Adams Family Correspondence Volume 11, July 1795 – February 1797 Front Matter Copyright Dedication Sponsorship Committees Descriptive List of Illustrations Introduction Guide to Editorial Apparatus Documents 6 July 1795John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother. I received some time since from Mr: Rogers in London your bill upon me for £225 sterling, with a request to have the money remitted ... 8 July 1795John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Smith ShawMy dear Aunt About three months have elapsed since I received information by Letters from America, of the distressing trial you were called to endure... 12 July 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. The four Letters which your last favor of April 23. mentions to have been written to me, have been received in their regular order, t... 13 July 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. The flattering reception which my Letters have met with from you, and the expressions of commendation you have been pleased to use respe... 30 July 1795John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mamma. I received yesterday your favour of May 25th: not numbered but the fifth that has reached me from you; the four former ones I have ack... 5 August 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother, Though it is but a few days since I had the pleasure of writing you, I cannot omit a direct occasion, especially as they occur so sel... 14 August 1795Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams SmithMy dear Mrs Smith I quitted you with a heavy heart with many reflections upon my mind known only to myself. You ask me why I choose to be separated f... 16 August 1795Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother I have been sometime expecting to hear from you upon a subject the most interesting to my heart. It appears to be the wish of those co... 25 August 1795John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son I have recd your Letters in Succession to N. 9. I think inclusive but they are in So much request in this Country that I can never keep t... 15 September 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son I am ashamed to say how long it is Since I last wrote to You. I have received Your Letters to No 6. I believe only one, viz that from Eng... 15 September 1795John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother, The most recent intelligence we have from America is contained in your letter of June 30 & July 23. which arrived some days since, a... 17 September 1795Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas This very Day twelve month You lost sight of your native Land. Your Native Land is not I trust the less Dear to you, tho the account I... 19 September 1795John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son I, Yesterday recd your favour of June 27. No. 10. It is in common with all the Numbers which preceded it, full of accurate Information, p... 24 September 1795Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams and Mary Smith Cranch Justice & judgment are the habitation of thy throne, O my God! but thy mercy endureth forever— In the depths of Sorrow, I have lifted up mine Eyes, &... 27 September 1795Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother Your favor of the 19th instant I have received I thank you for your congratulations upon an event which has united me to the woman of ... 28 September 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son Mr J Quincy calld upon me Yesterday to let me know that a vessel of mr Higginsons was going to Amsterdam. I wrote by Way of Hamburgh both... 4 October 1795Charles Adams to John AdamsMy Dear Father Your kind letter of the 20th Ulto I received, and most cordially thank you for the parental wishes expressed for me and my amiable com... 8 October 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I hear of a vessel going to Amsterdam, and tho I presume you are not in Holland, I shall write a few lines just to let you know that we a... 26 October 1795Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear Brother I am informed of a Vessell to sail for England soon and I have been too remiss already not to embrace this opportunity of writing to ... 27 October 1795John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother, I apprehend that your information respecting the time when we are to be ready to depart was not altogether accurate; for although th... 31 October 1795John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy Dear Sir I have been detained about ten days in this place, waiting for a wind, and am very like to be detained as many more; the westerly winds ... 31 October 1795Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister I have this moment heard Mr & Mrs Black is in town, & going out again immediately but I would not let slip this favourable opportunity... 2 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Brother. The letter from Charles enclosed in yours of yesterday, accompanies as he says the bills, which may therefore be expected immediate... 4 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother. I received at this place by your letter of September 3d: the pleasing intelligence of your marriage, and offer you my warmest congra... 4 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother Your Letter of September 3d. advising your having drawn the preceding day, bills on me in favour of Daniel Ludlow & Co: for ƒ7,500. a... 7 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. Your few lines of August 25th. were forwarded to me from the Hague by my brother, and though short, yet as the tokens of your remembr... 17 November 1795John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son Since my last I have received your No. 11. dated 27. July with the Pamphlets which accompanied it. The Entertainment and Enjoyment I deri... 18 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Brother You were doubtless informed by our friends who favoured me with a visit at Helvoet of my sailing from thence at last. I landed the ne... 21 November 1795John Quincy Adams to John AdamsDear Sir. Since my last Letter (15.) nothing very material has occurred. The newspapers enclosed will shew you the degree of opposition that is made ... 24 November 1795John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. You will receive the letter I wrote you during my captivity at Helvoetsluys, where I was detained by opposite winds and violent weath... 29 November 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son The last Letter which has come to hand from you, was dated 27 July, now four Month. I begin to grow impatient to hear from you. I have la... 30 November 1795Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas. I Love to receive a Letter from both Brothers at once, and I suppose each of You like to have a Seperate Letter. I write all my polit... 1 December 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I had the pleasure to write you a few lines by the Betsey Captn: Clarke, which sailed from Rotterdam last week; another occasion now ... 5 December 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son As capt Scott has not yet saild, it gives me an opportunity of informing you that last Evening I received the Miniatures, and they were n... 6 December 1795Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I inclose to you the Cupons of Febry and June. 2 for that Month and 20 for Febry. 