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Feb 25, 2017 · Abigail Adams had grown weary of the correspondence with president, though it had admittedly cleared up a few matters. But the ideological differences remained and apparently could not be overcome. In a letter dated October 25, 1804, Abigail made it clear where Jefferson stood in her eyes.
Sep 24, 2011 · In April of 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail from Philadelphia, “You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.” Thomas and Martha Jefferson burned all their personal letters. So did George and Martha Washington. But whenever John and Abigail Adams were apart, they continued a steady conversation through letter …
Aug 15, 2019 · Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 25 January 1801. Abigail enclosed her transcript of the conversation with a 25 January 1801 letter to her son Thomas Boylston, telling him that it “was not heard by any one but ourselves, as we spoke low.”. The enclosure relates an impressive exchange on Washington politics, where the ...
John Adams to James Sullivan Philadelphia, May 26, 1776. Your favors of May 9th. and 17th. are now before me; and I consider them as the commencement of a correspondence, which will not only give me pleasure, but may be of service to the public, as, in my present station I stand in need of the best intelligence, and the advice of every gentleman of abilities and public principles, in the ...
Born in November 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams was nineteen months younger than Thomas Jefferson. She was schooled at home by her parents, became an avid reader, and, in common with the Virginian, developed a lifelong interest in formal education. [1] The future “First Lady” was married to John Adams in 1764 and was the ...
Apr 2, 2002 · John Adams to Abigail Adams. Philadelphia July 3d. 1776. Had a Declaration of Independency been made seven Months ago, it would have been attended with many great and glorious Effects. . . . 1 We might before this Hour, have formed Alliances with foreign States.—We should have mastered Quebec and been in Possession of Canada. . . .
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April 5. I want to hear much oftener from you than I do. March 8th was the last date of any that I have yet had. You inquire of me whether I am making saltpetre. I have not yet attempted it, but after soap-making believe I shall make the experiment.
