2001From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 May 1813 (Adams Papers)
I have made up packets of Letters for this mornings post, to Wiscasset, to N york, to the Valley...
2002From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 5 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I was unable to replie to my dear sisters Letter of May 19th. being visited by St Anthony who...
2003From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 3 November 1814 (Adams Papers)
This is a strange world, or rather strange folks make it so, to render the drama compleat....
2004From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 28 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of Novbr 16th was an unexpected pleasure, for after yours of october the 13th, I had...
2005From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 13 April 1815 (Adams Papers)
I did not think of your not returning again the next day when you left me, altho we miss you,...
2006From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 30 December 1812 (Adams Papers)
I will not Suffer the year to close upon me without noticeing your repeated favours and thanking...
2007From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 30 May 1817 (Adams Papers)
The Books have come, and never were in the Custom house as I beleive. it was not a Box, but a...
2008From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 3 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
I beleive the post Man thinks us very importent correspondents, as we observed that it was well...
2009From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 24 January 1808 (Adams Papers)
To-morrow will be a fortnight since you left me; I have watched the weather with much solicitude,...
2010From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 4 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
I am indebted to you my dear Madam for three Letters. I have made two attempts before to...
2011From Abigail Smith Adams to Ann Frances Harrod Adams, 20 September 1812 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of 17th of the last Evening and rejoiced with trembling. Dr Hoolbrook...
2012From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 September 1813 (Adams Papers)
Your kind and Sympathetic Letter demands my thanks, and receives my gratitude. My own loss is not...
2013From Abigail Smith Adams to Ward Nicholas Boylston, 30 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
We promise ourselves the pleasure of visiting you on fryday next, and hope that a Severe Cold now...
2014From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigal Adams Shaw Felt, 10 February 1818 (Adams Papers)
Why my dear Neice so loth to use your pen? But I do not hear from it twice in a year? Altho you...
2015From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 18 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
Having been attacked this morning with a dangerous Complaint, I have requested Louisa to write...
2016From Abigail Smith Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 19 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
Since I had the pleasure of writing to you, I have received further accounts from our Children,...
2017From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 14 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
My Grandson William Stuben Smith, having returnd from Russia, where he has resided with his uncle...
2018From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, April 1811 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your kind inquiries. I am better to day. I had the Rheumatism in my head, and was...
2019From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
This day compleats five weeks since my dear Boys embarked for Liverpool, and now I anticipate...
2020From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 5 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I was most unfortnate in not hearing, untill two Days before the Cartel from N york sailed, that...
I heard of you at Providence from mr Fearno , and I was yesterday informd that the News paper...
2022From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, 1811 (Adams Papers)
How is your Mother to day. what night had She & how is miss Katy & Ruthey? have you procured a...
2023From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 14 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received this morning your Letter of the 10th and I have the pleasure to inclose to you a...
2024From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
The reason that you did not receive a Letter from me when you arrived at Philadelphia, was oweing...
2025From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 September 1815 (Adams Papers)
Peace with Algiers, Peace with Algiers did peace ever make a Great Man? Tis war that makes the...
2026From Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 1817 to 1818 (Adams Papers)
By mistake two of your Shirts were Sent without marking. ask mrs Welsh if She will let her woman...
2027From Abigail Smith Adams to Hendrick W. Gordon, 15 July 1813 (Adams Papers)
your favour of July 12th is before me I forward to your kind care a few lines more to my Son...
2028From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 17 January 1817 (Adams Papers)
I return the sermon with my Thanks I had read it before, mr Newton brought it in manuscript to...
2029From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 26 February 1811 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter by the Mail of yesterday, and by the return of it to day I write you a few...
2030From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 16 January 1807 (Adams Papers)
I think it is full time to take my pen and inquire after your Health, and to assure you that I...
2031From Abigail Smith Adams to George Washington Adams, 9 April 1814 (Adams Papers)
I received your importent Letter so clearly exprest that for some time I was not able to define...
2032From Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith, 19 June 1809 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received your letter of June 1st. I think letters are longer upon their passage than...
I will not let my dear Boys leave me without taking a few lines to you, my Heart and hands have...
2034From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 24 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
I received two days since your Letter of Febry th 11. it containd information the most agreable...
2035From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 22 October 1811 (Adams Papers)
I wrote to you upon fryday, but I do not now recollect what I have written. I know that my heart...
2036From Abigail Smith Adams to William Allen, 1812 (Adams Papers)
I take the Liberty of transmitting to you a coppy of a Letter written by my late Brother in Law...
2037From Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, 15 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
It is a long time since I addresed a Letter to You, and a much longer since I received a Letter...
2038From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Baker Johnson, 3 March 1815 (Adams Papers)
I congratulate you sir, from my Heart I congratulate my Country, upon the blaize of Glory,...
2039From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 January 1811 (Adams Papers)
As I had made up my mind to Submit to the unpleasent circumstances attendent upon distance, and...
2040From Abigail Smith Adams to William Smith Shaw, 26 February 1806 (Adams Papers)
I have found the account and inclose it to you. I wish you to inquire of our Tennant whether the...
2041From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 9 November 1815 (Adams Papers)
I this day received your Letter No 75 24th August by way of Newyork—Your Father had received one...
2042From Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 7 May 1810 (Adams Papers)
Received Quincy 7th. May 1810 of Thomas B. Adams the sum of Twenty-five Dollars: fifty Cents in...
Did you think that Grandmother would be the first of your Correspondents to write to you? aya She...
2044From Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, 23 January 1816 (Adams Papers)
I know you will be glad to see my handwriting, and more so, when I tell you that I have rode out...
2045From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 10 February 1816 (Adams Papers)
your Letter of Nov’br 7th allarmd me when I opend it, and Saw that it was in the hand writing of...
2046From Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, 23 November 1816 (Adams Papers)
While I acknowledge the receipt of your favour of Nov’br 11th, accept my thanks for the kind...
2047From Abigail Smith Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 31 December 1809 (Adams Papers)
Standing as we do upon the confines of the other world, you at the age of four-score, and I at...
2048From Abigail Smith Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 26 May 1815 (Adams Papers)
In the absence of your good Lady and daughter, whom I congratulate upon their excursion, I...
2049From Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 10 February 1814 (Adams Papers)
with the middle finger of my right hand bound up with a , which you know is very soar, I attempt...
2050From Abigail Smith Adams to Caroline Amelia Smith De Windt, 2 February 1809 (Adams Papers)
I have not written to you this year! and this is the second month of it, and let us ask the...