Book/Printed Material Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams.
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Image 1 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams.- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 4 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams.- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 5 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. D^^/X //-_ /i^dJ 7 LETTERS OP Mrs. ADAMS, THE WIFE OF JOHN ADAMS. INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY HER GRANDSON, CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. BOSTON: CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN. M DCCC XL.- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. w i Entered according to Act of Congress n the year 1840, by Charles Franci ms, in the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. C A...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. L CONTENTS Page Memoir xxi 1761. To Mrs. H. Lincoln. 5 October. Accepts the offer to correspond with her. Views of life 3 1764. To John Adams. 16 April. Pleasure in writing....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. X CONTENTS. Page Mr. Thaxter leaches her son. Morals of children. Popular feeling in Taunton 18 To the same. 22 September. Visit to Boston. State of the town. Negro conspiracy 23 To...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. CONTENTS. XI Page To the same. 31 July -2 August. Inveighs against Britain. Treatment of Dr. Warren s remains. British carpenters attacked at the lighthouse. Four prison- ers with whom she converses...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XU CONTENTS. Page the brig Defence. Account of the capture of two transports. Confidence in the future 100 To the same. 29 September. Anxious for news. High prices paid for drafted men....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. CONTENTS. Xm Page Paper money. Public news. Capture of British ves- sels 134 To the same. 8 June, Depreciated currency. Death ofDr. Winthrop 138 To the same. 14 November. Her house looks...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XIV CONTENTS. Page To the same. 23 December. Expresses her feelings. Willing to sacrifice them for the common good 175 1783. To the same. 28-29 April. Joy at the news of peace....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. CONTENTS. XV Page to Paris. Dines with a French lady at Dr. Franklin s. Her disgust 251 To Mrs. Cranch. 9-12 December. Her solitude out of Paris. Expense of living. Visit to...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XVI CONTENTS. Page from Lady Effingham. Ceremony of presentation indis- pensable. Her own dress and that of her daughter. She describes the scene. Want of female beauty at Court. Tory abuse 293...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. CONTENTS. XVll Page desirable. Improper notions of education for American boys. Dines at the Bishop of St. Asaph s. Dr. Priestley 334 To Miss Lucy Cranch. 20 July. Duke of Northumber- land...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XVlll CONTENTS. Page To John Quincy Adams. 12 October. Enjoins modera- tion. AfFair.g in Holland. Desire for war in Great Britain 395 1789. To Mrs. Shaw. 27 September. At Richmond Hill, N....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 17 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. CONTENTS. XIX 1797. Page To John Adams. 8 February. Congratulation and good wishes 428 To the same. 26 April. Effect of funeral rites in her family. Ready to join him 429 1800....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams.- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. The memorials of that generation, by whose efforts the independence of the United States was achieved, are in great abundance. There is hardly an event of impor- tance, from the year...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXU MEMOIR. plete a form as will in all probability ever be attained by the imperfect faculties of man. Admitting these observations to be true, there is, nev- ertheless, a distinction to...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXm action, these are the guides to character, which most frequently vanish with the moment that called them forth, and leave nothing to posterity but those coarser elements for judgment, that...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXIV MEMOIR. will cooperate with the mind, the affections with the reasoning power. And this is the scene for the ahnost exclusive sway of the weaker sex. Yet, great as the in-...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXV character. Hitherto we have not gathered much of this material in the United States. The dispersion of fami- lies, so common in America, the consequent destruction of private papers, the...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXVI MEMOIR. before the public a series of private letters, written with- out the remotest idea of publication, by a woman, to her husband, and others of her nearest and dearest relations....- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. BIEMOIR. XXVll the grandson of Thonnas Shepard, minister of Charles- town, distinguished in his day, and the son of the more distinguished Thomas Shejtard of Cambridge, whose name still lives in one...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXVIU BIEMOIR. citizens was held, he must be there to open the business with prayer. If a pohtical measure was in agitation, he was among the first whose opinion was to be...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXIX one of her letters, says, it was fashionable to ridicule female learning. The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex was to he found in the families...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXXll MEMOIR. ly unacquainted with young persons of her own sex and age. She had relations and connexions, hoth on the father s and tlje mother s side and with these she...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. BIEBIOIR. XXXlll ty of constructing sentences, which no teaching will afford so well, the interest with which the object is commonly pursued gives an extraordinary impulse to the intellect. This is promoted,...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXXIV MEMOIR. improvement and full developement of her powers as a woman may readily be measured. The father of Mrs. Adams was a pious man, with something of that vein of humor,...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXXV ionei S. The profession of law was, for a long period in the colonial history of Massachusetts, unknown and, after circumstances called it forth, the prejudices of tlie inhabitants, who...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXXVl MEMOIR. professional practice, made the change advisable. With- in this period she became the mother of a daughter, and of three sons, whose names will frequently appear in her letters and...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXXVll widely different. From the time of liis marriage, in 1764, perhaps still earlier, when he, as a young lawyer, in 1761, took notes of the argument in the celebrated cause...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. XXXVlll MEMOIR. Perhaps the precedhig detail belongs more properly to a memoir of Mr. Adams, than to that of his wife. Yet it would be impossible to furnish any accurate idea of...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. XXXIX sultalion and remonstrance. It therefore adjourned after the lapse of only two months. It is during this time, that the five letters in the present volume which bear date in...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. Xl MEMOIR. only to a friendly warning given them by a woman re- siding in Boston, but unequally yoked in politics. There was nearly the same reason for apprehension on the part...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. Xli But it is supei-fluous to endeavour to heighten the pic- ture given in the letters with so much distinctness. Mr. Adams seems to have been startled on the arrival of...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. Xlii MEMOIR. companied with the ravages of pestilence. Mr. Adams was at home during the period of adjournment of the Congress, which was only for the month of August but scarcely had...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. MEMOIR. xliii taker of the common calamity. After three days, an abatement of my disease relieved me from that anxiety. The next person in the same week, was Susy her we carried...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of Letters of Mrs. Adams, the wife of John Adams. Xliv MEMOIR. order, and lies so bad, that we have little hope of her re- covery. On the 29th It is allotted me to go from the sick and almost dying bed...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis - Adams, Abigail - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)