Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers)
318
Books and Reading
47
quotes from and refers to the Bible
17
quotes unidentified poetry
6
comments on Paine's Common Sense
6
quotes Pope's Satires of Horace
6
quotes or alludes to Pope's Essay on Man
4
Milton's Paradise Lost, quoted
4
quotes Aesop's Fables(?)
4
quotes Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac(?)
4
reads Rousseau on JA's recommendation
5
regards Chesterfield in his Letters a “Hypocritical, polished Libertine, a mere Lovelace,” who has moreover “exhibited a peculiar Asperity against the Sex”
3
Buchan's Domestic Medicine
3
James Thomson a favorite poet, but AA adapts text to her purpose
3
Racine's Athalie, other plays at French Comedy
4
finds Sir William Temple rewarding for information on Netherlands and for parallels to JA's negotiations
3
quotes and refers to La Rochefoucauld's Maxims
3
refers to and quotes The Spectator
3
requests copy of Chesterfield's Letters
4
studies French by reading plays
3
Bolingbroke's “Reflections upon Exile”
2
James Thomson admired and quoted by
2
Paine's American Crisis, No. II
2
Paine's “American Crisis,” quoted
2
Pope's Essay on Man, quoted
2
acknowledges receipt of newspapers and pamphlets from JA
2
alludes to Swift's Journal of a Modern Lady
2
alludes to and quotes Addison's Cato
2
asks for Journals of Congress
3
exempts Tristram Shandy only from her reading of Laurence Sterne
2
has little knowledge of Latin
2
praises Richardson, even Pamela
3
quotes Milton's Paradise Lost
2
quotes Poisson's Procureur arbitre
2
quotes Pope's “Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato”
2
quotes Pope's “The Rape of the Lock”
2
quotes Prior's “An English Padlock”
2
quotes Shakespeare's Hamlet
2
quotes Thomson's Sophonisba
2
reads Rollin's Ancient History
2
recommends and sends books to family and friends
2
requests copy of Trumbull's M'Fingal
1
Bolingbroke's political tracts quoted
1
Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta
1
Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women
1
Hume's History of England
1
James Fordyce's Sermons commended for attitude toward women
1
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, quoted
1
William Collins' “Ode” (“How sleep the brave”)
1
acquires respect for accomplishments of French ladies from Shebbeare's Letters
1
adapts Pope's “On Sir Godfrey Kneller”
1
admires and quotes from the fable of the sparrow and dove in Edward Moore's Poems
1
advises Tyler on studies
1
alludes to Samuel Johnson
1
comments on Joshua Reynolds
1
describes architecture of French theater
1
during inoculation with smallpox
1
epitaph for Samuel Johnson
1
finds apt maxims in the Duc de Sully's Mémoires
1
holds Burgoyne's style “intricate ... pompous ... and rather Bordering on the fustian”
1
interest in reading and writing poetry
1
on the rearing and education of children
1
quotes Hannah More's “Sir Eldred of the Bower”
1
quotes Horace's Epistles
1
quotes John Gay's Shepherd's Week(?)
1
quotes Pliny (the Younger?)
1
quotes Pope Clement XIV's Interesting Letters
1
quotes Sallust's Jugurthine War
1
quotes Shakespeare's Othello
1
quotes Shakespeare's Tempest
1
quotes Thiéry's Almanach de voyageur à Paris
1
quotes Thomson's Seasons
1
quotes observations in James Harrington applicable to present state of Britain
1
refers to Dyanthe (Diana?)
1
refers to Mandeville's Fable of the Bees
1
refers to Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme
1
requests copy of Select Essays upon Husbandry
1
uses Dodsley's Preceptor
1
will send books to Shaw children
1
admiration for Mrs. Macaulay and her writings
See also: under particular authors' names
294
Character, Appearance, Habits
11
sends gifts to relatives from Europe
10
relationship with Thaxter
8
assists poor widows in Braintree
7
relationship with Storer
6
correspondence with Mercy Otis Warren
6
grammatical and orthographic oddities
6
distress at father's death
5
distress at leaving family and friends
5
fear of interception of letters
6
isolated in France by language and customs
5
keenly feels separation from friends and country
6
multiple attractions of Vermont to
4
sends books to young relatives
4
suggests medical remedies
4
anxious over Col. Smith's absence
3
difficulty maintaining busy correspondence
4
fancies a “genteel Chaise”
3
insistence on proprieties in Lovell correspondence
3
relationship with sister Elizabeth Shaw
4
sometimes given to rhetorical flights
2
aversion to making duplicates of letters
2
fears loss of letters during violent storm at sea
2
is finished with politics
2
mourns death of Joseph Warren
2
offers condolences to John Thaxter
4
portrait by Mather Brown
2
thanks Mary Cranch for caring for Adams brothers
1
JA on her wifely virtues
1
JA's catalogue of faults of
1
JA: her letters give “clearer and fuller Intelligence, than I can get from a whole Committee of Gentlemen”
1
JA: “your Letters are much better worth preserving than mine”
1
Lovell's wit appreciated
1
William Langborn describes
1
a British visitor's praise of
2
and romance of AA2 with Tyler
1
as “fair example of female excellence”
1
carelessness in recording dates
1
changes opinion of brother-in-law
1
climbs in carriage window
1
contributes to clothe Rev. Moses Taft
2
facsimile of her handwriting in 1777
2
facsimile of her handwriting in 1781
2
facsimile of her handwriting in 1782
1
friendship with Jefferson
1
helps friend collect money
1
interest in early English Quincys
1
keeps a letterbook for brief period
1
method of composing and dating letters
1
misidentified portrait of
1
mortified at debts incurred by her brother
1
notes want of receiving any special consideration in deference to JA's long absence in public service
1
offers to send needed items to friends and family
1
on the current popularity of matrimony
1
orders fabric for church
1
recommends Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
1
refers to Abdees as “my sable tennants”
1
refers to Yankee bundlers
1
refuses to play cards on Sunday
2
relationship with sisters
1
requests chocolate from Cranches
1
said to resemble Ruth H. Dalton
1
seeks news from Boston ship captains
1
servants assist with dressing
1
tells anecdote about need for grand houses
1
use of literary sources
1
weather delays delivery of correspondence for U.S.
