Adams Family Correspondence Volume 15, March 1801 – October 1804 Front Matter Copyright Descriptive List of Illustrations Introduction Acknowledgments Guide to Editorial Apparatus Documents 2 March 1801William Smith Shaw to Abigail AdamsMy dear Aunt For a few days past, every moment of my time has been so compleatly occupied in official duties, that I have had hardly a mo... 10 March 1801John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I am almost asham’d to acknowledge how long it has been since I wrote you last, and can only hope you will consider my nu... 14 March 1801Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams Permit Me, dear Madam, to offer My thanks for Your care of letters, from Our dear Children— And to congratulate You on your return to pea... Abigail Adams’ Essay on American Politics[post 18 March 1801] Abigail Adams’ Essay on American PoliticsEditorial NoteSoon after Thomas Jefferson declared in his 4 March 1801 inaugural address that “We are all republicans: we are all federalists,” Abigai... 19 March 180131 March 1801[Abigail Adams’ Essay on American Politics] Mr Jefferson in his Speech; observes, that, [“]I Shall often go Wrong through defect of Judgment, when right, I shall often be though... 21 March 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. While I was sealing up on the last post day; the cover to Mr: Pitcairn, of my number 29. I received two packets from you, ... 22 March 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I have not written you a line since my return to Quincy. I have found full employ to get my House in order, and my Family ... 24 March 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. My last letter to you, was of November 25. since which I have not enjoyed the pleasure of receiving a line either from my mo... 27 March 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph PitcairnDear Sir. A ship called the Cleopatra sailed from this port a few weeks since without bearing any thing for you from me, which I desire m... 28 March 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. It is my intention during the short time that I expect to remain here, to send you from time to time such new publications i... 28 March 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother, I now enclose together with a press copy of my last letter to you, the original of one addressed to your father, contain... 29 March 1801Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister, A mind agitated by the Vicissitudes attendant upon the present juncture of publick affairs, & oppressed by a large port... 30 March 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear mother. Your kind letter dated this day week, has just come to hand. I rejoice to hear of your arrival once more at the farm hous... 30 March 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William I had not time to write before the departure of the post to day, to both you & my mother, and having received a letter from ... 4 April 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. You will receive enclosed with this, a duplicate of my letter, relative to your annual account, and a literary letter of... 5 April 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William Your letter of the 29th: ulto: is just received. with the papers enclosed, for which I thank you— The address of the Legisla... 6 April 1801John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Son I know not how it has happened that I have not found time to write you Since my return to my long home. The angry North East ... 6 April 1801William Smith Shaw to John AdamsHonored Sir After living uninteruptedly in your family, for almost three years, and uniformly receiving, both from you and my Aunt, all t... 10 April 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsDear Sir. I enclose for your perusal two of the latest letters received by me, from my Brother; although the last contains a conditional ... 11 April 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams You have here a triplicate of my letter respecting your account—a duplicate of the conversation between Frederic. 2. & Gellert. And the f... 12 April 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir. Within the course of the last week, I have had the pleasure to receive your favors of the 20th: 27th: & 30th: of December, numb... 14 April 1801John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear mother. I received a few days ago your kind letter of 29 January. After having been so many months without a line from you, it ga... 16 April 1801William Smith Shaw to Abigail AdamsMy dear Aunt I have received the things you sent me by Townsend and my Aunt Cranch with your letter of this morning and the shirts, for w... 18 April 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir, I enclose herewith the second number of my Gazette, which completes the Journal for the month of March. By the last post I s... 18 April 1801John Quincy Adams to Catherine Nuth JohnsonMy dear Madam. As Nancy has vindicated her privilege of giving you the first notice that you were a Grandmamma, I presume I have no occasion to scrup... 22 April 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I have read Your Brothers Letters, with much pleasure; that part of them; in which he so dutifully, affectionatly, and gen... 25 April 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. As I am informed there is a vessel soon to sail from Amsterdam for Boston, I now forward to Mr. Bourne to go by her, this ... 26 April 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother Ten days ago, I shipped your Carriage on board a Schooner called the Hannah of Nantucket bound for Boston, and as there was n... 27 April 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William I have your letter of the 17th:, which travelled, from Boston hither, in very agreeable company. I can readily conceive, t... 1 May 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. I have received, and communicated to this Government, my recall from the mission here— I shall hasten my departu... 2 May 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother Your favor of the 22d: ulto: has been a few days in hand. I thank you kindly for “the word intended for my private ear,” and ... 