Index: Consolidated
Adams, Abigail, 2d (Nabby, Amelia, 1765-1813, daughter of AA and JA, wife of William Stephens Smith, designated as AA2 in The Adams Papers)
26
Books and Reading
8
studies and translates French
2
considers studying French in a convent
2
quotes Pope's “Ode on St. Cecilia's Day”
2
Bell's Poets of Great Britain
1
JA buys Shakespeare for
1
asks for JA's recommendations
1
comments on MacKenzie's Julia de Roubigné
1
quotes unidentified literary passage
217
Character, Appearance, Habits, Domestic life
16
correspondence with Elizabeth Cranch
5
Jefferson purchases clothing items for
5
comments on social events and acquaintances
5
correspondence with Thaxter
4
relationship with cousin William Smith
4
wants letters kept confidential or burned
3
describes and praises servants
3
difficulty of maintaining correspondences
3
dress for state occasions
3
lonely and unhappy over JA's and JQA's long absence
3
remarks on Elizabeth Cranch's romantic interests
3
unhappy living in London
3
AA considers cooler than herself
2
describes typical day in Auteuil
2
discouraged with correspondence
2
friendship with Elizabeth Cranch
2
lack of female companionship for
2
offers to help aunt with domestic work
2
only cousin missing at Haverhill reunion
2
requests locks of hair from brothers
2
rumored return to America with JQA
1
AA cuts short visit to Warrens
1
New York ladies envious of
1
accepts Storer's offer of assistance in Europe
1
asks “who is married and who Dead the two important periods you know”
1
called a “portrait of her father”
1
close to Elizabeth Shaw
4
correspondence with JQA
1
deprived of a heart “in the days of my youth”
1
describes a man who looks like a fish
1
describes a proper journal
1
describes a transvestite
1
despairs that all Braintree friends are getting married
1
feels isolated in France
1
happy at Thaxter's return
1
inquires about Mary Otis Lincoln
2
lack of French limits social circle
1
makes handkerchief for Hannah Storer
1
makes mourning clothes for grandfather's funeral
1
mistaken for Storer's wife
1
probably not AA's “Fair American”
1
rides in St. James' park
1
sends slippers to Mary Storer
1
stays at Bath Hotel, London
1
wants Mary Cranch to be discreet
1
wishes for portraits of brothers
1
CFA alters image of courtship by W. S. Smith
1
correspondence with Storer
113
Courtship and Marriage
9
announcement of engagement and marriage
6
confusion in U.S. over marriage
7
establishes Wimpole Street residence with WSS
3
AA on relationship between WSS and
3
WSS asks permission of JA and AA to court and marry
2
Elizabeth Shaw inquires about engagement
2
congratulated on marriage
2
with WSS returns to Grosvenor Square
1
AA and JA approve marriage of
1
AA on preparations for wedding of
1
JA must consent to marriage due to age of
1
WSS on relationship with
1
correspondence with WSS
1
“considers herself perfectly free” to be courted by WSS
2
development of relationship with WSS
140
Courtship by Royall Tyler
19
dismissal of Royall Tyler
14
Royall Tyler delays turning over AA2's letters and miniature to Cotton Tufts
6
asks JA for permission to marry
6
correspondence with Royall Tyler
6
AA on relationship between Royall Tyler and
5
AA2 and Tyler agree to cool relationship
4
Tyler's failure to write
4
gossip about dismissal of Royall Tyler
3
AA and JA advise on dismissal of Royall Tyler
3
AA2 determined to marry
