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46,149 lettersThursday Decr. 29th. 1785 An anxiety to preserve a consistancy of Character in the opinion of Mrs. Adams (in whose favourable sentiments I feel myself more and more interested) induces…
Boston Decr. 29th. 1785 Dear Bror. When the Senate was last sitting I desired the Honble. Mr. Goodhue≠ of Salem, to answer your Request to me about the Cod-Fishery, and…
Haverhill December 28th. 1785 Dear Madam It is mortifying to me, to be again obliged to offer an excuse, for not having written more frequently to you, and to my…
Paris Dec. 27. 1785 Dear Madam I am this day honoured with your favor of the 20th. and an opportunity offering to acknolege it immediately, I do not fail to…
Braintree December 23d. 1785 My Dear Sister I wonder whether Mr. Shaw ever wrote you an account of the good woman who was so much offendid that you were not…
Boston. 21st. December. 1785 Dear Madam I am persuaded you will be pleased with this letter, if you were not ever before with one from me, because in the first…
Grosvenor Square Decemr. 20th. 1785 Dear Sir Your favours by Colln. Smith and by the Baron Polintz 1 came safe to hand. As you have justly estimated the Worth and…
Braintree December 18th 1785 My dear sister I did not design to write another line till I could get my pen mendid but not a creature can I get to…
Grosvenor Square Decr. 12. 1785 Sir I have received, your instructive and entertaining Letter of the 15. of October, and although a Change of Circumstances has rendered it improper for…
Germantown Decr. 11th. 1785 This is the fourth attempt my Dear Madam that I have made to reply to your unmerited favour of the 30th. of April last, 1 long…
Haverhill Novr. 1st. 1785 My two Brothers, Leonard and Charles, 1 will leave us tomorrow for Cambridge, and you would perhaps strike me from your books, was I to let…
Lincoln Octobr. 26th 1785 Dear Sister My heart has dictated many Letters to you since the recept of yours, 1 but my time has been so wholy taken up in…
Haverhill, October 16th [ 26 ], 1785 1 We have had the most considerable freshet in the river that has ever been known. I mentioned in my last that it…
London October 25 1785 Sir I should not so soon have ventured to interrupt your more important avocations by an other Scrible, having writen you a few Days since, if…
Braintree [ , Start insertion, ca. 23 , End, ] october 1785 1 My dear Sister I hope my dear Sister you have receiv’d the Letter You was looking for…
London October 19 1785 Dear sir Mr. Fox a young Gentleman from Philadelphia who came recommended by Dr. Rush to Mr. Adams, 1 will have the Honour of delivering you…
Grosvenor Sqr. October 1< , Start deletion, 4 , End, >8th [ , Start insertion, 1785 1 , End, ] Mr. James Jarvis called upon us yesterday but we were…
Braintree Octr. 15. 1785 Sir It has not been without Anxiety, that I have refrained from addressing a Letter to you for some months past. But not having the Advantage…
Weymouth Octobr. 14. 1785 My Dear Cousin Your agreable Letter of May. 10. 1 from Auteuil I received by your Son. His Absence You will feel and I do not…
Octobr. 12. 1785 My Dear Madam The anxious Sentiments of a Parent which You have manifested in the close of Your last Letter, 1 I have read with a sympathetic…