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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1808-01-24 | To-morrow will be a fortnight since you left me; I have watched the weather with much solicitude,... |
| 2 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1808-05-28 | Your letter of May the 8th, your grandpapa brought home with him from church, on Sunday the 20th;... |
| 3 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1808-08-30 | Your Apology for not having written before was accepted by your grandmother. To be attentive to... |
| 4 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1808-11-17 | I can scarcly belive that I have not written to my dear Girl for so long a time as two months,... |
| 5 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1809-02-02 | I have not written to you this year! and this is the second month of it, and let us ask the... |
| 6 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1809-08-12 | last Saturday my Dear Children and grandsons viz William your Brother, and little Charles Adams... |
| 7 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1809-12-09 | Thursday the 30th of November was our thanksgiving day. I was not able to go to meeting owing to... |
| 8 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1809-12-09 | Thursday, 30th November, was our Thanksgiving Day; I was not able to attend church, owing to my... |
| 9 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1810-10-08 | I hope you received the letters safe which I inclosed to you from your brother. I wish I could... |
| 10 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-02-26 | Your Letter, my dear Caroline, gave me pleasure. As all your’s are calculated to enliven the... |
| 11 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-04-18 | I write you a few lines just to say that I send your mother a century Sermon, preached in this... |
| 12 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1811-08-11 | I do not know how our account stands, whether I am indebted for a letter or you, but I shall not... |
| 13 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1812-08-06 | I received your letter this day, written from Springfield; this has been a relief to us to hear... |
| 14 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1812-11-19 | Your neat, pretty letter, looking small, but containing much, reached me this day. I have a good... |
| 15 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1812-11-27 | Yesterday was our Thanksgiving day. In our own way, and with tempers suited to the occasion, we... |
| 16 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1813-02-21 | delightfull praise! like summer Rose that brighter in the dew drop glows— they were Sweet Drops... |
| 17 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1813-05-03 | I inclose you a volm from Harriot, and I have written to your Mother so late, that I have not a... |
| 18 | Smith, William Stephens | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From William Stephens Smith to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1813-06-25 | I was made very happy by the receipt of your letter of the 7th. I have enclosed two papers to... |
| 19 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1814-09-27 | This morning’s post brought me your letter of the 20th. We were all delighted; grandfather’s... |
| 20 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1814-10-23 | If you find as many joyful faces to receive you, as you have left sorrowful hearts behind you,... |
| 21 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1815-02-19 | my dear Caroline must be informd that her Grand mothers Eyes are so much afflicted as to oblige... |
| 22 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1816-06-05 | After a year’s absence I came yesterday to make a visit to my friends for three days. Our anxiety... |
| 23 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1816-06-21 | It was with a heavy heart and trembling hand, that I yesterday broke the seal of your letter to... |
| 24 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1818-01-29 | As Dean Swift says, “eyes with writing almost blind,” I commence a letter to you, near ten... |
| 25 | Adams, Abigail Smith | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1818-03-22 | “Delightful praise, like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows.” They were sweet drops... |
| 26 | Welsh, Harriet | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From Harriet Welsh to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 1 … | 1818-11-01 | The few first days after I came to Quincy namely 19th. 20th. & morning of 21st—She was very weak... |
| 27 | Adams, John Quincy | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1819-03-19 | I gave the Portrait of my beloved and lamented Sister your dear Mother, to mine, without reserve... |
| 28 | Adams, John | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 19 … | 1819-05-19 | Thank Mr De Wint for his Box of New york Cider Grove champaigne—Accept my thanks for the two... |
| 29 | Adams, John | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From John Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 1 … | 1820-01-01 | I wish you a happy New year, and as many new-years as your Nature can bear, in health Peace and... |
| 30 | Adams, John Quincy | De Windt, Caroline Amelia Smith | From John Quincy Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De … | 1820-01-17 | There is but one copy of the “Epistle to my Mother” extant, and that is an unfinished fragment—I... |