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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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231 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 23 April 1777 | 1777-04-23 | My Barber has just left the Chamber. The following curious Dialogue was the Amusement, during the... |
232 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777 | 1777-04-26 | I have been lately more remiss, than usual in Writing to you. There has been a great Dearth of... |
233 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 April 1777 | 1777-04-27 | Your Favours of Ap. 2 and Ap. 7. I have received. The inclosed Evening Post, will give you, some... |
234 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 April 1777 | 1777-04-28 | There is a Clock Calm, at this Time, in the political and military Hemispheres. The Surface is... |
235 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 April 1777 | 1777-04-29 | This days Post brought me yours of 17th. inst. and Miss Nabbys obliging Favour of the 16. This... |
236 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 April 1777 | 1777-04-30 | We have a fine Piece of News this Morning of the March of 2000 of the Enemy, and destroying a... |
237 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 May 1777 | 1777-05-01 | This is King Tammany’s Day. Tammany was an Indian King, of this Part of the Continent, when Mr.... |
238 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 May 1777 | 1777-05-02 | We have promoted Arnold, one Step this day, for his Vigilance, Activity, and Bravery, in the late... |
239 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 May 1777 | 1777-05-04 | Inclosed with this you have an Evening Post, containing some of the tender Mercies of the... |
240 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 May 1777 | 1777-05-06 | We have no News here but what comes from you—except that all is well and quiet at Ticonderoga,... |
241 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 May 1777 | 1777-05-07 | We have no News here, except what We get from your Country. The Privateers act with great Spirit,... |
242 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1777 | 1777-05-10 | The Day before Yesterday, I took a Walk, with my Friend Whipple to Mrs. Wells’s, the Sister of... |
243 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 May 1777 | 1777-05-10 | We have at last accomplished a troublesome Piece of Business. We have chosen a Number of... |
244 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 May 1777 | 1777-05-14 | Prices with you are much more moderate than here. Yesterday I was obliged to give Forty shillings... |
245 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 15 May 1777 | 1777-05-15 | Gen. Warren writes me, that my Farm never looked better, than when he last saw it, and that Mrs.... |
246 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 17 May 1777 | 1777-05-17 | I never fail to inclose to you the News papers, which contain the most of the Intelligence that... |
247 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1777 | 1777-05-21 | Dont be two much alarmed at the Report of an Attack of Boston. The British Court are pursuing a... |
248 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1777 | 1777-05-21 | I this day Received a few lines from my Friend, whose Long silence I have not been able to... |
249 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 May 1777 | 1777-05-22 | After a Series of the souerest, and harshest Weather that ever I felt in this Climate, We are at... |
250 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 May 1777 | 1777-05-24 | We have an Army in the Jersies, so respectable that We seem to be under no Apprehensions at... |
251 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 May 1777 | 1777-05-25 | At half past four this Morning, I mounted my Horse, and took a ride, in a Road that was new to... |
252 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 May 1777 | 1777-05-28 | An horrid cold Day for Election—warm work however, in the Afternoon, I suppose. You will see by... |
253 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 June 1777 | 1777-06-02 | Yesterday, I took a ride to a beautifull Hill eleven Miles out of Town. It is called Rush Hill.... |
254 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 June 1777 | 1777-06-02 | Artillery Election!—I wish I was at it, or near it. Yours of the 18th. reached me this Morning.... |
255 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 June 1777 | 1777-06-04 | I wish I could know, whether your season is cold or warm, wet or dry, fruitfull or barren.... |
256 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 June 1777 | 1777-06-08 | Upon an Invitation from the Board of War of Pensilvania, a Committee was appointed a few days ago... |
257 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 | 1777-06-14 | This Week has produced an happy Reconciliation between the two Parties in this City and... |
258 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 | 1777-06-14 | Could I write you any agreable Inteligence I would with pleasure Grasp the pen And Call of my... |
259 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1777 | 1777-06-16 | I had a most charming Packett from you and my young Correspondents, to day. I am very happy, to... |
260 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 June 1777 | 1777-06-18 | We shall have all the Sages and Heroes of France here before long. Mr. Du Coudray is here, who is... |
261 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 June 1777 | 1777-06-21 | It would give Pleasure to every Body your Way but the few, unfeeling Tories, to see what a Spirit... |
262 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1777 | 1777-06-29 | The enclosed Newspapers will communicate to you, all the News I know. The Weather here begins to... |
263 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 July 1777 | 1777-07-01 | We have no News: a long, cold, raw, northeast Storm has chilled our Blood, for two days past. It... |
264 | Warren, Mercy Otis | Adams, Abigail | Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1777 | 1777-07-07 | Being Necessiated to use a Certain peace of Linnen so Nearly up that I Cannot spare my Friend the... |
265 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 July 1777 | 1777-07-08 | Yours of June 23d. have received. I believe there is no Danger of an Invasion your Way, but the... |
266 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 July 1777 | 1777-07-10 | My Mind is again Anxious, and my Heart in Pain for my dearest Friend. . . . Three Times have I... |
267 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 July 1777 | 1777-07-11 | This Letter will go by the Hand of the Honourable Samuel Hewes Esqr., one of the Delegates in... |
268 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 July 1777 | 1777-07-13 | We have a confused Account, from the Northward, of Something Unlucky, at Ticonderoga, but cannot... |
269 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 July 1777 | 1777-07-16 | Your Favour of the 2d. instant reached me on the 14th. The last Letters from me which you had... |
270 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 July 1777 | 1777-07-18 | The Papers inclosed will inform you, of the Loss of Ticonderoga, with all its Circumstances of... |
271 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 20 July 1777 | 1777-07-20 | The little masterly Expedition to Rhode Island has given Us, some Spirits, amidst our Mournings... |
272 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 July 1777 | 1777-07-21 | I have long sought for a compleat History of the Revolution in the low Countries, when the Seven... |
273 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 July 1777 | 1777-07-26 | At this Moment, I hope you are abed and happy. I am anxious to hear, and the more so because I... |
274 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 July 1777 | 1777-07-28 | Never in my whole Life, was my Heart affected with such Emotions and Sensations, as were this Day... |
275 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 30 July 1777 | 1777-07-30 | I am sorry to find by your late Letter what indeed I expected to hear, that my Farm wants manure.... |
276 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1777 | 1777-08-01 | The Fleet is in Delaware Bay. 228 of them were seen, in the Offing, from Cape Henlopen, the day... |
277 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 2 August 1777 | 1777-08-02 | By an express last night from Cape May, We learn that the Fleet went out of the Bay, the Morning... |
278 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 August 1777 | 1777-08-04 | Your kind Favour of July 23, came by the Post, this Morning. It revives me, to hear of your... |
279 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 6 August 1777 | 1777-08-06 | Price current.—Oak Wood £4:15s:od. Pr. Cord. Bad Beer, not so good as your Small Beer, 15d: Pr.... |
280 | Adams, John | Adams, Abigail | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 August 1777 | 1777-08-07 | We have not yet the least Intimation of Howes Design. He is wasting away the Time. Let him aim at... |