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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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11 | Aitken, Robert | Adams, John | [Robert Aitken’s Bill for Books] | 1775-12-08 | John Adams Esqr. Bought of R. Aitken 1775 Decr. 8 To 3 red Memdm. books @ 1/3 3 9 To 2 Sticks... |
12 | Smith, Daniel | Adams, John | [Daniel Smith’s Bill for Entertainment.] | 1775-12-08 | Jno. Adams Dr. s d 1775 To Club Venison Dinner 10 10 2 Bottles Cyder 2 S 12 10 M-Ar : vol. 210.... |
13 | Yard, Sarah | Adams, John | [Sarah Yard’s Bill for Board.] | 1775-12-09 | To Board from Septr. 12 to Decr. 8 at 30s. per Week 18: 17: 0 To a Servants Board for same Time... |
14 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 | 1763-08-11 | If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon... |
15 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 | 1763-09-12 | You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure.... |
16 | Green, Hannah Storer | Adams, John | Hannah Storer Green to John Adams, 20 February 1764 | 1764-02-20 | I think myself greatly indebted to you, for the honor you do my judgment, in refering so... |
17 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 | 1764-04-07 | How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me... |
18 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 | 1764-04-08 | If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch... |
19 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 April 1764 | 1764-04-12 | Here am I all alone, in my Chamber, a mere Nun I assure you, after professing myself thus will it... |
20 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 15 April 1764 | 1764-04-15 | Mr. Cranch informs me that Hones will go to Town tomorrow, and that I may not miss one... |
21 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 16 April 1764 | 1764-04-16 | I think I write to you every Day. Shall not I make my Letters very cheep; don’t you light your... |
22 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 19 April 1764 | 1764-04-19 | Why my good Man, thou hast the curiosity of a Girl. Who could have believed that only a slight... |
23 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 30 April 1764 | 1764-04-30 | Your Friendly Epistle reach’d me a fryday morning, it came like an Infernal Mesenger, thro fire... |
24 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 May 1764 | 1764-05-04 | Your desire that I would write every Opportunity is punctually observed by me, And I comply with... |
25 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 9 May 1764 | 1764-05-09 | Welcome, Welcome thrice welcome is Lysander to Braintree, but ten times more so would he be at... |
26 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 4 October 1764 | 1764-10-04 | I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken about help. I am very willing to submit to... |
27 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 | 1764-10-13 | When I wrote you by the Doctor I was in hopes that I should have been out the next day, but my... |
28 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 September 1767 | 1767-09-13 | The Doctor talks of Setting out tomorrow for New Braintree. I did not know but that he might... |
29 | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 21 February 1771 | 1771-02-21 | I have very little of a political, or of any other kind of entertainment to give you. Yet I... |
30 | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Jr. to John Adams, 3 September 1771 | 1771-09-03 | I have just returned from an agreable excursion, in the course of which I had the pleasure of... |
31 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 December 1773 | 1773-12-30 | Alass! How many snow banks devide thee and me and my warmest wishes to see thee will not melt one... |
32 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, John | Mercy Otis Warren to John and Abigail Adams, 17 May … | 1774-05-17 | Mr. Warren being prevented by many Avocations from writing this Morning, has put the pen into the... |
33 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 August 1774 | 1774-08-15 | I know not where this will find you whether upon the road, or at Phylidelphia, but where-ever it... |
34 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 19 August 1774 | 1774-08-19 | The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month... |
35 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 2 September 1774 | 1774-09-02 | I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your... |
36 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 14 September 1774 | 1774-09-14 | Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by... |
37 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 | 1774-09-22 | I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day... |
38 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, John | John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 13 October 1774 | 1774-10-13 | I have been trying ever since you went away to learn to write you a Letter. I shall make poor... |
39 | Smith, Elizabeth (1750-1815) | Adams, John | Elizabeth Smith to John Adams, 14 October 1774 | 1774-10-14 | I have (my Dear Brother) been more than entertained by perusing a number of your Letters to my... |
40 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 | 1774-10-16 | I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I... |
41 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 May 1775 | 1775-05-04 | I have but little news to write you. Every thing of that kind you will learn by a more accurate... |
42 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1775 | 1775-05-07 | I received by the Deacon two Letters from you this Day from Hartford. I feel a recruit of spirits... |
43 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 24 May 1775 | 1775-05-24 | Suppose you have had a formidable account of the alarm we had last Sunday morning. When I rose... |
44 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 June 1775 | 1775-06-16 | I set down to write to you a monday, but really could not compose myself sufficently: the anxiety... |
45 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 18 June 1775 | 1775-06-18 | The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting Heart... |
46 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 June 1775 | 1775-06-22 | I received yours of june 10, for which I thank you. I want you to be more perticuliar. Does every... |
47 | Smith, Isaac Sr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 24 June 1775 | 1775-06-24 | Long before this will reach you, you will have an Account of the Action, att Charlestown, in... |
48 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 June 1775 | 1775-06-25 | My Father has been more affected with the distruction of Charlstown, than with any thing which... |
49 | Thaxter, John | Adams, John | John Thaxter to John Adams, 28 June 1775 | 1775-06-28 | One of the many brave and gallant Actions that have graced our Arms, I take the Liberty of... |
50 | Tufts, Cotton | Adams, John | Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 3 July 1775 | 1775-07-03 | You have no Doubt long before this heard of the unhappy Fate of Charlestown, its Destruction by... |
51 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 July 1775 | 1775-07-05 | I have received a good deal of paper from you; I wish it had been more coverd; the writing is... |
52 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 12 July 1775 | 1775-07-12 | I have met with some abuse and very Ill treatment. I want you for my protector and justifier. In... |
53 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 July 1775 | 1775-07-16 | I have this afternoon had the pleasure of receiving your Letter by your Friends Mr. Collins and... |
54 | Cranch, Richard | Adams, John | Richard Cranch to John Adams, 24 July 1775 | 1775-07-24 | Sister Adams informs me that you complain that your Friends this way neglect writing to you. I... |
55 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 25 July 1775 | 1775-07-25 | I received yours of July 7 for which I heartily thank you, it was the longest and best Letter I... |
56 | Tufts, Cotton | Adams, John | Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 25 July 1775 | 1775-07-25 | Since my last to you, nothing very important has occurd. The Skirmish near Long Island, You have... |
57 | Smith, Isaac Sr. | Adams, John | Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 26 July 1775 | 1775-07-26 | I forgot in my last epistle, to desire you to speak to the Phila. printer’s of the News paper’s... |
58 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 July 1775 | 1775-07-31 | I do not feel easy more than two days together without writing to you. If you abound you must lay... |
59 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 August 1775 | 1775-08-10 | Tis with a sad Heart I take my pen to write to you because I must be the bearer of what will... |
60 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 September 1775 | 1775-09-08 | Since you left me I have passed thro great distress both of Body and mind; and whether greater is... |