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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, January 10, 1778
Haverhill January 10. 1778 My Dear Sister I am very sorry I lost the Opportunity of conveying a Letter to Braintree by Mr. Thayer last week. We had company engaged…
Author
Letters from Elizabeth Smith Shaw
B. 1772 · D. 1832
Thomas Boylston Adams was the third and youngest son of second United States president John Adams and Abigail (Smith) Adams. He worked as a lawyer, a secretary to his brother John Quincy Adams while the latter served as United States ambassador to the Netherlands and Prussia, the business manager of and a contributor to the political and literary journal Port Folio, and a Massachusetts chief justice.
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25 letters
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, March 15, 1783
Haverhill March 15 [ , Start insertion, 1783 , End, ] 1 My Dear Sisters If I had received your Letter 2 an hour sooner, I could have sent you…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, March 26, 1784
Haverhill March 26th. 1784 My Dear Sister The Roads have been so bad for several Weeks past, that there has been but little travelling, and it has been difficult to…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, June 26, 1784
Haverhill June 17< , Start deletion, 7 , End, >84 Sabbath Eve [ , Start insertion, 26 , End, ?] 1 My Dear Sister Mr. Dodge has just informed me…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, August 24, 1784
Haverhill August 24. 1784 My Dear Sister I thank you, and my Betsy Smith for your kind Care of my dear little sick Girl. She has had 2 in her…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, December 5, 1784
Haverhill Dec. 5 1784 My Ever dear Sister I have not seen your Letter to Sister Cranch 1 as yet, and cannot tell how you like your present Situation—the People—their…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, April 25, 1785
Haverhill April 25th. 1785 My Dear Sister Not to hear one word from Novem. to April seemed a very long space of Time, to One solicitous for the Welfare, and…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, June 12, 1785
Haverhill June 12th. 1785 I have but just returned, my much loved Sister, from my Southern Excursion. You know how agreeable these always were to me. To see, and to…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, September 7, 1785
Haverhill < , Start deletion, August , End, > September 7th. 1785 My Dear Sister The long looked for, the modest, the manly, the well accomplished Youth, is come at…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) Adams, February 14, 1786
Haverhill February 14th 1786 Yours My Dear Niece, of October 2d came safe to hand, 1 and as I read, I could not but admire the justness of Thought, and…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, March 18, 1786
Haverhill March 18th 1786 Should I my Dear Sister, too much alarm the Heart of an affectionate Mother, solicitous for the welfare of her Children if I were to say…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) Adams, June 4, 1786
Haverhill < , Start deletion, May , End, > June 4th 1786 1 Pray Madam, are you married? Nay then the wonder ceases. No matter now how loose your affections…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, July 20, 1786
Haverhill July 20 1786 The Day after Commencment—Noon My Dear Sister Here I am, all alone for a great rarity. There is nothing more agreeable to me for a little…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, October 1, 1786
Haverhill October 1st. 1786 My Dear Sister This Day is the Aniversary of Eleven Years since our dear Mother left us poor Pilgrims, to sojourn here a little longer upon…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) Adams, November 27, 1786
Haverhill November 27th. 1786 I must frankly acknowledge to my Dear Niece that I could not but wonder at her long Silence. I feared that my Letters had not reached…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, July 22, 1787
Haverhill July 22 d 1787 My Dear Sister— The last Week has indeed been a Week of Joy to me— We have “eat our Bread with gladness, & drank our…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, November 17, 1787
Haverhill November 17. th 1787 My Dear Sister.— Friend, after Friend is severed from my Heart—I have lost many near, & dear Relatives, as well as kind Benefactors, since you…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, July 26, 1788
Haverhill July 26 th. 1788 My Dear Sister— I got home the Friday-noon after I left you, & had the great satisfaction of finding all well—my little Daughters humour much…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, September 21, 1788
Haverhill September 21 st 1788 My Dear Sister— Mr Lincoln has been here for several Days past— 1 Tomorrow he intends to return to Hingham, & has offered to carry…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, February 14, 1789
Haverhill February 14 th. 1789 My Dear Sister— You cannot think how mortified & grieved I was, by being so unexpectedly disappointed, of seeing my dear, long absent Friends last…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, December 6, 1790
Haverhill December 6 th 1790 My Dear Sister— Major Mc Farling has just called upon us, & informed us of his intention of going to Philadephia this Week—& has intimated…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, February 14, 1791
Haverhill February 14 th. 1791 My Dear Sister— By my Sister I have been informed of your Sickness, & of the distressed State of your Family, which gave me great,…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch, April 21, 1793
Haverhill April 21 st 1793 My Dear Sister— I have been exceedingly grieved at hearing of our dear Sister Adams’s Illness— She was so well in the winter, that I…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams, September 10, 1794
Haverhill September 10 th 1794 My Dear Sister— My Cousins most agreeably supprized me by a Visit— I had been informed that your Sons were to sail the week before—…