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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1951 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1808-12-28 | What is the reason I do not get a Letter from my Mother I think I hear you say? Why I will tell... |
1952 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1810-11-24 | I was much gratified at receiving a Letter from you, as well as at the play of fancy, and the... |
1953 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1815-02-28 | Your Letter my dear Sister lies yet unnoticed, or rather I Should Say unreplied too The... |
1954 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 27 October … | 1815-10-27 | Since last monday, I have not been able to write you a line. I lived in bodily fear of the... |
1955 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | From Abigail Smith Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 17 … | 1817-03-17 | There is Surely a Secret Sympathy between us, for the very week in which you have written me I... |
1956 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1810-04-10 | I rejoice to learn by Caroline’s letter to Susan, (which in her absence I took the liberty of... |
1957 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Charles Francis | From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 25 … | 1814-12-25 | I have received two very pretty Letters from you, with which I have been much pleased, both with... |
1958 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Thomas Boylston | From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 28 … | 1814-12-28 | Received Quincy December 28th., 1814 of Thomas B Adams Esqr., the sum of Twenty-one Dollars and... |
1959 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1812-02-24 | I beleive I have written you only one Letter since the commencment of the present Year, and I... |
1960 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson … | ≈1809-11-01 | upon my return from Boston where I passt a few days I found your very agreable Letter of october... |
1961 | 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... |
1962 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 10 May 1815 | 1815-05-10 | I began to feel very much in want of a talk from you, this morning it came. I had written my Eyes... |
1963 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 25 June 1818 | 1818-06-25 | enclosed is the money which mrs Welsh advanced upon your account which you will pay her, and get... |
1964 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 25 … | 1813-02-25 | upon looking over my list, I find that I have written to you a Letter every month, since october.... |
1965 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1818-07-07 | I have not yet acknowledged your favour of June 27th I go so seldom into the buisy world, that I... |
1966 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 31 … | 1811-07-31 | yours of July 21, I received by the last Mail I was just going to ask the cause of your long... |
1967 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 18 … | 1810-08-18 | No further intelligence from our Children has yet reached us my Dear Madam, than a Letter from mr... |
1968 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 7 April 1818 | 1818-04-07 | My last Note went to you by mr Marston, with two Letters enclosed—I did not write on Saturday as... |
1969 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 8 September … | 1815-09-08 | I have not committed burglary this time—Caroline haven written in the cover, all well the 9th of... |
1970 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1816-03-27 | I have already written to you by this vessel. her sailing haveing been delayed, I have the... |
1971 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Elizabeth | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith, 22 January … | 1805-01-22 | Words cannot describe to you how Sincerely I participate in your trouble? can I in any way render... |
1972 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1813-04-27 | You will, I know, share with your father and me, in lamenting the death of our ancient friend,... |
1973 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 22 March … | 1814-03-22 | I received your note of Monday I believe, as well as a very kind and friendly Letter previous to... |
1974 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 11 April … | 1815-04-11 | "String after String, is severed from the Heart" The parting with my dear Boys the final parting,... |
1975 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1805-01-27 | Inclosed you have a Letter, to mr Rutledge which you may if you like send to your Brother if you... |
1976 | 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... |
1977 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1809-05-23 | Yesterday your father brought me the much–desired packet. You mention General Eaton’s... |
1978 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 30 October … | 1814-10-30 | I have read your Letter, and see nothing to amend or alter, thank you for the communication. I... |
1979 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Shaw, William Smith | From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith Shaw, 18 … | 1811-10-18 | Your good uncle Cranch is gone. heaven has Saved him the greatest anguish he could experience in... |
1980 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, John Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams Smith, 8 … | 1813-11-08 | If your Sister had not been So constant & punctual a correspondent with you, I Should have been... |
1981 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 23 … | 1815-10-23 | The vessels which I have already written by have been detaind: by contrary winds, and give me an... |
1982 | Adams, Abigail Smith | 1810-1812 Abigail Adams, Rules for Disposing of the … | ≈1810-01-01 | Rules for disposing of the Day Rise by Six. if any time before Breakfast to walk out a little way... | |
1983 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 1 March 1815 | 1815-03-01 | I shall send George tomorrow by the stage and will be much obliged to your Father if he will go... |
1984 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | 1806-02-15 | I shall begin my Letter by putting your mind at ease respecting your children, who are both very... |
1985 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 … | 1813-08-30 | your Sons are well. your Parents are still living. your Brother is well— O my full Heart, shall I... |
1986 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 July … | 1815-07-13 | I again take my pen, not to find any fault with you, that I do not hear from you, because I know... |
1987 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Warren, Mercy Otis | From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 9 March … | 1807-03-09 | To your kind and friendly Letter I fully designd an immediate replie, but a Severe attack of a... |
1988 | 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... |
1989 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 … | 1814-11-29 | My last Letter to you, was dated 17th of October 1814 which supposing the negotiation had ended... |
1990 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 … | 1813-11-08 | At Length after an intermission of Seven Months your Letters of June 21st arrived, in a swedish... |
1991 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, April … | ≈1808-04-01 | A1tho I have not so frequently written to you It has not been oweing to Your having been less... |
1992 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Charles Francis | From Abigail Smith Adams to Charles Francis Adams, 28 … | 1816-03-28 | I must write you a short Letter, least you Should think yourself neglected, as I have written to... |
1993 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 7 July 1813 | 1813-07-07 | I inclose you two Letters received yesterday I do hope that John will be able to comply with and... |
1994 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, John Quincy | From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 … | 1817-01-08 | I must begin my Letter by wishing you and yours, many returns of the Season, as pleasent, as... |
1995 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Adams, Louisa Catherine Johnson | From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson … | ≈1816-03-01 | I always like to send to every one some token of remembrance by writing to each, altho, I á derth... |
1996 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 14 January … | 1817-01-14 | I know dear H. that you will be glad to learn that S. received a Letter last Evening from mr C.... |
1997 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Van der Kemp, François Adriaan | From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der … | ≈1817-01-01 | ever Since your last Letter to the president I have had a great inclination to address a Letter... |
1998 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Smith, Abigail Amelia Adams | From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith … | 1809-05-13 | I have not had a line from you for many weeks. Your Father visits the post office every post day... |
1999 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Welsh, Harriet | From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 11 April … | 1815-04-11 | I would not have you expose yourself to go out in the rain, but when you do go out, John prays... |
2000 | Adams, Abigail Smith | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw … | 1813-05-05 | I have made up packets of Letters for this mornings post, to Wiscasset, to N york, to the Valley... |