3 May 1801Abigail Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of the raspberry bushes, and the pot of strawberry vines, for which accept my thanks. I have ... 8 May 1801Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnsonmy dear Madam It is now near three Months Since I left the city of Washington; in all which time I have not received a line from you; I d... 14 May 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William I enclose you a paper, which contains the Sentence referred to in my last, passed upon the troopers who flogged Duane. You w... 16 May 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I have received two Letters from you since I wrote to you, one 26 April, the last 2d May—inclosing one from Your Brother, ... 16 May 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. Mr: Welsh proposes to return home by the way of Amsterdam, and will be the bearer of this letter— With it, I enclose the 4th... 19 May 1801Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabodymy dear Sister This will be deliverd to you by the children who leave me this day. I hope they will return to their Studies with undimini... 30 May 1801Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Son Your Letter of March the 10th is before me; Your Brother informs me that he has one of April. It is true my dear Son, that I ... 30 May 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother I enclose you for Mr: Oldschool a letter commencing the review of a new publication of Mr: Gentz— You will ... 31 May 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother I received your favor of the 16th: on the 23d: instt:. My time has been so much taken up, during the week past wi... 2 June 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Rufus KingDear Sir. I take the liberty to enclose to your care a letter for my brother, who may possibly be in England, on his way to America, abou... 8 June 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir I have just received from the Department of State your favor of February 24th: enclosing No 26. of the series. My la... 9 June 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. I wrote you last week that I expected to sail on board the Catherine, Captain Ingersoll, from Hamburg for New-York— But ... 12 June 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas. William Shaw brought me your Letter the day before Yesterday. I had learnt before, by the public papers, the Death of mrs ... 16 June 180130 June 1801Abigail Adams to Elias BoudinotDear Sir My Son having Sent me a coppy of your valuable Book, the President has read it with great satisfaction and pleasure; I have not ... 16 June 1801Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth Johnsonmy dear Madam Last Evening we received Letters from Berlin of April the 14th with the agreable intelligenc of Mrs Adamss safe delivery up... 17 June 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph PitcairnDear Sir. Your favors of the 7th: & 31st: of March & 3d: of April, are yet unacknowledged, though they have been some time received. No v... 22 June 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William. It falls to my lot to do things so repugnant to my inclination & so contrary to my sense of strict propriety, that I know n... 29 June 1801John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas. If any one had foretold that three or four months would have passed away at Stonnyfield, and that I should have written but ... 5 July 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I told William Shaw of the event which You have s[. . . .]olely questioned, and from the best Authority, even the hand wri... 11 July 1801John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear son I received yours of the 4th with double pleasure occasioned by the Encouragement you give me to hope that I shall See you Soo... 12 July 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Son. I am much delighted to learn that you intend making a visit to the old mansion. I wish you could have accomplished it So as ... 13 July 1801Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister. For the communications by Mrs Black, you have my grateful acknowledgements. She made me only a Vis—short, &... 21 August 1801Abigail Adams Smith to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Mamma: Our city has sustained a very great loss in the death of Dr. Bailey. As health officer, he was obliged to reside upon Stat... 23 August 1801Margaret Stephens Smith to Sarah Smith Adams As it is a rainy morning which of Cource prevents my going to Church—I feel a greater propensity to scold you first—then read my Bible— d... 2 September 1801Abigail Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushingmy Dear Madam I received your kind and Friendly Letter of the 2d, and beg you to accept my thanks for your kind invitation to your Hospit... 3 September 1801Elbridge Gerry to Abigail AdamsMy dear Madam In our absence from home, you was so obliging as to address a line to Mrs Gerry, which she has desired me to ... 4 September 1801John Quincy Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. After a passage of 58 days from Hamburg we have this day landed here, where we purpose to stay five or six days— My wife wil... 10 September 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas Inclosed is a Letter for your Brother should he arrive as we expect in Philadelphia; I am told by mr Welch who was yesterda... 12 September 1801John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear son The 11th. of September is reckoned among the happiest days of my Life: The Navy officers who composed the late Court ... 13 September 1801Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams Welcome, Welcome, my dear Son to your native Land after a seven years absence from it, God be praised that you and Louissa, and my dear J... 15 September 1801John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas Have a care, that you do not let Captain Duane know, that I am reading Cicero de Senectute again: because he will immediately... 