John Adams to Abigail Adams, August 19, 1777
Philadelphia August 19. 1777 Tuesday My best Friend The Weather still continues cloudy and cool and the Wind Easterly. Howe’s Fleet and Army is still incognito. The Gentlemen from South…
Philadelphia August 19. 1777 Tuesday My best Friend The Weather still continues cloudy and cool and the Wind Easterly. Howe’s Fleet and Army is still incognito. The Gentlemen from South…
Philadelphia August 17. 1777 Sunday My dearest Friend Yesterday We had a cool Day, the Wind Easterly and cloudy, this Morning there is a brisk northeast Wind and cool Rain,…
Philadelphia Aug. 15. 1777 My dearest Friend The Weather continues, as hot as ever. Upon my Word I dont know how to sustain it. Oh for a Bowl of your…
Philadelphia August 14. 1777 Thursday My dearest Friend We are still parching under the fierce Heats of Dog days. It is agreed, by most People, that so long and so…
August 14. 1777. Braintree This is the memorable fourteenth of August. This day 12 years the Stamp office was distroyd. 1 Since that time what have we endured? What have…
[ , Start insertion, Plymouth, ante 14 August 1777 , End, ] 1 Most sincerly do I Congratulate My Friend on her Restoration to Health after pain, peril and Disappointment.…
Boston July 28th. 1777 Mr. Adams Not haveing anything worth troubling you with for sometime have been silent. The late Affair of Ticonderogia, makes us all sick. I have been…
Philadelphia July 28. 1777 My dearest Friend Never in my whole Life, was my Heart affected with such Emotions and Sensations, as were this Day occasioned by your Letters of…
Philadelphia July 27. 1777 My dear Son If it should be the Design of Providence that you should live to grow up, you will naturally feel a Curiosity to learn…
Philadelphia July 26. 1777 Saturday My dearest Friend At this Moment, I hope you are abed and happy. I am anxious to hear, and the more so because I had…