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Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6 (Hardcover, Reissue) Loot Price: R5,987
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Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6 (Hardcover, Reissue): Adams Family

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6 (Hardcover, Reissue)

Adams Family; Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson, Joanna M. Revelas, Celeste Walker, Gregg L. Lint, Humphrey Costello

Series: Adams Papers

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"I cannot O I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?'' So begins Abigail Adams' correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress.

In October 1782, the Adams family was as widely scattered as it would ever be, with young John Quincy Adams in St. Petersburg, John at The Hague, and Abigail in Braintree with her daughter and younger sons. With the summer of 1784, however, Abigail would have her fondest wish, as most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. As the Adams family traveled, and as the children came of age, so their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America. These pages also welcome Thomas Jefferson, who soon became one of Abigail's closest friends, into the family correspondence. From the intimacies 0f the children's education, sentimental and worldly, to the details of the 'arm friendship between Abigail and Madame Lafayette, to the grand drama of Edmund Burke and William Pitt the Younger debating in Parliament, the contents of these letters draw an incredibly rich picture of international life in the 17805 and an incomparable portrait of America's first family of politics and letters.

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Imprint: The Belknap Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Adams Papers
Release date: December 1992
First published: December 1992
Authors: Adams Family
Editors: Richard Alan Ryerson • Joanna M. Revelas • Celeste Walker • Gregg L. Lint • Humphrey Costello
Dimensions: 248 x 165 x 89mm (L x W x H)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 621
Edition: Reissue
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00406-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-674-00406-X
Barcode: 9780674004061

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