16 September 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. On Sunday morning, after a cold and somewhat tedious ride all the preceding night I reached Newark— Pass’d the day and n... 16 September 1801Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I was so much fatigued from my journey that I found it impossible to write by Whitcomb he will tell you how very much the poor baby suf... 20 September 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. I received your favor of the 10th: instt: the Day before yesterday, with an enclosure for J Q A & his wife, wh... 20 September 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William I have your letter of the 14th: with a paper for which I thank you. Mr: Reed, has written to you, in consequence of the info... 21 September 180130 September 1801Abigail Adams to Benjamin RushDear sir I ought to have acknowledgd Your kind favour of July 23 at an earlier period; but the heat of Summer usually unfits me for every... 22 September 1801Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I should have answered your very affectionate letter by this days post had I not been confined by one of my fits of the cramps &c: which... 23 September 1801John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy best friend. I hope you have duly received the letter which I wrote you, from New-York, giving you a regular account of my proceedings... 27 September 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. I arrived here in three days from New-York, last Monday Evening, the 21st: instt:— I found my father in good... 29 September 1801John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. Last friday Evening, the 25th. Whitcomb to my great joy arrived and brought the tidings of your safe arrival at Washin... 2 October 1801Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Madam. I have recieved your very kind letters and should certainly have answer’d them sooner had I not been prevented by a disagreea... 4 October 1801Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best friend I recieved your very kind letter late last night and hasten to answer it although I have already written by this post. You... 8 October 1801John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. The day after I last wrote you, I received your favour of 22d: Septr: and am much distress’d to find that you had agai... 22 October 1801Sarah Smith Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam: I do not know why it is thus—but I am dissatisfied with myself untill I acknowledge your tender remembrance— Your sentimen... 24 October 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. I have duly received your letter enclosing the 8 per Cents, and the bank bill, for which I am to give you my best thanks... 24 October 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother I have received your favors of the 5th: & 12th: currt:; the first containing the mournful tidings of the death of... 1 October 180131 October 1801William Smith Shaw to Abigail AdamsMy dear Aunt Some time since Andrew Foster, a relation of Mrs. Otis, applied to Mr. Otis for admission as student of law in his office— M... 1 November 1801John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I have intended every day since my arrival here to write you a line and inform you of my having safely reached it; but ha... 16 November 1801John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. We left Washington on the 3d: instt: as I informed you in my letter from that place of the 1st: it was our intention to do.— Mr: and ... 28 November 1801John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. The remnant of our pilgrimage since we left you at Mrs: Roberts’s door, stands thus— Monday Novr: 16. lodg’d at Trenton—Tuesday, at ... 7 December 1801Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adamsdear Brother. I have just now received your favor of the 28th: ult. with the enclosures; Dennie stepp’d in a moment after, and I gave him ... 8 December 1801Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail Adams I hope my Dear Sister, has had her Cup of happiness filled, by having an amiable long absent Son, with his wife & little One, sit at he... 16 December 180131 December 1801Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Gray OtisMy dear Mrs otis I received with great pleasure your kind Letter of December 15. I regreeted that I had not the pleasure of a visit from ... 18 December 1801Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam We came to the City on the 4th. The weather & roads were as favorable as could be expected for the season. At New-York ... 27 December 1801Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I have not written you a Letter for a long time, yet I have not been unthoughtfull of you. my mind is often an... 9 January 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. I have received three letters from you without making the proper returns— The occasion of which has be... 18 January 1802John Quincy Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir. Two months having elapsed since I made the proposal respecting the note of hand due from your brother Justus to me, and being s... 23 January 1802Sarah Smith Adams to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam: Yours of the 10th Instant was presented this morning— I am happy you again experience the Utility of the pen— ... 30 January 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to William CranchDear Sir. I have to acknowledge your favor of the 13th: ulto:. The principal subject in which you dwelt; viz: the intention to destroy th... 1 February 1802John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Son Politicks are forbidden fruit to me, at present, and what other Subject can I choose for a Letter? Shall I tell you what Book... 3 February 1802Abigail Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushingmy Dear Madam I received Your kind Letter, began at Washington, and finished at Philadelphia. I received much pleasure from... 7 February 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas Your Letter of the Jan’ry I received near a fortnight ago, and have thought every day since that I would write to you; but ... 15 February 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsDear Sir. I had the pleasure to receive, this morning, your favor of the 1st: currt: and now hasten to acknowledge it, with more eagernes... 