Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to a U.S. president and the mother of a U.S. president.
Ealing Novbr. 24th. 1815 My Dear Mother I found your note this morning on my plate when I enterred the breakfast room and hasten to offer you my congratulations on…
Washington Jany. 3d 1816 Accept my thanks my Dear Madam for your kindness in so promptly favoring me with your Advice from my eagerness to obtain your opinion I over…
Ealing 9. January 1816. My Dear Mother. Mr Bagot, or to speak in the style and after the fashion of this Country, the Right Honourable Charles Bagot, was immediately after…
Boston January 13th: 1816 Dear Grandmama Your idea of Osterley park being near our house is correct it now belongs to the Countess of Jersey the grand daughter of Mrs:…
Ealing 8. February 1816. My Dear Mother. The receipt of your favour of 2. December was acknowledged in my last, dated the 9th. of January—Three days afterwards, I received your…
Middletown Febry 13th 1816 My dear friend— I have been prevented waiting you since my arrival in Connecticut by the increased weakness and inflammation in my eyes; & I am…
Washington March 7. 1816. Respected Madam. Daily and incessant engagements for the last five weeks at the supreme court of the United-states, the term not being yet ended; together with…
Washington March 28. 1816. Respected Madam I trust this letter will find you not in a sick chamber where your kind favor of the 10th instant was written, but out…
Philadelphia April 20. 1816 Respected Madam. I am here on a visit of a few days to my remaining parent, enjoying as much happiness as a son can, under her…
Ealing. 23. April 1816. My dear Mother. I wrote you last week by Captain Bronson, and sent you a Volume of Letters from the Continent, about the Battle of Waterloo…
Ealing 13. May 1816. My dear Mother. I have had the pleasure of receiving your kind Letters of 22. March. and 7. April; and at the same time my wife…
Ealing 17th: May 1816. My Dear Mother Within a few days I have received your two very kind letters of April and am sincerely grieved to find your health still…
Boston June 14th. 1816 Dear Madam, I lament that indisposition should have obliged me to defer so long acknowledging your kind letter; it was received with a deep sense of…
Boston July 1st 1816 Dear Grandmama I am now come home for the holidays and I hope to receive a great many letters but too I must mind to write…
Ealing 4 July 1816. My Dear Mother We have been some time now without receiving Letters from you, although we have heard of you from other branches of the family.…
London 12. July 1816. My dear Mother. Mr Tarbell informs me that he and his Lady have determined to return to the United States, and that they expect to sail…
Ealing 12. August 1816. My dear Mother. I have received Letters from you, of 22. March, 7. April, 9. and 20 May, and 29. and 30 June. every one of…
Ealing 16. August 1816. My dear Mother, The receipt of all your Letters to that of 30. June has been acknowledged. To answer them, I must have time to think—a…
Ealing 24. August 1816. My dear Mother. I shall send you by the earliest opportunity the newly published numbers of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; but unless you read Cobbett’s…
Ealing 11 September 1816 As the Galen is about to sail my dear Madam I hasten to inform you that we have at length received the Watches sent by Mr.…
Ealing 20. September 1816. My dear Mother. My wife’s brother J. B. Johnson has written from New Orleans, to his sister and me, requesting us to send him our Portraits,…
Washington Octor. 12th. 1816 My dear Madam Your amiable and respected Husband has lately written a letter to Mr Madison, on a subject, in which he thought me interested, with…
Ealing 15. October 1816. My dear Mother. The quiet Season has at length arrived. For the last six weeks I have had no occasion to go into London, except upon…
Ealing 11th: Novbr. 1816 My Dear Mother Mr. Adams brought me your very kind Letter from Town the day before yesterday dated in Septbr: and was very happy to find…