301From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 January 1815 (Adams Papers)
To day I re ceived your Letter with its contents all safe, & thank you for your care & for your...
302From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 March 1812 (Adams Papers)
Though the Season has returned when the genial warmth of the Sun, invigorated our chilled Blood,...
303From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
Last Tuesday the Horn blew to announce the Departure of the Mail an Hour sooner than the usual...
304From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 18 June 1808 (Adams Papers)
Mr Lion and his intended I suppose so , as the modern phrase is, called here last Wednesday—I was...
305From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 29 August 1814 (Adams Papers)
I feel very grateful to my dear Sister, that though surrounded by agreeable, & dear Friends, she...
To see Abby Adams’ marriage announced in the public Paper, was at this time, to us a very...
307From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, March 1812 (Adams Papers)
I have been for several Days waiting, & hoping I should find leisure to write to my Dear Sister,...
308From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 June 1814 (Adams Papers)
With pleasure I congratulate My Dear Brothers & Sister, upon the agreeable prospect they have of...
The excellent Sermon you sent, me was indeed “a cordial to my Heart—” I thank Mr Whitney for the...
I hope my Dear Sister, will excuse all my bad writing, & every inaccuracy which weekly presents...
311From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 7 April 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your kind Letters of Feb. 15th & March 31st lie before me, in which I find are several things...
I scarcely know when was the last time that I wrote to my Dear Sister, but this I can fully...
313From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 6 March 1809 (Adams Papers)
To tell you that I am exceedingly grieved , to hear that you have been very sick, would be to...
314From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 5 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
your good grandchildren are just gone to repose in the arms of sweet Sleep, soothed by the...
You will now have no occasion to wish for more Snow, if at Quincy you are favoured with as much...
I know that my Dear Sister, will rejoice to hear that the kind Healer of the sick, has again...
317From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 10 May 1806 (Adams Papers)
It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal...
318From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 26 April 1812 (Adams Papers)
The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of...
319From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 August 1813 (Adams Papers)
If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,...
320From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 May 1814 (Adams Papers)
I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but...
I have been hoping every day since since I got home, that I should have more leisure tomorrow ,...
322From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 28 June 1811 (Adams Papers)
The very sudden change of the weather last Sabbath, when I was in a high state of persperation;...
The Time since I have written to you, I acknowledge is too long for One, whose Heart is deeply...
324From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 17 August 1812 (Adams Papers)
Has not this long term of rainy weather made you sick? it has almost every body arround us—& I...
325From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 August 1806 (Adams Papers)
Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my...
326From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 3 August 1811 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter my Dear Sister, received a week since, flattered me with the pleasing Prospect of our...
327From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 12 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
You know my Dear Sister, that my Heart is ever prone “to rejoice with those who rejoice, as well...
It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by...
I will not, I dare not, stop to think how long it is, since I have written to my Dear Sister, but...
330From 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...
332From 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...
333From 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, &...
334From 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...
335From 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...
337From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 15 June 1808 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind letter, with the sum enclosed for Mr Little. Butter has, since yours was...
Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed...
339From 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...
340From 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,...
341From John Pope to Abigail Smith Adams, 20 July 1817 (Adams Papers)
I am one of the Trustees of the Trasylvania University, and on that account have to request the...
342From 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...
For some time past I have been wishing to have the pleasure of writing to you, to express my...
I had the pleasure to receive your kind and friendly letter yesterday, and hasten to inform you,...
345From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 June 1813 (Adams Papers)
It is matter of much consolation to know that frends so dear to My lamented husband as Mr and Mrs...
346From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 June 1815 (Adams Papers)
Altho’ I have not had the pleasure to receive a letter from you, since I last wrote; yet your...
347From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 March 1814 (Adams Papers)
Your kind attention in answering my letters heretofore, and my last being yet unanswered excites...
348From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 13 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I want words to express the grateful feelings of my heart for your kind sympathy on our late...
349From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 19 September 1817 (Adams Papers)
Will you permit me at this late period to come before you with my congratulations on the return...
350From Julia Stockton Rush to Abigail Smith Adams, 23 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
My daughter Cuthbert has written to me declaring her wishes to make me a visit this summer if one...