Adams, Abigail Brown Brooks (1808-1889, wife of Charles Francis, designated as ABA in The Adams Papers)
164
CFA reads to, evenings
12
Lockhart's Sir Walter Scott
10
Duchesse d'Abrantès' Memoirs
7
Lamartine's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
5
Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
4
Scott's Fair Maid of Perth
2
Lives of the British Painters
2
Croker's Killarney Legends
2
Hall's Schloss Hainfeld
2
Hannah More's Correspondence and Thoughts on Manners
2
Inchbald's A Simple Story
2
Jameson's Characteristics of Women
2
Mackenzie's American in England
2
Michael Scott's Tom Cringle's Log
2
Sir Walter Scott's Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk
2
Walpole's Letters to Horace Mann
1
Journey from Constantinople
1
Austen's Mansfield Park
1
Baroness Minutoli's Egypt
1
Barrington's Personal Sketches
1
Beckford's Recollections of an Excursion
1
Countess of Blessington's Conversations with Lord Byron
1
Duras' Ourika, Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and Rape of the Lock
1
Genlis' Les Parvenus and Shakespeare
1
Lady Morgan's Book of the Boudoir
1
Lee's The Canterbury Tales
1
Mackenzie's An American in England
1
Montolieu's Caroline of Litchfield
1
Scott's Lives of the Novelists
1
Shakespeare's King Lear
1
Willis' Inklings of Adventure
1
Wraxall's Posthumous Memoirs
67
visits and attends parties &c., Boston
43
indispositions and illnesses
27
visits and attends parties &c., Quincy
26
and CFA, their marriage
21
health and minor illnesses
17
attends social functions
14
trip to N.Y. and Canada
11
ill health from travel
9
attends concerts and theater
7
and illness and death of Georgeanna Frances Adams
7
friendship with Anne Carter Seaver
6
CFA improves her French
6
literarily inexperienced
6
response to mother's illness and death
5
CFA on travel apprehensions
4
CFA reads his lectures and articles to
3
amanuensis for CFA and JQA
3
and winter residence plans
2
CFA on wedding anniversaries
2
discusses summer residence with CFA
2
distress over death of Julia Gorham Robins
2
preference for social life
2
prefers to live among family
1
CFA on conversation with
1
CFA on mastery of French
1
CFA tells of brother's death
1
CFA tells of his depressed spirits
1
assists in copying AA's letters
1
attempts to prevent Brooks-Everett friction
1
attends Harvard Divinity School Commencement
1
attends ball without CFA
1
attitude toward T. K. Davis
1
comments on CFA's essay
1
conflict with LCA and with father over summer plans
1
disturbed by cross occurrence
2
encourages CFA's social life
1
entertains for LCA's and JQA's anniversary
1
father's financial provisions for
2
given JQA's portrait by C. A. Davis
1
gives New Year's presents
1
head of Medford household for two months
1
helps CFA correct proof sheets
1
household tasks fall to CFA
1
involved in CFA's argument with LCA
1
pays visits with father
1
response to CFA's manner
1
sleep induced by a visitor
1
“importation of finery”
1
“the passage of time has only contributed to make me prize her more highly”
See also: Brooks family meetings
