In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, in Philadelphia, urging him and other members of the Continental Congress to keep the interests of women in mind ...

On September 22, 1774, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John of "a conspiracy of the negroes," referring to the June petition signed by Prince Hall and others and presented to Thomas Gage ...

Abigail and John Adams's letters to each other show ... she became known for writing public letters in support of her husband's policies, the library notes. She was also the first president's ...

"While her husband was away serving the new ... The voluminous correspondence of 1,100 letters between Abigail and John Adams provide perhaps the most important primary source of study of the ...

Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776. With her husband at the ... meaning to her words. Her letter, however, remains remarkable.

Abigail, addressing her husband as “my dearest Friend ... this doubtful state,” she wrote her husband. John Adams agonized between letters. “I hang upon Tenterhooks” for reports ...

revealing letters, have been a magnet for scholars and material for a mother lode of Adams books. The writings of passionate, principled Abigail, who urged her blunt, brilliant husband to ...

Abigail shared her husband’s disdain for his ... animal padding along at her side. In an 1811 letter to her granddaughter Caroline Smith, Adams declared that “As if you love me proverbially ...

Abigail was better with people and money than her husband, Rosenstock said ... more rights in her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to John Adams. Regardless, Abigail Adams's unstoppable ...

Abigail Adams, although she had no formal education, was a prolific letter writer who often advised her husband on affairs of state. “She was speaking about issues of slavery, she was talking ...