1
wishes to return to America “where frugality and oconomy are . . . considered virtues”
1
“Debts are my abhorrance”
1
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatick Preachers, Politicians, Friends, Lovers and Husbands”
1
“I am not Naturally of a gloomy temper”
1
“I am not naturally ... of that rastless anxious disposition”
1
“I am not of an over anxious make”
1
“I hate an unfealing mortal”
1
“I have a large share of Grandmother Eves curiosity”
1
“I have been distress'd, but not dismayed”
1
“I hush all my murmurs by considering we are all embarked upon the same bottom”
1
“Luxery that bainfull poison has unstrung and enfeabled”
1
“My Heart is as light as a feather and my Spirits are dancing”
1
“Some folks say I grow very fat”
1
“a little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world”
1
“if we do not lay out ourselves in the Service of mankind whom should we serve?”
1
“my Pen is my only pleasure, and writing to you the composure of my mind”
1
“my pen is always freer than my tongue”
1
“pride, I know I have a large portion of it”
1
“prizes the Emanations of a pure and friendly Heart, before all the studied complasance of a finished courtier”
1
“studying frugality and oconomy”
1
“uneaquil to the cares which fall upon me”
1
“who will sacrifice as others have done? Portia I think stands alone”
2
appears in new light in Adams Family Correspondence
1
carelessness with dates
1
correspondence characterized
1
early proposals to publish letters of
1
exemplifies the “Puritan ethic”
1
her letters as expressions of personality
670
Domestic and Social Life
21
sends fabric, clothing, and goods to Cranches
17
makes and receives visits
18
receives visitors and entertains at Grosvenor Square
14
sends fabric, clothing, and goods to family in U.S.
13
presentation to George III and Queen Charlotte
12
visits in and around London
11
orders household items through JA in Philadelphia
11
visits and dines out in France
9
purchases for and receives goods from Jefferson
9
sends fabric, clothing, and goods to Shaws
9
sends fabric, clothing, and goods to U.S.
10
visits and dines with Americans in London
10
visits to the James Warrens at Plymouth and Milton and from the Warrens and their children
8
buys table linen and shirts for Jefferson
8
sends money to JA's mother
7
attends theater in London
7
does not attend “publick Amusements” without JA
7
has Jefferson buy platters and statuettes
7
on illness and death of her mother
6
correspondence with Mme. Grand
6
entertains in Braintree
6
social engagements in Netherlands
6
visits sights in London
5
English custom bars from JA's dinner for foreign ministers
5
comments on and relations with servants
5
learns of death of Elizabeth Storer Smith
5
nurses family and servants through serious illnesses
5
orders chocolate from Massachusetts
5
receives food and goods from U.S.
4
Gerry mistakenly delivers her canister of tea to Mrs. Samuel Adams
4
asks Jefferson to buy shoes, other goods
4
exchanges medals with Thomas Brand Hollis
5
inherits land, money, and silver tankard from father
5
sightseeing in Netherlands
3
John Cranch sends meat to
3
Mary Cranch requests linen from
3
attempts to assist family of George Trott
3
attends 4th of July celebration and Harvard commencement
3
attends queen's birthday celebration
3
attends swearing-in ceremony at Utrecht
3
attentions paid to Mrs. Lovell
3
copes with London hours of rising, eating, entertaining
5
describes Paris theater
4
dines at Col. Quincy's house
3
kept unaware of JA's illness
3
presents Anne Bingham at court
3
receives news from U.S.
3
requests stocking weaver's needles for Hardwick
3
rides in carriage in London
3
sees advantages of living in England
3
sends book to John Cranch
3
sends books to Cranches
3
visits to and from Mrs. Dana
2
Lucy Cranch sends song to
2
WSS and David Humphreys dine with
2
arrangements for care of JA's mother
2
asks Rufus King to frank letters
2
assumes responsibility for answering important communications received by JA
2
attends coronation anniversary
2
attends theater at The Hague
2
bonnet shredded by coins on coach trip
2
care and disposal of clothes in Braintree
2
comments on JA's clothing
2
concern about family's reception, her role in London
2
correspondence with Elbridge Gerry
3
correspondence with Lovell
2
describes entertaining at Auteuil
3
describes family activities at Auteuil
2
describes fireside circle
3
describes promenade to Longchamp
2
family news provided by Eliphalet Brush
3
friendship with Mme. Lafayette
2
gives Elizabeth Shaw medical advice
2
invited to dine with Smiths of Clapham
2
invites Patsy Jefferson to stay with in London
2
limits visits to loyalists in London
2
lodges soldiers and refugees
3
loves house and garden at Auteuil
4
meets and describes Mme. Helvétius
3
presence of Estaing's fleet occasions round of visits and dinners on shipboard and in Braintree
2
receives disturbing news
2
sends newspapers to U.S.
2
speaks French with servants
3
the Warrens welcomed as near neighbors
2
trouble with tenant Hayden
2
troubles with tenant Hayden
2
visits Ranelagh Gardens
1
Bath city band performs for
1
Jefferson awaits instruction about wine
1
Jefferson introduces to Anne Mangeot de Corny
1
John Boylston visited in England (1787)
1
Quincys take refuge with
1
Superior Court judges and members of bar dine with
1
Thomas Welsh asks to procure lace for Harriet Welsh
1
William Shaw requests book from
1
activities of reported in newspapers
1
aids British prisoners of war
1
and brother-in-law John Shaw
1
anticipates move to London
1
arranges for milk and cream delivery
1
as matchmaker for Cotton Tufts
1
asks family not to mention gifts received from
1
attends Tea Party commemoration
1
attends funeral for Duke of Northumberland
1
breakfasts out in London
1
breakfasts with David Humphreys
1
breakfasts with Edward Bridgen
1
cares for Mary Jefferson in London
1
characterizes Anne Bingham
1
compares domestic duties in London and Braintree
1
concern that gifts to relatives not offend
1
confidential correspondence with Mary Cranch
1
declines opportunity to attend opening of Parliament
1
describes Epiphany dinner
1
describes London fashion
1
describes Sundays in Paris
1
describes “Ladies Route”
1
dining habits in London
1
dislikes attending balls without accompaniment
1
does not attend Court regularly
1
does not cook or clean in Auteuil
1
encourages Jefferson to come to London
1
enjoys imagining being in Braintree
1
exchanges visits with diplomats
1
excluded from Patience Wright's conversation with JA
1
frustrated at custom of not being at home to callers
1
gives home remedy for jaundice
1
has set of dining room tables made
1
hears JA arrive home, puts on tea
1
ignored by Boston's “Beau Mond”
1
informs Jefferson about Capt. Henry Stanhope
1
inoculation with smallpox general among Adams family and circle
1
intends to buy clothing in Paris
1
invitations to public assemblies declined
1
invites ship captains to dine with Adamses
1
journal-letter deeply moves Mary Cranch
1
learns of death of Lucy Quincy Tufts
1
makes inquiries about Simon Tufts
1
makes inquiries about Simon Tufts Jr. in London
1
meets Generals Washington and Lee
1
misses “Sallet” and peas
1
on illness and death of JA's brother Elihu
1
on scarcity of West Indies goods
1
receives large turtle for banquet
1
rumored to have dined with Prince of Wales
1
seeks commission for JA's brother Elihu
1
sends account for books purchased for Manasseh Cutler
1
sends copy of Prussian treaty to Isaac Smith Sr.