3
AA2 sends letters and picture to
4
to be married when AA2 returns from Europe
3
turmoil at departing from
1
AA2 happier after break
1
AA: “more fears and anxieties for her than ever I felt for myself”
1
Abigail Rogers on dismissal of Royall Tyler
1
Capt. Callahan reports talk of marriage
1
Elizabeth Hunt Palmer writes to about Royall Tyler
1
JQA's reaction to dismissal
1
Royall Tyler continues to wear miniature of
1
Royall Tyler copies letters of
1
Royall Tyler denies dismissal by
1
Royall Tyler fails to forward letters from AA2 to others
1
Tyler delays delivering letters from
1
Tyler reacts to dismissal
1
asks Cotton Tufts to burn letters to Royall Tyler
1
CFA's editions remove all references to
60
Letters To
6
Elizabeth Cranch (1779)
7
Elizabeth Cranch (1782)
8
Elizabeth Cranch (1783)
6
Elizabeth Cranch (1784)
1
Elizabeth Cranch (1785)
2
Elizabeth Cranch (1786)
1
Mary Smith Cranch (1785)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1784)
1
Thomas Jefferson (1786)
46
Letters From
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1785)
3
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1786)
1
Thomas Jefferson (1787)
14
Letters to, from, omitted
1
from Anne Willing Bingham listed (1784)
1
from Benjamin Vaughan listed (1784)
1
from Jean Balthazar, Comte d'Adhémar, listed (1786)
1
from John Singleton and Susanna Clarke Copley listed (1786)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1779)
1
from William Vaughan listed (1786)
1
from the Marquis de Lafayette listed (1785)
2
to Elizabeth Cranch listed (1779)
1
to Elizabeth Cranch listed (1782)
1
to Elizabeth Cranch listed (1783)
1
to John Thaxter listed (1782)
1
to John Thaxter listed (1784)
1
to Lucy Cranch listed (1786)
151
Opinions and Beliefs
7
views of French society, manners, and women
3
comments on dining customs
5
compares England, France, and America
3
separation of family members
3
unimpressed with British royalty and Court scene
3
“I shall learn to prize my own Country above all others”
2
compares U.S. and Brit. society
2
criticizes European visiting customs
2
dangers of flute-playing
2
finds Europe alters people very little, is not so different from America
2
negotiations with Barbary States
1
AA and JA's possible return to U.S.
1
Anglo-Amer. commercial treaty
1
Anglo-French commercial treaty
1
Brit. love of food and drink
1
Dirk Wolter Lynden van Blitterswyck
1
John Trumbull's Death of General Warren
1
Sidi Haggi 'Abd-ur-rahman Aga
1
U.S. fascination with Europe
1
anger at court servants asking for gifts from foreign ministers
1
apologies are “the dullest part of a Dull letter”
1
appointment of JA as consul to Britain
1
attempted assassination of George III
1
attraction of Amer. women to foreigners
2
characterizes Americans' respect for travelers to Europe
1
characterizes several nationalities
1
compares Mass. and New York
1
compares histories of Amer. Revolution
1
criticizes Dutch slovenliness
1
curiosity common to both sexes
1
disapproves gaiety and show of London
1
dislikes attending balls unaccompanied
1
dislikes “Masculine air” of English women
1
faults Congress' treatment of Amer. ministers
1
happiness dependent on external circumstances
1
judgmental attitudes of others
1
loyalty to one's home state
1
mistakes an Englishman for a Frenchman
1
on partiality to places of residence
1
relations between Britain and U.S.
