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Abigail Smith Adams to Mary Smith Gray Otis, May 13, 1814
Quincy May 13th 1814 My dear Friend Next to the Supports of religion; is the sympathy of Friends in affliction, of the first you have abandent sources in the Belief…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, May 12, 1814
Reval 12. May 1814. I left St: Petersburg on the 28th. of last Month, as in the Letter of which I now enclose a press-Copy, I mentioned to you was…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, May 12, 1814
Quincy May 12th 1814 My Dear Sister I realy ought to have written to you and have inclosed the few Lines to Cousin Abbe which were Sent me from Boston…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, May 11, 1814
[ , Start insertion, post 11 May 1814 , End, ] Yes, my dear Friend—I am indeed the only one of my Father’s house who yet stands in this fading,…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, May 10, 1814
[ , Start insertion, 10 May 1814 , End, ] Recd: Quincy May 10th: 1814 of Thomas B Adams Esqr Twenty-five dollars & fifty Cents in full for a quarters…
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John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, May 9, 1814
Reval 9. May 1814. My dearest friend. Mr Rodde informs me that before he left St: Petersburg the twenty-five English Mails had arrived, from which I conclude that the Gulph…
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Abigail Smith Adams to George Washington Adams, April 9, 1814
Quincy April 9th 1814 Dear George I received your importent Letter so clearly exprest that for some time I was not able to define the true meaning of it. with…
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William Stephens Smith to Abigail Smith Adams, April 2, 1814
Washington City April 2d. 1814 My dear Madam— I have your letter of the 22d. of march, and am much gratified that my enquiries and communications relative to Mr. De…
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William Stephens Smith to John Adams, April 1, 1814
Washington City April 1st. 1814 Dr. Sir— Yesterday mr. Eppes chairman of the Committee of Way’s and means, brought in a bill to change the mode of taxation from the…
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William Stephens Smith to John Adams, March 31, 1814
Washington City March 31st: 1814 Dear Sir— The restrictive System is raised and The President this day recommended to The two Houses of Congress to raise the Embargo—The communication was…
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Smith Adams, March 30, 1814
St: Petersburg 30. March 1814. Since I wrote you last, 1. February I have had no opportunity of putting a Letter even on its way, to reach you, when it…
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Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Smith Adams, March 26, 1814
Atkinson March 26th 1814 Yesterdays Mail, My Dear Sister, conveyed your Letter safe to me, with the two Bills—I do not so much think of what I want, as what…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, March 22, 1814
Plymouth, March 22d, 1814.— I have myself, my dear Friend, been very unwell since I received your short but consolatory letter dated Feby. 21st. which inform’d me of your recovery…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, March 4, 1814
Quincy March 4 1814 Dear Sir, I know not what to say to your Letter of 23rd. There are Men whom disaster haunts through life. Sinclair was one & Wilkinson…
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Abigail Smith Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, March 4, 1814
4 March 1814 Received Quincy March 4th 1814 of Thomas B Adams Esqr Twenty-five Dollars and fifty Cents in full for one quarter’s interest on J Q Adams’s Note $…
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John Adams to William Stephens Smith, March 2, 1814
Quincy March 2. 1814. Dear Sir, I have been sick a Month, and my eyes and hands incapable of writing otherise you would have heard more from me. Your favor…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, February 1, 1814
Quincy Febry 1814 my dear son I was never more at a loss what to say to you than at the present moment, to accuse you of neglect I cannot,…
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William Stephens Smith to John Adams, February 28, 1814
Washington City < , Start deletion, Saturday , End, > Monday Feby. 28th. 1814 Dear Sir. I received yesterday a Letter from my dear Caroline of the 20th. inst. informing…
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Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, February 27, 1814
Quincy Feb’ry 27th 1814 my dear Son I learn that the vessel in which our ministers are to embark, will not go untill thursday. I will write you a few…
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William Stephens Smith to John Adams, February 23, 1814
Washington City Feby. 23d. 1814 Dear Sir— More trouble hangs over the Camp The President last night, indulged The Secretary of War, by consenting to the arrest of Major General…