1
sends money to Cotton Tufts
1
sends newspapers to Jefferson
1
sociableness of neighbors in time of crisis
1
social engagements at Bath
1
spends day at home for callers
1
stays at Bath Hotel, London
1
supplies and clothes at Braintree home
1
tells anecdote about loneliness
1
thoughts wander to JA and JQA in Paris
1
to arrange purchase of clothes in England for Elizabeth Shaw
1
unfavorable view of her sister Elizabeth's engagement
1
unwilling to pay to attend benefit night at theater
1
visit from Samuel Adams and wife
1
visited by Dr. Aaron Dexter
1
visited by Dr. Waterhouse
1
visited by Sir James Jay and George Digges
1
visits New England Coffee House
1
visits former home of Elizabeth Storer Atkinson
1
visits from Thaxter sisters
1
visits with Charles Warren
1
wants private chamber where she can write “Letters and keep my papers unmollested”
1
wants shagbark hickory nuts from Massachusetts
1
wants sister to share journal-letter with friends
1
wishes to hear Archibald Maclaine
1
won't buy staples at inflated prices
1
would trade Auteuil house for her “own little Cottage”
1
“I am still left alone”
1
“I endeavour to live in the most frugal manner posible”
1
“I have been like a nun in a cloister”
1
“I have lived a very recluse life since your absence”
1
“I have so little of the Ape about me; that I have refused every publick invitation”
1
“We feel a temporary peace”
1
“We live in continual Expectation of Hostilities”
1
“dined Nine Gentlemen to Day”
1
“such a rapid succession of events have been crouded into the last two Months of my Life, that I can scarcly recollect them, much less recount them”
1
“the House ... shakes with the roar of Cannon”
1
“would not wish to see such a family picture in print”
1
more active in London than in Paris
1
pleased with London home, friends, family's prospects
1
satisfactions in correspondence with Thaxter
411
Farming and Household Management
63
importation of goods for sale
23
financial arrangements with and transfer of funds from JA
17
Cotton Tufts as agent for
17
inflated costs of goods and labor
14
hiring and managing farm hands
10
corresponds with Tufts about property, income, and investments
9
manages servants at Auteuil
7
Tufts and Rev. John Shaw care for farms
7
comments on crops and prospects for the year (1777)
7
orders European goods from JA
6
disagrees with JA on land purchases
6
droughts and crop failure
6
furniture from The Hague arrives in London
5
and payment for CA's passage
7
duties in London, running Amer. legation
5
high cost of living and furnishing house in Auteuil
6
manages farm, buys land, pays taxes
5
arranges for Phoebe and William Abdee to occupy Braintree house
4
compares cost of living in England and France
4
pays Cranches for board of sons
4
problems of depreciated currency
4
puts affairs in order to leave for Europe
4
state of Braintree home
4
“the loss of your Grey Horse”
3
JA's low salary clouds move to England
3
and disadvantages attending payment of indebtedness by bills, drafts, &c.
3
business affairs with Mercy Warren
3
exchanges hard money for paper
3
pays fees to Court servants
3
reduction of commissioners' salaries causes difficulties
2
cost of voyage and London hotels
2
costs of setting up household in London
2
describes Vassall-Borland farm (later Old House Site)
2
has not received china ordered
2
prefers a brother and sister as servants
2
refuses reimbursement for aid to Braintree men in Mill Prison pending JA's instructions
2
teaches cooking to ship's cook
2
to have friends bid on Allyne's and Quincy's land
2
transactions with Codman & Smith
1
JQA assists in keeping family accounts
1
James Warren praises AA's management of farm
1
Jefferson consults about official expenses
1
Jefferson writes to, about finances
1
advised by JA on crops and livestock
1
asked for a piece of broken mirror
1
asks JA for money and goods for own use
1
assumes JA will bring table linens and carpets
1
dares not buy more property
1
dealings with tradespeople
1
debts due JA unpaid in his absence
1
declines prisoners' repayment of JA's loan
1
dislikes sanitation provisions at Auteuil
1
educational facilities for children difficult to provide
1
entrusts JA's library to Richard Cranch
1
exhausts funds from buying land, does poorly on sale of goods
1
expects interest on loan office certificates
1
expenses of court clothing, mourning clothes
1
explains loss on bill of exchange
1
financial sacrifice of public service
1
gives Tyler JA's account books for collection of legal fees
1
gives servant housekeeping necessaries
1
has Royall Tyler hold JA's account books
1
has stockings woven for a miller
1
high cost of living in London
1
high price of food in France
1
needs small bills from JA
1
orders Japanese tea urn, needles, chewing tobacco
1
organizes passengers to clean ship cabin
1
pays sons' school expenses, keeps two servants
1
plans to “put the Farm ... out of my Hands” (1778)
1
purchase of and payments for commodities
1
relationship with tenants
1
requests Select Essays upon Husbandry
2
role as business manager and investor grows in Europe
1
says both English and French cheat her
1
social needs for seven servants in France
1
takes cow to Boston when family undergoes inoculation
1
wants to buy out sister's interest in Medford farm
1
wants to put money into state notes
1
“I involve you in no debts, nor go one Inch without seeing my way Clear”
1
“Misfortune of loosing a Cow upon the Ice”
1
“My credit will last here; till it fails upon the other side of the water”
1
“The 7 Labours of Hercules were not more difficult and complicated than the Subject of Finance”
2
“The fluctuating state of our currency and the exorbitant demand for every necessary of life, together with the high taxes renders it more peculiarly difficult to be deprived of a partner at this day”
1
“a fine growing Season”
1
“obliged to Economize not to be in debt at the close of every Month”
116
Health and Illnesses
11
inoculated with smallpox
7
delivered of a stillborn daughter in 1777
2
treated by Dr. Cotton Tufts
2
“Neither of us appear to be built for duration”
2
“a nervious pain in my Head to which I am sometimes subject”
1
has “a paleness which has very near resembled a whited wall”
1
hopes voyage will benefit her “very infirm” health
1
orders Peruvian bark and castor oil
1
“A most Excruciating pain in my head and every Limb and joint”
1
“I have enjoyed a tolerable good state of Health, Depression of spirits I often experience”
1
“I suffer through want of exercise, and grow too fat”
1
“feeble and faint with the Heat”
1
“the approach of Spring unstrings my nerves”
1
“twice my life was nearly sacrificed to [nursing children]”
497
Letters To
1
Abigail Bromfield Rogers (1786)
1