22 February 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. I have your favor of the 7th: instt: before me; the letter for Mrs: Adams, which came with it, was sent to her the day after... 28 February 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy Dear Son Your Father received a Letter from you last Evening; full of political information, and judicious reflection’s; there is a da... 1 February 180228 February 1802John Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir I have been confined, with a cold for three Weeks and the family have been generally affected in the same Way: We have not heard... 1 March 1802John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Son Mr Dobson the Bookseller has an Account open with me.— It is of 13 or 14. or 15 Years Standing.— Several Years ago he Sent hi... 1 March 18027 March 1802Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Madam Richard has just brought me your note and I am very happy to hear you are all well. Betsys Mother must be mist... 8 March 1802Abigail Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dear Louissa The Mountains have vanished, and the ground is again bare in most places. the roads are excessive rough, and the weather ... 8 March 1802John Adams to John Quincy Adams We feel, my dear Sir the Want of your Society on sundays and hope the Weather and Roads will soon bless us with it. Never at the Age of 1... 12 March 1802John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Sir I recd. last night, your Letter of the 3d.— It was far from my thoughts to assign you a task. I meant only to turn... 12 March 1802John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I am sorry that we are again obliged to postpone our visit to you at Quincy, as George is this day breaking out with the ... 13 March 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I have received two Barrels of flower but no account of the price either from the Baker or You. be so kind so to forward one ... 18 March 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Joseph Clay Jr.Sir, At the request of my father, Mr: John Adams. I take the liberty, through you, to present the volumes, herewith sent to the ... 20 March 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. Your kind favors of 28th: February & 13th: March, came safe to hand; I thank you for them, and should have soone... 10 April 1802John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear son I recd in due Course your favour of March 18 and thank you for your prompt and punctual attention to my several ... 11 April 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. Since my last letter to you, I have not had the pleasure of receiving a line from you— I have it not yet in ... 18 April 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas. I have too long delayed, replying to Your Letter of March 20th. Whatever is written to You, by Your Parents, sincerely an... 23 April 1802Mary Smith Gray Otis to Abigail Adams Indolence shall no longer prevent my acknowledging, the pleasure I felt (my dear Mrs Adams) from your kind & affectionate let... 28 April 1802John Quincy Adams to Walter HellenDear Sir. I received last evening your favour of the 20th: instt: containing the distressing intelligence of Mr: Johnson’s decease; which... 30 April 1802Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister. I have been gratified by receiving two kind letters from you. No circumstance of joy or sorrow that affects my Sisters, c... 7 May 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. Since the receipt of your favor of the 18th: ult: I have been absent from the City, a few days, attending a County Court, an... 16 May 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother. I received, at Norristown, while attending a County Court, your favor of the 25th: ult: with an enclosure for Old-school, ... 20 May 1802Abigail Adams to Catherine Nuth JohnsonMy Dear Madam My Sympathizing Heart has borne a part in your Sorrows. altho my Hand has been by Sickness prevented from assureing of you ... 23 May 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Thomas William Shaw was here to spend the Sabbeth, and brought with him his Letters from you; he shew me that in which you relate... 28 May 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. I have your favor of the 23d: inst: before me. The Country looks so pleasant and inviting in the vicinity of this City, that... 13 June 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. If your two letters of 16 May, and 3. instt: have hitherto remained unanswered you must impute it to a multiplicity of o... 13 June 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William I received your short note, accompanying the Oration delivered by my brother, before the charitable fire Association, and th... 2 July 1802Elizabeth Palmer Cranch to Abigail AdamsMadm: The solicitude you express’d to have your little Susan learn dancing, has induced me to make some inquiries, and has consequently l... 6 July 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Son My Heart Shall not reproach me so long as I live said the Psalmist; alass I cannot say so, for mine hourly repr... 14 July 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. I have received & thank you for your favor of the 6th: currt:. This day, twelve months ago, I left Philadelphia to visit my ... 25 July 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. In point of form I know not how the balance of epistolary correspondence between you and me stands; and it is altogether... 1 July 180231 July 1802John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I am much alarmed at the Intimations in the public Prints of the appearance and prevalence of the Fever in Phyladelphia. Anxi... 27 August 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. I duly received your letters of the 21st: enclosing the pamphlet of Gentz, and likewise the post-note, with your accou... 