![]() ![]() In previous blog posts, we have highlighted letters between John and Abigail from 1776 – “Remember the Ladies.” “Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light.” and others. ![]() Abigail in turn reports on not just the health and wellbeing of their children, but on major events in the Boston area, including the Battle of Bunker Hill and Boston’s first reading of the Declaration of Independence.įrom late April 1775 through November 1777, Abigail and John spent upwards of 27 months apart, and their extensive correspondence is preserved at the Massachusetts Historical Society. John writes candid impressions of major events, including the vote for independence, to his wife. But no other couple left a documentary record of their mutual thoughts and feelings even remotely comparable to Abigail and John’s.” The correspondence of Abigail and John Adams is fascinating and detailed, particularly during the two years when John was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress. In First Family: Abigail and John Adams, Joseph Ellis claims, “there were other prominent couples in the revolutionary era. ![]()
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