Alice Lee Shippen (1781)
2
Benjamin Franklin (1784)
1
Benjamin Waterhouse (1782)
1
Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1774)
1
Chandler Robbins (1783)
1
Charles Williamos (1785)
1
Daniel Roberdeau (1777)
3
Elizabeth Cranch (1784)
4
Elizabeth Cranch (1785)
2
Elizabeth Cranch (1786)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1778)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1782)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1783)
3
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1784)
4
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1785)
5
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1786)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1787)
1
Elizabeth Storer Smith (1785)
2
Elizabeth and Lucy Cranch (1786)
1
Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1778)
1
Hannah Storer Green (1765)
1
Lucy Quincy Tufts (1785)
1
Mary Middleton Lovell (1779)
3
Mary Smith Cranch (1766)
2
Mary Smith Cranch (1767)
1
Mary Smith Cranch (1774)
4
Mary Smith Cranch (1784)
10
Mary Smith Cranch (1785)
13
Mary Smith Cranch (1786)
2
Mary Smith Cranch (1787)
2
Mercy Otis Warren (1773)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1774)
7
Mercy Otis Warren (1775)
4
Mercy Otis Warren (1776)
2
Mercy Otis Warren (1777)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1778)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1779)
2
Mercy Otis Warren (1780)
2
Mercy Otis Warren (1781)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1783)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1784)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1785)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1786)
1
Nathaniel Willis (1781)
1
Thomas Brand Hollis (1786)
9
Thomas Jefferson (1785)
2
Thomas Jefferson (1786)
1
Thomas Jefferson (1787)
1
a Mass. Member of the Continental Congress (1779)
790
Letters From
1
Alice Lee Shippen (1781)
1
Benjamin Waterhouse (1782)
2
Benjamin Waterhouse (1783)
1
Catharine Louisa Salmon Smith (1785)
2
Charles Williamos (1785)
1
Chevalier de Ronnay (1782)
1
Chevalier de Ronnay (1783)
1
Daniel Roberdeau (1778)
1
Edward Wigglesworth (1780)
1
Elizabeth Cranch (1784)
3
Elizabeth Cranch (1785)
2
Elizabeth Cranch (1786)
1
Elizabeth Cranch (1787)
2
Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1781)
1
Elizabeth Otis Brown (1786)
1
Elizabeth Palmer (1774)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1778)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1783)
5
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1784)
4
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1785)
7
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1786)
1
Elizabeth Smith Shaw (1787)
1
Elizabeth Storer Smith (1786)
1
François Louis Teissèdre de Fleury (1780)
1
Hannah Fayerweather Tollman Winthrop (1782)
1
Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer (1778)
1
Hannah Storer Green (1763-1764)
1
Hannah Storer Green (1764)
1
Hannah Storer Green (1775)
2
Ingraham & Bromfield (1782)
1
Jean de Neufville & Son (1780)
2
Jean de Neufville & Son (1781)
3
Joseph Gardoqui & Sons (1781)
1
Marquis de Lafayette (1778)
1
Mary Smith Cranch (1767)
1
Mary Smith Cranch (1774)
5
Mary Smith Cranch (1784)
11
Mary Smith Cranch (1785)
15
Mary Smith Cranch (1786)
3
Mary Smith Cranch (1787)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1773)
4
Mercy Otis Warren (1774)
6
Mercy Otis Warren (1775)
7
Mercy Otis Warren (1776)
5
Mercy Otis Warren (1777)
3
Mercy Otis Warren (1778)
5
Mercy Otis Warren (1779)
3
Mercy Otis Warren (1780)
2
Mercy Otis Warren (1783)
1
Mercy Otis Warren (1785)
2
Thomas Brand Hollis (1786)
8
Thomas Jefferson (1785)
3
Thomas Jefferson (1786)
1
Thomas Jefferson (1787)
1
an unidentified correspondent (1778)
78
Letters to, from, omitted
1
from Alice Delancey Izard listed (1783)
1
from Ann Torkington Jebb listed (1786)
1
from Anna Quincy listed (1784)
1
from Anna Quincy listed (1785)
1
from Anna Quincy listed (1787)
1
from Anne Willing Bingham listed (1784)
1
from Benjamin Vaughan listed (1784)
1
from Chevalier de Ronnay listed (1782)
1
from Cotton Tufts listed (1784)
1
from Elbridge Gerry listed (1779)
1
from Elbridge Gerry listed (1784)
1
from Elizabeth Cranch listed (1784)
1
from Elizabeth Palmer listed (1785)
1
from Elizabeth Smith Shaw listed (1773)
1
from Elizabeth Smith Shaw listed (1785)
1
from Elizabeth and Samuel Adams listed (1781)
1
from Eunice Paine listed (1775)
1
from Eunice Paine listed (1785)
1
from Hannah Storer Green listed (1763)
1
from Hannah Storer Green listed (1774)
1
from Hannah Storer Green listed (1784)
1
from Hannah Thaxter listed
1
from Ingraham & Bromfield listed (1782)
1
from Isaac Smith Sr. listed (1761)
1
from Isaac Smith Sr. listed (1778)
1
from James Jarvis listed (1785)
1
from James Lovell listed (1778)
1
from James Lovell listed (1779)
2
from James Lovell listed (1780)
1
from James Lovell listed (1781)
1
from James Lovell listed (1782)
1
from Jean Balthazar, Comte d'Adhémar, listed (1786)
1
from John Cranch listed (1784)
1
from John Singleton and Susanna Clarke Copley listed (1786)
1
from John Thaxter listed (1778)
1
from John Thaxter listed (1780)
1
from John Thaxter listed (1781)
1
from John Thaxter listed (1783)
1
from John Thaxter listed (1786)
1
from John and Katherine Farnham Hay listed (1785)
1
from John and Lucy Ludwell Paradise listed (1785)
1
from Katherine Farnham Hay listed (1784)
1
from Katherine Farnham Hay listed (1785)
2
from Lucy Ludwell Paradise listed (1786)
1
from Mary Fitch listed (1785)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1772)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1773)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1775)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1776)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1779)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1780)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1783)
1
from Mercy Otis Warren listed (1785)
1
from Richard Cranch listed (1781)
1
from William Vaughan listed (1786)
1
from William Vernon Sr. listed (1780)
1
from the Marquis de Lafayette listed (1785)
1
to Cotton Tufts listed (1778)
1
to Hannah Quincy Lincoln listed (1761)
1
to Hannah Storer Green listed (1761)
1
to Hannah Storer Green listed (1764)
1
to Isaac Smith Jr. listed (1762)
2
to James Lovell listed (1780)
1
to James Lovell listed (1781)
1
to Mary Smith Cranch listed (1766)
1
to Mary Smith Cranch listed (1771)
1
to Mary Smith Cranch listed (1784)
1
to Mercy Otis Warren listed (1775)
1
to Richard Cranch listed (1780)
1
to Samuel Tufts listed (1773)
690
Opinions and Beliefs
37
Europe
2
Dutch versus Brit. theater
2
Amsterdam stock exchange
1
Dutch recognition of and aid to U.S.
