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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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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... |
71 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 27 June 1797 | 1797-06-27 | I never visit or pass your house but I think of that beautiful & simple Song in the Spectator The... |
72 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 13 July 1797 | 1797-07-13 | I write my dear Sister with a hope that this letter will not find you in Philadelphia but as we... |
73 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1797 | 1797-07-26 | we have made every thing as ready for your reception as we can. but alass I fear we Shall not see... |
74 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1797 | 1797-10-15 | I thank you for your Letter from worcester since that I have heard by the papers you have arriv’d... |
75 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 2 November 1797 | 1797-11-02 | I last monday receiv’d your Letter of the 22 d of october it was a long time coming. I wrote to... |
76 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 November 1797 | 1797-11-19 | That you have reciev’d but one Letter from me my dear Sister is not because I have not written I... |
77 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 November 1797 | 1797-11-29 | I thank you for your Letter of the 15th of Nov br. before this I hope you have receiv’d another... |
78 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 17 December 1797 | 1797-12-17 | I design’d to have written you last week but was prevented by company I have receiv’d your Letter... |
79 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 24 December 1797 | 1797-12-24 | I have not been So shock’d for a long time as by the account of mr & mrs Halls death. Cousen... |
80 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 January 1798 | 1798-01-07 | I design’d to have written you by the friday mail but on Wednsday mr Norton came over to attend... |
81 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 20 January 1798 | 1798-01-20 | I wonder Sister Peabody Should trouble you about our Nephews concerns. the first Letter She wrote... |
82 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1798 | 1798-02-09 | what a feast you have sent us my good sister. for alhough it may be call’d a feast of bitter... |
83 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 February 1798 | 1798-02-18 | I write again my dear Sister because I know you love to hear from me, & not that I have any thing... |
84 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 February 1798 | 1798-02-23 | I cannot enough thank you my dear Sister for your kind Letter its Sisterly contents Sink deep in... |
85 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1798 | 1798-03-22 | I write now because I know how it feels to be disappointed not because I have any thing to... |
86 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 1 April 1798 | 1798-04-01 | I thank you for your Letter of the 20th of march which I receiv’d yesterday & for the papers you... |
87 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 5 April 1798 | 1798-04-05 | I last week had to inform you of the Sudden death of my much value’d Freind Mrs Quincy I Now have... |
88 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 20 April 1798 | 1798-04-20 | I have read the dispatches from the Envoys with as much astonishment as the Jacobins in congress... |
89 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1798 | 1798-04-23 | I write now merely to inform you that I have reciev’d your two Lettes of the 9th & 13th of this... |
90 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 April 1798 | 1798-04-29 | I am doom’d my dear Sister to be the messenger of death to you. I believe for five weeks past my... |
91 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1798 | 1798-05-10 | I can never sufficiently thank you for your Letters & the communications you so frequently Supply... |
92 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1798 | 1798-05-18 | I too have taken my pen with the rising Sun. I have been so disturb’d with the account of the... |
93 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1798 | 1798-05-25 | Vanity of vanity! & the conseiquenc of it is vexation of Spirit— who ever is inclin’d to live... |
94 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1798 | 1798-05-28 | I yesterday receiv’d your kind Letter of the 18th my Sons & mrs Johnson to you. you cannot think... |
95 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 10 June 1798 | 1798-06-10 | I have at last heard from atkinson I had just Sent a long Letter to sister when I receiv’d one... |
96 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 June 1798 | 1798-06-15 | I have been at hard work this morning & my hands tremble So, I can Scarcly hold my Pen, but if I... |
97 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1798 | 1798-06-22 | I have had the House full of company for a week & have not been able to Steal a moments to write... |
98 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1798 | 1798-06-29 | Nothing but dire necessaty has prevented my writing as often as you could wish I do not always... |
99 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1798 | 1798-07-07 | How did you live thro’ the heat of Monday & Teusday we could but just breathe the glasses Stood... |
100 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 October 1799 | 1799-10-19 | I was very glad to hear by the Letter you sent me from Brookfield, that you had got Safely so... |