26 September 1802John Adams to Abigail Adams SmithMy dear Daughter. I received last night your favour of the 17th and thank you for the pamphlets you sent me— I had read these before. Most of the pam... 5 October 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear brother. The apt and excellent quotation from Horace’s epistles, in your letter of 26th: ulto: made me turn over ... 10 October 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I have not written you a line since I received yours; from the Yellow Springs, for some time I knew not where you were, and b... 20 October 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother. Mr: Walter who had been in the City several days, while I was absent, called at my dwelling & left your favor of the ... 21 October 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I have at length returned to the City for the purpose of remaining in it during the rest of the Season. We do not yet pre... 30 October 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. I received last evening your favour of the 21st: instt: and now enclose you a set of three bills at sixty days sight, dr... 30 October 1802Elizabeth Palmer Cranch to Abigail AdamsMadm As the vacation draws near—and consequently the time to settle who are to form our family for the winter Term, I wish to know whethe... 7 November 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas I received Your Letter after your return in october to the city. I had written to you as soon as I supposed it probable Yo... 30 November 1802Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother The Eastern Mail brought your letter of the 23d: this morning. The business part of it stands thus. Dr: Woodhouse has been i... 12 December 1802John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I have had your favour of the 30th: ulto: several days; and have taken time to deliberate upon its contents— And first as t... 13 December 1802Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I was in Boston at your Brothers when Mr Shaw received Your Letters. according to the direction given him, he deliverd them. ... 2 January 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I have now received the Port-Folio, to number 48 inclusive; excepting N: 47 which yet remains in arrear— They have come to me lately, two... 5 January 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother I received, yesterday, your favor of the 27th: ult. and thank you, for the wholesome admonitions, it contains. Your advice will always r... 10 January 1803Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail AdamsMy dear Madam, Painful necessity has for many months prevented me the use of my own pen,—nor have I seen any effect of yours for a very l... 12 January 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother. Since I am embarked in a very doubtful speculation, and I am ready to own, that I am by no means sanguine as to its success... 16 January 1803Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warrenmy Dear Madam It was with much pleasure I recognized the Hand writing of an old Friend, tho only in the Signature of her name. it recal... 18 January 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsMy dear Sir. I lately enclosed you a prospectus of the Revd Doctor Smith’s works accompanied by a print of the Author, which I sent rather ... 25 January 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams I do not intend to write you very often, though I find it impossible to refrain altogether. Your last, is of the 10th: inst... 27 January 1803Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas. A little well timed and just criticism is sometimes very Salutary. If I had not been conscious that I deserved Your Raillery... 28 January 1803John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Sir I have had the pleasure of receiving your favour of the 18th and congratulate you, on the Success of your labours. Thank you for... 3 February 180324 February 1803John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Sir In my last I attempted to prove that Goverment and Society are inseperable from each other. In the case that was Sta... 25 February 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John AdamsDear Sir Your two letters on La Harpe, I have taken the liberty to publish in the Port Folio, and I have now to ask the favor of you, as ... 26 February 1803John Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir I duely recd yours of the 16th with the Paper enclosed. I had given no Attention to the Attack upon you in Cheethams Paper, beca... 9 March 1803Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister, I hear by Dr Tufts that our Medford Farm will be greatly injured by the middlesex Canal being cut through the land— I am ... 10 March 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to Abigail AdamsDear Mother. I have received your favors of the 18th: ult: and 2d: instant, the latter enclosing a valuable communication from my father;... 20 March 1803Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas This is the third attempt I have made, to write to You; since my Eyes have been attackd with an inflamation, in both the o... 23 March 1803Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Madam It was my intention when I left Boston to have written to you as soon as my spirits were in some measure composed for the d... 2 April 1803John Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsDear Thomas I have not yet acknowledged the Receipt of yours of 25. feb. I think you right in not noticing Paine, and in present Circumst... 2 April 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother The House of Bird, Savage and Bird have stop’d payment, and probably the bill I drew upon them which you negotiated last ... 4 April 1803John Quincy Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir. The House of Bird, Savage and Bird, in London, had, when they failed, property, to the amount of nearly £4000 sterling, belon... 26 April 1803Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy Dear Son A very bad whitloe upon the finger of my right Hand has prevented my holding a pen; or useing my hand for a long time, or I s... 8 May 1803Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Son Your Letter of April 30th put me into good Spirits. I had felt more upon your account. I can truly say, than upon my own, in ... 