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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 6

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Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

Weymouth Decr. 1. 1784
Your letter from Autueil near ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

December 3. 1784
I had my dear Girl such an ...

Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin -

Auteuel December 3 1784
Mrs. Adams'es Respectfull ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill Dec. 5 1784
I have not seen your Letter to ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree December 6th 1784
I yet do not know that you have ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auetuel AuteuilDecember 9. 1784
Your Letter by way of Amsterdam ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch -

Paris December 10 1784
You can judge of my impatience my ...

John Quincy Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auteuil December 12th. 1784
My Mamma has desired me, My dear ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw -

Auteuil December 14th 1784
I know your good will to have ...

John Quincy Adams to William Cranch -

Auteuil near Paris December 14. 1784
I have been so much taken up these ...

Katherine Hay to Abigail Adams -

BeaugancyDecer. 17 1784
Permit me My Dear Madam to express ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

Auteuil, January 3, 1785
I am determined not to neglect my ...

Abigail Adams to Charles Storer -

Auteuil Janry 3. 1785
You bring me much deeper in Debt ...

Enclosure Group:

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Autieul Jan'ry 3 1785
In a Letter which Mr. Tyler wrote ...

[enclosure] Enclosure: Account from the Salle des Ambassadeurs -

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Abigail Adams to Royall Tyler -

4 January 1785
Half the pleasure of a Letter ...

Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch -

Auteuil, 245January, 1785
I Hope you have before now ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auteuil Janry 7 1785
Your kind Letter of November 6, I ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw -

Auteuil January 11 1785
I was doubly rejoiced to receive a ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree Janry 16th 1785
Not one line from my dear Sister ...

Abigail Adams to John Shaw -

Auteuil Janry. 18 1785
I find Sir, what I never doubted; ...

Abigail Adams to Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer -

Auteuil, 20 January, 1785
For your kind congratulations upon ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auteuil February 20. 1785
Your last favour which was dated ...

John Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Auteuil near Paris March 5. 1785
Last night I received yours of 1 ...

Katherine Hay to Abigail Adams -

Beaugency March 7th. 1785
I intended writing you before this ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

March 8th. 1785 Auteuil
There is a Gentleman by the Name ...

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

March 8th. 1785
Mr. Adams received last Evening a ...

Abigail Adams to John Thaxter -

Auteuil March 20. 1785
To what cause shall I attribute ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

11 April 1785
I have not received any Letter ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auteuil April 15 1785
There is a Young Gentleman going ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

Weymouth April 19. 1785
It is now a violent Snow Storm ...

John Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Auteuil April 24. 17845
It was yesterday only that I ...

Elizabeth Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree April 25th. 1785
How shall I express to you the ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree April 25th 1785
I reciv'd your September Letters a ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill April 25th. 1785
Not to hear one word from Novem. ...

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

Auteuil 26 April May 2d. 1785
It was not untill the 21 of April ...

John Adams to Richard Cranch -

Auteuil April 27th. 1785
Last Evening, Mr. Jefferson, my ...

Catharine Louisa Salmon Smith to Abigail Adams -

Lincoln April 27 1785
Your kind Letter of the 15th. ...

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams -

Milton Hill April 30th. 1785
After long Expecting that Pleasure ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Mary Smith Cranch -

April 30th. 1785
I have but a moments time to write ...

Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams -

May 3 1784 i.e. 1785
I am, My dear Madam led by Various ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Auteuil May 8th ante 5 1785
Can my dear sister realize that ...

Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch -

May 7 5 18785 Auteuil
I presume my dear Lucy would be ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Elizabeth Cranch -

Auteuil May 6 1785
I have now before me your two last ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Lucy Cranch -

Auteuil May 6th. 1785
Your agreeable favour my Dear ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

Auteuil May 8 1785
Yes my dear Neice, it was a ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw -

Auteuil May 8th. 1785
I do not expect to date you any ...

Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Sr. -

Auteuil May 8th. 1785
Your Letter by way of Bilboa dated ...

Charles Adams to William Cranch -

Haverhill May the 9th. 1785
I receiv'd your letter of the 27th. ...

Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren -

May 10 1785
I cannot let my son return to ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

May 12th. 1785 Auteuil
Did you ever my dear Betsy see a ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Dreux 8 ½ o'clock.May 11 12.1785
You will perhaps be surprised, to ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

L'Orient Tuesday eve: May 17th. 1785
Our winds are now contrary, and as ...

Abigail Adams to Charles Storer -

Auteuil May 18th 1785
I received your Letter this Day ...

John Quincy Adams to John Adams -

L'Orient May 18th: 1785
After a very warm and dusty ...

Charles Storer to Abigail Adams 2d -

Woodford 24 May 1785
I wrote you this, Amelia, in ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

At Sea May 25th: 1785
You have doubtless received before ...

Richard Cranch to John Adams -

Boston June 3d 1785
This will be handed to you by a ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Boston June 4th. 1785
I have just heard that Scot is to ...