21 in one paper and 8 in an other. you will convey them... 6 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend We have been favoured with fine Weather and tolerable Roads in such a manner that We reached Kingsbridge on Fryday night and came i... 10 December 1795Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have rejoiced in the fine weather which has attended you through your journey, and the good Roads if you have had them as good as... 12 December 1795John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son By your old Acquaintance Mr Hall, who is bound to Europe I shall Send you Some Newspapers, which will give you a general View of the Comp... 13 December 1795John Adams to Charles AdamsMy Dear Son So great a Part of my Life has been and Still continues to be Spent in travelling that I seldom trouble my Friends in Conversation or by ... 14 December 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. I owe you a volume, & the certainty that I have not time to compile it at present is more terrifying to me than the weight of the debt. ... 15 December 1795Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend This is the Sixteenth Day since you left me, and I have not yet heard a word from You. I hope tomorrows post will bring me a Letter... 16 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Newspapers will inform you before this Letter reaches you that the Ratifications of the Treaty have been exchanged by Mr Deas t... 17 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I went to Senate this morning with Expectations highly raised of receiving my first Letter from you: and happily was not disappoint... 17 December 1795John Adams to Abigail Adams SmithMy Dear Daughter: I am returned to my yearly servitude, and have began to drudge for the winter, if not for both winter and spring. I should long sin... 20 December 1795Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend The Day I wrote you last, I received Your Letter written at Nyork. neither of my Neighbours Black or Beals went yesterday to Town, ... 21 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend My old Acquaintance Mr Walton, who Served in Congress, with me in 1776 and 1777 is returned a Senator from Georgia in the room of G... 23 December 1795Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Brother It has been announced in the Dutch Gazettes as an extract from those of London, that you had delivered Credentials to his Majesty as ... 24 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I wrote you this morning inclosing a Post note for 600 and went to Senate with full Expectation of receiving a Letter from you. The... 26 December 1795Charles Adams to John AdamsMy Dear Sir Your favors of the 13th and 24th I have received the latter containing the Post note for Dols 100 and I return you my thanks for it. The ... 26 December 1795John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Brother. Your Packet by Mr: Clarke at length was delivered me on the 21st: and your letter of the 11th: of this month, by Mr: Calhoun the day... 27 December 1795Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend Your Letter dated the 9th the blundering Post carried with him to Barnestable, so that I did not get it till the next week. Yours o... 28 December 1795John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I have just recd from the P. Office your Letter of the 20th. by Brisler who went to carry one for you— I write by every Post i.e by... 30 December 1795John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy Dear Brother Your favour of 19th: September was transmitted to me by our brother from the Hague about a fortnight since; I have answered already t... 31 December 1795John Adams to Charles AdamsDear Son Yesterday I received your kind and pleasing Letter of the 26, and am happy to hear of your and your Ladies health. I dont approve of your ca... 1 January 1796John Adams to Abigail Adams SmithDear Child: ****** I have several letters from your mother, who, I thank God, appears to be in good health. Mr. Josiah Quincy is now in this town, a... 2 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Weather here is as fine as it was the last Year. The Festival season of Christmas and the new Year, is enjoyed in Perfection by... 3 January 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I will try to write tho it is with much difficulty I hold My pen, oweing to a very painfull Soar which gatherd at the Root of one o... 5 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend There is a dead calm in the political Atmosphere, which furnishes no Event worth relating. The House of Reps is wholly taken up wit... 6 January 1796Charles Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Brother Your letter of the 15th September arrived yesterday I own I have not so much cause to complain of my brothers as they have of me. It ... 6 January 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. I have the receipt of two Letters from you to acknowledge; the one bearing date September 15. and the other October 8. of the year wh... 7 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Inclosed is another Production of Porcupine, whose quils will Stick. The President appears great in Randolphs Vindication throughou... 9 January 1796Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister— It is indeed several weeks since I have written to you—an eventful term to me—multiplied with cares, which have prevented me from pr... 10 January 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I received by the last post Your Letters of the following Dates 21 inclosing the post Note, 24 28 & 30th for all of which accept my... 15 January 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Thursday post did not bring me one Single Letter from you; tis true I had no reason to complain on the Score of inattention, as the... 15 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend We have floods of rain but no frost nor Snow and very little news. The Democrats continue to pelt as you will See by the inclosed P... 20 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend This is one of my red Letter Days. It is the Anniversary of the Signature of the Declaration of an Armistice between The U.S. and G... 21 January 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend a Memorable Day in the Annals of France; God forgive them, I would say. yet upon recuring to My Heart, I had a Doubt whether the pe... 21 January 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph PitcairnDear Sir. Your favor from Paris of the 9th. Instant has been some days in hand. I thank you sincerely for the intelligence both public & private cont... 23 January 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I came to Town yesterday, and find a vessel going to sail for England tomorrow, and I would not let the opportunity pass without writing ... 23 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have nothing to write you at this moment but Scandal, and that about one of our Connections and Acquaintances, in whose Character... 25 January 1796John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Brother. I believe there have been two or three opportunities of writing to the Hague since I received your favour of the 23d: ulto: which ha... 26 January 1796John Adams to Abigail Adams Yesterday I came to Senate as usual on a monday morning pleasing my Imagination and my heart with the hope and Expectation of a Letter from—my deares... 29 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Yesterday which was Post Day from the Eastward I was disappointed again of a Letter and went pesting all the day long against the P... 31 January 1796Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother My Sister informs me that you have not lately heard from your sons in Holland and that you were anxious respecting them. I am happy to... 31 January 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I have a secret to Communicate to Your Prudence. The Defence by Camillus was written in Concert between Hamilton King and Jay. The ... 