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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1601 | Tufts, Cotton | Adams, Abigail | Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams, 10 February 1790 | 1790-02-10 | Our Gen l Court is now in the Fourth Week of its Session; very little Business of Importance as... |
1602 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail | From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 21 December … | 1786-12-21 | An unfortunate dislocation of my right wrist has for three months deprived me of the honor of... |
1603 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 April 1794 | 1794-04-30 | Your favours of 18 th. and 19 th instant are so full of your Plans and Labours in Agriculture,... |
1604 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 25 April 1785 | 1785-04-25 | I reciv’d your September Letters a little while after I sent off my November ones, and a Feast... |
1605 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 June 1799 | 1799-06-21 | I have your favor of the 15 th: inst t: and thank you for your kind solicitude respecting my... |
1606 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 March 1780 | 1780-03-15 | Mr. Brown, whom I left at Passy, when I returned to you, and whom I found here, upon my return to... |
1607 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 April 1789 | 1789-04-22 | This is the first Moment I have been able to Seize, in order to acquaint you of my Arrival and... |
1608 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1790 | 1790-02-28 | I know you Will rejoice to hear that cousin Tom has got comfortable through the Measles. He... |
1609 | Cabot, George | Adams, Abigail | George Cabot to Abigail Adams, 17 January 1794 | 1794-01-17 | The ice in the Delaware having delayed the post beyond it’s usual period I had not the honor to... |
1610 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 10 January 1803 | 1803-01-10 | Painful necessity has for many months prevented me the use of my own pen,—nor have I seen any... |
1611 | Cooper, Samuel | Adams, Abigail | Samuel Cooper to Abigail Adams, 2 March 1778 | 1778-03-02 | Many besides my self partake with you in the Sollicitude you express respecting our dear Friend;... |
1612 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 January 1794 | 1794-01-21 | We go Slowly forward: So Slowly as to produce no Results, which is a better course than to run... |
1613 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1783 | 1783-07-30 | Altho’ I have already written you by Mr. Brush who will probably deliver this to you; yet I... |
1614 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 31 March 1778 | 1778-03-31 | Since I wrote you last, the mystery of blank Dispatches being sent by Capt. Folgier from France... |
1615 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 January 1797 | 1797-01-03 | I rec d Yesterday your favour of 23. of Dec r. from Boston. The old Patrioch, has got a Name of... |
1616 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 February 1776 | 1776-02-18 | I sent you from New York a Pamphlet intituled Common Sense, written in Vindication of Doctrines... |
1617 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1800 | 1800-12-28 | I have just clos’d a long Letter to sister Peabody from whom I reciev’d one last week— Tis the... |
1618 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 January 1796 | 1796-01-29 | Yesterday which was Post Day from the Eastward I was disappointed again of a Letter and went... |
1619 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail | [From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 7 January … | 1787-01-07 | [ Paris, 7 Jan. 1787. Recorded in SJL under this date. Not found; but see Mrs. Adams’ reply, 29... |
1620 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 January 1801 | 1801-01-09 | I have received your letters of the 2 d: & 3 d: inst ts: and thank you for them— I shall agree... |
1621 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 November 1794 | 1794-11-11 | The day after the date of my last Letter, we dined at M r: Hallowell’s, and were entertained with... |
1622 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1798 | 1798-12-02 | Next to the pleasure of seeing you, would have been that of hearing, of your perfect restoration... |
1623 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 November 1794 | 1794-11-18 | I had just Sent off to the Poet office, my Letter in which I requested a Diary of Husbandry when... |
1624 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 October 1777 | 1777-10-24 | It is with shame that I recollect that I have not written you more than two or three Letters... |
1625 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1779 | 1779-01-19 | I Intended writing my Friend Mrs. Adams when Mr. Thaxter Returned but dare say he Gave you a... |
1626 | Barclay, Mary | Adams, Abigail | Mary Barclay to Abigail Adams, 5 September 1785 | 1785-09-05 | I did not know till this moment that Coln. Franks would set out this evening, who has just Call’d... |
1627 | Storer, Hannah Quincy Lincoln | Adams, Abigail | Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams, 12 … | 1789-12-12 | Will My good and worthy friend M rs. Adams, give Me leave to request her acceptance of a Small... |
1628 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 October 1777 | 1777-10-28 | We have been three days, soaking and poaching in the heavyest Rain, that has been known for... |
1629 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 23 September 1787 | 1787-09-23 | I wrote to you about three weeks since thinking clallahan would sail immediatly but he is not yet... |
1630 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 October 1775 | 1775-10-13 | I this day received yours of the 29 of September, and the 1st. of October. Amidst all your... |
1631 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1776 | 1776-07-23 | This Mornings Post brought me yours of July 13 and 14 and has relieved me from an huge Load of... |
1632 | Cranch, Richard | Adams, Abigail | Richard Cranch to Abigail Adams, 31 October 1800 | 1800-10-31 | I have the happiness of informing you that your Sister Cranch, is much better than when you went... |
1633 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 November 1782 | 1782-11-08 | The King of Great Britain, by a Commission under the great Seal of his Kingdom, has constituted... |
1634 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1777 | 1777-07-01 | We have no News: a long, cold, raw, northeast Storm has chilled our Blood, for two days past. It... |
1635 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 21 December 1786 | 1786-12-21 | An unfortunate dislocation of my right wrist has for three months deprived me of the honor of... |
1636 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 December 1786 | 1786-12-27 | Mr Murray, whom I am glad to see out again will carry to Bath this Memorandum that We are all... |
1637 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 April 1775 | 1775-04-30 | New York has appointed an ample Representation in our Congress, and have appointed a provincial... |
1638 | Williamos, Charles | Adams, Abigail | Charles Williamos to Abigail Adams, 27 June 1785 | 1785-06-27 | I had the pleasure of writing to Mr. Adams four or five days after your departure to acquaint you... |
1639 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 19 May 1780 | 1780-05-19 | Large Packets are here received from Mr. Adams up to March 4th. His Reception was of the most... |
1640 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1781 | 1781-06-16 | Mr. Le Roy the Bearer of this is a native of N. York but has lived nine years in Amsterdam with... |
1641 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 August 1790 | 1790-08-14 | I received on Commencement day, your obliging favour of the 11 th: of last month, and should have... |
1642 | Garcin, M. de | Adams, Abigail | Garcin to Abigail Adams, 29 October 1778 | 1778-10-29 | Give me leave to present you my Most Sincear and respectful thanks of having been so kind as to... |
1643 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 June 1780 | 1780-06-03 | I went a few days ago to see the Hotel de Monnoie or the Mint, the Building where all the Kings... |
1644 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail | From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1804 | 1804-06-13 | The affectionate sentiments which you have had the goodness to express in your letter of May 20.... |
1645 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 January 1798 | 1798-01-19 | I am still to acknowledge my dear and ever honoured mother as the most attentive and punctual of... |
1646 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 9 May 1778 | 1778-05-09 | I have had the pleasure of receiving your agreeable favour of the 9th. of April. I am so... |
1647 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1777 | 1777-05-10 | The Day before Yesterday, I took a Walk, with my Friend Whipple to Mrs. Wells’s, the Sister of... |
1648 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1778 | 1778-05-22 | I am happy in informing you, that the Marquiss de La Fayette has safely returned to the Main... |
1649 | Smith, Abigail Adams | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 13 August 1788 | 1788-08-13 | We came to town last evening to dine (by invitation) this day, with the President of Congress,... |
1650 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 July 1774 | 1774-07-09 | I never enjoyed better Health in any of my Journeys, but this has been the most tedious, the most... |