10 May 1803Elizabeth Grenville Proby Carysfort to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy Dear Mrs. Adams, I cannot neglect the Opportunity which Mr King’s return to America gives me of inquiring after Mr Adams & You; & still ... 20 June 1803Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adamsmy dear Thomas William Shaw I presume has given You the reason why you have not received a Letter in reply to Your last. I have been in... 30 June 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother Your favor of the 20th: inst: came to hand yesterday, in the condition, which you have the cover here enclosed, except tha... 4 July 1803John Quincy Adams to Catherine Nuth JohnsonMy dear Madam. I have the pleasure to inform you, that this morning at about 3. o’clock, my dear Mrs: Adams presented me another fine boy... 6 July 180331 July 1803Catherine Nuth Johnson to John Quincy AdamsMy Dear Sir last Evenings Mail presented me your Welcome letter, announceing the pleasing intelligence of of the Safety of My Beloved C... 19 August 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I have received two or three letters from you, which I have not answered for want of a conveyance— My objection to the Post O... 21 August 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams You will be so anxious to hear the state of your mother’s health that I cannot forbear writing you a line— Since I wrote you last no ma... 31 August 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to William Smith ShawDear William. Your favour of the 24th: is before me, and I most ardently hope the information respecting the prospect of my mother’s reco... 12 October 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. We have been detained here since Sunday the 9th: instt: by the severe illness of my wife— We think however to go on this... 15 October 1803John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. I presume you had not left Bristol two hours before we arrived there— Your advice to us to stop at the Fox-Chace, we cou... 22 October 1803Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son I received your Letter from Providence and rejoiced in the favorable account you gave of your journey thus far, but a Letter ... 6 November 1803Abigail Adams Smith to Hannah Carter SmithMy Dear Madam I have the pleasure to inform you that I had a pleasant journey and arrived safe here on Tuesday after I left you. I found ... 7 November 1803John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams I have received, My dear Mother, your kind letter of the 23d: ulto: and it gives me the most cordial gratification to learn that your hea... 3 December 1803Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son I did not expect a very frequent correspondence with you when You left me; however interested we each of us feel in the happi... 7 December 1803Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail Adams I recieved your letter dear Madam and should have answer’d it had not the illness of the two children prevented me John was very sick cut... 9 December 1803John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I inclose you a letter from my wife, who would have written you earlier but that George has been very ill with a fever, f... 11 December 1803Abigail Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son We have not a printer in Boston who gives us any of the debates in either house of Congress: I have seen the National intelli... 15 December 1803Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy AdamsDear Brother. I reached Boston on Saturday Evening the 10th: inst: and came out to Quincy on Sunday afternoon, with Cousin Shaw— Our parents are well... 16 December 1803John Quincy Adams to William Smith ShawDear Sir. I received last evening with much pleasure your favour of the 5th: instt:— I had been so long without any intelligence from hom... 22 December 1803John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. I received two days ago your kind favour of the 3d: instt: and it was very precious as containing information of your hea... 2 January 1804John Quincy Adams to William Stephens SmithDear Sir. I find by the newspapers that a Commission of bankruptcy has issued against Robert Bird, and as it is impossible for me to atte... 7 January 1804William Smith Shaw to John Quincy AdamsDear Sir On my return last evening from Atkinson where I have passed the last eight days in company with your brother Thomas I had the pl... 10 January 1804Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy dear Son I am indebted to You for two Letters Since I Wrote to you. Your Letter of december 22d I thank You for, as well as the ... 14 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston AdamsMy dear Brother. The Louisiana revenue bill (of which I sent you some time since a copy) has this day pass’d the third reading in the Sen... 17 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I inclose you together with the last sheet of the Journals of the House of Representatives, a Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, ... 22 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I do not take the Washington Federalist; and it is now in general so poorly conducted as hardly to be worth sending you if I did— But I s... 23 January 1804Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy dear son I am sorry to say that I write you from my Sick Chamber, where I have been confined for near a week with the Severest attack ... 27 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. Your kind favour of the 10th: instt: came to hand last evening— And I would take this opportunity to request that all let... 27 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams We have this day a sort of Holiday, to rejoyce for the acquisition of our new Territories— The Members of Congress of both Houses are to ... 30 January 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams I send this day a packet, to your father containing the Journals and other publications of the day; with an Intelligencer, containing the... 31 January 1804John Quincy Adams to John Adams This prohibition of the admission of slaves into Louisiana, is like the drawing of a jaw tooth. We have expedient after expedient introdu... 