31 January 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsDear son A fat Sleekheaded young Gentleman was here last Week or the Week before who told me he knew you, that you were well that you had a good shar... 2 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd yesterday yours of 21. and 25 Jan. The Senate and House of Massachusetts without any flights or flashes in their Answer to t... 3 February 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Yours of Jan’ry 20th reachd me the last post. there appears a universal pause. We do not get any thing from abroad, and the State L... 6 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend You Say you have no desire to be the first, and I cannot say that it is desirable: but according to all present appearances you wil... 6 February 1796John Adams to Abigail Adams SmithDear Mrs. Smith: I have received your kind letter of the first of this month. Mr. Langworthy appears to me, as he does to you, a man of information a... 6 February 1796Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister The tender solicitude you have shewn for my health, demands the earliest return I can make—& it is greatly to my satisfaction that I c... 7 February 1796Charles Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir Our Legislature have been some time occupied in debating upon what are called The Virginia resolutions which you have doubtless seen and ... 8 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend It is monday, the Time to expect the Eastern mail other Men have Letters— I have none— humiliated and mortified and at the Same tim... 9 February 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend I suppose some obstruction of Ice in the North river, prevented the southern post from arriving last wednesday, which prevented me ... 9 February 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsDear son I recd this morning your favour of the 7th and am glad that your State have not too much Complaisance for the restless Projects of old Aunt ... 10 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend The inclosed Slip from Benjamins Paper of this Morning will Shew you that the Electioneering Campaign is opened already. The “good ... 12 February 1796Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw PeabodyMy Dear sister I last Evening received your kind Letter of the 6th and was most sincerely rejoiced to find you able to write. I sent Cousin William t... 13 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have only time to inform you that Monday and Thursday have passed away without bringing me a Letter from you. It is the first Wee... 14 February 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I received by the last mail the Letters of two, so that I fare as you do, and the Stormy Weather last post Day prevented my getting... 15 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend This Morning I have your favour of the 3d which raised my Spirits again after the mortification of passing the whole of last Week w... 20 February 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend Yours of the 6 8th and 10th came to me by the last Post. I too sometimes get dissapointed but I always lay the Charge to the post w... 20 February 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. By the present opportunity, I send you a few pamphets which may give you some entertainment in the perusal, and newspapers from which... 21 February 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Deares Friend I believe I must devote this page to the History of Farming. our people have carried up the Hill all the manure which they suppose w... 22 February 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend Mr Quincy and Mr Copley made me a visit this afternoon. mr Copley arrived from England about 2 Months Since and is going to spend a... 27 February 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I dined Yesterday with Mr Madison. Mrs Madison is a fine Woman and her two sisters are equally so: one of them is married to George... 28 February 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Thursday is My Red Letter Day. then I usually get your favours, and a package of papers. the last thursday was particularly so. I r... 28 February 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend You left directions that Mr Pratt was to cut the Trees upon the plane for Timber to build a Barn this he has Done and our Teams hav... 28 February 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. The last Letter I wrote you should have gone by the Galen, but from being postponed to the last moment, the opportunity was lost, and... 28 February 1796Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister I am very sorry that I could not send Betsy Quincy with her Cousin, but my being unwell prevented my having her in readiness— Upon my ... 29 February 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son Seven Months were nearly elapsed, from the Date of Your former Letter, to the receipt of yours on the 22 of this Month Which was of Nov’b... 1 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Yesterday the President sent his Carriage for me to go with the Family to the Theatre. The Rage and the Spoiled Child were the two ... 2 March 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Our Little Town of Quincy is become so rich that they can vote a Thousand Dollors to Build a School House, Yet cannot pay a Tax to ... 3 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd this morning your favour of Feb. 22.—the more agreable as it was not very confidently expected. I should be glad to see Mr C... 5 March 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Thursday post brought me Yours of the 20th 23 & 24. we have had a good Season for buisness and our Teams have Stood Still a very fe... 5 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I Yesterday recd the Letter inclosed from my Son and in the Evening the President told me he had Letters from him. You will perceiv... 7 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have made the necessary Inquiry concerning Seeds And have found the Price so extravagant that I have concluded it imprudent to pu... 9 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd on Monday your two favours of 28. Feb. I am very glad you employed Pratt to cutt the Timber, for it is high time I had a Bar... 10 March 1796Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas. I never feel so great a propensity to write as when I have just received a Letter. Yours of Novbr 10th reach’d me on the 28th of Feb’... 11 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Why! this is very clever— Every Monday and every Thursday brings me regularly a Letter, which Softens the Tædium Vitæ The Ennui of ... 12 March 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Yours of Febry 27. March 1st came to hand on Thursday. I regreet that Congress are like to Sit so long, for tho my Neighbours are S... 12 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I dined Yesterday with Mr Burr, who lives here in Style. A Number of Members of the House The Speaker Mr Dayton among the Rest. It ... 15 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Your delicious Letter of the 5th. came to my hand Yesterday. Your beautiful and pathetic Reflections on the Match in our Presidenti... 19 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend We have a Turn of Weather as cold as any We have had through the whole Winter. The Violence of the North West Wind which has thrown... 20 March 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend I received Your kind favours of March 3. 