It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by...
252From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
By Mrs Welsh, who spent the afternoon with us, I was informed that Your dear Grandson was going...
253From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &...
254From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 July 1811 (Adams Papers)
I hope my Dear Sister’s Fibres are not so relaxed by the late intense heat of the weather, as not...
255From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 26 July 1809 (Adams Papers)
I am rejoiced to hear that you, & my niece got home safe. Such little excursions are really...
My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as...
Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed...
258From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 June 1812 (Adams Papers)
Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid...
259From Emily Phillips to Abigail Smith Adams, 14 September 1810 (Adams Papers)
I am sorry my dear Madam to be under the necessity of communicating melancholly tidings to you,...
I had the pleasure to receive your kind and friendly letter yesterday, and hasten to inform you,...