John Adams to Abigail Adams, 22 March 1777
Philadelphia March 22. 1777 The Post now comes regularly, once a Week, and brings me the Boston News Papers, but no Letters from Penns Hill or its Environs. How do…
Philadelphia March 22. 1777 The Post now comes regularly, once a Week, and brings me the Boston News Papers, but no Letters from Penns Hill or its Environs. How do…
Philadelphia March 20. 1777 In an Hand Bill printed at Baltimore the 17th instant 1 is as well made a Lye as ever I read. It is in these Words…
Philadelphia March 17. 1777 Charles How do you do?–I hope you are in fine Health and Spirits. What Subject do your Thoughts run upon these Times. You are a thoughtfull…
Philadelphia March 17. 1777 My dear Daughter I hope by this Time, you can write an handsome Hand; but I wish you would, now and then, send a Specimen of…
Philadelphia March 16. 1777 Tommy I believe I must make a Phisician of you. There seems to be a Propriety in your studying Physick, because your Great Great Grandfather after…
Philadelphia March 16. 1777 My dear Son There is an observation, which I wish you to make very early in Life because it may be usefull to you, when you…
Philadelphia March 16. 1777 The Spring advances, very rapidly, and all Nature will soon be cloathed in her gayest Robes. The green Grass, which begins to shew itself, here, and…
Philadelphia March 14. 1777 Congress has been sitting several Days and proceeding upon Business. I have been in Town above a Week and have spent much of my Time, in…
Braintree March 8 1777 We have had very severe weather almost ever since you left us. About the middle of Febry. came a snow of a foot and half deep…
Philadelphia March 7 1777 Yours of Feb. 12. received this day. I have begged a Bundle of Newspapers, to inclose. They contain some Intelligence. I am pretty well, after all…