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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday June 20 1784. | 1784-06-20 | Embarked on Board the ship Active Capt. Lyde commander, with my daughter and 2 servants for... | |
2 | Adams, Abigail | Wedensday [23 June]. | 1784-06-23 | Our ship dirty, ourselves sick. Went upon deck and sent the servants down to clean her up: very... | |
3 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday [24 June]. | 1784-06-24 | A fine wind and clear air but the Ship going before the wind rolls sadly. Dr. Clark has been well... | |
4 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday June 27. | 1784-06-27 | I have been so sick that I could not be regular in my journal. We have had two days calm since we... | |
5 | Adams, Abigail | Monday Mor’g 28 June. | 1784-06-28 | A very dissagreeable Night. Wind at the southard near the Banks of Newfoundland. The morning... | |
6 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday July 1 1784. | 1784-07-01 | I have not been able to write a line since Monday when a North east Storm came on and held till... | |
7 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday 2 of July. | 1784-07-02 | A fine wind and a pleasent day. Our sea sickness has left us in a great measure. Went all of us... | |
8 | Adams, Abigail | Saturday 3 July. | 1784-07-03 | A fine morning. Rose by six o clock. Went upon deck. None of the Gentlemen up; our Second Mate, a... | |
9 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday July 4th 1784. | 1784-07-04 | This is the Anniversary of our Glorious Independance. Whilst the Nations of Europe are enveloped... | |
10 | Adams, Abigail | Tuesday July 6th. | 1784-07-06 | I was not able to write yesterday the wind blew so fresh; and not very fair, so that there was... | |
11 | Adams, Abigail | Thursday July 8th. | 1784-07-08 | If I did not write I should lose the Days of the Weeks. Yesterday a cold wet day. Could not go... | |
12 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday July 9. | 1784-07-09 | A fine day; but little wind; have been upon Deck the chief of the Day, engaged in reading... | |
13 | Adams, Abigail | Saturday 17 of July. | 1784-07-17 | I have neglected my journal for a week. During that time we have had 3 calm days, some wet... | |
14 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday July 18th. | 1784-07-18 | This Day about 2 oclock made land. It is almost a Calm, so that we shall gain but little. We hope... | |
15 | Adams, Abigail | Monday Morning July 19th. | 1784-07-19 | A calm. The vessel rolling: the wind freshning towards Night. We hope for a speedy passage up the... | |
16 | Adams, Abigail | Wedensday [i.e. Tuesday, 20 July.] | 1784-07-20 | Early in the morning a pilot Boat came of to us from Deal. The wind blew very high and the Sea... | |
17 | Adams, Abigail | Fryday July 20 1787 London. | 1787-07-20 | This day three years I landed at Deal. Since that time I have travelld to France, to Holland and... | |
18 | Adams, Abigail | 21. | 1787-07-21 | We set out about 9 in the morning, stoped and baited at Farnham, dinned at Alton and reached... | |
19 | Adams, Abigail | Sunday 23 [i.e. 22 July.] | 1787-07-22 | Went to the Cathedral Church at Winchester. It is a very curious structure. It is said to have... | |
20 | Adams, Abigail | 24 [i.e. 23] July. | 1787-07-23 | We dinned at South hampton and set out after dinner for Salsbury 22 miles, where we meant to have... | |
21 | Adams, Abigail | July [24–]25 | 1787-07-24 | We left this village and proceeded on our way to Blanford where we put up for the Night. Saw... | |
22 | Adams, Abigail | July 26[–27] | ≈1787-07-26 | Our next Stage was Bridport a small Sea port but a very bad harbour. No trade only in coal which... | |
23 | Adams, Abigail | 28th | 1787-07-28 | We left Axminster and proceeded to Exeter. Here we put up at the Hotell in the Church yard and... | |
24 | Adams, Abigail | Abigail Adams’ Diary of her Return Voyage to America … | ≈1788-03-30 | Sunday London March 30. We took our departure from the Bath Hotell where I had been a Fortnight,... | |
25 | Adams, Abigail | Smith, Isaac Jr. | Abigail Smith to Isaac Smith Jr., 16 March 1763 | 1763-03-16 | Tis no small pleasure to me, to hear of the great proficioncy you have made in the French tongue,... |
26 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 11 August 1763 | 1763-08-11 | If I was sure your absence to day was occasioned, by what it generally is, either to wait upon... |
27 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 12 September 1763 | 1763-09-12 | You was pleas’d to say that the receipt of a letter from your Diana always gave you pleasure.... |
28 | Adams, Abigail | Tufts, Cotton | Abigail Smith to Cotton Tufts, 2 April 1764 | 1764-04-02 | I should not have been unmindful of you, even tho you had not call’d upon me to exert myself. I... |
29 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 7 April 1764 | 1764-04-07 | How do you now? For my part, I feel much easier than I did an hour ago, My Unkle haveing given me... |
30 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Smith to John Adams, 8 April 1764 | 1764-04-08 | If our wishes could have conveyed you to us, you would not have been absent to Day. Mr. Cranch... |