John Thaxter to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill 4th. June 1785
I had a few days since the ...

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Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London Bath Hotel Westminster June 6. 1785
Mr. Adams has already written you ...

[enclosure] Enclosure: Extracts from Newspapers -

[1785-06-06]
The publick Advertiser— ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill June 12th. 1785
I have but just returned, my much ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris June 21. 1785
I have received duly the honor of ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Mary Smith Cranch -

London June 22d. 1785
The flattering mark of attention ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Lucy Cranch -

London June 23d. 1785
Disappointment upon ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

june 24. 1785 London Bath hotel Westminster
Captain Lyde is arrived and I have ...

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

London Bath hotel Westminster june 26 1785
I have not written you a single ...

John Adams to John Quincy Adams -

Bath Hotel Westminster June 26. 1785
I hope, that before this day you ...

Charles Williamos to Abigail Adams -

Paris 27th. June 1785
I had the pleasure of writing to ...

Abigail Adams to Isaac Smith Sr. -

London Bath hotel Westminster june 30th 1785
You obligeing favour I received by ...

Abigail Adams to Charles Williamos -

july 1 1785
I received your favour last ...

Mary McCann to John Adams and Abigail Adams -

2nd July 1785
Having humbly presumed to wait on ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

London Grosvenor Square July 4th. 1785
Every day, hour, and minute, your ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris July 7. 1785
I had the honour of writing you on ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams -

July 17th. 1785 1. o'clock in the morning
We are now sailing up North River; ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

New York July 17th. 1785
I went on shore upon Long Island ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree July 19th 1785
I have been waiting till I am out ...

Charles Williamos to Abigail Adams -

Paris 21st. July 1785
It is with much pleasure my dear ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch? -

ca. July—Aug. 1785
I wrote you by Captain Dashood ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Monday New York August 1st. 1785
In my last I just mentioned having ...

John Quincy Adams to John Adams -

New York August 3d. 1785
Mr. Church proposes to embark on ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

New York August 9th. 1785. Tuesday
Mr. Söderström, the Sweedish ...

Enclosure Group: Cotton Tufts to John Adams With Enclosed Account

Tufts, Cotton to JA -

Weymouth Aug. 10. 1785
The Want of a sufficient Power in ...

[enclosure] Enclosure: Account -

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Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

London August 11th. 1785 Grosvenor Square
I went from my own little writing ...

Abigail Adams 2d to Royall Tyler -

ca. 11 August 1785
Herewith you receive your letters ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

Grosvenor Square London August 12 1785
I would not omit so good an ...

Abigail Adams to William Stephens Smith -

London, Grosvenor Square August 13, 1785
Your letter from Harwich, dated ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree August 14th. 1785
I have just Sent away one Letter ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

London Grosvenor Square August 15 1785
When I wrote you by Captain ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw -

ca. 15 Aug. 1785
I have been situated here for near ...

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

August 18th 1785 London Grosvenor Square
Captain Lyde is to Sail this week. ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

MiddletonAugust 20th: 1785
This morning we left Hartford New ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London Grosvenor square August 21 1785
The Gentleman who is so kind as to ...

John Adams to Richard Cranch -

Grosvenor Square Westminster Aug. 22. 1785
I have received your kind Letter ...

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

London August 23 1785
I hope this will find you upon ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Welsh -

25 August 1785
Your obliging favour of April 25 ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

Grosvenor Square August 26th. 1785
Lyde sailed the 24th. with a long ...

Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch -

London, (Grosvenor Square,) 27 August, 1785
I have not yet noticed your ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Storer Smith -

August 29 1785 London
Mr. Storer your worthy Nephew will ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

August 29th. 1785 Boston
I came into Boston this morning, ...

John Adams to John Quincy Adams -

Grosvenor Square Westminster Corner House between Duke Street and Brook Street. Aug. 31. 1785
I hope Mr. Storer, when he ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Cranch -

London Sepbr 2 1785 Grosvenor Square
At the Bath hotel I received my ...

Abigail Adams to Lucy Quincy Tufts -

London Sepbr 3d. 1785
And why my dear Madam have you not ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Sep. 4. 1785
I was honoured with your letter of ...

Mary Barclay to Abigail Adams -

Paris September 5—1785
I did not know till this moment ...

Elizabeth Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Boston September 5th. 1785
My Papa came in this evening and ...

William Stephens Smith to Abigail Adams -

Berlin 5th. September 1785
Your benevolence I know will ...

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

London Sepbr 6. 1785 Grosvenor Square
Yesterday being Sunday I went with ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London Sepbr 6 1785
I cannot omit by this opportunity ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill August September 7th. 1785
The long looked for, the modest, ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Haverhill September 8th. 1785
All this day has been employ'd in ...

John Adams to John Quincy Adams -

Grosvenor Square Westminster Septr. 9. 1785
I have received your Letter by Mr. ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

London Septr 11th. 1785
I have enjoyed very good Health ...

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

Sepbr 12th. 1785
Mr. Storers departure is delayed ...

Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw -

London Septr 15 1785
Mr. Storer says the ship in which ...

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

London Sepbr 16th. 1785
I believe that Mr. Storer is going ...

Abigail Adams to William Stephens Smith -

18 September 1785
Col. Franks being detained to day ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Braintree September 19th. 1785
I have been in a manner cheated ...

Lucy Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree Sep. 19. 85
Indeed my ever honoured Aunt I ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

Saturday Septr. 24th. 1785
Last fryday I closed my Last to ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Sep. 25. 1785
Mr. Short's return the night ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

London septr 30th. 1785
Your kind Letters of July and ...

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

October 1. 1785 London
I told you in my last, that I was ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Haverhill October 1st. 1785. Saturday
I am now settled down for the ...

Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams -

London October 5th 1785
I began a Letter to you yesterday ...

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts -

London October 5th 1785
Captain Callihan sails sooner than ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill Octr. 6th. 1785
I am afraid my dear Mamma, will ...

Cotton Tufts to John Adams -

Weymouth Octobr. 6. 1785
On the 6th. Ultimo I drew on You ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London October 7th. 1785
Your very polite favour was handed ...

Royall Tyler to Abigail Adams -

post 7 Oct. 1785
I am equally pleased with your ...

John Quincy Adams to Mary Smith Cranch -

Haverhill. Octr. 8th. 1785
Mr. Thaxter will want a horse in a ...

Elizabeth Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill October 9th. 1785
You will percieve by the date of ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Oct. 11. 1785
Your favor of the 7th. was put ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

Octobr. 12. 1785
The anxious Sentiments of a Parent ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

Weymouth Octobr. 14. 1785
Your agreable Letter of May. 10. ...

Royall Tyler to John Adams -

Braintree Octr. 15. 1785
It has not been without Anxiety, ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

Grosvenor Sqr. October 148th 1785
Mr. James Jarvis called upon us ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London October 19 1785
Mr. Fox a young Gentleman from ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree ca. 23 october 1785
I hope my dear Sister you have ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

London October 25 1785
I should not so soon have ventured ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams 2d -

Haverhill, October 16th 26, 1785
We have had the most considerable ...

Catharine Louisa Salmon Smith to Abigail Adams -

Lincoln Octobr. 26th 1785
My heart has dictated many Letters ...

John Quincy Adams to William Cranch -

Haverhill Novr. 1st. 1785
My two Brothers, Leonard and ...

John Quincy Adams to William Cranch -

Haverhill Novr. 6. 1785.
I received on Saturday evening ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill Novemr. 6th. 1785.
Your Son, My Dear Sister has been ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree November 8th 1785
Although I have written so largly ...

Cotton Tufts to Abigail Adams -

Boston Nov. 16. 1785
When I wrote to You by Capt. ...

Richard Cranch to John Adams -

Boston Novr. 19th. 1785
I have just received the within ...

Elizabeth Smith Shaw to Abigail Adams 2d -

Haverhill November 19th. 1785
Tuesday the first of November, I ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Nov. 20. 1785
I have been honoured with your two ...

Charles Storer to Abigail Adams 2d -

New-York, November 21st, 1785
My word I mean always to keep, ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

Grosvenor Square Novr. 24th. 1785
I hope if the Marquiss de la ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

November 27th. 1785
Never was there a young Man who ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree November 29th 1785
How provoking it is to be told ...

Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams -

London Monday Eve December 5th. 1785
This Morning I wrote you that we ...

William Stephens Smith to Abigail Adams -

Tuesday Morn'g. 10 oClock 6 December 1785
The three Letters which Mrs. Adams ...

Lucy Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree Dec. 8. 1785
I last week recieved your ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree December 10th 1785
Mr. Storer is arriv'd and I have ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Dec. 11. 1785
Expecting Baron Polnitz to call ...

Mary Palmer to Abigail Adams -

Germantown Decr. 11th. 1785
This is the fourth attempt my Dear ...

John Adams to Royall Tyler -

Grosvenor Square Decr. 12. 1785
I have received, your instructive ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree December 18th 1785
I did not design to write another ...

Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson -

Grosvenor Square Decemr. 20th. 1785
Your favours by Colln. Smith and ...

Charles Storer to Abigail Adams -

Boston. 21st. December. 1785
I am persuaded you will be pleased ...

Mary Smith Cranch to Abigail Adams -

Braintree December 23d. 1785
I wonder whether Mr. Shaw ever ...

Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams -

Paris Dec. 27. 1785
I am this day honoured with your ...

John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams -

Haverhill December 28th. 1785
It is mortifying to me, to be ...

Richard Cranch to John Adams -

Boston Decr. 29th. 1785
When the Senate was last sitting I ...

William Stephens Smith to Abigail Adams -

Thursday Decr. 29th. 1785
An anxiety to preserve a ...

Charles Storer to Abigail Adams 2d -

Boston, December 29th, 1785
I join fully with you, Amelia, ...

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