Adams Family Correspondence, volume 2

Isaac Smith Sr. to John Adams

Abigail Adams to John Adams

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 Warren, Mercy Otis AA

1777-06-14

Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1777 Warren, Mercy Otis Adams, Abigail
Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams
June 14 1777

Could I write you any agreable Inteligence I would with pleasure Grasp the pen And Call of my Friends Attention a Moment from her Domestic avocations, but so much Avarice and Venallity, so much Annemosity and Contention, so much pride and Weakness predominate both in the Capital and the Cottage that I fear it will be Long: very Long before good tidings are Wafted on Every Wind and the Halcyon days of peace Return to our Land.

I write for the sake of my promise more than anything Else this Morning, for I am very unable to perform as I have been deprived the use of one Eye Ever since I have been in town. Am now Growing better and shall Endeavour to improve them in Future in some useful way.

Mr. Warren has yet no Letter from Mr. Adams. I am with true affection Your Friend,

Marcia 265

Alas! No Repeal of the Regulating act, nor of Course the Land Embargo.1

RC (Adams Papers).

1.

On the Massachusetts “Land Embargo” of Feb. 1777, see note 2 on JA's second letter to AA of 6 April, above, and also Mass., Province Laws , 19:808–810.