5 7 & 9th by the Thursday post. we have as great a famine here of News as their is of Brea... 20 March 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother Your favour of January 23d. by Captain Barnard reached me two or three days ago. I am a little surprized that you had not at that date... 21 March 1796Charles Adams to John AdamsDear Sir I am clearly of opinion with you that we stand in need of some magic equally powerful as the Lyre of Amphion to quell the rage of the politi... 24 March 1796John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Brother. Mr: Clagett has this moment delivered me your favour of the 29th: ulto: and informs me that he goes again for Holland to-morrow morn... 25 March 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend I was sadly dissapointed to Day when James returnd from the Post office without one Single Letter the Newspapers to the 14th but no... 25 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend on Wednesday I dined with Mr Russell the Friend of Dr Priestley and while We were at Table, in came large Packets of Letters and Ne... 25 March 1796John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear son Mr Hindman of Maryland has requested a Letter from me, for Mr Richard Cook of Anapolis, who will tell you our News. I have read your publ... 28 March 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Captain Beal was in Boston on Saturday and he prevaild on the post master to let him take up the Saturday Mail by which means I got... 29 March 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend On Monday I recd your favour of the 20th Nothing will damp the Rage for Speculation but a Peace which may break a few hundreds or t... 30 March 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. The opportunities for writing occur so frequently at this time, and there is so little to say that I am apprehensive some of them wil... 1 April 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I yesterday received Yours of March 19 & 23d inclosing the Letter from our son, compareing Such events as have taken place in Europ... 1 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Newspapers will inform you of our interminable Delays. The House have asked for Papers and the President has refused them, with... 4 April 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I see by the papers brought by last nights Mail that the Question on Livingstones Motion was carried by a great Magority. this May ... 5 April 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son I have this morning received your favours of Jan. 7 and February the first with the Newspapers for which I thank you— I recd some days ag... 7 April 1796John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Son It is a long time Since I have recd a Letter from you and it is too long Since I have written to you. I have read your Dispatches as Char... 9 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The H. of R. have not yet determined— The Question is to be calld up on Monday— But the opposition who now call themselves the virt... 10 April 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend It is with real Sorrow that I have to acquaint You with the Death of so valuable a Man as Hon’ble T Russel. The Town of Boston coul... 13 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I dined on Monday at the Presidents with young La Fayette and his Preceptor, Tutor or Friend, whatever they call him, whose Name is... 16 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Doctor may have the Steers if he wishes to have them. The People of the United States are about to be Stirred up in every quart... 17 April 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Brother. Your favor of the 13 ult. came to hand the 31st: and that of the 24th: on the 3d: curt: I have to thank you kindly for your prompt e... 18 April 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend What you will say, or think, I know not at the Wages I am obliged to give. they are not higher than mr Black and others are obliged... 18 April 1796Charles Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir Mr Van Persyn the bearer of this; is a Dutch gentleman the brother in law of Mr Jean Luzac by whom he has been recommended to me He propo... 19 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Sensations of Ap. 19. 1775 and those of this Morning have some Resemblance to each other. a Prospect of foreign War and civil W... 20 April 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsDear Sir I recd. yesterday your favour of the 18 by the Post Mr Van Persyn, whom you mention as the Bearer I have neither Seen nor heard of. My Concl... 21 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend This Day seven Years I first took my seat in Senate and I hope I shall not sit there seven Years longer. The H. continues constant—... 22 April 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsMy Dear Son I believe I never have acknowledged the Rect of your favour of March 21.— In Dexter and Ames We lost the Lyre of Aphion in our H. of R. a... 23 April 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother. On the 19th: inst: the packets entrusted by you to the care of Erving, were handed me by Mr: Skinner. The letter for Messrs: Willink wa... 24 April 1796Charles Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Brother Your kind letters of Decr 30th from London and of Novr 4th from Helvoetsluys have been both received. that of the latest date reached... 24 April 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsMy Son I have yours of the 22d. Mr Van Persyn I shall be glad to see whenever it Suits his convenience to come to Philadelphia. I can Say little of f... 24 April 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. You will find by the papers that I send with this letter, what you will perhaps know before the receipt of it; that is that the negot... 25 April 1796Abigail Adams to John Adams And why should I feel so anxious, so heavy at My Heart, and So depressed in My spirits? I cannot help it, aya, theres the Rub. if I could help the ma... 27 April 1796Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Brother I had the pleasure yesterday to receive your kind letter of the 23d of Febuary from London— we supposed that you had returnd to the H... 28 April 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend What ever the Majority of the House of Representitives may think of their conduct, and motives, the people, the Sovereign people wi... 28 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Our Coach is Still immoveable. The Anarchical Warriours are beat out of all their Entrechments by the Arguments of the Friends of P... 30 April 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I am not surprized at your Anxiety expressed in your Letter of the 25th. which I recd Yesterday. The Conduct of certain Mules has b... 1 May 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I last Evening received Your favours of April 21, 23, 24 & 26th. I think an other week will discover the Sense of the people so ful... 3 May 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend The Result of Saturdays Debate in the H. of R. removes all Anxiety for the Remainder of this session, and leaves me at Liberty to a... 4 May 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend The first sight which saluted my Eyes this Morning was a fine colt. the complexion however is More like the Father than the Mother.... 5 May 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son Mr Richard Cooke of Mary land will tell you all the News— I expect to sign the Bills this day which were all passed Yesterday for carryin... 