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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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211 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 5 December 1784 | 1784-12-05 | I have not seen your Letter to Sister Cranch as yet, and cannot tell how you like your present... |
212 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 21–23 September … | ≈1788-09-21 | Mr Lincoln has been here for several Days past— Tomorrow he intends to return to Hingham, & has... |
213 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1777 | 1777-05-21 | I this day Received a few lines from my Friend, whose Long silence I have not been able to... |
214 | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1802 | 1802-04-23 | Indolence shall no longer prevent my acknowledging, the pleasure I felt (my dear M rs Adams) from... |
215 | Smith, Abigail Adams | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 5 October 1788 | 1788-10-05 | I wrote you a hasty letter from New-York, just to acknowledge the receipt of yours, No. 5, the... |
216 | Tudor, William | Adams, Abigail | William Tudor to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1774 | 1774-09-03 | You may depend on my giving your Letter to Capt. Marston who sets out for Philadelphia on Monday.... |
217 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 14 March 1800 | 1800-03-14 | There is a great deal of pain: taken to make mischief between you & Mr & Mrs Porter many wish for... |
218 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 29 July … | 1797-07-29 | Your kind Letter which assured me of your welfare was a cordial to my heart. It came safe to... |
219 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 February 1777 | 1777-02-10 | Yesterday, I took a long Walk with our Secretary Mr. Thompson to a Place called Fells Point, a... |
220 | Bishop, John | Adams, Abigail | John Bishop to Abigail Adams, 16 October 1780 | 1780-10-16 | I received yours of the 14th. ultmo., should not have defer’d answering it so long had I been... |
221 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 November 1800 | 1800-11-15 | I rec d last night your Letter of the 11 th. Your Girls and M r shipley arrived in good health... |
222 | Washington, Martha | Adams, Abigail | Martha Washington to Abigail Adams, 4 September 1791 | 1791-09-04 | Your frindly letter of the 29 th of June —I should not have suffered to remain so long... |
223 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 11 August 1779 | 1779-08-11 | This Evening I have satisfactory Intelligence of the real Embarkation of your very dear Treasure... |
224 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1797 | 1797-06-13 | I had a mantua makaker & a Tailor last week which keept me so fully imploy’d that I had not time... |
225 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 September 1776 | 1776-09-06 | This day, I think, has been the most remarkable of all. Sullivan came here from Lord Howe, five... |
226 | Shaw, William Smith | Adams, Abigail | William Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, October 1801 | ≈1801-10-01 | Some time since Andrew Foster, a relation of Mrs. Otis, applied to Mr. Otis for admission as... |
227 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 February 1783 | 1783-02-27 | I read in a great Writer, Montesquieu that “l’honneur, en imposant la loi de servir, veut en être... |
228 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 April 1798 | 1798-04-29 | I am doom’d my dear Sister to be the messenger of death to you. I believe for five weeks past my... |
229 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 August 1777 | 1777-08-19 | The Weather still continues cloudy and cool and the Wind Easterly. Howe’s Fleet and Army is still... |
230 | McHenry, Margaret Allison Caldwell | Adams, Abigail | Margaret Allison Caldwell McHenry to Abigail Adams, 8 … | 1798-10-08 | It was with the greatest concern I heard of your late illness, since which time I have felt very... |
231 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1787 | 1787-06-29 | I have sent one Letter on Board capt Cushing but it is so long since that unless I Write again... |
232 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September 1776 | 1776-09-16 | The Postmaster at N. York, in a Panick, about a fortnight ago fled to Dobbs’s Ferry, about 30... |
233 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 28 March 1783 | 1783-03-28 | Peace seems to have closed all Communication with America. ’Tis a very long time since any... |
234 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 August 1777 | 1777-08-23 | It is now no longer a Secret, where Mr. Hows Fleet is. We have authentic Intelligence that it is... |
235 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 3 October 1784 | 1784-10-03 | Accept my dear Sister a thousand thanks for your charming Journal, it is just Such an one as I... |
236 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1797 | 1797-03-22 | Last night for the first time I slept in our new House.— But what a Scene! The Furniture... |
237 | Storer, Charles | Adams, Abigail | Charles Storer to Abigail Adams, 12 September 1786 | 1786-09-12 | So I see by the papers that Amelia has become Mrs: Smith , and this the 12th. of June. The news... |
238 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 July 1775 | 1775-07-28 | Your two last Letters had very different Effects. The long one gave me vast Satisfaction. It was... |
239 | Copley, Susanna Clarke | Adams, Abigail | Susanna Clarke Copley to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1800 | 1800-08-20 | I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you, knowing from the Friendship with which you... |
240 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1781 | 1781-10-09 | Yesterday’s Post brought me your Favour of Sepr. 26th. Your dear Boy Charles should most... |