Adams Family Correspondence, volume 1

Abigail Adams to John Adams

John Adams to Abigail Adams

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1774 JA AA

1774-09-25

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 September 1774 Adams, John Adams, Abigail
John Adams to Abigail Adams
My Dear Phyladelphia Septr. 25. 1774

I would not loose the Opportunity of writing to you—tho I must be short.

Tedious, indeed is our Business.—Slow, as Snails. I have not been used to such Ways.

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We sit only before Dinner. We dine at four O Clock. We are crowded with a Levee in the Evening.

Fifty Gentlemen meeting together, all Strangers, are not acquainted with Each others Language, Ideas, Views, Designs. They are therefore jealous, of each other—fearfull, timid, skittish,—1

RC (Adams Papers).

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Obviously unfinished and perhaps not sent. Though folded as if to be sent, the letter bears no seal, address, or endorsement.