5 May 1796John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Thomas I am extreamly sorry to hear that you have been ill of your old Complaint: but was somewhat consoled at the same time by hearing you w... 5 May 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother I received a few days ago your favour of Feby: 29. which was doubly grateful to me, as it was the first letter I had received from Ame... 10 May 1796John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother. Your favour of January 6th: was received by our brother Thomas at the Hague, and by him forwarded a few days ago to me. He has been ... 17 May 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph PitcairnDear Sir. Your favor of the 10th: currt: has just come to hand, and as I find a vacant moment, it cannot be better employed than in renewing my thank... 19 May 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Sir After a tedious Session of Congress, rendered uncommonly disgusting by the obstinacy of a Party in the House of Representatives, I had an... 19 May 1796John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Thomas It is a long time Since I have recd any Letter from you, and the Report that you have had a Return of your Rheumatism has allarmed me—... 19 May 1796Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister— I rejoice that the important question in Congress has terminated so happily, & that the Vice president has again returned in safety t... 20 May 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I have to acknowledge the receipt of Several Letters from You Since Your arrival in London, the first Novbr 24th Janry 6th Febry 23, and ... 25 May 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I came into Town Yesterday with your Father, and was surprizd to find mr Gore upon the point of Sailing for England. I had lookt for him... 2 June 1796John Quincy Adams to Joshua JohnsonDear Sir. I arrived at Gravesend on Saturday, barely in time to get on board the vessel in which I had engaged my passage, and which was already unde... 2 June 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson You remember I was ordered peremptorily to be at Gravesend on Saturday morning by ten or eleven o’clock at the latest, though it was impossible for m... 4 June 1796Charles Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir The canvass of the votes for Senators for this district and for Members of Assembly to Represent the City of New York was finished yester... 9 June 1796John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Thomas It was no longer ago than Yesterday that I received your kind Letter of the 14. of December last, which arrived, after a long Passage,... 9 June 1796John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother I returned here ten days ago from England and have this day received your letter of April 24.th: brought by Mr: Rutgers. He is at Ams... 10 June 1796Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas A Neighbour of ours Captain Richard Beal is going this week to sail for England, and I do not know a more direct conveyance to you. th... 17 June 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have just received from my good friend Hall, a Letter of the 8th: instt: which is precious to me not only as it comes from him, but because it give... 24 June 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. Upon my file of unacknowledged letters, I find three from you, the last of which is of the 7th: April and came to hand on the 21st: inst... 29 June 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. Four precious letters from you have come to the hand of your apostate Son Thomas, without any other acknowledgment on his part, than ... 30 June 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I begin again to number my letters to you; a practice which I neglected, in writing from England, but which I renew, that at least yo... 4 July 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams So totally incapacitated do I feel myself for writing were it not through fear of giving you pain I certainly shou’d indulge my avowed aversion to it... 5 July 1796Joshua Johnson to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir Your favor of the 2d of last Month never came to hand until the 27th. in course I could not but entertain fears that some accident had befal... 9 July 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have just received your letter of the 28th: of last month, and though I have not yet read it more than ten or fifteen times, I take the very first ... 11 July 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son This is the Aniversary of that Day when as the poet expresses it, We have in commemoration of it Drank the Health of the American Minist... 23 July 1796Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister— Your kind invitations would have induced Mr Peabody to have visited you at Quincy had it not now been in the midst of making hay, & t... 24 July 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams How shall I express my impatient anxiety at not hearing from you, five tedious weeks have elapsed without a line to say you are well or that I still ... 25 July 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. Your letters of May 20. and 25. have both reached me forwarded from London. The latter was brought by Mr: Gore, who sent me at the sa... 25 July 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Permit me to felicitate you on your appointment to the Court of Lisbon which pleasing intelligence I received since my last was written I learn from ... 31 July 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams SmithMy dear Sister. I received a few days ago your letter of April 27th: which was forwarded to me from London. My stay there was much longer than I had ... 6 August 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have just received my lovely friend, your letters of the 24th: and 25th: of last month. I perceive by the former that my long letter of the 9th: ha... 6 August 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. Since the date of my last letter, (June 24th:) I am favored with your’s of May 19. which gives the comfortable assurance of your safe re... 7 August 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son I have many favours in Letters, Newspapers, Pamphlets and Books to thank you for, the latest of which were dated about 20th of May— And I... 8 August 1796Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother This morning about one o’clock My Sally presented me with a charming daughter They are both remarkably well I must insist on your nami... 10 August 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son Since the date of my last July 11th I have received an Authentic account of Your appointment as Minister Plenipo. to the Court of Portuga... 13 August 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I hope my amiable friend has before this received my letters of the 9th: of last month, and of the 6th of the present; and that all her doubts, if do... 16 August 1796Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas There has been an interval of Eight Months Since I received a line from Your Hand. this Suspension of intercourse grows Daily more and... 16 August 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother: I have still to thank you for a very few lines addressed to myself, and for about half of a long Letter to my brother dated June 10.—... 19 August 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Sunday last brought to hand your invaluable letter of the 6th shall I confess I was nearly too much elated to know what I read having vainly flattere... 27 August 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. In discharge of my promise to write you a letter, which has been given you in two covers enclosing letters from my brother, I commenc... 