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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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981 | Adams, Abigail | Ceracchi, Giuseppe | Abigail Adams to Giuseppe Ceracchi, 12 February 1795 | 1795-02-12 | Accept Sir my acknowledgment to you for the very valuable present of the Medallion, and the... |
982 | Adams, Abigail | Tyler, Royall | Abigail Adams to Royall Tyler, 4 January 1785 | 1785-01-04 | Half the pleasure of a Letter consist in its being written to the moment and it always gave me... |
983 | Adams, Abigail | Otis, Mary Smith Gray | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Gray Otis, 1 April 1799 | 1799-04-01 | I am indebted to you for a very kind and friendly Letter by my son, to which I ought sooner to... |
984 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 13 December 1788 | 1788-12-13 | I begin to think I am not of that concequence at Home which I supposed myself, or that you think... |
985 | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams’ Essay on American Politics, post 18 … | ≈1801-03-19 | Mr Jefferson in his Speech; makes observes, that, He may [“]I Shall often go Wrong through defect... | |
986 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 15 November 1799 | 1799-11-15 | I wrote to you twice from East Chester. I left there the day I proposed; and had a fine passage... |
987 | Adams, Abigail | Thaxter, John | Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 8 December 1780 | 1780-12-08 | I have been all impatience for several Months looking and longing to hear from abroad. From June... |
988 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 8 December 1800 | 1800-12-08 | I know My Much loved Sister that you will mingle in my Sorrow, and weep With me over the Grave of... |
989 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 18 December 1791 | 1791-12-18 | Tis more than two months since I left you yet I have neither written a word to you or heard from... |
990 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 13 October 1764 | 1764-10-13 | When I wrote you by the Doctor I was in hopes that I should have been out the next day, but my... |
991 | Adams, Abigail | Lowell, John | Abigail Adams to John Lowell, 29 November 1779 | 1779-11-29 | Before Mr. Adams left me he mentiond 2 or 3 gentlemen to me to whom he would have me apply for... |
992 | Adams, Abigail | Jefferson, Thomas | Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1785 | 1785-12-20 | Your favours by Colln. Smith and by the Baron Polintz came safe to hand. As you have justly... |
993 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 November 1798 | 1798-11-15 | Once more my dear son it is permitted me to address you by Letter. thanks to the Great Giver of... |
994 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 16 July 1787 | 1787-07-16 | If as the poet says, expectation makes the blessing sweet, your last Letter was peculiarly so, as... |
995 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 7 February 1802 | 1802-02-07 | Your Letter of the Jan’ry I received near a fortnight ago, and have thought every day since... |
996 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 15 December 1778 | 1778-12-15 | I have a very bad soar finger and it pains me to write, yet a few lines I must write to my dear... |
997 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, Elizabeth Smith | Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw, 19 July 1787 | 1787-07-19 | I will not plead in excuse that I have not by any of the late vessels received a Line from my... |
998 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 1 November 1789 | 1789-11-01 | A strange phenomanan has happend in our Family. I believe I wrote you that Louissa and John were... |
999 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 September 1775 | 1775-09-08 | Since you left me I have passed thro great distress both of Body and mind; and whether greater is... |
1000 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 April 1797 | 1797-04-05 | The proclamation of the 25 of March, which is published in the Centinal of April 1 st has excited... |
1001 | Adams, Abigail | Shaw, William Smith | Abigail Adams to William Smith Shaw, 6 September 1800 | 1800-09-06 | Your Letter by Mr Rogers did not reach Me untill the last week. The Crisis which I have long... |
1002 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 20 July 1798 | 1798-07-20 | I wrote you in a Letter not long since: that as mr Malcom had declined going abroad, I had... |
1003 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 April 1796 | 1796-04-04 | I see by the papers brought by last nights Mail that the Question on Livingstones Motion was... |
1004 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 September 1774 | 1774-09-22 | I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day... |
1005 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 10 April 1796 | 1796-04-10 | It is with real Sorrow that I have to acquaint You with the Death of so valuable a Man as Hon’... |
