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Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275) (The Library of America)

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Abigail Adams used to be an unusually accomplished letter creator. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her circle of relatives played so prominent a role, at the same time as bringing vividly to life the on a regular basis experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Needless to say the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Trip to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor at the same time as her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her on the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched circle of relatives trees. This volume is published concurrently with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of The us John Adams edition.

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