5101Elizabeth Cranch to John Quincy Adams, May 1781 (Adams Papers)
How shall I excuse myself for my long neglecting to write to you? Should I offer any other...
5102John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Le Roy the Bearer of this is a native of N. York but has lived nine years in Amsterdam with...
5103James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have already acknowledged the Receipt of your Letter of May 10th covering a Copy of March 17th,...
5104Sarah Sever to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am exceedingly oblig’d to Mrs. Adams for her condescention, in the communications she has made...
5105Alice Lee Shippen to Elizabeth Welles Adams, 17 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have long promis’d my self the Honor of a Correspondence with you Madam, and now I cannot in...
5106Cotton Tufts to John Adams, 20 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am told that a Vessell will this Day sail for Holland. I know not how to neglect so fair an...
5107Richard Cranch to John Adams, 22 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you by Doctor Dexter on the 28th Ulto. which I hope will come safe to hand. Tho’ I have...
5108Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 23 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
And is there no medium Sir, between terms which might be misconstrued, and the cold formal adieu...
5109James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Alliance may have brought you Letters: neither that nor the Franklin have given us any from...
5110Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 30 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
At length the mistery is unravelld, and by a mere accident I have come to the knowledge of what...
5111Abigail Adams to Alice Lee Shippen, 30 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your favour of june 17 was put into my Hands last Evening, and tho not realy intended for me, I...
5112Hugh Hughes to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am honoured with your very polite Favour of the 10th of June, which arrived in my Absence.—No...
5113James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 2 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Gentleman by whom I meant to send the inclosed was obliged unexpectedly to return to...
5114John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am called to this Place, in the Course of my Duty: but dont conceive from it any hopes of...
5115James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 13 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have already acknowledged the Receipt of your Favour of June 10th. Severely as it concluded in...
5116Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 14 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your favour by General Ward was not deliverd me till this day or I should have replied to it by...
5117Richard Cranch to John Adams, 16 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have enclosed to you a Copy of certain Letters lately transmitted to Congress by B:F:...
5118John Thaxter to John Adams, 16 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inclose You the 23d. No. of the Politique Hollandais. I have this moment...
5119James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
The Dates of my Letters connected with the Time of the Receipt of yours are become somewhat...
5120Abigail Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 20 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
When I looked for your Name among those who form the Representative Body of the people this year...
5121Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 20 July – 6 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your two Letters of june 26 and july 2d came safe to hand together with the resolves which would...
5122John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
Ten months have I been waiting for an opportunity to forward my Letters, but none has presented,...
5123Jean de Neufville & Son to Abigail Adams, 25 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
We regret that your Ladyship’s letter of 25th April should not have Came to our hands soon enough...
5124Elbridge Gerry to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1781 (Adams Papers)
I have been honored with your Letter of the 20th Instant, on a Matter of the highest Concern to...
5125Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
O that I could realize the agreable reverie of the last Night when my dear Friend presented...
5126Abigail Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 4 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
The very quick reply with wish which you honourd my Letter together with the Friendly contents of...
5127James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 10 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am persuaded to believe that I have acknowledged the Receipt of your Favor of June 30th tho it...
5128James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 20 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am too ill to write much. Your Ease of Mind is what I wish to promote by confirming what I have...
5129James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 23 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I feared moths—have opened your Goods—aired and shook the Wollens—added good Tobacco leaves and...
5130James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 24 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
After giving a few Lines for you yesterday to the Commissary General of Prisoners who was going...
5131John Thaxter to Abigail Adams 2d, 25 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I was yesterday honoured with a Letter from Braintree dated the 25th of May last, and tho’ an...
5132John Boylston to John Adams, 31 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
You may possibly wonder at my Silence in not writing you during so long a period and which might...
5133Elbridge Gerry to Abigail Adams, 31 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
Agreable to the Request contained in your Letter of the 4th, I have the Pleasure of transmitting...
5134Alice Lee Shippen to Abigail Adams, August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I rejoice at any circumstance that begins a correspondence with a lady whose acquaintance I have...
5135John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, August 1781 (Adams Papers)
I am almost ashamed to intrude another Letter by this Conveyance, which, if it should prove a...
5136John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 1 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
We arrived here on Monday the 16/27 instant having left Amsterdam the N.S. 7th of July And rode...
5137James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 4 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Supposing Col. Laurens to have arrived at Rh. Island, I was greatly chagrined when he told me he...
5138Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 12 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
I cannot swallow your prohibition with a good grace and yet I am glad I know the real cause of...
5139Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams, 13 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Itt is sometime since any of your friends have had a line from you though many Vessells have...
5140James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 15 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Under a Date of Aug. 24 I did myself the Pleasure to endeavour to convey to you later Information...
5141John Quincy Adams to John Thaxter, 19 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
We arriv’d here the 16th of August old stile, (which is universally used yet, all over this...
5142Abigail Adams to James Lovell, 20 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
In truth Friend thou art a Queer Being—laugh where I must, be candid where I can.—Your pictures...
5143Richard Cranch to John Adams, 26 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Tho’ I have often wrote to your Excellency, yet I have not had the Happiness of a Line from you...
5144William Jackson to John Adams, 26 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Lest the date of my letter should alarm your Excellency, I am happy in prefacing it with an...
5145Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
Three days only did it want of a year from the date of your last Letter, when I received by Capt....
5146Benjamin Waterhouse to John Adams, 30 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
I imagine You heard by the last Post of our being at this Place, and the reasons of our coming...
5147James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 5 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
I doubt not Madam, you have Letters from Mr. Adams of later Date than what we have received but...
5148John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
This is the first Time, I have been able to write you, since my Sickness.—Soon after my Return...
5149James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 9 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
Yesterday’s Post brought me your Favour of Sepr. 26th. Your dear Boy Charles should most...
5150Joseph Gardoqui & Sons to Abigail Adams, 14 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
Since the above duplicatte of our last Respectts to you has Kissed our hands your allways...