No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 1762 – 1763 | ≈1762-01-01 | I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to... |
2 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 | 1762-10-04 | By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give... |
3 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763 | 1763-02-14 | Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.—I intended to have been at... |
4 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 | 1763-04-20 | Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity... |
5 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, August 1763 | ≈1763-08-01 | Germantown is at a great Distance from Weymouth Meeting-House, you know; The No. of Yards indeed... |
6 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 15 August 1763 | 1763-08-15 | The Disappointment you mention was not intended, but quite accidental. A Gentleman, for whom I... |
7 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 April 1764 | 1764-04-07 | For many Years past, I have not felt more serenely than I do this Evening. My Head is clear, and... |
8 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 11 April 1764 | 1764-04-11 | The Room which I thought would have been an Hospital or a Musaeum, has really proved a Den of... |
9 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 11 April 1764 | 1764-04-11 | This is the last Opportunity I shall have to write you from Braintree for some Weeks. You may... |
10 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 12 April 1764 | 1764-04-12 | I have Thoughts of sending you a Nest of Letters like a nest of Basketts; tho I suspect the... |
11 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 13 April 1764 | 1764-04-13 | We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins.... |
12 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 April 1764 | 1764-04-14 | The Deacon and his Three Children are arrivd and the Operation has been performed, and all well.... |
13 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 17 April 1764 | 1764-04-17 | Yours of April 15th. this moment received. I thank You for it—and for your offer of Milk, but We... |
14 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 18 April 1764 | 1764-04-18 | Three of our Company, have now the Small Pox upon them, Wheat, Badger, and Elderkin. We have seen... |
15 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 26 April 1764 | 1764-04-26 | Many have been the particular Reasons against my Writing for several days past, but one general... |
16 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 May 1764 | 1764-05-04 | Returned from a Ramble in Town which began at 10 in the Morning. Dined with my Friend S. Adams... |
17 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764 | 1764-05-07 | I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever... |
18 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 8 May 1764 | 1764-05-08 | This Morning received yours by Mr. Ayers. I can say nothing to the Contents at present, being... |
19 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Smith, 30 September 1764 | 1764-09-30 | I have this Evening been to see the Girl.—What Girl? Pray, what Right have you to go after... |
20 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1769 | 1769-06-29 | I embrace with Joy, this Opportunity of writing you. Mr. Langdon, who is to be the Bearer, was so... |
21 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1769 | 1769-07-01 | We have lived thro the Heat, and Toil, and Confusion of this Week. We have tried three of the... |
22 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 September 1771 | 1771-09-17 | There is no Business here —And I presume as little at Braintree. The Pause in the English Trade,... |
23 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1772 | ≈1772-05-01 | I take an opportunity by Mr. Kent, to let you know that I am at Plymouth, and pretty well. Shall... |
24 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 February 1774 | 1774-02-24 | I was very glad to receive a Line from you, by Mr. French, tho the Account you give me of the... |
25 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1774 | 1774-05-12 | I am extreamly afflicted with the Relation your Father gave me, of the Return of your Disorder. I... |
26 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1774 | 1774-06-23 | I had a tollerable Journey hither, but my Horse trotted too hard. I miss my own Mare—however I... |
27 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 | 1774-06-29 | The Prophet of York has not prophecy’d in vain. There is in this Town and County a Laodiceanism... |
28 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 | 1774-06-29 | This is the second day of the Term at York: very little Business--very hot weather. My... |
29 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774 | 1774-06-29 | I have a great Deal of Leisure, which I chiefly employ in Scribbling, that my Mind may not stand... |
30 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 | 1774-06-30 | I have nothing to do here, but to take the Air, enquire for News, talk Politicks and write... |
31 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 June 1774 | 1774-06-30 | I have had a Curiosity to examine what could have been the Cause of Parson Lymans Affection to... |
32 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1774 | 1774-07-01 | I am so idle, that I have not an easy Moment, without my Pen in my Hand. My Time might have been... |
33 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1774 | 1774-07-02 | I have concluded, to mount my Horse, tomorrow Morning at four, and ride to Wells to hear my old... |
34 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1774 | 1774-07-03 | Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Quincy and I came this Morning from York, before Breakfast, 15 Miles, in order... |
35 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 5 July 1774 | 1774-07-05 | I cant be easy without my Pen in my Hand, yet I know not what to write. I have this Morning heard... |
36 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 | 1774-07-06 | Mobs are the trite Topick of Declamation and Invective, among all the ministerial People, far and... |
37 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 July 1774 | 1774-07-06 | Our J ustic e H utchinso n is eternally giving his Political Hints. In a Cause, this Morning,... |
38 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 | 1774-07-07 | Have you seen a List of the Addressers of the late Governor? There is one abroad, with the... |
39 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams: Falmouth, 7 July 1774 | 1774-07-07 | I am engaged in a famous Cause: The Cause of King, of Scarborough vs. a Mob, that broke into his... |
40 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 July 1774 | 1774-07-09 | I never enjoyed better Health in any of my Journeys, but this has been the most tedious, the most... |
41 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 August 1774 | 1774-08-28 | I received your kind Letter, at New York, and it is not easy for you to imagine the Pleasure it... |
42 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 September 1774 | 1774-09-08 | When or where this Letter will find you, I know not. In what Scenes of Distress and Terror, I... |
43 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 September 1774 | 1774-09-14 | I have written but once to you since I left you. This is to be imputed to a Variety of Causes,... |
44 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1774 | 1774-09-16 | Having a Leisure Moment, while the Congress is assembling, I gladly embrace it to write you a... |
45 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 September 1774 | 1774-09-18 | I received your very agreable Letter, by Mr. Marston, and have received two others, which gave me... |
46 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 September 1774 | 1774-09-18 | In your last you inquire tenderly after my Health, and how we found the People upon our Journey,... |
47 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 September 1774 | 1774-09-20 | I am very well yet:—write to me as often as you can, and send your Letters to the Office in... |
48 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1774 | 1774-09-25 | I would not loose the Opportunity of writing to you—tho I must be short. Tedious, indeed is our... |
49 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1774 | 1774-09-29 | Sitting down to write to you, is a Scene almost too tender for my State of Nerves. It calls up to... |
50 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1774 | 1774-10-07 | I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I... |