1006 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 May 1780 | 1780-05-01 | Last week arrived at Boston the Marquis de la Fayette to the universal joy of all who know the... |
1007 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 30 May 1790 | 1790-05-30 | I received your kind Letter of May last week I was very sorry to hear that you and your Family... |
1008 | Adams, Abigail | Johnson, Catherine Nuth | Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnson, 20 May 1798 | 1798-05-20 | I received a few days past, Your obliging favour of May 7 th , inclosing the Letters of my sons,... |
1009 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, ca. 20 February 1794 | 1794-02-20 | The post of the last saturday was the first for a long period, which faild of bringing me a... |
1010 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 6 December 1797 | 1797-12-06 | I received your Letter of Nov br 24 by the post of yesterday. with respect to the Notes you wrote... |
1011 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 April 1777 | 1777-04-20 | The post is very Regular and faithfully brings me all your Letters I believe. If I do not write... |
1012 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 25 May 1798 | 1798-05-25 | I received yesterday your kind Letter of May 12 th and was rejoiced to learn that you had... |
1013 | Adams, Abigail | Thaxter, John | Abigail Adams to John Thaxter, 20 October 1783 | 1783-10-20 | To you my young Friend upon whom the parential ties are strong and unbroken; who never yet knew... |
1014 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 February 1796 | 1796-02-22 | Mr Quincy and Mr Copley made me a visit this afternoon. mr Copley arrived from England about 2... |
1015 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 January 1797 | 1797-01-29 | Yes My Dear Friend I had seen and read the Tenth Muse, and I think she abuses our poor old... |
1016 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 April 1776 | 1776-04-21 | I have to acknowledg the Recept of a very few lines dated the 12 of April. You make no mention of... |
1017 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 6 July 1797 | 1797-07-06 | I got through the 4 July with much more ease than I expected. it was a fine cool day, and my... |
1018 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 August 1782 | 1782-08-05 | I know not any pleasure equal to that which arises from feeding the Hungry, cloathing the Naked... |
1019 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John Quincy | Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 8 October 1795 | 1795-10-08 | I hear of a vessel going to Amsterdam, and tho I presume you are not in Holland, I shall write a... |
1020 | Adams, Abigail | Smith, Abigail Adams | Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, 3 November 1792 | 1792-11-03 | Mrs Jeffry sails in Captain Scott and is so good as to say that she will take Letters to you. I... |
1021 | Adams, Abigail | Jefferson, Thomas | [To Thomas Jefferson from Abigail Adams, 12 August … | 1785-08-12 | [ London, 12 Aug. 1785. Record in SJL of its receipt on 23 Sep. 1785 reads: “Mrs. Adams’s.... |
1022 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 5 October 1799 | 1799-10-05 | I rejoice in the fine weather you have had. accounts from N york & Philadelphia are rather... |
1023 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, 5 October 1785 | 1785-10-05 | Captain Callihan sails sooner than we expected so that we have not time to write to several of... |
1024 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 – 18 July 1782 | ≈1782-07-17 | I have delayed writing till the vessel is near ready to Sail, that my Letters may not lay 3 weeks... |
1025 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 16 May 1797 | 1797-05-16 | most cordially welcome to me was your kind Letter of May the 4 th , yet I have not found time... |
1026 | Adams, Abigail | Cushing, Hannah Phillips | Abigail Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushing, 2 September … | 1801-09-02 | I received your kind and Friendly Letter of the 2d, and beg you to accept my thanks for your kind... |
1027 | Adams, Abigail | Robbins, Chandler Jr. | Abigail Adams to Chandler Robbins Jr., 10 January 1783 | 1783-01-10 | The Letter which you find enclosed you will be kind enough to sink should you be so unfortunate... |
1028 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 4 April 1798 | 1798-04-04 | The eastern post will go out this morning and I take my pen to thank you for your Letters of the... |
1029 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 30 July 1777 | 1777-07-30 | I dare say before this Time you have interpreted the Northern Storm; if the presages chill’d your... |
1030 | Adams, Abigail | Cranch, Mary Smith | Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, 20 January 1787 | 1787-01-20 | Since the Sailing of captain Folger by whom I wrote you, I have received Letters from you of the... |