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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 March 1787 | 1787-03-15 | I would not omit writing you, because you seem to think you have been agrieved. I do not... |
| 2 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 November … | 1794-11-30 | Well my Dear Son, how did the watery world agree with you? I hope it was propitious to your... |
| 3 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 January 1795 | 1795-01-10 | Should a vessel cross the Atlantick, and my dear Thomas not find a few lines from his Mother, I... |
| 4 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 11 February … | 1795-02-11 | When you address me again, let it be by the endearing Epithet of Mother, instead of the formal... |
| 5 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 April 1795 | 1795-04-23 | I did not receive any Letters from You when your Brother wrote last to me the 11 of Nov br . I... |
| 6 | Adams, John | Adams, Thomas Boylston | John Adams and Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams … | 1795-04-26 | Your kind Letters of Nov. 2. and Dec r 20 are before me. You will Soon learn the meaning of the... |
| 7 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 17 September … | 1795-09-17 | This very Day twelve month You lost sight of your native Land. Your Native Land is not I trust... |
| 8 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 November … | 1795-11-30 | I Love to receive a Letter from both Brothers at once, and I suppose each of You like to have a... |
| 9 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 March 1796 | 1796-03-10 | I never feel so great a propensity to write as when I have just received a Letter. Yours of Nov... |
| 10 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 June 1796 | 1796-06-10 | A Neighbour of ours Captain Richard Beal is going this week to sail for England, and I do not... |
| 11 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 August 1796 | 1796-08-16 | There has been an interval of Eight Months Since I received a line from Your Hand. this... |
| 12 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 September … | 1796-09-25 | Your Letter of June the 29 th was as refreshing to me as cold water to a thirsty Soul. the very... |
| 13 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 8 November 1796 | 1796-11-08 | I have just received Your Letter, sent by the Gen’ ll Green, Captain Sheldon via RhoadeIsland,... |
| 14 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 February … | 1797-02-21 | I fear to look back to the Date of my last Letter to You, least it should accuse me of omission.... |
| 15 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 June 1797 | 1797-06-20 | Your Friend Quincy is married, truly married and to a Nyork Lady, by the Name of Morten, without... |
| 16 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 16 July 1797 | 1797-07-16 | Tis expectation that make a Blessing sweet, says the poet. how sincerely sweet would it be to me... |
| 17 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 7 November 1797 | 1797-11-07 | Your Letters have become Such a model of elegant composition, that I cannot but think you must... |
| 18 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 3 January 1798 | 1798-01-03 | I Embrace the opportunity by the British packet of writing you a few lines, tho I have not any... |
| 19 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 18 March 1798 | 1798-03-18 | When I have written to your Brother I feel as if I had exhausted all the subjects which it is... |
| 20 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 4 April 1798 | 1798-04-04 | To know that one Cannot freely say that Black, is Black; even tho it be “darkness visible,” or... |
| 21 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 1 May 1798 | 1798-05-01 | I promised My dear Thomas to write to him by the May packet. on Fryday Evening at the drawing... |
| 22 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 21 July 1798 | 1798-07-21 | As there is some Probability that Thomas Welch will Embark before I shall return to Quincy, I... |
| 23 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 December … | 1798-12-30 | If you have once more set your foot upon American ground, and are in safety, God be praised I... |
| 24 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 20 January 1799 | 1799-01-20 | I Congratulate you my dear son, upon your safe arrival in your Native Country; and myself that I... |
| 25 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 23 January 1799 | 1799-01-23 | I received with Sincere pleasure the confirmation of your Safe arrival in your Native Land, from... |
| 26 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 2 June 1799 | 1799-06-02 | I presume this will find you at Philadelphia, fix’d in your Lodgings; and in possession of your... |
| 27 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 30 June 1799 | 1799-06-30 | I received your Letter of June 21— I cannot but feel very anxious for your Health. the Hot season... |
| 28 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 15 July 1799 | 1799-07-15 | I know not how it is, but I always feel more spirits when I take my pen to write to you, than to... |
| 29 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 4 August 1799 | 1799-08-04 | I received yours of the 21 July upon my return from a Ride. your Father said he had a Letter for... |
| 30 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, Thomas Boylston | Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 17 August 1799 | 1799-08-17 | I received with much pleasure your Letters of August 1 st and 12th, for which accept my thanks. I... |