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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, August 6, 1815
Quincy August 6th 1815 Dear Harriet My Eyes have been very troublesome the week past, So that I have not used my pen. I thank you for Carolines Letter, was…
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Letters from Abigail Smith Adams
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.
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Abigail Smith Adams to George Washington Adams, August 7, 1815
Quincy August 7th 1815 Dear George I have received your Letter written at Sea dated the 1st of May, and was pleased that you had kept your promise of writing…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Abigal Adams Shaw Felt, August 13, 1815
Quincy August 13th 1815 My dear Abbe I have not written to you for a long time. I heard from you through your Brother, who kept Sabbeth with us this…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, August 15, 1815
Quincy August 15th 1815 my Dear Son This Anniversary is So well known to you, that you will not wonder; that it always returns with a Solemn knell to me.…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, August 17, 1815
Quincy August 17th 1815 Dear Harriet I thank you for the pamphlet sent me and think the writer more sinned against than sining. I will keep it, so charge me…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, September 5, 1815
Quincy Sepbr 5 1815 Dear Harriet My correspondents increase so fast, that it puts out my eyes to write to them all. I have employd all this rainy morning in…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, September 8, 1815
Sunday Sepbr 8th 1815 Dear Harriet I have not committed burglary this time—Caroline haven written in the cover, all well the 9th of Sep’br no I did not tell her…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, October 12, 1815
Quincy Oct’br 12th 1815 My Dear Son Captain Tracy is to Sail on Sunday in the Galen. our young Gentlemen are all flying abroad. Some upon buisness. Some from curiosity.…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 13, 1815
Quincy october 13th 1815 My Dear Mrs Adams I must inclose a Note to you, to Say that this morning the mail from Utica in N york, informd me that…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, October 16, 1815
Quincy October 16th 1815 Dear Harriet Mr Adams call’d yesterday morning before six oclock, I rose before light in order to write to you, and waited only for the sun…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, October 20, 1815
Quincy October 20th 1815 My Dear Daughter It was with great pleasure that I received and read your Letter of August 6th from Ealing, and it communicated to me a…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, November 9, 1815
Quincy Nov’br 9th 1815 My Dear Son I this day received your Letter No 75 24th August by way of Newyork—Your Father had received one of a later date 31…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, November 22, 1815
Quincy Wednesday 22. Novbr my Birthday 71. alass, how winged is time— Dear Harriet you do not know how much your company is desired at Quincy. these long Evening we…
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Abigail Smith Adams to William Steuben Smith, November 22, 1815
my Birth day and 71 Quincy Novbr 22d 1815 Dear Sir Inclosed is a Letter from Charles, by the hand writing. I received it yesterday, with a Letter from Mrs…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, January 13, 1816
Quincy Jan’ry 13th 1816 Dear Harriet I write again. I am yet among the Living, of which last Monday morning I had no expectation, but thanks to a kind providence…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, January 18, 1816
Quincy January 18th 1816. My dear Son Having been attacked this morning with a dangerous Complaint, I have requested Louisa to write you a few lines enclosing a Note, The…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, January 23, 1816
23 Janry 1816 Dear Harriet I know you will be glad to see my handwriting, and more so, when I tell you that I have rode out to day as…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, February 10, 1816
Quincy Feb’ry 10th 1816 my Dear Son your Letter of Nov’br 7th allarmd me when I opend it, and Saw that it was in the hand writing of mrs Adams,…
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Abigail Smith Adams to William Steuben Smith, February 20, 1816
Quincy Febry 20th 1816 Dear William I am very anxious to learn whether mrs Smith is confined? I expected the post of this day would have brought me a Letter,…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, February 25, 1816
Quincy Feb’ry 25th 1816 dear Harriet I was very sick yesterday, and obliged to take an Emetic, to clear of a quantity of Bile, which the dr said was the…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Richard Rush, February 26, 1816
Quincy Febry 26 1816 Dear Sir It is a long time since we have received a Line from you at Quincy. I have been so very sick myself, as not…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, March 1, 1816
[ , Start insertion, March 1816 , End, ] My dear daughter I always like to send to every one some token of remembrance by writing to each, altho, I…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, March 8, 1816
fryday PM—March 8th 1816 Dear Harriet I must write you a few lines to day from a Night of Rest, I derive Strength, all lost again by a night of…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, March 15, 1816
March 15 1816 Dear Harriet your Note I received and thank you for it, altho it gave me much anxiety upon your & mrs Bailey’s account. I fear you will…