John Adams to Abigail Smith, 14 February 1763
Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763 Dear Madam Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.–I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm prevented.–Cruel, Yet perhaps…
Braintree Feby. 14th. 1763 Dear Madam Accidents are often more Friendly to us, than our own Prudence.–I intended to have been at Weymouth Yesterday, but a storm prevented.–Cruel, Yet perhaps…
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How it is with you I know not, but if I am rightly informed, I am yet alive and not dead. And to prove it to you, I will tell…
Mon Ami My letters, for the future will come to you, not from a School House but from the Cell of an Hermit. I am removed from Worcester to Braintree…
Sir As your Excellency reads English perfectly well, my first Request is that you would not communicate this Letter, even to a Translator. I have hitherto avoided, in my single…
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