Abigail Smith Adams to Abigail Amelia Adams Smith, March 18, 1808
Quincy March 18th 1808 my dear daughter William has been so punctual in writing to you every week, that I have been more remiss. I cannot write in an Evening;…
Quincy March 18th 1808 my dear daughter William has been so punctual in writing to you every week, that I have been more remiss. I cannot write in an Evening;…
Washington March the 17th. 1808. My Dear Madam We were blessed with fine weather & roads from Providence to Phila., where we staid a fortnight; & from thence here as…
Quincy 15th: March 1808. Dear Brother. I have received from Messrs: Curtis & Adams to whom I sold your Wood near the Mill pond, the amount of price agreed for;…
Washington 12. March 1808. My dear Brother. I begin by congratulating you upon the birth of your daughter Elizabeth, of which I had never heard, untill I received your letter…
Washington 7. March 1808. Dear Sir. I will thank you to pay to my father, for me, on or before the 22d: of this month eleven hundred and seventy two…
Quincy March 5th. 1808 My dear Son Livy in his 42. Book and chapters 29 and thirty, as an introduction of his History of the War between the Romans and…
Quincy January 8. 1808 My great and good Son The distance between Us, the total retirement in which I live and the Want of Facts, render a Correspondence between Us,…
Quincy 27th: December 1807 Dear Brother I returned from Dedham on Friday morning, and found your letter of the 14th. The Court of Common Pleas dispatched business rather faster than…
Washington 27. Decr: 1807 My dear Sir, Your favour of the 14th: instt: came to my hands just at a moment to renew and to strengthen impressions which had been…
Washington 18. Decr: 1807. My dear Sir. I received some days since, your letter of the 18th: of last Month—But it was longer in coming than the time usually taken…