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1 | 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... |
2 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 31 October 1799 | 1799-10-31 | Your favor of the 28 th inst I this morning had the pleasure to receive and for which my best... |
3 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1798 | 1798-12-28 | Not a single letter have we received from you since Monday. Uncle sighs and says, I wish Aunt... |
4 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 10 April 1800 | 1800-04-10 | I have the Honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 30 th. I am much gratified that... |
5 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 October 1799 | 1799-10-06 | We arrived at this place last evening about seven Oclock, where we have found most excellent... |
6 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 12 October 1799 | 1799-10-12 | After quite an agreeable journey we arrived at this place on the 10 th inst. where we have found... |
7 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1800 | 1800-02-26 | I have been honoured by your Letter of the 18 th — I have noticed its Contents, I consent to your... |
8 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 January 1798 | 1798-01-23 | Your kind attention to my last emboldens me again to interrupt your more important pursuits, &... |
9 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1800 | 1800-05-25 | By Major Toussard, we had the pleasure to hear of your being at Scotch plains in health, and of... |
10 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1799 | 1799-02-09 | Yours of the 2 d of Feb. I received this morning— The president says he cannot blame you for not... |
11 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 26 February 1799 | 1799-02-26 | I received your letter of the 14 th of Feb. yesterday— I enclosed to you this morning Browns... |
12 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 16 December 1798 | 1798-12-16 | I received your letter of Dec 9 th , with all that pleasure and satisfaction, which, the news of... |
13 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 21 January 1799 | 1799-01-21 | I am almost dead with a horrid cold and fear that before I shall half finish this letter I shall... |
14 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 December 1798 | 1798-12-20 | Notwithstanding my arms are so stiff, that I can scarcely move them, occasioned by cutting venson... |
15 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1798 | 1798-07-20 | O how happy should I be, were I to sit down to write you of my dear sisters better health, but... |
16 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 2 April 1798 | 1798-04-02 | Some lover of your nephews happiness, last thursday added something to the fragment of life, by... |
17 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 20 May 1798 | 1798-05-20 | Saturday April 21 st , I received yours of the 9 th . I wrote to you the 1 st of April in answer... |
18 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 16 February 1799 | 1799-02-16 | I have just received your letter of the 8 th of Feb. and feel grieved to find you in so low... |
19 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1799 | 1799-01-15 | I have received your letters of Jan. 3 d & 6 th with all that pleasure & gratitude which so much... |
20 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1798 | 1798-12-12 | The president received two letters the latest dated 3 d of Dec from you last Evening with a... |
21 | 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... |
22 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 30 December 1798 | 1798-12-30 | ’Though I have been writing a very long letter, to my wild, random, laughter loving Walter and... |
23 | 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... |
24 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 1 June 1800 | 1800-06-01 | Before I left Philadelphia, I wrote you, expecting the letter would overtake you at Brookfield.... |
25 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 25 November 1798 | 1798-11-25 | I have a thousand things to tell you and but a few minutes to write. We arrived in this city... |
26 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 February 1799 | 1799-02-05 | There is a class of men in this country, possessing some public confidence, but entirely... |
27 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 January 1799 | 1799-01-06 | I have seldom known it to be colder at the Eastward than it is here at present. Although I have a... |
28 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 8 June 1800 | 1800-06-08 | The last letter I wrote you was from Frederick Town. I should have written to you more... |
29 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 11 February 1799 | 1799-02-11 | With this I send you two more copies of the dispatches— A defence of the Alien & sedition bills... |
30 | 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,... |
31 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 18 December 1798 | 1798-12-18 | I have long been wishing to find time to give my aunt a history of the visit of Dr. Logan to the... |