Abigail Smith Adams to Harriet Welsh, March 19, 1816
Quincy March 19th 1816 My dear Harriet I received this morning your Note of Sunday and Monday, and am the better for hearing < , Start deletion, of , End,…
Quincy March 19th 1816 My dear Harriet I received this morning your Note of Sunday and Monday, and am the better for hearing < , Start deletion, of , End,…
New York March 28th 1816 I intended my dear Harriet to have written You before now—but it has not been in my power this morning I recd. you packet with…
Saturday morng [ , Start insertion, 27 April 1816 , End, ] Dear Harriet I am much dispirited by the weather which prevented the intended visit of you and your…
Sunday Eve’g 10 June 1816 Dear Harriet As I consider you as a part of my own Family, I Send you the inclosed, which you will return with care tomorrow…
Madison June 13th. 1816 I have just obtained pen, ink & paper at the house we have stoped at for the night to commence a letter to my dear Harriet…
Quincy August 16th 1816 Dear Harriet I yesterday thursday the 15 received your communications of the 9th. you see it was not possible to forward the Letters inclosed by the…
Janry 1st 1817 Many happy returns of the Season dear Harriet is wished you by your Friend, who you know would rejoice to see you at Quincy, but the Gay…
Quincy March 14 1817 Dear Harriet I wrote the inclosed a few days Since, but not having an opportunity to Send it which I liked I have kept it for…
Quincy May 30 1817 Dear Harriet The Books have come, and never were in the Custom house as I beleive. it was not a Box, but a package. Farmers Works…
Quincy october 17th 1817 dear Harriet Welcome home again—I received by mrs Adams your Note, and Carolines, the Same Mail brought me a Letter from Susan of the 7th from…
Quincy December 1st 1817 dear Harriet The moon shone so bright this morning that I rose, as it seems while it was yet Night, and allotted a portion to my…
[ , Start insertion, January 30, 1818 , End, ] Dear Harriet I received the articles this morning cloth Nankeen Ribbon Letter covers &c altho the Gospel declares man &…
[ , Start insertion, March 1818 , End, ] Dear Harriet I beleive you thought me very imprudent to consent to the Presidents going to Town So cold a day…
Washington 4 Novbr 1818 Expecting constantly to hear from you my dear Harriet I have felt involuntarily inclined to procrastinate every effort to write on a subject which has filled…
Washington 16 Decbr. 1818 My Dear Harriet I scarcly know how to apologize for my remissness in not writing to you sooner but did you know how I am teazed…
Washington 17 Feby 1819 My Dear Harriet In the midst of bustle and preparation for a small party of 400 and some person’s I cannot refrain from writing you a…
< , Start deletion, Quincy , End, > Montezillo January 23—1820. my dear Miss Welsh Inclosed is a Bill—you will please to purchase me Dugal’s Philosophy of the Human Mind—By…
Washington 8th Feby 1820 My Dear Harriet The boys left us on Sunday morning intending to arrive at your house on Saturday Evening when to my astonishment and terror John…
Washington 27 Novbr: 1820 My dear Harriet According to your desire I burnt the Letter which you wrote me and respect greatly the anxiety you manifest for the subject of…
Montezillo May 9th 1821 Dear Mrs Welsh You are it seems requested to enquire of me 1. Whether there was [ever] any “Coolness” between President Washington and me? 2. Whether,…