11From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 October 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have your letter of the 1st. inst. and yesterday visited Mr. Hellen & his family, they are all...
12From William Steuben Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 October 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your very complimentary letter of the 6th of September, I rejoice with you at the...
Through the protecting hand of a gracious Providence, I am rising from a bed of Sickness, where I...
14From William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have your letter of the 16th I hasten to ansr. it as I have by the same post receivd a Letter...
15From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1816 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you last week by Captain Bronson, and sent you a Volume of Letters from the Continent,...
16From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
It is so long a time my beloved Friend since I have had the satisfaction of hearing from you,...
I thank you My Dear, & revered Brother & Sister, for your repeated attentions to me, & mine. The...
18From William Cranch to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 November 1811 (Adams Papers)
I have not words, my dear Aunt, to express my gratitude for your kind and consoling letter of the...
I found your note this morning on my plate when I enterred the breakfast room and hasten to offer...
20From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 21 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
This day two Months have elapsed since Mr Gallatin and Mr Bayard arrived and delivered to me your...
21From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 May 1811 (Adams Papers)
The late french Ambassador at this Court, the Duke de Vicence, has taken leave, and his succesor...
22From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
I know not whether it was generosity, or any other virtue, or merely a disposition to receive the...
23From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday Morning I received the first information of the ratification, by the Government of the...
24From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 June 1816 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday I went to London, to the anniversary dinner of the Society of Friends of foreigners in...
25From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 October 1810 (Adams Papers)
Captain Smith, who was the bearer of your kind letter of 7. May, has met with the same misfortune...
26Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I owe you, dear Madam, a thousand thanks for the letters communicated in your favor of Dec. 15....
Unexpectedly I found myself once mor honoured with a few lines and well in a Season—in which the...
28From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 July 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received a very few days ago, your kind favour of 1. March last, which gave me great pleasure...
As I was, unexpectedly, So highly gratified with your favour of the 2d. instant, it might appear...
30From Abigal Adams Shaw Felt to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
It is impossible for me to express to you my dear, my much beloved Aunt, the consolation your...
31From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I had the good fortune of sending a single letter from this place to England, in time to go by...
I this Day by the Mail received your kind letter, & am happy to hear you got Home, with your...
33From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, July 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was very much gratified to find that it was not the Presidents, your own, or your family’s...
34From John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, 30 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
As the Couriers between Paris and St: Petersburg have not yet ceased to be dispatched, by the...
Your long silence (My Dear Sister) made me fear that you, or some of your family were sick—I was...
Mr. Todd having just called to announce his departure I hasten to write you although I do not...
Not one ray of information has reached us respecting your Family, or my Dear Mrs Cranch’s ill...
As Mrs: Perkins has kindly offered to take Letters, I hasten to answer your kind Letters of 24th:...
I hope my dear Sister, & family are well, though I have not heard from her for three last...
40From Richard Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 16 December 1814 (Adams Papers)
If I have detained the enclosed letter longer than was proper, I beg it may be ascribed, not to...