Abigail Adams to Giuseppe Ceracchi, February 12, 1795
Quincy Feb ry 12th 1795 Accept Sir my acknowledgment to you for the very valuable present of the Medallion, and the polite Letter which accompanied it. The workmanship is too…
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both married to a U.S. president and the mother of a U.S. president.
Quincy Feb ry 12th 1795 Accept Sir my acknowledgment to you for the very valuable present of the Medallion, and the polite Letter which accompanied it. The workmanship is too…
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Jan ry 3 1796 my Dearest Friend I will try to write tho it is with much difficulty I hold My pen, oweing to a very painfull Soar which gatherd…
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