Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams, September 24, 1786
Braintree September 24th 1786 My dear sister In my last I told you I suppos’d your Son Thomas would enter college at the end of the vacancy. He did so,…
Braintree September 24th 1786 My dear sister In my last I told you I suppos’d your Son Thomas would enter college at the end of the vacancy. He did so,…
Boston. 12th. September. 1786 Dear Madam So I see by the papers that Amelia has become Mrs: Smith , and this the 12th. of June. The news came by the…
London Sepbr 12th 1786 My Dear Sister I am again safe arrived in this city after an absence of five weeks. By the last vessels I wrote Some of my…
London September 1st 86 At length after long expectation your No 16 2 has arrived. Capt Cushing Called yesterday upon us, and delivered the Letters for Pappa, and amongst them…
Cambrige August 30th: 1786 Dear Sir I received a few days agone, your favour of June 2d: 1 you mention an Affair, concerning which I had determined to write in…
Amsterdam 23d. August 1786 My dear Mr S. and Mr Blount set off tomorrow for London and have engaged to call this Evening for Letters. We have not received a…
Cambridge Augt: 20th. 1786 Sir You are, though living in a garret No more a Poet, than a Parrot At first you take a doggrel verse, And, alexandrine then rehearse.…
London, 23 July, 1786 My Dear Girls I bought me a blue sarcenet 1 coat not long since; after making it up I found it was hardly wide enough to…
July 22d 1786—Wimpole Street London I have also to sollicit your Pardon my Dear Brother for haveing so long delayd writing you. I know that you will overlook it and…
july 22d 1786 Dear sir I have to thank you for your very inteligent Letter of May 4, 1 and am glad to find one writer who is not in…