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John Adams to Abigail Smith, August 1763
Saturday morning Aug. 1763 My dear Diana Germantown is at a great Distance from Weymouth Meeting-House, you know; The No. of Yards indeed is not so prodigious, but the Rowing…
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John Adams to Abigail Smith, 15 August 1763
Monday Morning [ 15 August ?] 1763 1 The Disappointment you mention was not intended, but quite accidental. A Gentleman, for whom I had much Esteem, Mr. Daniel Leonard of…
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Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763
Weymouth August th 11 1763 1 My Friend If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon Company, or promote…
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John Adams to Abigail Smith, 20 April 1763
April 20th. 1763 Diana Love sweetens Life, and Life sometimes destroys Love. Beauty is desirable and Deformity detestible; Therefore Beauty is not Deformity nor Deformity, Beauty. Hope springs eternal in…
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Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr., 16 March 1763
Weymouth March 16 1763 Dear Cousin 1 Tis no small pleasure to me, to hear of the great proficioncy you have made in the French tongue, A Tongue Sweet, and…
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John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763
Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763 Dear Madam Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.–I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm prevented.–Cruel, Yet perhaps…
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John Adams to Abigail Smith, 1762 – 1763
[ Braintree? 1762–1763 ] 1 Dr. Miss Jemima I have taken the best Advice, on the subject of your Billet, and I find you cannot compell me to pay unless…
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John Adams to Abigail Smith, 4 October 1762
Octr. 4th. 1762 Miss Adorable By the same Token that the Bearer hereof 1 satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses,…
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Richard Cranch and John Adams to Mary Smith, 30 December 1761
Germantown Decr. 30th. 1761 Dear Miss Polly 1 I was at Boston yesterday and saw your Brother who was well. I have but a moments notice of an oportunity of…
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[A Letter to William Crawford Telling “How I Live,” October 1758.]
How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to prove it to you, I will tell…