{"id":1362,"date":"2004-07-24T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2015-05-14T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:46:34","slug":"abigail-to-john-i-have-abundance-to-say-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Abigail to John: “I have abundance to say to you”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abigail to John Weymouth April 12 1764<\/i><\/p>\n

I know you are a critical observer, and your judgment of people generally plases me. Sometimes you know, I think you too severe, and that you do not make quite so many allowances as Humane Nature requires, but perhaps this may be oweing to my unacquained-ness with the World. Your Business Naturaly leads you to a nearer inspection of Mankind, and to see the corruptions of the Heart, which I believe you often find desperately wicked and deceitful.<\/p>\n

Methinks I have abundance to say to you. What is next? O that I should have been extreemlky glad to have seen you to Day. Last Fast Day, if you remember, we spent together, and why might we not this? Why I can tell you, we might, if we had been together, have been led into temptqation. I don’t mean to commit any Evil, unless setting up late, and thereby injuring our Health, may be called so. To that I could have submitted without much remorse of Conscience, that would have had but little weight with me, had you not bid me adieu, the last time I saw you. The reflexion of what I that forenoon endured, has been ever since sufficient to deter me from wishing to see you again, till you can come and go, as you formerly used to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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