1From Abigail Smith Adams to John Quincy Adams, 29 November 1805 (Adams Papers)
The reason that you did not receive a Letter from me when you arrived at Philadelphia, was oweing...
Untill this day, I have been from the moment when I left you, in such continual motion that I...
The first pen I put to paper after reaching my journey’s end must be to inform you, my dearest...
After a couple of days of anxious solicitude 1 last night recieved your very affectionate letter...
I wrote you last Sunday, the day after my arrival at Quincy and gave you an account of the...
I last night recieved your kind letter from Quincy but was much mortified at the very slight...
The Children are both in perfect health; both contented with their situations, and both beloved...
I am much disappointed at your Sisters not having accompanied you to Boston, having flatter’d...
I wrote you this day week, last Sunday that I intended to return to Boston the next morning—But,...
The pleasure I recieved on reading your account of our charming Children my best beloved friend...
I expected to have this letter from Quincy, where it was my intention to have gone yesterday in...
I write you a few lines although with difficulty having been for some days extremely ill and...
Yesterday was the first Saturday since I arrived here, which passed over without bringing me a...
Your kind letter and deed came safe to hand last evening and I immediately sent to beg Mr Cochran...
I have just this morning received your kind favour of the 2d: instt: which at once confirmed my...
I pass’d the day yesterday, in anxious expectation of having a letter from you again, but it did...
To hear from you and to write you are the greatest pleasures I am at present capable of enjoying...
The day before yesterday, after having taken a very satisfactory view of the solar eclipse, I...
Here I am at length, established as an intimate, in the family of Dr: Waterhouse; but from a...
I still continue as well and better than we could reasonably expect my best beloved friend and...
In the course of the last week I received your kind favour of the 15th: instt: which in assuring...
My health continues to mend rappidly and the prospect of soon rejoining you and my little...
You will receive I presume at the same time with this a letter from me written yesterday at...
I have this moment recieved your kind letter my best friend it has removed a load of anxiety from...
On going yesterday into Boston, I received Mr: Hellen’s letter of the 22d: of last Month, with...
I last night recieved your truely tender and kind letter words cannot describe the feelings with...
I was just going to account as well as I could for your having been two days over the accustomed...
Accept my best beloved friend the sincere congratulations of your wife whose prayers are humbly...
I wrote you from Cambridge last Tuesday, and then promised that my next should be from this...
I did not expect to have written you this day from this place; for as I have before mentioned to...
I last night recieved your letters of the 10 and 13 together and the extreme satisfaction of...
From your letter of the 20th: which I have just received, I am in doubt whether even this letter...
Having arrived thus far safely my best friend I write you a few lines merely to inform you that I...
I arrived here yesterday after a very fatiguing journey but find my health tolerably good Your...
As I know no subject is half so agreeable to you as the Children, I hasten to write you, that...
From the moment when I left you untill the present, I have been so constantly in motion, that I...
I have been expecting to hear from you these two or three days, and begin to feel some anxiety to...
I am still without any letters of intelligence from you or any of my friends at Boston and...
I am all impatience to hear from you, my beloved friend, and cannot concieve the reason, of your...
Last Evening I received with heart-felt pleasure your letter of the 25th: ulto: which was the...
I have nothing new to tell you from this place. I have no letter from you of later date than 25....
I have just recieved your letter of the 5, my beloved friend, and can only lament, that the...
I have received only one letter from you—that of 25. Novr: since I left you—And none from any of...
Your letter of the 7th: and 9th: came to hand last Evening, and relieved me from the pinches of...
I now enclose you the two bills, together with an order upon the Bank at Boston for their...
I wrote you yesterday that little Walter had been again very ill the night before; but was...
I am rejoiced my best friend to find by your last that you have at length recieved one of my...
I this morning recieved your favor of the 12 which afforded me the satisfaction of knowing that...
Last Evening I received your’s of the 14th: which makes me anxious to hear from you again—Your...
I last evening recieved your almost unkind letter which was brought me by your brother & Mr Shaw...