New Letters of Abigail Adams 1788-1801 EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY Stewart Mitchell HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON SHic liibnrsiut
resB C 1947 ABIGAIL ADAMS Gilbert Stuart None of these letters, or
any part of these letters, may be reproduced, with the exception of
short passages for the purpose of review, without permission in
writing from the Director of the American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester, Massachusetts COPYRIGHT 1947, BY THE AMERICAN
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY PRINTED IN THE XJ. S. A, R. D. C. 1909-1939
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My letters to you are first thoughts, without correction Abigail
Adams to Mary Cranch, May 26, 179. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In preparing
these letters for publication, the editor has received generous and
invaluable assistance from a great number of people, in particular,
from the late Allyn B. Forbes, Director of the Massachusetts
Historical Society, and also the members of its staff as well as
Clarence S. Brigham and Clifford K. Shipton, Director and
Librarian, respectively, of the American Antiquarian Society Robert
W. G. Vail, Director of the New York Historical Society and
Nicholas B. Vainwright, Assistant Librarian of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania. He is indebted, more over, to members of
the staff of the Harvard College Library and the Fogg Art Museum,
to Miss Dorothy S. Manks, Librarian of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society, and to Miss Dorothy C. Barck, Librarian of
the New York Historical Society. He is under obligation, also, to
IVErs. Henry D. Holmes and Miss Frances Holmes, of Montpelier,
Vermont to Heyliger DeWlndt, of Boston to John Kleran, of Informa
tion Please and to the late AlbertIVtatthews, former Editor of the
Colonial Society of Massachusetts. From first to last, the services
of his secretary, Miss Marjorie M. Bruce, were continuous and
faithful, and without them this work could not have been carried to
completion. STEWART MITCHELL ILLUSTRATIONS ABIGAIL ADAMS Gilbert
Stuart Frontispiece MRS. WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, 1787 ... . S.
Copley 16 RICHMOND HILL, NEW YORK CITY, 1790 j BUSH HILL,
PHILADELPHIA, 1787 .... . P. Malcom J THE ADAMS MANSION, QUINCY,
1787 ... E. Malcolm So THE EXECUTIVE MANSION, PHILADELPHIA, 1790
..... 9 6 THE MORRIS HOUSES, PHILADELPHIA, 1790 J WILLIAM STEPHENS
SMITH, 1786 . . . Mather Brown - 128 JOHN ADAMS, 1789 John Trumbull
144 LETTER OF ABIGAIL ADAMS, 1800 240
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