28 August 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams How shall I answer my dear friends last charming letter where find words adequate to the pleasure I experienced at reading it the idea of your return... 11 September 1796Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother Your favor of the 6th instant came to hand yesterday. I can give you no certain information respecting Col Smiths affairs He has a vas... 12 September 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have received, my amiable friend, your letters of the 19th: and 28th: of last month, and am properly grateful for the readiness with which you cons... 16 September 1796William Cranch to John Quincy AdamsMy dear friend The want of opportunity, and leisure, has a long time prevented me from writing you. The ship Peggy, from Georgetown for Amsterdam ha... 24 September 1796Abigail Adams to Ruth Hooper Daltonmy Dear Madam I received Your kind Letter of Sepbr 5 and was very happy to learn from it, that You enjoyed So large a portion of Health. long may the... 25 September 1796Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Thomas Your Letter of June the 29th was as refreshing to me as cold water to a thirsty Soul. the very superscription gave a flow to my spirit... 30 September 1796Joshua Johnson to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir. Your favor of the 13th came to hand on the 26th. by which I find that you had not determined on the time of your departure or the Rout you ... 30 September 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams After waiting with extreme anxiety I recieved my friend your very short letter of the 12th Inst which afforded me both pleasure and pain: it has real... 5 October 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. My last letter to you was dated the 27th: of August, and went by “the Genl Green” for Rhode Island. I hope ere this it has made more ... 12 October 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson After reading your letter of the 30th: of last month which I received this morning, I looked at your picture, and methought it looked unusually cool.... 25 October 1796John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother I have received your letter of September 7th: with the account current, which as you observe, though not altogethe mercantile in poin... 28 October 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son I have this Morning, filed in order your Letters and have now in one bundle before me from No. 6 to No. 23 inclusively and will take care... 1 November 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams How my much loved friend Shall I atone. for the uneasiness my last letter caused you— Could my picture at the moment I read those lines so descriptiv... 8 November 1796Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear son I have just received Your Letter, sent by the Gen’ll Green, Captain Sheldon via RhoadeIsland, dated August 27th. I believe I have scarcly... 11 November 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear Son I have to acknowledg the receipt of two kind Letters from You Since I wrote You last, No 21 from the Hague June 30. and No 22 July 25. fo... 11 November 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear son John I know not where to find you—Whether in Holland England or Portugal—Whether to address you as a married Man or a Single one. And I a... 12 November 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I received by the last Post, two Letters from your Pappa, my amiable friend, and looked in vain for a line from you. Not a syllable even to tell me y... 13 November 1796Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams I return my dear madam miss Williams letters with Lovuts memoirs— am much obliged & hope have not detained them too long— am sorry to hear by Your la... 14 November 1796John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. I received a few days ago, your favour of August 10th. it mentions a previous letter of July 11th. which has not yet reached me. The ... 16 November 1796Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mama I have received your two last letters that by Mr Bracket accompanied by the presents you were so kind to make us. The fruit though it h... 21 November 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson The day after I had sent away my last Letter, I received yours of the 1st: instt: which relieved me from an anxious apprehension that you were unwell... 25 November 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams I have within the last sad hour recieved your affectionate though painful letter of the 12 which caused me more uneasiness than I am capable of expre... 26 November 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. Two days since I had the pleasure to receive your kind favors of the 9th: June and 8th: of August, which came by the way of England with... 27 November 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Winter has caught you on the Road I presume, for a colder Day than this we seldom have in Jan’ry You will want to hear how the Farm... 27 November 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend We lodged at Monroe’s in Marlborough on Wednesday night, at Hithcocks in Brookfield Thursday night, at David Bulls in Hartford Fryd... 28 November 1796Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son William Shaw came from Boston last Evening to keep Sabbeth with me and brought me your Letter of August 16. 1796 which came by way of N Y... 29 November 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams In my last I told you I believe how inadequate I found myself to the task of answering your very painful letter of the 12th— Indeed my beloved friend... 1 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I Spent a pleasant Day before Yesterday with Mrs Smith and her Children at East Chester where they now live. At night the Col & his... 4 December 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend The Weather has been & held so uncommonly cold ever since you left Me, that I had no expectation of getting a line from you untill ... 4 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend After Spending a Day and a Night at East Chester with our Children there and another at Newyork with our Children there I came to t... 5 December 1796John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son As I came through New York, where I found your Sister and your Brother and their families in good health I recd your Letter No. 24. and u... 5 December 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have just now received, my dearest friend, your letter of the 15th: of last month, since which I hope you have before now received two from me; and... 6 December 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Agreable to my promise of the 29th of writing to my beloved friend once a week I now contrary to etiquette enter upon the pleasant occupation— Surely... 7 December 1796Abigail Adams to John Adams on the desicions of this Day, hangs perhaps the Destiny of America, and May those into whose hands the Sacred Deposit is committed be guided and dire... 7 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have recd your Letter of the cold Sunday on which I wrote you one from Stratford. In N. York Charles gave me the original Letter,... 8 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Inclosed are Some Signal Accomplishments of Prophecies. Be cool and discreet in your Communications of them. No Such Person as Jasp... 9 December 1796Abigail Adams to John AdamsMy Dearest Friend Captain Beal who is always attentive to the post office for me in your absence, brought Me on the Evening of the Seventh your Lette... 