified, to recognize your well known...
44From 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...
45From Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, 31 December 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Mr. & Mrs. Adams. to dine with him on Saturday the 4th. Jany....
You my beloved Sisters, whose time is ever filled , with the various duties of Life, can more...
I received your kind letter, with the sum enclosed for Mr Little. Butter has, since yours was...
I expected to have heard from you by Mr Beal, but his comeing to dine yesterday with the club I...
I will write you a line the first I have attempted, to tell you I am getting better I hope tho...
Having finishd my Farm House avocations I sit down to inquire how you are, and how my dear little...