Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, 15 January 1767
Salem Jany. 15 1767 Dear Sister Your kind letter I receiv–d to day and am greatly rejoiced to [hear] 1 you are all so well. I was very uneasy at…
Salem Jany. 15 1767 Dear Sister Your kind letter I receiv–d to day and am greatly rejoiced to [hear] 1 you are all so well. I was very uneasy at…
Septr. 30th. 1764 My dear Diana I have this Evening been to see the Girl.–What Girl? Pray, what Right have you to go after Girls?–Why, my Dear, the Girl I…
May 8th. 1764 Dr. Diana This Morning received yours by Mr. Ayers. 1 I can say nothing to the Contents at present, being obliged to employ all my Time in…
Boston May 7th. 1764 I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever you please to call them. I feel at present, pretty much at…
Four O Clock afternoon May 4th. 1764 Returned from a Ramble in Town which began at 10 in the Morning. Dined with my Friend S. Adams 1 and Wm. Checkley,…
Boston April 26th. 1764 Many have been the particular Reasons against my Writing for several days past, but one general Reason has prevailed with me more than any other Thing,…
[ Boston, 19? April 1764 1 ] My Dear It was not forgetfulness, that prevented my writing. You must not ascribe to forgetfulness my not writing to You for some…
April 18. [ 1764 ] Wednesday 2 O Clock Dr. Diana Three of our Company, have now the Small Pox upon them, Wheat, Badger, and Elderkin. We have seen them…
Tuesday 17th. April 1764 Yours of April 15th. this moment received. I thank You for it–and for your offer of Milk, but We have Milk in vast Abundance, and every…
Saturday. Two O Clock [ 14 April 1764 ] The Deacon and his Three Children are arrivd and the Operation has been performed, and all well. And now our Hospital…