8 February 1804Thomas Boylston Adams to William MeredithDear Sir On the 3d inst: I enclosed to you, Bank Notes of various descriptions, amounting to two hundred and ninety dollars, accompanied ... 11 February 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Madam I received your two kind letters which gave me much pleasure as they informed me of your returning health I am sorry to t... 18 February 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams The Louisiana Government bill has this day pass’d, yeas 20. Nays 5.— It now goes to the House of Representatives, where we shall see what... 24 February 1804Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adamsmy Dear son We have this Day quite and old fashiond Snow Storm, after an unusual pleasent Feb’ry. the Snow is much deeper and more ... 25 February 1804John Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dear Son I will write to you, if it be only for the Pleasure of giving you a Proof under my hand, that I am alive.— We have had no Top... 25 February 1804John Quincy Adams to John Adams I received last Evening yours of the 11th: instt:— You cannot employ your leisure more charitably, than in writing me these long letters— They give ... 11 March 1804Mary Otis Lincoln to Abigail AdamsMy Dr Madam— I live in that retired manner that affords much time for reflection, which must be my apology for addressing you at this tim... 15 March 1804John Quincy Adams to Abigail AdamsMy dear Mother. A few days since, I received your kind favour of 25. ulto: and am greatly rejoyced at the restoration of your health— B... 15 March 1804John Quincy Adams to John Adams You will see by the folio sheet I inclose to you, that the House of Representatives have not yet done with the Government of Louisiana.— ... 20 March 1804John Quincy Adams to John Adams A letter is now reading from Captain Bainbridge, with an account of the loss of the frigate Philadelphia, wreck’d on rocks on the coast o... 24 March 1804John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams An attempt was made this morning to postpone the adjournment for two days—from the 26th: (Monday next) to Wednesday the 28th:— The motion... 9 April 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. I received this morning your letter of the 4th: instt: which gave me pleasure as containing the information of the chi... 16 April 1804Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody to Abigail AdamsMy Dear Sister, When your Son delivered me your kind letter, little did I think, it would be so long, before I should reply. But my you... 17 April 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dearest friend I recieved your very kind letter and was rejoiced to hear that you had arrived safe at New York as I was a little app... 22 April 1804Thomas Boylston Adams to William MeredithDear friend. I received yesterday your favor of the 15th: and thank you for your attention to my Commissions. The Books, I believe, had best be sold,... 24 April 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest friend. I received a few days ago your kind favour of the 10th: instt: with the letter that accompanied, and thank you for the... 24 April 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I recieved your letter my best friend the day before yesterday which afforded me much pleasure as it assured me of your safe arval at hom... 2 May 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. I was two days last week at Dedham, where there was a Court sitting, at which I had something to do— On Fr... 6 May 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy dearest friend I recieved your kind favour of the 24th Yesterday morning never did a letter prove more welcome as I had suffer’d a gre... 13 May 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I recieved your favor of the 3d three days since it gave me real pleasure as you appear to be in good spirits and write much ... 20 May 1804Abigail Adams to Thomas JeffersonSir Had You been no other than the private inhabitant of Montecello, I should e’er this time have addrest you, with that Sympathy, which ... 20 May 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams I have received, my best friend, your kind and truly affectionate letter of the 12th: or rather 6th: instt: on which I find some of Georg... 20 May 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I sieze the earliest opportunity of answering your very kind letter of the 9th which I did not recieve untill friday evening ... 21 May 1804Abigail Adams to Louisa Catherine Adamsmy Dear Mrs Adams Altho I have not written to you Since the return of Your Husband to Quincy, I have had the pleasure of hearing weekly f... 25 May 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest. I should have answered your kind letter of the 13th. a day or two sooner, but for company which has fallen in, and call’d me ... 29 May 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best and dearest friend I recieved your very kind favors of the 14th &. 24th. on Friday & Saturday & Should certainly not have delay... 31 May 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dear, ever dear Louisa. This morning I received your kind favour of the 20th— And am delighted to hear that you and the children are so ... 2 June 1804John Quincy Adams to William Smith ShawDear Sir. I enclose an order for $110. which I will thank you to present, and if accepted, receive the money— This together with the rent... 6 June 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy Dearest friend I send you enclosed a couple of Profiles one of which I wish you to present to Mrs: Adams if you think it will prove a... 9 June 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest friend. I have now received your favour of the 29th: of last month, enclosing a letter from your Mamma, for Mr: Murdoch, which I shall tak... 10 June 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy very best friend I recieved your kind favor of the 31st on Friday Evening with the Bill enclosed for which I return you many thanks I ... 