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Richard Cranch to John Adams, December 29, 1785
Boston Decr. 29th. 1785 Dear Bror. When the Senate was last sitting I desired the Honble. Mr. Goodhue≠ of Salem, to answer your Request to me about the Cod-Fishery, and…
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Letters from 1785
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, December 28, 1785
Haverhill December 28th. 1785 Dear Madam It is mortifying to me, to be again obliged to offer an excuse, for not having written more frequently to you, and to my…
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Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, December 27, 1785
Paris Dec. 27. 1785 Dear Madam I am this day honoured with your favor of the 20th. and an opportunity offering to acknolege it immediately, I do not fail to…
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Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, December 23, 1785
Braintree December 23d. 1785 My Dear Sister I wonder whether Mr. Shaw ever wrote you an account of the good woman who was so much offendid that you were not…
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Charles Storer to Abigail Adams, December 21, 1785
Boston. 21st. December. 1785 Dear Madam I am persuaded you will be pleased with this letter, if you were not ever before with one from me, because in the first…
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Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1785
Grosvenor Square Decemr. 20th. 1785 Dear Sir Your favours by Colln. Smith and by the Baron Polintz 1 came safe to hand. As you have justly estimated the Worth and…
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Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, December 18, 1785
Braintree December 18th 1785 My dear sister I did not design to write another line till I could get my pen mendid but not a creature can I get to…
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John Adams to Royall Tyler, December 12, 1785
Grosvenor Square Decr. 12. 1785 Sir I have received, your instructive and entertaining Letter of the 15. of October, and although a Change of Circumstances has rendered it improper for…
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Mary Palmer to Abigail Adams, December 11, 1785
Germantown Decr. 11th. 1785 This is the fourth attempt my Dear Madam that I have made to reply to your unmerited favour of the 30th. of April last, 1 long…
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John Quincy Adams to William Cranch, November 1, 1785
Haverhill Novr. 1st. 1785 My two Brothers, Leonard and Charles, 1 will leave us tomorrow for Cambridge, and you would perhaps strike me from your books, was I to let…