1
Dutch society and politics
1
Dutch versus Brit. women
1
Dutch versus Mass. countryside
1
French recognition of and aid to U.S.
1
French versus Brit. interest in U.S. prosperity
1
Netherlands as “a want of my dear variety”
1
Netherlands has “Nick Frog”
1
dangers of European travel to Amer. youth
1
lack of crime in Netherlands
1
money for salary and expenses of French ambassador
1
wishes to see all aspects of European life
1
“The Morals of Europe are depraved beyond conception, Love of Country and publick virtue, mere visions”
1
“usurpations” of Prince of Orange
37
Great Britain
3
attitudes toward U.S. in
2
Anglo-French commercial treaty
2
crossing English Channel
2
government and politics of
1
as “a world where cold ceremony is in lieu of friendly Salutations and greetings”
1
conduct of during Anglo-Amer. war
1
“I go into the midst of thousands who I know not, and behold all the Boasted Beauty of London with a cold indifference”
140
Individuals
3
Sidi Haggi 'Abd-ur-rahman Aga
1
Catharine Macaulay Graham
1
Catherine Sophia Macaulay
1
Lady Anne North “looks as if Porter and Beaf stood no chance before her”
1
Louisa Catharine Smith “has read too many Romances”
1
Nathaniel Sparhawk, Jr.
1
William Smith (cousin of AA)
1
William Smith Jr. (brother of AA)
92
United States
12
weaknesses of government
3
Anglo-Amer. commercial treaty
3
attacks on legal profession in
2
agriculture and manufacturing in
2
protest meetings in Mass. towns
2
salary provided by Congress
2
status of U.S. diplomats in Europe
2
treaties with Barbary States
1
Congress' delayed ratification of Prussian-Amer. treaty
1
Gerry's address to Mass. General Court
1
New York's approval of continental impost
1
William Cushing's speech
1
attitudes toward Netherlands
1
availability of money in
1
danger of becoming “the Scorn of Europe and the laughing Stock of Nations”
1
failure to comply with Treaty of Paris
1
lack of appreciation in for work of U.S. foreign ministers
1
need to preserve history of Amer. Revolution
1
negotiation of commercial treaties with European powers
1
opposes reliance on either France or Britain
1
recognizes her Amer. prejudices
1
reports in Boston newspapers
1
superior virtues of Americans
1
“I do not believe that ever any people made a greater Show, with less capitals than my dear mistaken countrymen have done”
70
Miscellaneous
2
dogmatism and immodesty
2
recommends agriculture to Charles Storer
1
Sheridan's The School for Scandal
1
Trumbull's The Death of General Warren
1
clothing of Germantown women
1
education for gentlemen
1
establishment of governments
1
importance of exercise and good diet
1
importance of public virtue
1
interracial relationships
1
love of one's native country
1
need for study of government in preparation for defense of rights of humankind
1
newspapers, “Liberty ought not to become licentiousness”
1
quotes maxim “that can never be politically right, which is morally wrong”
1
sacrifice of public office
1
substitution of pets for children
1
virtues necessary for good leadership
1
“Human nature is much the same in all Countries, but it is the Government the Laws and Religion, which forms the Character of a Nation”
1
“Idleness is the parent of contention and disobedience”
1
“Man was not made to be alone”
1
“Much of Shakspears language is so uncooth that it sounds very harsh”
1
“The Man who fears not debt, is not to be trusted”
1
“consolations which Christianity offers”
15
asserts superiority of New England and Amer. values over European
12
angered by attacks against JA and America in London press
9
faults manners and prejudices of British
8
on U.S.-British relations
7
on role of women in Europe
5
criticizes Congress' treatment of Amer. ministers
5
on decline in manners and morals in America
5
on inflated prices of labor and goods
5
royal family and Court life
5
changes view of French society
4
initial response to London scenes compared to lantern slides
4
on the need and nature of a new state constitution
3
alteration in JA's conferred powers laid to subservience to French interests
3
criticizes Society of the Cincinnati
3
disapproves of gambling
4
initial dismay at French manners and morals
3
on moral decline of Great Britain
4
praises and takes pride in peace
3
praises behavior of French naval officers
3
says Mass. navigation act will confound British, build America
3
suggested for committee “to examine the Torys Ladies”
2
approves Paine's Common Sense
2
as evil political force
2
blames number of French orphans on disrespect for marriage
2
comments on dining customs
2
fears the Army, domestic contentions will destroy America's confederation
2
laments feelings against loyalists in Massachusetts
2
on Congress and the Deane-Lee controversy
2
on matrimony and the single state
3
on peace overtures of Rockingham ministry
2
on the Netherlands and its people
2
on the duty of a patriot in a time of public degeneracy, two views
3
opposes Congress' conferring dictatorial powers
2
praises English agriculture and manufactures
2
prefers news to sentiment in letters
2
sorry that “the most Manly Sentiments in the Declaration are Expunged from the printed coppy”
2
suspects John Temple of passing rumor damaging to JA
2
thinks British resistance to trade treaty will help U.S.
