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...