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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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21 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 May 1786 | 1786-05-07 | Yes my dear Sister I have thought it very long since I have receiv’d a Letter from you and... |
22 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1786 | 1786-05-21 | Is it possible that my dear Niece should really be married and the little visiting Card upon... |
23 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1786 | 1786-05-22 | I have been almost frighted out of my senses this afternoon. Your Mother Hall and Polly Adams... |
24 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1786 | 1786-07-02 | I did not receive your last Letter by the way of new york till after the vessail had Sail’d with... |
25 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1786 | 1786-07-10 | I have within this Hour receiv’d your Letters by captain Bigelow and have also heard that cushing... |
26 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 14 July 1786 | 1786-07-14 | Capt Folger is slipt a way without one line from me. I did not design it should have been so, but... |
27 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 24 September 1786 | 1786-09-24 | In my last I told you I suppos’d your Son Thomas would enter college at the end of the vacancy.... |
28 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 September 1786 | 1786-09-28 | In the begining of this month I made a visit to Haverhill found them all well. Mr Duncan married... |
29 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 8 October 1786 | 1786-10-08 | I last evening receiv’d your kind Letter by the Way of new york and most heartily congratulate... |
30 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1786 | 1786-10-09 | As I was seting quite alone this evening somebody came in from Boston with a Hankerchief full of... |
31 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 October 1786 | 1786-10-22 | Cousin Charles and I have stay’d at home from meeting to day, he to write to his Papa and I... |
32 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 26 November 1786 | 1786-11-26 | Come home my Sister, that Braintree may have some of its old inhabitants residing in it. Could... |
33 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 31 December 1786 | 1786-12-31 | I reciev’d a few days since your Letter of Sepr. 12th and yesterday that of october the 12th and... |
34 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 January 1787 | 1787-01-10 | I have sent one Letter on Board callahan, but hope he has not yet sail’d, as I have much to say... |
35 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 January 1787 | 1787-01-10 | There is another vessel up which will sail soon. What I may have omited by this I shall write by... |
36 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1787 | 1787-02-09 | If you have reciev’d our Letters by Capn Callahan you will be in Some measure prepair’d for the... |
37 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 April and 20 May … | ≈1787-04-22 | Captain Cushing arriv’d last Monday after a tedious Passage It was so long since I receiv’d any... |
38 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 27 May 1787 | 1787-05-27 | I went to Boston yesterday & had the mortification to find my Letters did not go by Barnard or... |
39 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1787 | 1787-06-29 | I have sent one Letter on Board capt Cushing but it is so long since that unless I Write again... |
40 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1787 | 1787-07-16 | My dear sister will I am sure excuse me if I send her now but a short Letter—when she is inform’d... |
41 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1787 | 1787-07-21 | The Day—the mighty Day is over, & our Sons have perform’d their Parts—& receiv’d the Honour of... |
42 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 August – 1 … | ≈1787-08-19 | The vacancys of our Sons always produces a hurry in our business & although we endeavour to keep... |
43 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 September 1787 | 1787-09-23 | I wrote to you about three weeks since thinking clallahan would sail immediatly but he is not yet... |
44 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 30 September 1787 | 1787-09-30 | I went to Boston last Monday & there found that Barnard had arriv’d & brought me Letters both... |
45 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 October 1787 | 1787-10-21 | To hear that our dear good uncle Smith is added to the number of the Friends who have departed... |
46 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 December 1787 | 1787-12-22 | I last week heard from all your sons they were well. After this you may read on calmly— We are... |
47 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 30 November – 2 … | ≈1788-11-30 | I have been waiting above a week hopeing to have a Letter from my dear sister informing me of her... |
48 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 14 December 1788 | 1788-12-14 | I do indeed rejoice with you all upon the happy event which took place in mr smiths Family before... |
49 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 June 1789 | 1789-06-21 | I last evening receiv’d your kind Letter from Providence but shall not be able to get one to you... |
50 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5–6 July 1789 | ≈1789-07-05 | I promiss’d to write you by the Post when your Furniture Sail’d but Doctor Tufts Said he had done... |
51 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1789 | 1789-07-30 | I can never Sufficiently express my thanks or my gratitude for your last kind & affectionate... |
52 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 August 1789 | 1789-08-02 | I have been several times to your new house but I do feel such a want of my dear sisters smiling... |
53 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1789 | 1789-09-08 | I am quite discourag’d writing by the Post I know not if you have ever receiv’d one Letter Which... |
54 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, October 1[5?]-25 … | ≈1789-10-15 | I have at last receiv’d your Letter but never was poor creature more dissapointed I thought to be... |
55 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 1-4 November 1789 | ≈1789-11-01 | The dull weather of Last week has prevented sister Shaw from making her visit or she would have... |
56 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1790 | 1790-02-28 | I know you Will rejoice to hear that cousin Tom has got comfortable through the Measles. He... |
57 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 1 April 1790 | 1790-04-01 | I last Week receiv’d your Letter date 15 th. of March in which you mention writing me three weeks... |
58 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 16–25 May 1790 | ≈1790-05-16 | I last evening receiv’d your Letter without a date but believe it was your last as you mention... |
59 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 4 July 1790 | 1790-07-04 | Mr Cranch has pack’d your things & sent them on Board Captain Barnard I hope they will go safe... |
60 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 August 1790 | 1790-08-09 | It is so long since I have heard from you that I begin to be very uneasy I am the more so as I... |
61 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, [after 22] … | ≈1790-09-22 | I beleive cousin Thomas has wanted his Trunk. I hear that Barnard did not sail till last week I... |
62 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1790 | 1790-12-12 | I have been waiting with impatience to hear of your arrival in Philedelphia, your health was so... |
63 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 January 1791 | 1791-01-07 | What a Succession of troubles have you had to incounter & not one of us to help you through them—... |
64 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 25 January 1791 | 1791-01-25 | I last week receiv’d your kind Letter of the 9th of this month & rejoice to here that you are all... |
65 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 16 October 1791 | 1791-10-16 | I wrote you last Sunday by Doctor Welsh & your son who were here & sent it to new-york where you... |
66 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 11 December 1791 | 1791-12-11 | I again take my pen to write to my dear sister tis a long time I know you think since you have... |
67 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 8 April 1792 | 1792-04-08 | I last Week receiv’d your Letter of the 20th & 21 d of March with cousin Louisias giving me an... |
68 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 4 May 1797 | 1797-05-04 | I this day receiv’d your kind Letter from Springfield. I Set you down in Brookfield in my mind... |
69 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 May 1797 | 1797-05-29 | I hear by mr Smith & Cousin Louissa’s Letter to her Sister that your journey made you sick for... |
70 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1797 | 1797-06-13 | I had a mantua makaker & a Tailor last week which keept me so fully imploy’d that I had not time... |