2
view of virtue and hypocrisy
2
“Calm is not desireable in any situation in life ...Man was made for action”
2
“Fashion is the Deity every one worships in this country”
2
“My happiness has ever been in a domestick State”
4
“Patriotism in the female Sex is the most disinterested of all virtues”
2
“my Heart and Soul is more American than ever”
1
Franklin's letter, “the Slanderous arrow that flieth in Secret”
1
JA's services needed in Massachusetts
1
Mass. legislators “will Squable a while but do right in the end”
1
Massachusetts' new spirit is “the insolence of wealth”
1
calls Congress JA's “Sovereign”
2
calls Jefferson “one of the choice ones of the Earth”
1
characterizes W. T. Franklin: “the young Cockatrice”
1
commends study of Amer. history
1
comments on a Protestant praying for the dead
1
comments on trade and taxation
1
compares English and French moral vices
1
compares English, French, and Amer. beauties
1
compares Hancock to the Golden Calf
1
compares good letterwriting to serving food
1
compares manners of Southern women and European women
1
compares traveling through France and England
1
contrasts characters of JA and Franklin
2
criticizes James Warren
1
describes and comments on Roman Catholic rituals
1
describes folly of Court etiquette
1
disapproves “Olive Branch” petition
1
discusses true friendship
1
dislikes Gothic churches in Canterbury
1
disturbed by low status of dissenting clergy in England
1
doubts U.S. can get needed credit with debt still unfunded
1
early affection for England
1
expects justly determined rank in the afterlife
1
fame without honor would be “like a faint meteor gliding through the Sky”
1
faults Americans who pass themselves off as English
1
fears effect of China trade on U.S.
1
finds English agriculture and towns superior to French
1
finds everything elegant in France is from England
1
folly and cruelty in the rise and fall of empires teach virtuous behavior
1
for repeal of the Regulating Act
1
hopes the states adhere to peace treaty to make JA's job easier
1
informs Edward Dilly of American crisis
1
legislature has few of “superiour parts”
1
meditates on life's fleeting pleasures
1
more industry needed in law than medicine or theology
1
on Amer. rights in Atlantic fisheries
1
on British conciliatory acts
1
on Carleton-Digby letters as “only a tub to the Whale”
1
on Congress' actions re JA as directed against Massachusetts
1
on a proper joint commission
1
on a “Code of Laws” for the new nation
1
on import of victories at Saratoga and Yorktown
1
on influence of rulers upon public manners
1
on method of training general officers for Continental Army
1
on neglect of education of women
1
on public commencements
1
on repeal of the Stamp Act
1
on resistance to tea tax
1
on scarcity of Boston political leaders
1
on sensitivity of women
1
on significance of Burgoyne's defeat
1
on superiority of American society
1
on the “Massachusettensis” papers
1
on the “passion of Ambition”
1
on vocational opportunities in America
1
peace obstructed by haughty and unjust actions of Great Britain
1
praises French “little images”
1
purpose of travel to see virtues and faults in other countries, and one's own
1
remarks on folly of many in high positions
1
says lack of sunlight depresses the spirits
2
says ladies at British Court unattractive
1
says “false as the English” for “false as Hell”
1
sees Mass. manners becoming less republican
1
sees likeness of Americans in English faces
1
theatrical acts and female entertainers in London and Paris
1
thinks English ladies have a “Masculine attire and Manners of Amazonians”
1
thinks French horses inferior to English
1
thinks three Americans do work of eight Britons
1
unimportance of noble birth
1
will finish with politics and “talk of that which more properly belongs to me”
1
“A patriot without religion ... is as great a paradox, as an honest Man without the fear of God”
1
“America is the Theater for a young fellow who has any ambition”
1
“Boston is as much Superiour to Paris, as London is to Boston”
1
“Christiantiy ...teaches us to forgive our enemies”
1
“Honour does not consist so much in the Trust reposed, as in the able, the Honest, the upright and faithfull discharge of it”
1
“I am sure I should make an awkward figure” in England
1
“I have found my taste reconciling itself to habits customs and fashions, which at first disgusted me”
1
“I regret the trifling narrow contracted Education of the Females of my own country”
1
“In America ... so few Ladies have a taste for Historick knowledge”
1
“Interest is a canker worm which will knaw to the vitals”
1
“Love of praise is a passion deeply rooted in the mind”
1
“Man is a dangerous creature”
1
“Never omit writing for want of subjects”
1
“These are times in which a Genious would wish to live.... Great necessities call out great virtues”
1
“We have both [British] armies from their Shipping. Tis what we have long sought for” (1777)
1
“We know too well the blessings of freedom, to tamely resign it”
1
“Why should we borrow foreign Luxeries [?]”
1
“a Man makes but a poor figure solo”
1
“a Man, Grown old in the practise of deception and calumny”
1
“a good government ill administerd is injurious to every member of the community”
1
“at my age the greatest of my enjoyments consist in Friendship”
1
“in moderation of enjoyment consists the most perfect felicity of the humane mind”
1
“manners more than conversation distinguish a fine woman in my Eye”
1
“the Business of Life here [is] Pleasure”
1
“the Ship [America] is safe, but the pilots will have a tough time”
1
“the Sword is now our only, yet dreadful alternative”
1
“the World furnishes us with real objects of Charity where ever we are placed”
1
“the arm of treachery ... is lifted over us as a Scourge ... for our numerous offences”
1
“their is nothing binding upon the Humane mind, but Religion”
294
Relationship with Children
66
AA2
10
and AA2's dismissal of Royall Tyler
6
and AA2's engagement to WSS
4
creates confusion in U.S. about marriage of
4
on AA2's relationship with WSS
3
WSS asks permission of to marry
2
on AA2's relationship with Royall Tyler
2
prepares house for AA2 and WSS
1
AA2 does not always share JQA's letters with
1
Mary Cranch congratulates on AA2's marriage
1
changes with AA2 after marriage
1
gives financial assistance to AA2 and WSS
1
informs WSS of AA2's relationship with Royall Tyler
1
on lack of female companionship for
1
advises AA2 and WSS to return to Grosvenor Square
1
concern for reputation of
2
CA
1
advises on books and education
1
pleased with reports on
36
JQA
4
informs of AA2's engagement and marriage
1
approves plans for Harvard commencement celebration
1
cautions not to discuss conferences with minister from Tripoli publicly
1
converses with on family affairs
1
encourages to continue Diary
1
encourages to mentor brothers
1
enjoys journal correspondence of
1
on JQA's attitude toward tutors at Harvard
1
on JQA, “How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead”
1
strives to correct faults of
2
watches Battle of Bunker Hill with
1
writes to about Brit. criticism
4
TBA
1
pleased that TBA remained in Mass.