12 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have just recd your favr. of the 4th. I wrote you from stratford New York and from Philadelphia. Adets Note has had some Effect P... 16 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd this morning your kind Letter of the 7th. and wonder you had not recd a Letter. I wrote from Stratford & Newyork and twice a... 18 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I went Yesterday at 12 O Clock to the Presbyterian Meeting House in Market Street to hear Dr Rush pronounce an elegant and pathetic... 19 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I have this morning yours of the 9th. Am glad you have mine from Stratford: you will receive others in Succession. I am not much ch... 20 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I Yesterday dined at Mr Binghams and Sitting next to Madam at Table, had Something like a political Conversation with her. She has ... 20 December 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I have this morning received your two Letters of Novr: 29. and December 6. The pain which the prospect of an inevitable continuance to our separation... 21 December 1796Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. Towards the close of last month I had the pleasure to receive your kind letter of August 16th:. I have been so much occupied since th... 23 December 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I received by the last post Your favours dated 7h 8th & 12 of the present Month together with Pains Letter & the counter part Jaspe... 25 December 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Was it ever colder in this Country. the glasses have fallen much below 0, tho a bright sunshine on fryday and saturday. many people... 27 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd yours of the 14 on Fryday: but had no Letter on Monday. According to present appearances, Jefferson will be Daddy Vice, and ... 28 December 1796Charles Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir Your kind letter of the last week I have received. Your ideas respecting a young man’s having a Record of a regular education in the Law ... 29 December 1796John Quincy Adams to Charles AdamsMy dear Brother It is a long time since I have had the pleasure to receive any letter from you. I suppose you spend so much time in dandling your off... 30 December 1796John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend The Prospect that opens upon me presents Troubles enough of every kind.— I have made Some Inquiry concerning Horses and Carriages, ... 30 December 1796John Adams to Charles AdamsMy Dear Son I have received with great Pleasure your kind Letter of 28th. I think Mr Sands’s Plan for the Education of his Nephew is judicious. But I... 30 December 1796Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams I have recieved your letters which afforded me infinite pleasure as they assured me you were well and in good spirits— You tell me you are to remain ... 31 December 1796Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I received by the last post, Your Letters of the 14th. 16th 18th & 19th. The frequent and repeated fires in the various capitals of... 31 December 1796Abigail Adams to Elbridge GerryDear Sir Your obliging favour of December 28th, I received by the Hand of Dr. Welch. I thank you Sir, for your Congratulations, which receive their v... 31 December 1796John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Since my Letter of the 20th: I have not enjoyed the pleasure of receiving any from my friend, but I do not forget the mutual engagement of writing ev... 1 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adams The new year opens upon us with new Scenes of Life before us. what are to be the trials the troubles and vexations of it, are wisely with held from o... 1 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I wish the new Year may be the happiest of your Life. Last Night I had a Visit from Dr Rush, whose Tongue ran for an hour.— So many... 3 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd Yesterday your favour of 23. of Decr. from Boston. The old Patrioch, has got a Name of Old Scrathum, or old Scratch or Some ... 5 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Mrs Swan and her Daughters, conducted by Mrs Otis came into the Senate Chamber this morning to see the Room and Pictures. There I h... 7 January 1797Elbridge Gerry to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam I am honored by yours of the 31st of december, & perfectly agree with you, respecting the difficulties to be encountered by our friend ... 9 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I received to day, together, your Favours of the 31st December 1796 and 1. Jan. 1797 Our H. of R. boasts that We are the most enlig... 9 January 1797John Quincy Adams to Joshua JohnsonDear Sir. I received some time since your favour of Novr: 29. and this morning that of Decr: 16. You mentioned in the former your intention to take m... 10 January 1797John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson How painful it is to me, my amiable friend to feel the assurance that my Letters for which you wait with so much anxious expectation, when they arri... 10 January 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams In my last I mentioned having recieved yours of the 13 December, which time our general regulator opposed my answering— Shall I my best friend acknow... 10 January 1797Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams Day after day has slid off into the ocean of time, with the Yesterdays beyond the flood, replete with Intentions of writing to my dear, esteemed, muc... 11 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend on Tuesday when I waited as usual on Mrs W. after attending the Levee, She congratulated me very complaisantly and Affectionately o... 14 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend Mr Beale called upon me, a few Days ago and left your Letter of Decr. 23d.— Last Evening I presented him to the P. and Mrs W. toget... 14 January 1797Ruth Hooper Dalton to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam Your kind letter should not have lain so long unanswered had I not impatiently waited for the event so much wished by me, an event whic... 15 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend The Cold has been more severe than I can ever before recollect. it has frozen the ink in My pen, and chilld the Blood in my veins, ... 16 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I went Yesterday to hear Dr Priestley, in the Philosophical Hall of the University and there I met unexpectedly with Dr Euwing and ... 17 January 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams I have recieved your very decisive letter of 20th December, which has astonished and mortified me so much, that I can scarcely believe you recollecte... 18 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I recd, Yesterday by the Post, the inclosed Letter, which excites a hope of more by the Same Ship. There is a curious Mass of matte... 18 January 1797John Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir I Received yesterday your kind Letter of the 13th and Return you and yours the Compliments of the Season and Thanks of your Congratulations ... 18 January 1797John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother A few days ago, I received a Letter from my father dated at Quincy the 28th: of October, and brought by a vessel directly from Boston.... 20 January 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Almost immediately after I had dispatched my last, I recieved yours of 31st December, and was delighted to see that you were again become the tender ... 20 January 1797Abigail Adams Smith to John AdamsMy Dear Papa: I had the pleasure a few days since to receive your favour of the 11th inst. and was happy to hear of your health: the season has with ... 