I know that my Dear Sister, will rejoice to hear that the kind Healer of the sick, has again...
It has been a cold backward Spring, & Abby could not get abroad as I wished, she has a great deal...
The human Pores have been so long obstructed by the late severe Season, & peircing winds of...
If all the tenderest sympathy of a most affectionate Sister, could soothe your afflicted Breast,...
I have often felt thankful that we cannot trace our Geneology to the family of Kill-Joys , but...
I have been hoping every day since since I got home, that I should have more leisure tomorrow ,...
The very sudden change of the weather last Sabbath, when I was in a high state of persperation;...
The Time since I have written to you, I acknowledge is too long for One, whose Heart is deeply...
Has not this long term of rainy weather made you sick? it has almost every body arround us—& I...
Last week I went to Newburyport to accompany Capt Peabody, when I returned a Letter from my...
Your Letter my Dear Sister, received a week since, flattered me with the pleasing Prospect of our...
You know my Dear Sister, that my Heart is ever prone “to rejoice with those who rejoice, as well...
It is two years this month, through the Blessing of Heaven, since I have been prevented by...
I will not, I dare not, stop to think how long it is, since I have written to my Dear Sister, but...
65From Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, 9 May 1808 (Adams Papers)
Last Wednesday Miss Livermore was conducted by her Brother, from this House, as far as Haverhill,...
None but an affectionate Sister, can tell how much I was gratified, to recognize your well known...
By Mrs Welsh, who spent the afternoon with us, I was informed that Your dear Grandson was going...
By your Letter I was glad to find it was only the agitation occasioned by extraordinary, &...
I hope my Dear Sister’s Fibres are not so relaxed by the late intense heat of the weather, as not...
I am rejoiced to hear that you, & my niece got home safe. Such little excursions are really...
My social Spirit, which often nightly “me revisits,” has been so busy, & importunate of late as...
I received your kind letter, with the sum enclosed for Mr Little. Butter has, since yours was...
Thanks be to kind Providence we are all alive though the cold Tuesday our blood seemed...
Yesterdays mail conveyed me your kind Letter, which convinced me you had experienced those solid...