Original paper slip text:[post 12 May 1780]
- Originally filmed & filed under [ca. April 1780].
- "The inclosed dialogue. . ." Contains the famous statement "I must study Politics and War that my Sons may have Liberty to study Mathematicks, and Philosophy..."
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Original paper slip text:Printed: JA-AA, Familiar Letters, p. 380–381
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Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, during the Revolution. With a Memoir of Mrs. Adams, ed. Charles Francis Adams, New York, 1876.
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Original paper slip text:JA, Letters, 2:68–70
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Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1841
2 vols.
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AFC, 3:341-343
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