Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts, April 2, 1764
Weymouth April th 2. 1764 Dear Unkle 1 I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I should be…
Cotton Tufts was a Massachusetts physician. He was a cousin of Abigail Adams.
Weymouth April th 2. 1764 Dear Unkle 1 I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I should be…
Ap. 9th 1764 My dear Friend I have nothing to do at present but to play with my Pen. I have long thought with Horace in his Dulce desipere: But…
Monday eve—Weymouth April 9. 1764 Dear Unkle I suppose you have written to me, tho I have not received it, for Mr. Ayers left his pocket Book with the Letters…
Philadelphia March 29. 1776 My dear sir We are impatiently waiting for Intelligence of further Particulars from Boston. We have only heard that General How and his Army have left…
Philadelphia June 23d. 1776 My dear Friend It is with Shame, and Confusion of Face, that I acknowledge that your agreable Favour of April the twenty sixth, came duely to…
Philadelphia June 30th. 1776 Dear Sir Your Favour of the 17th. I received by Yesterdays Post. Am much obliged, to you for your judicious Observations of the Spirit of Com…
Philadelphia July 20. 1776. Saturday Dear Sir Yours of July 5th. never reached me, till this Morning. I greatly regret its delay. But that it might answer its End, without…
Amsterdam Decr. 9. 1780 Dear Sir Your Favour of July 25th was received in Paris in my Absence, and I have never had opportunity, to acknowledge it, till now. You…
June 18th. 1784 Sir As You have been so kind as to undertake the care of Mr. Adams’es Estate and affairs during the absence of his family, for which it…
Auteuil Dec r 15. 1784 1 My dear Friend What would be the Consequence if We should have an immediate War with Great Britain? dont be allarmed there is no…
March 8th. 1785 My Dear Sir Mr. Adams received last Evening a Letter from you dated January 1st, 1 in which you inform him of some little purchases which are…
Auteuil April 24. 178< , Start deletion, 4 , End, >5 Dear Sir It was yesterday only that I received your Favour of Nov. 26, which contains many Things which…
Auteuil [ 26 April ] May 2d. 1785 1 Dear Sir It was not untill the 21 of April that your Letter of December 1st. reach’d me, tho forwarded by…
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London Sepbr 16th. 1785 Dear sir I believe that Mr. Storer is going to leave Us in good earnest. He has so long and so many months been delay’d that…
London Febry 21 1786 My Dear sir Captain Lyde arrived a week ago, and yesterday, he and mr Jenks dinned with us. By the latter we received your kind favour…
Grosvenor Square March 11. 1786 Dear Sir Your kind Favours of Nov 12. 1 and 24. and Decr 21 are before me. I Sympathize with you, under the Loss of…
April 8th 1786 London Dear sir Captain Lyde talks of leaving London tomorrow. I just write a line by him to inform you that we are all well. Mr Adams…
London May 26. 1786 My dear Friend There is a Subject So closely connected, with the Business of my Mission to this Court, that I can no longer be Silent…
London June 2. 1786 Dear sir I am proud to learn by your Letter of 13. April 1 that I am so rich at the University. If Thomas gets in,…
London july 22 1786 My Dear sir I inclose to you the papers which contain the correspondence between Lord George Gordon and mr Tufts. 1 As I suppose it will…
Grosvenor Square London Jany 16 1787 Sir By a Letter to my Mother from you, I Learnt that you had in your Possession the Letters and Picture which I requested…
Grosvenor Square July. 1. 1787 My dear Friend I have received your Favour of May the fifteenth, and am greatly obliged to you for your kind Attention to my little…
Grosvenor Square Aug. 27. 1787 Dear Sir You mention to M rs Adams a Piece of Land adjoining to me, of 56 Acres at 25 s an Acre: but are…