20
plays active role in Tyler's courtship of AA2
16
irregular correspondence with JQA
9
anxious over JQA's arrival in U.S.
7
encourages and defends AA2's dismissal of Tyler
6
complains of lack of letters from
5
reunion with JQA in London
3
sends clothing to children
3
arrangements for care of JQA and CA
3
fears European influence on
3
involvement in W. S. Smith's interest in AA2
4
sad at JQA's leaving for America
2
and care provided to Adams brothers in U.S.
2
and JA's letters to them
2
asks AA2 to write to JA
3
characterizes AA2 as cooler than self
2
deeds to Vt. lands placed in names of
3
sends CA and TBA to study with uncle and aunt in Haverhill
2
special deprivation in separation of parent from young
2
their education placed in her charge
2
thinks AA2 should visit Daltons
2
wants no early female attachments for her sons
1
encourages friendship between JQA and CA
1
reads correspondence between JQA and AA2
1
JA outlines methods of teaching epistolary style to
1
JQA acts as secretary for
1
antidotes to pride offered
1
asks JQA to write to Jefferson
1
asks niece to give sons “Sisterly advice”
1
characterizes her three sons
1
commended by JA as example for
1
comments on a parent's concern for children
1
comments on need for JQA to return to U.S.
1
concern for JQA's health
1
concerned over instability of youth
1
delighted by praise of JQA
1
enjoys seeing them “rising in virtue and Eminence”
1
fears effects of their separation from JA
1
feels unequal to guide sons in college
1
feels “exceedingly Matronly with a grown up Son on one hand, and Daughter upon the other”
1
hopes AA2 can substitute for, as correspondent
1
hopes JQA goes to England
1
hopes to see “ my family again collected under our own roof”
2
industry, economy, and frugality urged upon
1
instills in JQA “the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness”
2
moral values inherent in the study of history and in observation of the customs of a foreign country
1
pleased with, “thus far in life”
1
praises JQA's books and writings
1
praises JQA's observations on Russian government
1
praises acquiring knowledge at early age
1
relies on AA2 to write to JQA
1
sad to leave CA and TBA in America
1
sends AA2 to entertain guests
1
teases JQA about marriage
2
tells W. S. Smith of AA2's engagement
1
thinks eyes of world on children of the prominent
1
treats CA for “pluratick disorder”
1
views battle of Bunker Hill with JQA
1
visits CA and TBA in Haverhill
1
wants JQA to finish education at Harvard
1
wishes TBA had gotten measles
1
“I please myself with the prospect of your [JQA's] growing into Life a Wise and Good Man”
1
“Let your ambition be engaged to become eminent”
1
“Roving is not benificial to study at your age, Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence”
1
“Youth is the proper season for observation and attention”
1
“affectionate parents require . . . only that [their children] be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind”
See also: under the names of the children
378
Relationship with JA
33
extended separation and paucity of letters from JA create strain in relationship
19
role in relating political news to
15
critical of short and infrequent letters
16
anxious over health of
14
discusses courtship of AA2 with
12
thinks of joining in Europe
11
laments long separation
9
discusses Mass. social and political news
9
prefers they reunite in America, not Europe
7
decides to go to Europe
7
pride in JA's diplomatic achievements
7
sacrifice of their personal well-being to public duty rendered unacceptable to her by “Garbled commission”
7
JA awaits arrival in London
6
and JA's acceptance of first diplomatic appointment
7
concern at not hearing from
6
on JA's Defence of the Const.
5
arrangements for reunion
5
urges not to attempt return in winter
5
JA asks to come to Europe
4
asks his aid for Braintree men in Mill Prison and derives satisfaction from his response
4
delights in quoting JA to others
4
mixed feelings on JA's possible appointment to Great Britain
4
urges JA to turn to farming, and “let me turn dairy woman”
3
apprehensive of his health in Netherlands
5
both accept separation to get good peace with Great Britain
4
describes Copley's portrait of
4
discuss grief felt upon father's death
3
happiness depends “not upon titles and fortune,” but “domestick enjoyments”
4
indignation and scorn for those who oppose him in public matters
3
proposes to join him in Europe
3
sylvan dream of life together in Vermont
4
urges JA to reject appointment to Great Britain
3
urges JA to return from Congress to deal with deteriorating family finances
2
Congress' failure to support
2
believes America will require his future services
2
calls JA's titles “badges of my unhappiness”
2
cannot bear to trouble JA with domestic matters
2
concern about public role in England
2
confident personal sacrifices will benefit public good
2
criticizes miniature likeness of
2
defends JA to Mass. friends
2
feels keen anticipation to see
3
insistent that proper public acknowledgment be given his rank and accomplishments
2
moved by JA's response to painting of Hector's parting from Andromache
2
on JA's resignation from chief justiceship
2
reunites with in London
2
supports JA's rejecting thought of governorship
2
“my own union has been of the happiest kind”
1
Chesterfield's Letters deemed by JA unsuitable for
1
JA desires her presence in Philadelphia
1
JA: “You shall ... banish all the unsocial and ill natured Particles in my Composition”
1
JA: “you have done such great Things in the Way of paying Debts”
1
Jefferson says AA's counsel will help JA
1
approves report of JA's overwhelming influence in Mass. Convention
3
as Penelope to JA's Ulysses
1
asked to intercede with JA in Smith-AA2 courtship
1
comments on painful separation for half of their married life
1
confident of JA's faithfulness
1
content when JA is satisfied
1
defends against criticism
1
dependence, attachment, and “a sympathetic power”
1
does not enjoy going out without JA
1
fears giving appearance “of wielding instead of sharing the scepter” of domestic authority
1
hopes of JA's return “have vanished 'like the baseless Fabrick of a vision'”
1
hurt by world's questioning JA's attachment to domestic life
1
inquires about JA's salary as delegate
1
joy upon JA's return from Philadelphia
1
met in London by (1784)
1
not surprised treaty delay postpones return to U.S.
