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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 7 July … | 1798-07-07 | I received your Letter of June 21. on the 29 th the extreem heat of the last week so totally... |
| 2 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 September … | 1785-09-15 | Mr. Storer says the ship in which he is to embark will go down to day and that he shall go on... |
| 3 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 12 … | 1797-08-12 | I arrived here this day week, but have been so constantly occupied in seeing company that I have... |
| 4 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 19 July … | 1799-07-19 | I had the pleasure of seeing mr Peabody here, yesterday mor’g he got here the night before, but... |
| 5 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 12 … | 1796-02-12 | I last Evening received your kind Letter of the 6 th and was most sincerely rejoiced to find you... |
| 6 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 11 July 1784 | 1784-07-11 | This day 3 weeks I came on Board this Ship; and Heaven be praised, have hietherto had a... |
| 7 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 28 – 30 July … | ≈1784-07-28 | I think when I finishd the last page I was rubbing myself up on Board Ship. But this was not the... |
| 8 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 13 … | 1798-02-13 | I wrote you on the 23 Jan’ ry. you have not received a Letter of that date, for a very good... |
| 9 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 October 1786 | 1786-10-15 | And so my dear Sister all your Nephews have quitted your Hospitable Mansion for the university of... |
| 10 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 30 … | 1798-12-30 | I have not written to you for a long time it was my intention to have written by miss Palmer, but... |
| 11 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 7 April … | 1799-04-07 | This Letter will be deliverd to you by your son whom you will find improved in his Health,... |
| 12 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 25 … | 1797-09-25 | I last Evening received your Letter of the 19 & 20 th Instant. I am most sincerely grieved for... |
| 13 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 … | 1799-10-05 | I sent by the stage to Haverhill some cloaths for the Children, a suit of their Grandfathers... |
| 14 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 20 January 1787 | 1787-01-20 | You will see by the inclosed that I wrote you a long Letter, and that it has lain some time... |
| 15 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 11 January 1785 | 1785-01-11 | I was doubly rejoiced to receive a Letter from you not only on account of the pleasure which I... |
| 16 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 14 May … | 1799-05-14 | I am much mortified and dissapointed that I cannot have the pleasure which I anticipated of... |
| 17 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 18 … | 1797-12-18 | I wrote to you from East Chester, but I believe I have not written to you from hence. I was... |
| 18 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 4 … | 1800-02-04 | I cannot but lament that the cares and avocations of Your Family should so fully occupy your... |
| 19 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 22 June … | 1798-06-22 | I received last week your very excellent Letter whatever you write is always precious to me. No... |
| 20 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 2 June … | 1798-06-02 | Judge Blodget is here again, and offers to take Letters to you. he says he call’d and that you... |
| 21 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 24 April 1786 | 1786-04-24 | Mr jenks is suddenly obliged to return to America and I have only time to write you a few lines,... |
| 22 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, March 1778 | ≈1778-03-01 | I was meditating a Letter to my dear Sister when her agreable favour reachd my Hands. Tho my own... |
| 23 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 4 March 1786 | 1786-03-04 | I seldom feel a sufficient stimulous for writing untill I hear that a vessel is just about to... |
| 24 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, February – March … | ≈1782-02-01 | I yesterday received a congratulatory Letter from you, upon the safe arrival of my dear Charles,... |
| 25 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 8 May 1785 | 1785-05-08 | I do not expect to date you any more letters from this place. Delighfull and blooming Garden, how... |
| 26 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1786 | 1786-07-19 | Accept my thanks for your kind Letter of March 18th and for the pleasing favourable account you... |
| 27 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 14 December 1784 | 1784-12-14 | I know your good will to have written to me if you had been able. It gives me pain to hear that... |
| 28 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 17 September … | 1783-09-17 | It will not be in my power to get Beaf. Bisquit I can procure, I shall prepaire a dinner here and... |
| 29 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 15 August 1785 | 1785-08-15 | I have been situated here for near six weeks. It is one of the finest squares in London. The air... |
| 30 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 16 April … | 1800-04-16 | I have received two Charming Letters from my much loved sister since my last to her. they demand... |
| 31 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 21 November 1786 | 1786-11-21 | Mr Sparhawk calld upon us a Day or two ago, and deliverd me your kind Letter of: july the 20th.... |
| 32 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 18 July … | 1800-07-18 | I received Your kind Letter by mr Peabody and thank You most Sincerely for it; I did not know... |
| 33 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 10 … | 1797-02-10 | What a Charming Letter have I received from my ever Dear and valued Sister, how repleat with... |
| 34 | Adams, Abigail | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 19 May … | 1801-05-19 | This will be deliverd to you by the children who leave me this day. I hope they will return to... |
| 35 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-11-08 | I recieved your Letter by the last Mail inclosing one for your daughter, who left me last week,... |
| 36 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1814-05-12 | I realy ought to have written to you and have inclosed the few Lines to Cousin Abbe which were... |
| 37 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1815-01-29 | I mentiond to mr D. Greenleaf the money which was to have been Sent to the Young Cranchs for... |
| 38 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1812-04-20 | I had got comfortably through the cold of the winter, but the chilling winds of March have laid... |
| 39 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1815-02-26 | your Letter of Feb’ry 15th, lies yet unacknowledged My Spirits have been in a whirl, the... |
| 40 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1813-04-24 | Yesterdays post brought us heavey tydings tidings from Philadelphia. our Friend, our Physician,... |
| 41 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1810-04-23 | I this day received your kind Letter of the 17th. I know not any thing which would give me more... |
| 42 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-12-29 | A very droll accident happend to the inclosed Letter, as you will See by the address; I wrote two... |
| 43 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1809-06-05 | I was unable to replie to my dear Sisters Letter of May 19th when I received it, being visited by... |
| 44 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1810-09-01 | Your Letter of August 25th I received, and have felt very anxious for you and your family ever... |
| 45 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-02-28 | I received your Letters by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write to give... |
| 46 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1812-09-11 | My daily care and visits for a fortnight past have been to the sick and dyeing Bed of our good... |
| 47 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1814-07-15 | I took a ride to Weymouth on Tuesday, and carried the letter received from Atkinson to the Dr.,... |
| 48 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1807-06-10 | If I had written to you my dear sister half as often as I have thought of you and contemplated... |
| 49 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-07-10 | Not having Wholy dissolved by the intense heat of the last week, I am enabled from a change of... |
| 50 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1811-08-24 | Truly my dear sister I blush and am asshamed that I have not written to you in replie to your... |