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 ...

"In many ways this is a very typical Abigail letter," said ... "After watching her husband serve as ambassador, she felt America was not treated seriously by the British." Adams wrote of "an ...

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 ...

QUINCY − Moments after it was unveiled, the new statue of Abigail Adams became a popular backdrop for photos. Groups, mostly women, waited to pose for pictures with the statue, which was ...

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 ...