13 June 1804Thomas Jefferson to Abigail AdamsDear Madam The affectionate sentiments which you have had the goodness to express in your letter of May 20. towards my dear departed daug... 17 June 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy best friend. Yesterday my mother went to Boston, and in the Evening brought out Mrs: Foster with her two children, one of whom is un... 23 June 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams The Sun is just making his appearance for the first time these five days, during which we have had a cold North-East Storm, and almost co... 1 July 1804Abigail Adams to Thomas JeffersonSir Your Letter of June 13th came duly to hand; if it had contained no other Sentiments and opinions than those which my Letter of ... 1 July 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. On Thursday, I went into Boston, for the first time this month past, and there received at once your two letters of ... 4 July 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy most beloved friend I recieved your last very kind letter two days since and return you many thanks for your verses the idea is ... 19 July 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams My visit to Boston yesterday, was equally successful with those I had made several times before; for I found there your’s of the 9th: e... 20 July 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy most esteemed friend I recieved yours of the fourth only two days since & cannot concieve the reason of your letters being so long on ... 22 July 1804Thomas Jefferson to Abigail AdamsDear Madam Your favor of the 1st. inst. was duly recieved, and I would not again have intruded on you but to rectify certain facts which ... 26 July 1804Thomas Boylston Adams to Thomas CadwaladerDear Tom: I had for sometime contemplated offering you my congratulations on the auspicious event of your marriage, before the authenti... 28 July 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest Louisa. The delays in the receipt of my letters, of which you complain are occasioned some times by a delay in sending them to... 5 August 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best & dearest friend Your kind favour of the 23d arrived in due time and afforded me sincere pleasure as it contained the pleasing ... 12 August 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best loved friend Since your favor of the twenty third I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you and I suffer the most dreadful ... 14 August 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I recieved your very kind letter of the 3d on Sunday evening & was inexpressibly shocked at the melancholy news it contain’d1 Poor Mrs:... 18 August 1804Abigail Adams to Thomas JeffersonSir Your Letter of July 22d was by Some mistake in the post office at Boston Sent back as far as Newyork, so that it did not ... 19 August 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy dearest friend. It is almost a fortnight since I received a line from you; and you have heretofore been so invariably punctual in writ... 26 August 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams Another week has past away, without bringing me a line from my dearest friend— The last letter I have received from you was dated the 31s... 1 September 1804Abigail Adams to Hannah Phillips Cushingmy Dear Madam I received Your very friendly Letter Yesterday and thank You for Your communication which I assure You gave me heartfelt pl... 2 September 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams Since I wrote you last Tuesday in Boston I have received another letter from you, dated the 21st: of August, which has comple... 11 September 1804Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams Your letter, Madam, of the 18th. of Aug. has been some days recieved, but a press of business has prevented the acknolegement... 16 September 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams I last night had the satisfaction of recieving your kind favour of the 10th. my beloved friend and am inclined to believe it ... 22 September 1804Sarah Manning Vaughan to Abigail AdamsMy dear Madam, Permit me to introduce to your friendly notice our eldest Son & daughter who mean to stay a short time in Boston, and are ... 23 September 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams I am in hopes there is a letter from you, lingering somewhere, at the Post-Office; not having received any, since I wrote you last; nor o... 23 September 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best friend I recieved last night your charming letter of the 16 and was much distressed to learn that your mother had again been unwe... 30 September 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams After an interval of considerable anxiety, arising from the lapse of time, since I had heard from my dearest friend, I was at length at o... 1 October 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy AdamsMy best friend Your three last letters have arrived at the promised time I am concern’d to learn that mine have fail’d however as the new... 7 October 1804John Quincy Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams Once more is the correspondence on the part of my best friend, brought up from all arrears; as I received since my last your two letters,... 7 October 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams More fortunate than yourself my beloved friend I last night received your very kind though somewhat too philosophical lette... 15 October 1804Abigail Adams to Louisa Catherine AdamsMy Dear Mrs Adams I congratulate You my Dear Louissa, that our loss is to be your gain. Mr Adams leaves us on twesday for Washington, whe... 18 October 1804Louisa Catherine Adams to John Quincy Adams Your letters Profiles & Money have arrived safe for which I return my thanks It is true I felt severely disappointed at not f... 23 October 1804Thomas Boylston Adams to James SullivanGentlemen Having waited some time in expectation of an answer to the last proposal, which I had the honor to submit to your consideration... 25 October 1804Abigail Adams to Thomas JeffersonSir Sickness for three weeks past, has prevented my acknowledging the receipt of Your Letter of Sep’br th 11th. when I first addrest You ... Back Matter List of Omitted Documents Chronology NOTE ON THE INDEX
