Abigail Smith Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, April 24, 1813
Quincy April 24th 1813. my dear Sister Yesterdays post brought us heavey < , Start deletion, tydings , End, > tidings from Philadelphia. our Friend, our Physician, the constant and…
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46,149 lettersQuincy April 24th 1813. my dear Sister Yesterdays post brought us heavey < , Start deletion, tydings , End, > tidings from Philadelphia. our Friend, our Physician, the constant and…
Quincy April 23 1813 My dear Son This Line is intended to go by Mr Bayard or Mr Gallatin, who are associated with you, or you with them in a…
Quincy—April 23d 1813— My Dear Son For three weeks past there have been many & various reports in circulation respecting the Mediation to Russia & there has been much Said…
Quincy April 22 1813 My dear Son I have Official Information that Mr Bayard and Mr Gallatin are joined with you in a Negotiation of great importance and no little…
Washington 20th: April 1813. My dear Sir, I had the honor to write you, on the 18th: Nov. 1811, since which I have been deprived of the pleasure of any…
Quincy April 20th 1813 Dear Sir I have this day the pleasure of your Letter of April 10th with the inclosure. The intelligence you have been pleased to communicate to…
St: Petersburg 19. April 1813. Dear Sir. I intended in my last Letter to have mentioned to you the Circumstances which procured me somewhat unexpectedly the pleasure of an acquaintance…
Plymouth Ms. April 15th 1813— I had for several weeks been anticipating the pleasure I have recently received on the arrival of your Son.—I very well knew he could not…
Washington April 10. 1813 Dear Madam I fear that the [pressure] of much business, and an anxiety to avail myself of a moment of leisuir, to write to Mr Adams…
Quincy April 9 1813 Dear George I Send you, a few Lines from the Old Astronomical and Astrological Poet, Manilius, whom you may Some time or other, think it worth…
Quincy April 9th 1813 my dear Madam I cannot let my Son pass through Plimouth without stoping to inquire after your Health, and that of Your Family! Nor of asking…
Atkinson April 7th. 1813 My Dear Sister, Your kind Letters of Feb. 15th & March 31st lie before me, in which I find are several things unanswered, though I assure…
St: Petersburg 7. April 1813 I know not whether it was generosity, or any other virtue, or merely a disposition to receive the postage, that induced the transmission of your…
Quincy March 1. 1813 My dear Son There is not a day nor an hour in which my Thoughts are not employed about you and your Family: But though my…
St: Petersburg 27 February 1813. At length, after another interval of nearly seven Months since I had been favoured with the sight of a line from any of my friends…
Quincy Febry 27th 1813 My dear son Before I closed my Letter to you, I received this morning your Letter sent by mr Harris, of october 25th. I rejoiced to…
Quincy Febry 25 1813. my dear son upon looking over my list, I find that I have written to you a Letter every month, since october. my last Letter was…
Scituate Feby 23rd. 1813. My Dear Madam. My mind it seems had been in unison with yours for some time past, & I had determined the last week that another…
Quincy Febry 21 1813. my dear Caroline delightfull praise! like summer Rose that brighter in the dew drop glows— they were Sweet Drops from the heart to the Eyes both…
St: Petersburg 18. February 1813. As I shall probably not have an opportunity of dispatching letters for America, after that of which I now avail myself, at least before the…