Abigail (daughter of JA and AA) Adams to Elizabeth Palmer Cranch, January 1, 1779
Plymouth jan 1 1779 1 My Dear Friend I take my pen to perform my promice of writing to you and to wish you a happy new year may heaven…
Plymouth jan 1 1779 1 My Dear Friend I take my pen to perform my promice of writing to you and to wish you a happy new year may heaven…
Boston 31st Decr. 1778 I have inclos’d two hundred & thirty six Dollars. The amount of the bills was £100. 16. The Cask of Wine gaug’d 30 Gallons. Deducting the…
Passy Decr. 30 1778 My dearest Friend We wait and wait and wait forever, without any News from America. We get nothing but what comes from England and to other…
Passy Decr. 27 1 1778 My dearest Friend Mr. Greenleaf is about to set off, towards Nantes and from thence to Boston. Last Night, I walked to Paris and saw…
Sunday Evening December 27 1778 How lonely are my days? How solitary are my Nights? Secluded from all Society but my two Little Boys, and my domesticks, by the Mountains…
Passy Decr. 26 1778 Hon’d Mamma it is now with Great Pleasure that I now sit down to write to you & many a time since I came here I…
Passy Decr. 18 1778 This Moment I had, what shall I say? the Pleasure or the pain of your Letter of 25 of Octr. As a Letter from my dearest…
Weymouth Nov. 2. 1778 Dear Sr. I wrote to You the latter End of last July 1 which I hope You have received before this Time, by what Vessel it…
Boston October 1778 1 Dear Madam You did not see fit to send the letter you proposed for the conveyance of Mr. Ingram. Perhaps it was owing to the supposition…
Octr. 29th. 1778 Madam Give me leave to present you my Most Sincear and respectful thanks of having been so kind as to Recommend me to Mr. Smith. As we…