4051[December 1788] (Adams Papers)
Charles return’d to Cambridge. Winslow Warren. Rode in the afternoon. Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone which I much regret. Very cold. At Mr. Cranch’s. Dr. Fogg. Mr. Thayer. Wm Cranch came from Boston. Heard from N. York. Presumably the letter written by AA to JA between 16 Nov. and 3 Dec., not found ( JA to AA , (2 Dec, AA to JA , 3 Dec., Adams Papers ).
4052December 1. 1788. (Adams Papers)
Charles return’d to Cambridge.
40532. (Adams Papers)
Winslow Warren. Rode in the afternoon.
40543. (Adams Papers)
Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone which I much regret.
40554. (Adams Papers)
Very cold. At Mr. Cranch’s. Dr. Fogg. Mr. Thayer.
40565. (Adams Papers)
Wm Cranch came from Boston. Heard from N. York. Presumably the letter written by AA to JA between 16 Nov. and 3 Dec., not found ( JA to AA , (2 Dec, AA to JA , 3 Dec., Adams Papers ).
40576. (Adams Papers)
Went to Milton with Wm. Cranch. He dined with us.
40587. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Cranch’s after meeting. Mr. C. quite unwell.
40598. (Adams Papers)
Left Braintree. Went as far as Wilmington. Rain.
40609. (Adams Papers)
Went to Haverhill. Wet through.
406110. (Adams Papers)
Got to Newbury-Port. Ordination. Dancing. John Andrews, JQA ’s frequent companion, was ordained associate minister of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, to assist the ailing Rev. Thomas Cary ( Currier, Newburyport John J. Currier, History of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1764-1905 , Newburyport, 1906-1909; 2 vols. , 1:253).
406211. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Tufts. Not very bright. Dr. Swett’s.
406312. (Adams Papers)
Company chiefly gone. Russell. Rode with Thompson. Dancing again.
406413. (Adams Papers)
Put my horse at Tappan’s. Eve with Dr. Kilham.
406514. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Ware. Preach’d admirably. D. Atkins.
406615. (Adams Papers)
Attended the office. Read a little. Mr. Jackson’s.
406716. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Parsons &c went to Salem Court. Miss Coats.
406817. (Adams Papers)
Snow storm. Went to Salem. Supp’d at Amory’s.
406918. (Adams Papers)
Attended court. Sat late. Lodg’d with Mr. Atkins.
407019. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Amory. Went to the ball.
407120. (Adams Papers)
Cold weather. Came home with Bridge. Sleepy.
407221. (Adams Papers)
Heard Mr. Andrews, preach. Bouscaren. Mr. Carter.
407322. (Adams Papers)
Very cold weather. Evening in the office.
407423. (Adams Papers)
Cold continues. Eve at Judge Greenleaf’s.
407524. (Adams Papers)
Went to Haverhill. Colder than ever.
407625. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Thaxter’s. Miss Hazen. Eve at Mr. Bartlett’s.
407726. (Adams Papers)
Returned to N. Port. Wrote in the Eve.
407827. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Judge Greenleaf’s. Foster came home.
407928. (Adams Papers)
Parson Allen preached. Snow storm.
408029. (Adams Papers)
Thompson got home. Court at Mr. Atkins’s.
408130. (Adams Papers)
Eve at Dr. Sawyer’s. Mr. Boyd.—a youth.
408231. (Adams Papers)
Eve with Foster at Mr. Jackson’s, He was out.
4083Richard Cranch and John Adams to Mary Smith, 30 December 1761 (Adams Papers)
I was at Boston yesterday and saw your Brother who was well. I have but a moments notice of an oportunity of sending to you the enclos’d which I took at your Unkle Edwards’s. Here we are Dick and Jack as happy as the Wickedness and folly of this World will allow Phylosophers to be: our good Wishes are pour’d forth for the felicity of you, your family and Neighbours.—My—I dont know what—to Mrs....
4084John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762 (Adams Papers)
By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O’Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account: This Order, or Requisition call it which you will is in Consideration of a similar order Upon Aurelia for the like favour, and I presume I have good Right to draw upon...
4085John Adams to Abigail Smith, 1762 – 1763 (Adams Papers)
I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to pay unless I refuse Marriage; which I never did, and never will, but on the Contrary am ready to have you at any Time. I hope Jemima’s Conscience has as good a Memory as mine. RC ( Adams Papers ); addressed: “To Miss —— Weymouth.” There is no clue to the precise date of this note, the “Billet” to...
4086John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763 (Adams Papers)
Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.—I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm prevented.—Cruel, Yet perhaps blessed storm!—Cruel for detaining me from so much friendly, social Company, and perhaps blessed to you, or me or both, for keeping me at my Distance. For every experimental Phylosopher knows, that the steel and the Magnet or the Glass and...
