Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, January 1, 1774
[ , Start insertion, 1774 , End, ?] 1 Dear Sister I was yesterday at Weymouth where I received your Letter, 2 and the saffron risbands 3 &c. I thank…
[ , Start insertion, 1774 , End, ?] 1 Dear Sister I was yesterday at Weymouth where I received your Letter, 2 and the saffron risbands 3 &c. I thank…
Cambridge, Octr. 20. [ , Start insertion, 1774 , End, ] If it was possible to tell you, my dear Mrs. Cranch, how much I think myself obliged to you,…
Braintree October 16 1774 My Much Loved Friend I dare not express to you at 300 hundred miles distance how ardently I long for your return. I have some very…
Boston October 15 1774 Dear Cousin It has been with inexpressable pleasure that I have beheld you usher’d into the world with such deserved approbation and it has been no…
Braintree October 15 1774 Sir I received your very obliging Letter 1 and thank you for the early intelligence of your designed Tour. 2 I could wish to be a…
Wey— October 14th. 1774 I have (my Dear Brother) been more than entertained by perusing a number of your Letters to my Sister. Highly favoured among Women, and peculiarly happy…
October 13 1774 Sir I have been trying ever since you went away to learn to write you a Letter. I shall make poor work of it, but Sir Mamma…
Phyladelphia Octr. 9. 1774 My Dear I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly is like no…
Phyladelphia Octr. 7. 1774 My Dear I thank you for all your kind favours. I wish I could write to you, much oftener than I do. I wish I could…
Phyladelphia Septr. 29. 1774 My Dear Sitting down to write to you, is a Scene almost too tender for my State of Nerves. It calls up to my View the…