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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1771 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 May … | 1811-05-15 | The inclosed Letter I received a few days Since to forward by the first opportunity. my last... |
1772 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, May 1815 | ≈1815-05-01 | I received your note this morning. mr A forgot to leave it last Evening; I am not much... |
1773 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Greenleaf, Lucy Cranch | From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 1811 | ≈1811-01-01 | I Send your Mother a Bottle of Hermitage wine which on Serching the cellar we found. I hope it... |
1774 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 7 … | 1804-12-07 | You have been so good in writing to your Father and Brother that I ought not to complain that you... |
1775 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Thomas Baker | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Baker Johnson, 3 … | 1813-04-03 | It is with Sincere pleasure that I acknowledge your Letter of Febry 23d this day received, a... |
1776 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der … | 1814-02-23 | A long and Severe fit of Sickness must plead my excuse for so long delaying the acknowledment of... |
1777 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1817-09-29 | you will I know excuse my not haveing written to you more than once; when you learn the... |
1778 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 5 January 1812 | 1812-01-05 | I hope you have received your mittins, and your Brother his, which Mrs. Foster took a fortnight... |
1779 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, February … | ≈1814-02-01 | I was never more at a loss what to say to you than at the present moment, to accuse you of... |
1780 | 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... |
1781 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 2 June 1816 | 1816-06-02 | I am very Sorry to learn that your Mother is so unwell, as Susan represents her. let me hear from... |
1782 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1810-09-22 | I am ready to join in the exclamation of Eloissa when she said “Heaven first taught Letters, for... |
1783 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1808-08-29 | Do you know how long a time has elapsed since you wrote a single line to your Mother? You did not... |
1784 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1810-10-10 | We have lost an excellent Neighbour and Friend in the death of Mr Black, for more than a Year he... |
1785 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 17 February … | 1815-02-17 | I received the Silk and chalk this mor’g on Wednesday. I wrote you and inclosed to you mr Adams... |
1786 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1813-07-24 | I received yesterday your Letter of the 4th April. I was grieved to find by it, that your spirits... |
1787 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1814-12-12 | How have your Lungs borne this severe cold weather? mine have hitherto sustaind it better than... |
1788 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1809-07-18 | It looks like a want of those gratefull feelings which I am sure are inmates of my Heart, that... |
1789 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1811-03-04 | When I wrote last to you, I was at a loss What to say to you, to console, and reconcile you to... |
1790 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 15 April … | 1815-04-15 | I send the Boys to your and your Fathers kind care. I hope they will not be obliged to stay long... |
1791 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Warren, Mercy Otis | From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 May … | 1814-05-05 | I most sincerely sympathize with you, and the bereved distrest Family at Washington. in the... |
1792 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 August … | 1809-08-05 | I would not come to Town to day because I knew I should only add to yours, and my own agony, my... |
1793 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 December … | 1817-12-01 | The moon shone so bright this morning that I rose, as it seems while it was yet Night, and... |
1794 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 6 … | 1811-03-06 | The great quantity of snow upon the Ground has obstructed the travelling So much, that the post... |
1795 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Sarah Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to Sarah Smith Adams, 28 July … | 1816-07-28 | Think not my Dear Daughter that I have been silent through want of feelings—I have sympathized... |
1796 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 26 … | 1811-01-26 | I have already written to you twice by this opportunity. I had not intended to have taken my pen... |
1797 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Jefferson, Thomas | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 … | 1813-09-20 | your kind and Friendly Letter found me in great affliction for the loss of my dear, and only... |
1798 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Rush, Julia Stockton | From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 24 … | 1813-09-24 | will you give me leave to introduce to your acquaintance the Rev’d mr Coleman, a gentleman who is... |
1799 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 April … | 1817-04-13 | Your Letters are always Common property with the Family to hear from you, and know that you are... |
1800 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Rush, Julia Stockton | From Abigail Smith Adams to Julia Stockton Rush, 13 … | 1813-06-13 | I have been sick almost ever since I had the pleasure of receiving your favour of May, but in... |