4087Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr., 16 March 1763 (Adams Papers)
Tis no small pleasure to me, to hear of the great proficioncy you have made in the French tongue, A Tongue Sweet, and harmonious, a Tongue, useful to Merchants, to Statesmen; to Divines, and especially to Lawyers and Travellers; who by the help of it, may traverse the whole Globe; for in this respect, the French language is pretty much now, what I have heard the Latin formerly was, a universal...
4088John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763 (Adams Papers)
Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity detestible; Therefore Beauty is not Deformity nor Deformity, Beauty. Hope springs eternal in the human Breast, I hope to be happyer next Fall than I am at present, and this Hope makes me happyer now than I should be without it.—I am at Braintree but I wish I was at Weymouth! What strange Revolutions take...
4089Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 (Adams Papers)
If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon Company, or promote some good work, I freely confess my Mind would be much more at ease than at present it is. Yet this uneasiness does not arise from any apprehension of Slight or neglect, but a fear least you are indisposed, for that you said should be your only hindrance. Humanity obliges us to be...
4090John Adams to Abigail Smith, 15 August 1763 (Adams Papers)
The Disappointment you mention was not intended, but quite accidental. A Gentleman, for whom I had much Esteem, Mr. Daniel Leonard of Norton, was so good as to offer to keep the sabbath with me at Braintree—a favour that would have been very agreable if it had not detained me from the most agreable of all Company, to me, in this world, and a favour that will I know be sufficient with you to...
4091John Adams to Abigail Smith, August 1763 (Adams Papers)
Germantown is at a great Distance from Weymouth Meeting-House, you know; The No. of Yards indeed is not so prodigious, but the Rowing and Walking that lyes between is a great Discouragement to a weary Traveller. Could my Horse have helped me to Weymouth, Braintree would not have held me, last Night.—I lay, in the well known Chamber, and dreamed, I saw a Lady, tripping it over the Hills, on...
4092Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 (Adams Papers)
You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure. Whether this was designed for a complement, (a commodity I acknowledg that you very seldom deal in) or as a real truth, you best know. Yet if I was to judge of a certain persons Heart, by what upon the like occasion passess through a cabinet of my own, I should be apt to suspect it as a truth. And why...
4093Hannah Storer Green to Abigail Smith, 1763 – 1764 (Adams Papers)
My inclinations, tho’ not my Expectations were very much disapointed in not sending you a long Letter the last time I wrote; however I must still beg your Patience and I will pay you all, the very first minute I can.—Patience my dear I recommend to you, upon more accounts than one, first upon your friends, secondly upon your own, for if you do not have Patience with me, I shall never pay you,...
4094Hannah Storer Green to John Adams, 20 February 1764 (Adams Papers)
I think myself greatly indebted to you, for the honor you do my judgment, in refering so important a debate to my decission; and I ought, in strict justice, to apologize for my not answering it before; however, I trust to your Candor to excuse the seeming neglect, I say seeming, for I have not been unmindful of you, but have well consider’d the thing, and shall give you my thoughts upon the...
4095Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 2 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I should be the most ungrateful of Mortals, if I did not always with Gratitude remember so kind a Benefactor, as you have been to me both in Sickness, and in Health. How often has your kind hand supported me when I was more helpless than an Infant. How often have you revived me by your Vital Heat? And...
4096Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me a more particuliar, and favorable account of the Small pox, or rather the operation of the preparation, than I have had before. He speaks greatly in favor of Dr. Perkins who has not, as he has heard lost one patient. He has had since he has been in Town frequent opportunities of visiting in the...
4097John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
For many Years past, I have not felt more serenely than I do this Evening. My Head is clear, and my Heart is at ease. Business of every Kind, I have banished from my Thoughts. My Room is prepared for a Seven Days’ Retirement, and my Plan is digested for 4 or 5 Weeks. My Brother retreats with me, to our preparatory Hospital, and is determined to keep me Company, through the Small Pox. Your...
4098Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch and my Sister have been here, where they hoped to have found you. We talk’d of you, they desire to be rememberd to you, and wish you well thro the Distemper. Mr. Cranch told me that the Deacon with his children design for Boston next Saturday and that they propose going by water—that the Deacon would...
4099John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 9 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
I have nothing to do at present but to play with my Pen. I have long thought with Horace in his Dulce desipere: But now they tell me it is Utile dulci. I dare not think, for fear of injuring my Health, and for my soul I cannot set still without Thinking; so I am necessitated to keep my Pen in Motion to avoid it, and I believe you are well satisfyd it has answerd the End. I rejoice to hear you...
4100Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 9 April 1764 (Adams Papers)
I suppose you have written to me, tho I have not received it, for Mr. Ayers left his pocket Book with the Letters at Roxbury. However full in the Faith that I have a Letter there, I return you my thanks for it. We are all very sollicitious to hear from you; Brother has they tell us two eruptions; upon which I congratulate him. I hear also that he is in high Spirits, and more agreeable than...