21From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 May 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received by the last Mail your Letter of the 26th of April. the Severe weather of this week has...
I had got comfortably through the cold of the winter, but the chilling winds of March have laid...
A very droll accident happend to the inclosed Letter, as you will See by the address; I wrote two...
I hear that Cousin Abbe is to return tomorrow to Atkinson. I Send by her two pr Socks for George...
I recieved your Letter by the last Mail inclosing one for your daughter, who left me last week,...
I wrote to you upon fryday, but I do not now recollect what I have written. I know that my heart...
Truly my dear sister I blush and am asshamed that I have not written to you in replie to your...
Not having Wholy dissolved by the intense heat of the last week, I am enabled from a change of...
An inflamation in one of my Eyes, will prevent me from writing more than to thank you for your...
I received your Letters by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write to give...