1
relations between men and women
1
respect paid to Dauphin ridiculous
1
suspicious of people's politeness and intentions
1
thinks the English more prejudiced than the French
1
travel to English countryside
2
values travel as education
1
“the people [of Paris] are the dirtiest creatures in the Human race”
1
changing view of French society
135
Relationship with JQA
19
develops intimate correspondence with JQA
6
sadness at JQA's departure for America
4
difficulties in correspondence with JQA
3
advises JQA to be careful in commenting on Harvard professors
3
feels “as if we were growing into Life strangers to each other”
2
JQA asks to be relieved of promise to write daily
2
advises and reproves JQA
3
joyfully reunites with JQA
2
lacks confidence in writing to
1
JQA calls letter “a most noble feast”
1
asks for lock of JQA's hair
1
concerned about JQA's watch
1
difficulty of separation of family
1
enjoys JQA's journal correspondence
1
hopes to read JQA's journal
1
imagines JQA as congressman
1
likens JQA's impolitic comments to her own
1
sends profile of WSS to
1
shares JQA's letters with WSS
1
teases JQA about Swedish women
1
“I have seen my Brother, and do not find him a monster as I expected”
75
Relationship with Parents
13
JA wants company of, in Europe
8
separation from parents after marriage
2
JA thinks would dislike Europe
2
and AA's decision to go to Europe
3
anxious about JA's health
2
comments on AA's sadness
2
correspondence with AA and JA
2
feels mortified at improper request to JA
1
JA advises on opportunities to enjoy travel
1
JA advises to learn Amer. history
1
JA calls “princess at Pens Hill”
1
JA finds letters “very agreable”
1
JA praises exceptional “understanding and consideration”
1
JA says everyone gives “a very flattering Character of”
1
JA travels to London to meet (1784)
1
called JA's “Image [and] Superscription”
1
collects letters to AA while AA in Holland
1
comments on parents' sacrifice
1
congratulates JA on peace
1
copies AA's memorandum of purchase for Jefferson
1
does not always share JQA's letters with
1
family uncertain over JA's plans for them
1
interrupts letter-writing of AA
1
melancholy on anniversary of JA's departure
1
receives present from JA
1
urges AA to attend Harvard commencement
12
Residences
3
Grosvenor Square, London
1
moves from Bath Hotel to Grosvenor Square
162
Social Life and Recreation
18
hosts dinners with parents
11
makes and receives visits
6
attends theater in Paris
7
presentation to George III and Queen Charlotte
6
spends winter in Boston
5
attends 4th of July celebration and Harvard commencement
5
attends theater and opera
4
attends large dinners at London home
4
invited to visit Daltons
4
receives visitors in London
3
represents AA at gatherings
2
attends queen's birthday celebration
2
does not attend JA's dinner for foreign ministers
2
meets ambassador from Tripoli
1
attends French ambassador's ball
1
attends Old South Meeting
1
attends coronation anniversary
1
breakfasts out in London
3
comments on Mme. Helvétius
1
declines going to London assembly
1
holds small party in Braintree
1
rumored to have dined with Prince of Wales
1
sees Amer. women in Paris
1
speaks with Princess Augusta
1
visits Ranelagh Gardens
1
would like to accept all invitations
63
Travels
9
possible return to U.S.
6
decision to go to Europe
4
may remain in Europe after AA and JA return to U.S.
3
“sea Life . . . exceeds my expectations, in the disagreeable”
3
arrival in England and London
2
journey to Paris via Chantilly
2
possible visit to Madrid
1
brings air plant on sea voyage
1
expects to go to The Hague and then Paris
1
possible visit to Algiers
16
Writings
2
Journal and Correspondence
2
her “production” (journal?)
1
deliberate removal of text from letter of
1
first publication of letters
3
importance of letters as family chronicle
1
in Adams Family Correspondence
1
probably destroyed by fire
16
reluctance in letter writing
14
inoculated with smallpox
11
visits to Warren family
4
desires to join JA in Europe
3
broken engagement with Royall Tyler
3
courted by and marries WSS
3
engagement and marriage to Smith
4
personality and character
2
use of fanciful names, “Mercella” and “Amelia”
2
“mournd in tears for Hours” over stillborn sister Elizabeth
1
JA advises to learn needlework
1
JA on writing hand and style of
1
JA's view of her romance with Tyler
1
Mrs. Warren on appearance of
1
Mrs. Warren's affection for
1
complimented by Swedish ambassador
1
fate of her correspondence with Tyler
1
her “remarkable Modesty, Discretion, and Reserve”
1
invited to visit Mason family in Boston
1
lives briefly with Warren family
1
sends portrait in miniature to Tyler
1
sent to live with friends in Boston
1
voyage to Europe (1784)
1
“has a prudence and steadiness beyond her years”
2
Journal and Correspondence (1841-1842)