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- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
On Board Ship Active - 6 July 1784
I have been sixteen days at sea, and have not attempted to write a single letter. 'T is true, I have kept a journal whenever I was able ; but that must be close locked up, unless I was sure to hand it you with safety.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
Auteuil, FRA - 5 September 1784
Auteuil is a village four miles distant from Paris, and one from Passy. The house we have taken is large, commodious, and agreeably situated, near the Woods of Boulogne, which belong to the King, and which Mr. Adams calls his park
- Abigail Adams letter to Lucy Cranch
Auteuil, FRA - 5 September 1784
I promised to write to you from the Hague, but your uncle's unexpected arrival at London prevented me. Your uncle purchased an excellent travelling coach in London, and hired a post-chaise for our servants.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
Auteuil, FRA - 9 December 1784
I go into Paris sometimes to the plays, of which I am very fond ; but I so severely pay for it, that I refrain many times upon account of my health. It never fails giving me a severe headache
- Abigail Adams letter to Elizabeth Shaw
Auteuil, FRA - 14 December 1784
From the interest you take in every thing which concerns your friends, I hear you inquiring how I do, how I live, whom I see, where I visit, who visit me.
- Abigail Adams letter to John Shaw
Auteuil, FRA - 18 January 1785
Amongst the public edifices which are worthy of notice in this country, are several churches. I went, a few days since, to see three of the most celebrated in Paris.
- Abigail Adams letter to Storer
Auteuil, FRA - 20 January 1785
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- Abigail Adams letter to Lucy Cranch
Auteuil, FRA - 7 May 1785
Well, my dear niece, I have returned from Mr. Adams's. When I got there, I found a pretty large company. It consisted of the Marquis and Madame de la Fayette...
- Abigail Adams letter to Elizabeth Shaw
Auteuil, FRA - 8 May 1785
You can hardly form an idea how difficult and expensive it is to be housekeeping a few months at a time in so many different countries. It has been Mr. Adams's fortune, ever since he came abroad, not to live a year at a time in one place.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 24 June 1785
The sitting of Parliament, the birth-day of the King, and the famous celebration of the music of Handel at Westminster Abbey had drawn together such a concourse of people, that we were glad to get into lodgings at the moderate price of a guinea per d
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 1 October 1785
You must know that yesterday the whole diplomatic corps dined here ; that is, his Lordship the Marquis of Carmarthen, and all the foreign ministers, fifteen in all, and to-day the newspapers proclaim it.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 21 May 1786
I thank you most sincerely for all your kindness to my dear sons, and hope they will ever bear a grateful remembrance of it ; the account you give of their behaviour and conduct is such as I hope they merit.
- Abigail Adams letter to Elizabeth Shaw
London, ENG - 21 November 1786
This being so wholly groundless, it roused the quick feelings of Mr. Adams, who replied, a little warmly, Give me leave to tell you, Sir, that people who hold this language, betray a total ignorance of the subject.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 20 January 1787
I will now give you some account of my late tour to Bath, that seat of fashionable resort, where, like the rest of the world, I spent a fortnight in amusement and dissipation, but returned, I assure you, with double pleasure to my own fireside
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 25 February 1787
I think I should not feel more anxious if I was in the midst of all the disturbances, than I do at this distance, where imagination is left at full liberty. When law and justice are laid prostrate, who or what is secure ?
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 16 July 1787
I have had with me for a fortnight a little daughter of Mr. Jefferson's, who arrived here with a young negro girl, her servant, from Virginia.
- Abigail Adams letter to Mary Cranch
London, ENG - 15 September 1787
When I wrote you last, I was just going to set out on a journey to the West of England. I promised you to visit Mr. Cranch's friends and relatives. This we did, as I shall relate to you.
- Abigail Adams letter to Elizabeth Shaw
Richmond Hill, NY - 27 September 1789
I write to you, my dear sister, not from the disputed banks of the Potomac, the Susquehanna, or the Delaware, but from the peaceful borders of the Hudson ; a situation where the hand of nature has so lavishly displayed her beauties
- Abigail Adams letter to Thomas Brand
New York, NY - 6 September 1790
If my heart had not done you more justice than my pen, I would disown it. I have so long omitted writing to you, that my conscience has been a very severe accuser of me.
- Abigail Adams letter to Thomas Adams
Quincy, MA - 8 November 1797
I have much upon my mind which I could say to you ; prudence forbids my committing it to writing.
- Abigail Adams letter to John Adams
Quincy, MA - 26 April 1797
The funeral rites performed, I prepare to set out on the morrow. I long to leave a place, where every scene and object wears a gloom, or looks so to me. My agitated mind wants repose.
- Abigail Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson
Quincy, MA - 1 July 1804
But you have been pleased to enter upon some subjects which call for a reply ; and as you observe that you have wished for an opportunity to express your sentiments, I have given them every weight they claim.
- Abigail Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson
Quincy, MA - 18 August 1804
Your statement inspecting Callender, and your motives for liberating him wear a different aspect as explained by you, from the impression which the act had made
- Abigail Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson
Quincy, MA - 25 October 1804
It was not until circumstances concurred to place you in the light of a rewarder and encourager of a libeller, whom you could not but detest and despise, that I withdrew the esteem I had long entertained for you.
- Abigail Adams letter to Dexter
Quincy, MA - 12 May 1816
How can I address you, or offer human consolation for a wound which must bleed afresh at every attempt to assuage it?
