John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 September 1774
Phyladelphia Septr. 18. 1774 My Dear In your last you inquire tenderly after my Health, and how we found the People upon our Journey, and how We were treated. I…
Phyladelphia Septr. 18. 1774 My Dear In your last you inquire tenderly after my Health, and how we found the People upon our Journey, and how We were treated. I…
Phyladelphia Septr. 16. 1774 Having a Leisure Moment, while the Congress is assembling, I gladly embrace it to write you a Line. When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made…
Phyladelphia Septr. 14. 1774 My Dear I have written but once 1 to you since I left you. This is to be imputed to a Variety of Causes, which I…
Braintree Sepbr. 14 1774 Dearest Friend Five Weeks have past and not one line have I received. I had rather give a dollar for a letter by the post, tho…
Phyladelphia Septr. 8. 1774 My Dear When or where this Letter will find you, I know not. In what Scenes of Distress and Terror, I cannot foresee.–We have received a…
Saturday 12 oClock [ 3 September 1774 ] Dear Madam You may depend on my giving your Letter to Capt. Marston who sets out for Philadelphia on Monday. A safer…
Braintree Sepbr. 2 1774 I am very impatient to receive a letter from you. You indulged me so much in that Way in your last absence, that I now think…
Prince Town New Jersey Aug. 28th. 1774 My Dr. I received your kind Letter, at New York, and it is not easy for you to imagine the Pleasure it has…
Boston August 20 1774 Dear Sister I thank you my dear Sister for all your kind offers. I have not been able yet to get Miss Dolly Read. I expected…
Braintree August 19 1774 The great distance between us, makes the time appear very long to me. It seems already a month since you left me. The great anxiety I…