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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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601 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 27 May 1787 | 1787-05-27 | I went to Boston yesterday & had the mortification to find my Letters did not go by Barnard or... |
602 | Nicolson, Mary | Adams, Abigail | Mary Nicolson to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1775 | 1775-06-16 | I hoped long ere now to have Been at Braintree, but evry circumstance has hitherto been Against... |
603 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 23 July 1786 | 1786-07-23 | Mr Sparhawk called for my Letter Just as I was giving you an account of my Aunt Smith’s Death. I... |
604 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 June 1775 | 1775-06-23 | I have this Morning been out of Town to accompany our Generals Washington, Lee, and Schuyler, a... |
605 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 March 1797 | 1797-03-11 | Yesterday only I rec d yours of March 1.— am surprized you should have rec d none from me from... |
606 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 June 1800 | 1800-06-13 | I rec d your favour of the 2 d by M r Dexter and this morning from M r Gerry an account of your... |
607 | Lovell, James | Adams, Abigail | James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 24 August 1781 | 1781-08-24 | After giving a few Lines for you yesterday to the Commissary General of Prisoners who was going... |
608 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 November 1790 | 1790-11-20 | I received with great pleasure, my dear Mamma, your favour of the 7 th: inst t: which relieved me... |
609 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 6 December 1790 | 1790-12-06 | Major Mc Farling has just called upon us, & informed us of his intention of going to Philadephia... |
610 | Tudor, William | Adams, Abigail | William Tudor to Abigail Adams, 26 June 1778 | 1778-06-26 | I inclose £23:3:10—Twenty Pounds, seventeen Shillings being the Amount of the Account against Mr.... |
611 | Hay, Katherine Farnham | Adams, Abigail | Katherine Hay to Abigail Adams, 7 March 1785 | 1785-03-07 | I intended writing you before this but have been waiting very impatiently for letters from Mr.... |
612 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 February 1780 | 1780-02-28 | I have sent you, one yard of fine Cambrick, at 14 Livres an Ell, two of a coarser sort at 6... |
613 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 October 1797 | 1797-10-07 | It is but a few days since I received your kind letter of 14. July, brought to Holland by Gen l:... |
614 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 October 1802 | 1802-10-21 | I have at length returned to the City for the purpose of remaining in it during the rest of the... |
615 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1797 | 1797-10-15 | I thank you for your Letter from worcester since that I have heard by the papers you have arriv’d... |
616 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 July 1783 | 1783-07-17 | No Letter from you, yet. I believe I shall Set off Tomorrow or next day, for the Hague, and Shall... |
617 | Lowell, John | Adams, Abigail | John Lowell to Abigail Adams, 22 February 1778 | 1778-02-22 | I am not displeased that the Call of Business obliges me to address you at this Time, and gives... |
618 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 15 … | 1800-12-15 | Not one word have I heard from my Dear Sister, since I left Boston, nor have I had any... |
619 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 21 December 1780 | 1780-12-21 | I should have wrote before according to promiss, but have been prevented the use of my Eyes by a... |
620 | Tufts, Cotton | Adams, Abigail | Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams, 12 January 1786 | 1786-01-12 | I wrote to you last Week by Capt Lyde, expecting that He would have sailed the next Day. I find... |
621 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 15 October 1776 | 1776-10-15 | Nothing but the Greatest affection for my dear Mrs. Adams Would Induce me to Break over the... |
622 | Peabody, Elizabeth Smith Shaw | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams, 26 … | 1798-11-26 | I have this moment been conversing with Richard Dexter upon the subject of becoming one in your... |
623 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 December 1778 | 1778-12-30 | We wait and wait and wait forever, without any News from America. We get nothing but what comes... |
624 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1787 | 1787-07-21 | The Day—the mighty Day is over, & our Sons have perform’d their Parts—& receiv’d the Honour of... |
625 | Washington, Martha | Adams, Abigail | Martha Washington to Abigail Adams, 4 November 1789 | 1789-11-04 | I should have been very happy to have seen you yesterday.— and am truly sorry the bad day... |
