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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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21 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 9 March … | 1803-03-09 | I hear by Dr Tufts that our Medford Farm will be greatly injured by the middlesex Canal being cut... |
22 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 10 January 1803 | 1803-01-10 | Painful necessity has for many months prevented me the use of my own pen,—nor have I seen any... |
23 | Cranch, Elizabeth Palmer | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Palmer Cranch to Abigail Adams, 30 October … | 1802-10-30 | As the vacation draws near—and consequently the time to settle who are to form our family for the... |
24 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 October 1802 | 1802-10-21 | I have at length returned to the City for the purpose of remaining in it during the rest of the... |
25 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 July 1802 | 1802-07-14 | I have received & thank you for your favor of the 6 th: curr t: . This day, twelve months ago, I... |
26 | Cranch, Elizabeth Palmer | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Palmer Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1802 | 1802-07-02 | The solicitude you express’d to have your little Susan learn dancing, has induced me to make some... |
27 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1802 | 1802-05-28 | I have your favor of the 23 d: inst: before me. The Country looks so pleasant and inviting in the... |
28 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 May 1802 | 1802-05-07 | Since the receipt of your favor of the 18 th: ult: I have been absent from the City, a few days,... |
29 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 31 [sic] … | 1802-04-30 | I have been gratified by receiving two kind letters from you. No circumstance of joy or sorrow... |
30 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1802 | 1802-04-23 | Indolence shall no longer prevent my acknowledging, the pleasure I felt (my dear M rs Adams) from... |
31 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 March 1802 | 1802-03-20 | Your kind favors of 28 th: February & 13 th: March, came safe to hand; I thank you for them, and... |
32 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 March 1802 | 1802-03-12 | I am sorry that we are again obliged to postpone our visit to you at Quincy, as George is this... |
33 | Adams, Louisa Catherine | Adams, Abigail | Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail Adams, ante 8 March … | ≈1802-03-01 | Richard has just brought me your note and I am very happy to hear you are all well. Betsys Mother... |
34 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 February … | 1802-02-22 | I have your favor of the 7 th: inst t: before me; the letter for M rs: Adams, which came with it,... |
35 | Adams, Sarah Smith | Adams, Abigail | Sarah Smith Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 January 1802 | 1802-01-23 | Yours of the 10 th Instant was presented this morning— I am happy you again experience the... |
36 | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Adams, Abigail | Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Adams, 18 December … | 1801-12-18 | We came to the City on the 4 th. The weather & roads were as favorable as could be expected for... |
37 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 8 … | 1801-12-08 | I hope my Dear Sister, has had her Cup of happiness filled, by having an amiable long absent Son,... |
38 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 November 1801 | 1801-11-16 | We left Washington on the 3 d: inst t: as I informed you in my letter from that place of the 1... |
39 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 November 1801 | 1801-11-01 | I have intended every day since my arrival here to write you a line and inform you of my having... |
40 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, October 1801 | ≈1801-10-01 | Some time since Andrew Foster, a relation of Mrs. Otis, applied to Mr. Otis for admission as... |
41 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 October 1801 | 1801-10-24 | I have received your favors of the 5 th: & 12 th: curr t: ; the first containing the mournful... |
42 | Adams, Sarah Smith | Adams, Abigail | Sarah Smith Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 October 1801 | 1801-10-22 | I do not know why it is thus—but I am dissatisfied with myself untill I acknowledge your tender... |
43 | Adams, Louisa Catherine | Adams, Abigail | Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 October 1801 | 1801-10-02 | I have recieved your very kind letters and should certainly have answer’d them sooner had I not... |
44 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 September … | 1801-09-20 | I received your favor of the 10 th: inst t: the Day before yesterday, with an enclosure for J Q A... |
45 | Gerry, Elbridge | Adams, Abigail | Elbridge Gerry to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1801 | 1801-09-03 | In our absence from home, you was so obliging as to address a line to M rs Gerry, which she has... |
46 | Smith, Abigail Adams | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 21 August 1801 | 1801-08-21 | Our city has sustained a very great loss in the death of Dr. Bailey. As health officer, he was... |
47 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 13 July … | 1801-07-13 | For the communications by Mrs Black, you have my grateful acknowledgements. She made me only a... |
48 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 31 May 1801 | 1801-05-31 | I received your favor of the 16 th: on the 23 d: inst t: . My time has been so much taken up,... |
49 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1801 | 1801-05-02 | Your favor of the 22 d: ult o: has been a few days in hand. I thank you kindly for “the word... |
50 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1801 | 1801-04-26 | Ten days ago, I shipped your Carriage on board a Schooner called the Hannah of Nantucket bound... |
51 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 16 April 1801 | 1801-04-16 | I have received the things you sent me by Townsend and my Aunt Cranch with your letter of this... |
52 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 April 1801 | 1801-04-14 | I received a few days ago your kind letter of 29 January. After having been so many months... |
53 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 March 1801 | 1801-03-30 | Your kind letter dated this day week, has just come to hand. I rejoice to hear of your arrival... |
54 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 March … | 1801-03-29 | A mind agitated by the Vicissitudes attendant upon the present juncture of publick affairs, &... |
55 | Storer, Hannah Quincy Lincoln | Adams, Abigail | Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams, 14 March … | 1801-03-14 | Permit Me, dear Madam, to offer My thanks for Your care of letters, from Our dear Children— And... |
56 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 March 1801 | 1801-03-10 | I am almost asham’d to acknowledge how long it has been since I wrote you last, and can only hope... |
57 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 March 1801 | 1801-03-02 | For a few days past, every moment of my time has been so compleatly occupied in official duties,... |
58 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 February 1801 | 1801-02-25 | I have had the pleasure to receive your very kind letter of the 14 th of Feb. at Baltimore, for... |
59 | Cranch, William | Adams, Abigail | William Cranch to Abigail Adams, 20 February 1801 | 1801-02-20 | I have a thousand times wish’d to express to you my gratitude for the attentions I received from... |
60 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1801 | 1801-02-16 | Saturday night 9 O Clock and not before I rec d yours of 13 th. and the Letter to Thomas with it,... |
61 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1801 | 1801-01-09 | I have received your letters of the 2 d: & 3 d: inst ts: and thank you for them— I shall agree... |
62 | Tudor, William | Adams, Abigail | William Tudor to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1801 | 1801-01-09 | It was with great Pleasure that I recognized the well known Hand writing, which it is so many... |
63 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 December … | 1800-12-30 | Your kind letter of the 25 th: inst t: came by this day’s Mail. I have found a Coachee ready... |
64 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1800 | 1800-12-28 | I have just clos’d a long Letter to sister Peabody from whom I reciev’d one last week— Tis the... |
65 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 December … | 1800-12-20 | Our Supreme Court being in session, has occupied my time so much as to prevent answering your... |
66 | Lee, Susanna | Adams, Abigail | Susanna Lee to Abigail Adams, 16 December 1800 | 1800-12-16 | With the most timid respect do I address M rs: Adams on a subject so interesting to me that I... |
67 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 … | 1800-12-15 | Not one word have I heard from my Dear Sister, since I left Boston, nor have I had any... |
68 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 December 1800 | 1800-12-07 | I last week receiv’d your first Letter from the city of washington. I began to grow impatient not... |
69 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 November 1800 | 1800-11-15 | I rec d last night your Letter of the 11 th. Your Girls and M r shipley arrived in good health... |
70 | Cranch, Richard | Adams, Abigail | Richard Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 November 1800 | 1800-11-10 | I have the great Happiness of informing you that M rs. Cranch remains better. Her Boyls, with... |