1
on effect of political situations on
1
on inability of to negotiate Anglo-Amer. commercial treaty
1
predicts continuation of public life in America
1
proud British criticism of JA is not personal
2
reaction to Tyler angers JA
1
reflections on 18th wedding anniversary
1
regrets JA's losing Jefferson's companionship
1
sadness at JA's absence
1
says children need JA at home
1
thinks with peace further sacrifice unnecessary
1
wants to feast him on salmon, geese, custard
1
writes letters on behalf of
1
“Do not practise so indiscriminately lieing with your windows open”
2
“For myself I have little ambition or pride—for my Husband I freely own I have much”
1
“Hope and Fear have been the two ruling passions of a large portion of my Life”
1
“I am obliged to summons all my patriotism to feel willing to part with him again”
1
“I begin to think there is a moral evil in this seperation”
1
“I cannot get him to think enough upon domestick affairs”
1
“I cannot resign more than I do, unless life itself was called for”
1
“I feel that I ought to be a help Mate”
1
“I have but little of his company”
1
“I want some sentimental Effusions of the Heart”
2
“If I had realized ... that intercourse between us would have been so hazardous, I fear my magnanimity would have failed me”
1
“Lovers are all the World to each other”
1
“My Ideas do not coincide with those who recommend a seperation as necessary to revive the Languor of the most intimate of unions”
1
“a painfull Seperation from the companion of my youth, and the Friend of my Heart”
1
“ardently I long for your return”
1
“extolling my Husband ... the sweetest Musick in my ears”
1
“in need of the constant assistance of my Better half”
1
“in the absence of a certain Friend all pleasures and amusements are tasteless, all loose their relish”
1
“the age of romance has long ago past, but the affection of almost Infant years has matured and strengthened untill it has become a
vital principle”
1
“the desires of my Friend are a Law to me”
2
“when he is wounded I blead”
1
rejects sea voyage because she does not wish to be rendered odious in JA's sight
58
Residences
11
birthplaces of JA and JQA (JA's patrimonial property in Braintree, now Quincy, Mass.)
8
Grosvenor Square, London
2
Old House, Braintree (now the Adams National Historic Site, Quincy, Mass.)
2
Osborne's Hotel, London
1
in Queen Street, Boston
154
Travels
28
possible return to U.S.
11
to estate of Thomas Brand Hollis
11
sea voyage from Boston to England
4
proposed trips to The Hague
4
visits parents in Weymouth
3
journey from London to Paris
3
returns to London from Netherlands
2
arrangements for arrival in London
2
journey from Auteuil to London
2
possible trip to Netherlands
2
through England on way to Netherlands
1
Jefferson offers to accompany to Europe
1
accompanies JA on trip to Worcester court
1
desire to visit England
1
in Boston following Burgoyne's defeat
1
plans to visit English countryside
1
rides from Deal to London
2
visits American headquarters in Cambridge
1
visits Braintree, England
1
visits Mercy Warren in Plymouth
1
visits brother in Lincoln
1
visits the Cranches in Salem
1
stay in Europe summarized
32
Writings
6
CFA edits correspondence
6
Letters (1840, 1841, 1848)
4
keeps Journal of ocean crossing
5
Familiar Letters of John ... and ... Abigail Adams (1876)
1
ABA transcribes correspondence
1
correspondence with Jefferson begins
1
writes joint letter with JA
1
exchanges with JA dominate early family correspondence
1
first publication of family letters
2
letters in Adams Family Correspondence
46
correspondence with JA
14
JA sends European goods to
14
courtship, marriage, and children
11
correspondence with JA
9
correspondence with Lovell
6
and family undergo smallpox inoculation
6
letters of, studied and transcribed
5
CFA on letterwriting ability
5
informed of JA's travels
4
CFA arranges, studies, and transcribes letters
4
and JA's second mission to Europe
3
JA's early impressions of
3
and CA's return to U.S.
3
furnishes information to JA
3
in JA's financial accounts
3
replies to JA's correspondents in his absence
2
CFA on her correspondence
2
JA's intercepted letter to
2
Lovell sends JA's property to
2
allows Tyler to use JA's legal papers and books
2
and Declaration of Independence
2
and JA in Continental Congress
2
and JA's acceptance of his commission
2
and James and Mercy Warren
2
and commission for Elihu Adams
3
correspondence with Thaxter
2
has JA letters published in Independent Chronicle
2
letters from John Thaxter
3
plans to go abroad with JA
3
portrait by Benjamin Blyth
3
publication of memoir and letters
2
transmits confidential letters
1
J. L. Austin to take tea to
1
JA on superior ability of
1
JA's letters to, on regimen of smallpox inoculation
1
JA's “Peace Journal” sent to
1
Létombe carries letters to
1
Samuel Swift seeks her intercession with JA
1
Thaxter informs of illness
1
advised by sister to purchase the Old House
1
and AA2's courtship and marriage
1
and Du Simitière sketches for Washington medal
1
and JA's appointment to France
1
and JA's final trip to Netherlands
1
and JA's resignation as chief justice
1
and JA's writing of the Defence
1
and Louisa Catherine Smith
2
and Mount Wollaston Farm
1
and Paine's Common Sense
1
and Presidential election of 1796
1
arrival in Boston and reunion with JQA (1788)
1
correspondence with Gerry
1
correspondence with JQA
1
dines with James Sullivan
1
excursion to West of England
1
fears over fate of Firebrand
1
first attempt at ocean bathing
1
friendship in later years with the former Hannah Quincy
1
impressed by Copley's Death of Major Peirson
1
informed of JA's move to U.S. legation
1
informs JA of Jay's reported resignation as commissioner
1
interest in Quincy family genealogy
1
invites Laurens to visit
1
leaves Auteuil for London
1
letter to Tyler found in Tyler Coll.
1
letters from JA on Staten Island conference
1
letters to AA2 on Netherlands
1
letters to JA on AA2-Tyler romance
1
maternal partiality confirmed
1
observations on, by English gentleman
1
on AA2's engagement to Smith
1
on Comte d'Adhémar's supper and ball
1
on Gerry's possible marriage and European diplomatic missions
1
on JA's election as Boston representative
1
on Tyler's The Contrast
1
on notice of JA's election to Amer. Philos. Soc.
1
praise for husbandry of
1
pregnancy and loss of child
1
proposal for biography of
1
purchases land in Vermont
1
recommends E. Watson Jr.
1
relationship to Cranches and Palmers
1
reunion with JA in London
1
sends letters by way of Létombe
1
voyage to Europe (1784)
1
with JA at Council meeting in Watertown
1
writes postscript to B. Rush
1
“I will never again try the Sea”
1
Letters (1840, 1841, 1848)
1
advises JQA to go to Europe
1
describes JQA as secretary of state
1
first resident of White House
