31Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 4 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
I cannot but lament that the cares and avocations of Your Family should so fully occupy your Time, as to deprive Your Friends of the pleasure of your Epistolarly communications.— a very excellent Letter to Your Son, did but add to my Regreets. that talents So usefull should be encumbered by the daily cares; and obstructed by the numerous calls of Your Family, that the fire of imagination...
32Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 16 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received two Charming Letters from my much loved sister since my last to her. they demand from me a More minute reply than my time will allow, being unwilling to leave a visitor who has been with me for a week past, Mrs Johnson & Son from Georgetown, the Mother and Brother of My Dear absent Sons Louissa, tho formerly known to me as a visitor an acquaintance merly , without any...
33Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 18 July 1800 (Adams Papers)
I received Your kind Letter by mr Peabody and thank You most Sincerely for it; I did not know that You had been so very sick untill I saw a Letter from You to mrs Foster: You my Dear sister certainly take too great a charge upon you; I know that You delight in doing good, and communicating, that as our good Father used to Say, he had rather be worn out, than rust out; but your constitution is...
34Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, 19 May 1801 (Adams Papers)
This will be deliverd to you by the children who leave me this day. I hope they will return to their Studies with undiminishd zeal, they have had three months dissipation, in which I hope they have not acquired any ill habits, but close application will be necessary for them to retrieve the past time. William if he chuses may be fitted for colledge by the next july twelvemonths and it is the...