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Tag Archives: Abigail Adams
Abigail to John: “let her who tenderly cares for you”
Abigail to John Weymouth April 8 1764 Let me know whether you took your vomit, whether you have got your pills and whether you have begun Lent — how it suits you? I am very fearful that you will not … Continue reading
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John to Abigail: “Ipichacuana’d”
John to Abigail Sunday Morning 1/2 After 10 Did you ever see two Persons in one Room Ipichacuana’d together? (I hope I have not Spelled that ineffable Word amiss!) I assure you they make merry Diversion. We took turns to … Continue reading
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John to Abigail: “a Six Weeks Separation from my Diana”
John to Abigail, Saturday Evening Eight O’Clock 7 April 1764: For, I assure you Sincerely, that, (as Nothing which I before expected from the Distemper gave me more Concern, than the Thought of a six Weeks Separation from my Diana) … Continue reading
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Smallpox
By the end of 1763, John Adams was formally recognized as Abigail Smith’s husband-to-be. They began to plan a wedding – but then, in early 1764, there was a smallpox outbreak in Boston. The wedding was pushed off to the … Continue reading
Abigail to John: “I have too much pride”
Abigail to John, Weymouth Sepbr. th12 1763: I have too much pride to be a clog to any body.
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John to Abigail: “I saw a Lady”
John to Abigail, Saturday morning, Aug. 1763 I lay, in the well known Chamber, and dreamed, I saw a Lady, tripping it over the Hills, on Weymouth shore, and Spreading Light and Beauty and Glory, all around her. At first … Continue reading
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Abigail to John: “The Fabrick often wants repairing”
Abigail to John, August th11 1763 Humanity obliges us to be affected with the distresses and Miserys of our fellow creatures. Friendship is a band yet stronger, which causes us to [fee]l with greater tenderness the afflictions of our Friends. … Continue reading
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John to Abigail: “blessed storm!”
John to Abigail, Feb. 14th 1763 I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm pervented. — Cruel. Yet perhaps blessed storm! — Cruel for detaining me from so much friendly, social Company, and perhaps blessed to you, … Continue reading
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My Self-Imposed Reading List
I have begun a tear through biographies of the Founding Fathers. Some I have read already, some are new. Last year, I read David McCullough’s stupendous achievement, John Adams. But after Presidents Day, I made up a list – and … Continue reading
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The “First Family”: “they flew together like the Needle to the Pole”
I am engrossed in reading, for the umpteenth time, the letters of Abigail and John Adams. Sometimes, I get swept away by the world events described, the sense of being in the middle of an important moment in history – … Continue reading