626 | Cranch, Mary Smith | Adams, Abigail | Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 19 August – 1 … | ≈1787-08-19 | The vacancys of our Sons always produces a hurry in our business & although we endeavour to keep... |
627 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 | 1777-06-14 | This Week has produced an happy Reconciliation between the two Parties in this City and... |
628 | Cranch, John | Adams, Abigail | John Cranch to Abigail Adams, 7 November 1786 | 1786-11-07 | Being much ignorant of the republican distinctions of preeminency in title, as well as of... |
629 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1776 | 1776-07-20 | I cannot omit the Opportunity of writing you, a Line, by this Post. This Letter will I suppose,... |
630 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 2 December 1781 | 1781-12-02 | ’Tis a pleasing Reflexion to one absent, that his Correspondence with his friends meets with no... |
631 | Thaxter, John | Adams, Abigail | John Thaxter to Abigail Adams, 4 June 1785 | 1785-06-04 | I had a few days since the pleasure of your favor of the 20th. of March last. Your reproofs are... |
632 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 August 1799 | 1799-08-26 | I have no letter from you later than the 4 th: which I mention only because the interval is a... |
633 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780 | 1780-05-12 | The inclosed Dialogue in the Shades was written by Mr. Edmund Jennings now residing at Brussells,... |
634 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 January 1793 | 1793-01-14 | This day I rec d yours of the 2 d. — I have rec d all the Votes from all the States. it is known... |
635 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, Abigail | Lafayette to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1778 | 1778-09-29 | Le Marquis de lafayette Most Respectful Compliments Wait on Mrs. Adams and is highly sensible of... |
636 | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 September … | 1799-09-16 | On the 11 th: inst t: I received your favor of the 4 th: and last evening, on my return from Mr:... |
637 | Jefferson, Thomas | Adams, Abigail | From Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 22 July 1804 | 1804-07-22 | Your favor of the 1st. inst. was duly recieved, and I would not again have intruded on you but to... |
638 | Gerry, Ann Thompson | Adams, Abigail | Ann Thompson Gerry to Abigail Adams, 21 December 1797 | 1797-12-21 | I acknowledge the receipt of your very obliging favour of th’ 23 d of Nov br and should have done... |
639 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777 | 1777-04-26 | I have been lately more remiss, than usual in Writing to you. There has been a great Dearth of... |
640 | Black, Esther Duncan | Adams, Abigail | Esther Duncan Black to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1798 | 1798-05-28 | I have the happiness to inform my invaluable friend mrs Adams of the safe arrival of her precious... |
641 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 April 1778 | 1778-04-12 | Having now a good opportunity I Cannot Let it Slip without writing a few Lines To You as it is... |
642 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1795 | 1795-01-16 | The Travelling I Suppose has retarded the Post of this Week, till to Day, when I received your... |
643 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 November 1783 | 1783-11-18 | I have time only to inform you that We are well, and to repeat my earnest Wish and Expectation to... |
644 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 February 1799 | 1799-02-09 | I have just rec d yours of Feb. 1. and thank you for the Book.— We had one before, from the... |
645 | Smith, Abigail Adams | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 18 May 1788 | 1788-05-18 | I rose this morning with a fair prospect of landing before night, but alas, we are immersed in... |
646 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 December 1797 | 1797-12-28 | I believe it is almost three months since I wrote you last. The interval has been a disastrous... |
647 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 April 1777 | 1777-04-30 | We have a fine Piece of News this Morning of the March of 2000 of the Enemy, and destroying a... |
648 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 May 1798 | 1798-05-30 | I have received within these few days your letters of the 17 th: and 29 th: of March, together... |
649 | Adams, John Quincy | Adams, Abigail | John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 December 1803 | 1803-12-09 | I inclose you a letter from my wife, who would have written you earlier but that George has been... |
650 | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Adams, Abigail | Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, 22 June 1788 | 1788-06-22 | Thanks be to an ever watchful & kind Providence that has conducted my dear Brother, & Sister... |