21 January 1797Charles Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother Permit me to congratulate you on the return of This Season and to offer my most earnest prayers that you may live to see many revolvin... 22 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I have not received a Line from You of a later date than the 3d Instant the last week is the only one which has past since you left... 23 January 1797Cotton Tufts to John Adams Our Newspapers have announced to us the Choice of a President of the United States and that it has devolved on You. I congratulate You on this Occasi... 27 January 1797John Quincy Adams to Joshua JohnsonDear Sir. I am to thank you for your obliging favour of the 30th: of last month, which I received a few days ago.— I have given due attention to your... 28 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend I received by the post on thursday the whole Mail containing your Letters of the 5th 9th 11th 14 & 16th I began to be very impatien... 28 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend It is now determined what the President has to depend on after the 4th March. The Committee determined against raising the Salary o... 29 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adams Yes My Dear Friend I had seen and read the Tenth Muse, and I think she abuses our poor old Govenour who tho quite in his Dotage, is not the Man there... 30 January 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend Inclosed is a Letter for our Daughter which you will be so good as to cover and address. it is in reply to two which I have receive... 31 January 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dearest Friend I have recd yours of January 22d. I know not the reason you had not recd Letters for a Week— There has not been a Week since I arri... 31 January 1797John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson The day after I wrote you my last Letter, which was on the 28th: I received your Letter of the 17th:— It has given me as much pain as you expected, a... 31 January 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Yes, my beloved friend, my spirit is roused, and I am determined to bear with fortitude what it is vain to lament— E’re this, you will have recieved ... 1 February 1797Abigail Adams to John BrieslerMr Brisler I last Evening received a Letter from You in which You express an anxiety at the prospect of being seperated from Your Family. I know too... 2 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I believe I have not directly & expressly Answered your Letter, inclosing the Memorandum from Mr Smith of the Price of a Chariot at... 4 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I hope you will not communicate to any body the hints I give you about our Prospects: but they appear every day worse and worse. Ho... 5 February 1797Abigail Adams to Charles AdamsMy Dear Son I received Your kind congratulatory Letter upon the new year. accept My thank for the filial regard and affection with which they are exp... 6 February 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend The heavey rain & thaw to day will prevent my getting my Letters to Town to go by the post, to that cause you must attribute it. Th... 7 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend I recd Yesterday together your Letters of the 28. 29. and 30th of January. It is impossible for me to give any Directions about our... 7 February 1797John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson Your Letter of the 20th: of last month, which I received a few days ago has taken from my bosom one of its heaviest weights. The imputation of unkind... 8 February 1797Abigail Adams to John Adams And may it prove an auspicious prelude to each ensuing Season. You have this Day to declare Yourself Head of A Nation. And now O Lord my God thou ha... 8 February 1797John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mother. Though not many days have elapsed since I wrote you last, and I scarcely know what I can write for your amusement, I cannot omit the ... 8 February 1797Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mrs Adams It gives me peculiar pleasure to hear from the Vice President, that you have enjoyed your health, better, this Winter, than usual; ... 9 February 179728 February 1797Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Gray OtisMy Dear Mrs Otis I received last Evening Your kind Letter of Febry 8th. I thank you for your congratulation, and kind wishes To be the Successor of M... 9 February 1797Abigail Adams to Martha Washingtonmy Dear Madam Your retirement from publick Life excite in my mind many Sensations, Some of them of a nature very different from those which I have ev... 9 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend The Die is cast, and you must prepare yourself for honourable Tryals. I must wait to know whether Congress will do any Thing or not... 10 February 1797Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabodymy Dear Sister What a Charming Letter have I received from my ever Dear and valued Sister, how repleat with benevolence. Surely she openeth her Mouth... 12 February 1797John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I was reflecting this morning, with what peculiar force and propriety, I could make the application of these tender and affectionate lines of Hammond... 13 February 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend It is now the Middle of Feb’ry it will be the 20 by the Time this reaches you. the whole Months has been a Thaw So that to present ... 17 February 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams I have recieved your letters of Janry. 28. and 31. which have afforded me more real satisfaction, than I have latterly been accustomed to experience—... 19 February 1797Abigail Adams to John Adamsmy Dearest Friend It was not till last Evening that I received Your Letters of Febry 2d 4 & 7th. the post did not get in which was Due on twesday til... 20 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend just rcd yrs of 8. 9. 13th. return sister Peabodys lovely Letter. John’s is gone to the P.— I could not withhold it. All thoughts o... 20 February 1797John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Johnson I hope we shall never get into a habit of writing to one another angry and kind Letters alternately, for it would be far from promoting the happiness... 20 February 1797Martha Washington to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam your kind and affectionate letter of the 9th instant has been duly received.— For the favourable sentiments you have been pleased to ex... 21 February 1797Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I fear to look back to the Date of my last Letter to You, least it should accuse me of omission. There have been but very few opportuniti... 21 February 1797John Adams to Abigail Adams SmithDear Child: I believe I have not acknowledged your favour of the 20th January, which I received in its season. I hope your apprehensions that “the pa... 24 February 1797John Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dearest Friend The Presbyterian Congregation have voted me the front Pew in their Church for my Family. It is an elegant new Building and the Pew ... 27 February 1797Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams It Can be of little Consequence to you my dear Madam wither Your late adventure with me amounts to 8000 dollars or only 8/— Yet it is my duty to let ... 28 February 1797Louisa Catherine Johnson to John Quincy Adams Yes, my friend you have answered me as I deserve, and made me feel the striking difference between us, from the moment I had dispatched that letter, ... Back Matter Appendix: List of Omitted Documents Chronology
