Abigail Adams to John Adams, August 19, 1774
Braintree August 19 1774 The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month since you left me. The great anxiety I…
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to a U.S. president and the mother of a U.S. president.
Braintree August 19 1774 The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month since you left me. The great anxiety I…
Braintree Sepbr. 2 1774 I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your last absence, that I now think…
Braintree Sepbr. 14 1774 Dearest Friend Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by the post, tho…
Boston Garison Sepbr. 22 1774 I have just returnd from a visit to my Brother, with my Father who carried me there the day before yesterday, and call’d here in…
Braintree October 15 1774 Sir I received your very obliging Letter 1 and thank you for the early intelligence of your designed Tour. 2 I could wish to be a…
Braintree October 16 1774 My Much Loved Friend I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I have some very…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, 25 January 1775 , End, ] 1 Dear Mrs. Warren I wrote you last Sabbeth evening 2 in a good deal of pertubation of Spirits.…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, 3? February 1775 , End, ] 1 My Dear Mrs. Warren The die is cast. Yesterday brought us such a Speach from the Throne as…
Braintree May 2 1775 My dear Mrs. Warren What a scene has opened upon us since I had the favour of your last! Such a scene as we never before…
Braintree May 4. 1775 I have but little news to write you. Every thing of that kind you will learn by a more accurate hand than mine; things remain much…
Braintree May 7 1775 I received by the Deacon 1 two Letters from you this Day from Hartford. I feel a recruit of spirits upon the reception of them, and…
Braintree May 13 1775 Sir A Brother of Mr. Adams’es who has been a Captain of a Company in this Town, is desirous of joining the Army provided he can…
America New England May 22. 17 [75] 1 Sir Just before Mr. Adams 2 set off upon his journey to Philadelphia he had the pleasure of receiving a Letter from…
24 May B [raintre] e 1775 Suppose you have had a formidable account of the alarm we had last Sunday morning. When I rose about six oclock I was told…
B [raintre] e June 3 1775 Dear Silvia So good an opportunity offering, tho I had not wrote before I have detaind the Bearer, just to thank you for your…
Weymouth June [16?] 1775 1 I set down to write to you a monday, but really could not compose myself sufficently: the anxiety I sufferd from not hearing one syllable…
Braintree June 16th. 1775 Sir I have the Pleasure of acquainting you that I last Evening recieved Letters from Mr. Adams, 1 wherein he informs me that the Congress are…
Sunday June 18 1775 Dearest Friend The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting Heart must find vent at my pen.…
June 25 1775 Braintree Dearest Friend My Father has been more affected with the distruction of Charlstown, than with any thing which has heretofore taken place. Why should not his…
Braintre July 5 1775 I have received a good deal of paper from you; I wish it had been more coverd; the writing is very scant but I must not…
Braintree July 12. 1775 Dearest Friend I have met with some abuse and very Ill treatment. I want you for my protector and justifier. In this Day of distress for…
Braintree July 16 1775 Dearest Friend I have this afternoon had the pleasure of receiving your Letter by your Friends Mr. Collins and Kaighn and an English Gentle man his…
Braintree 24 [ , Start insertion, July , End, ] 1 1775 My Dear Mrs. Warren I have been hoping every day since I received your obliging favour to get…
Braintree, July 25 1775 Dearest Friend I received yours of July 7 for which I heartily thank you, it was the longest and best Letter I have had, the most…